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Speaker 1: Now start your enginies. The Car Doctor is in the

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Speaker 1: Welcome to two fifty Roninanian, the Car Doctor at your service.

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Speaker 1: You know, after nearly fifty years of fixing cars, I

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Speaker 1: learned and I believe, and this will kind of surprise people.

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Speaker 1: The most valuable tool I own to repair a car

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Speaker 1: isn't my scan tool. It isn't my labscopes. It isn't

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Speaker 1: my smoke machine, my toolbox, the lift. Heck, it isn't

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Speaker 1: even the service bay. It's the front counter, it's the

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Speaker 1: waiting room. It's the chairs that sit in front of me.

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Speaker 1: And I've learned this since Jeez, I've been working on

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Speaker 1: car since Jimmy Carter was in the White House. Because

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Speaker 1: the best tool in my shop is a chair. Before

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Speaker 1: I plug in a vehicle, before I open the hood,

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Speaker 1: before I even write the repair order, I want to listen.

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Speaker 1: I want you to sit down and talk to me.

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Speaker 1: I want to hear what you have to say. And

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Speaker 1: it may sound very old fashioned, because every car in

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Speaker 1: the world today has twenty or thirty computers and enough

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Speaker 1: software to rival your home computer. And here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: Cars don't lie, and people usually don't either. They just

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Speaker 1: remember different parts of the story. And that's what happened

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Speaker 1: this past week at the shop. A husband and wife

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Speaker 1: came into the shop together with a late model SUV.

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Speaker 1: Now you ever check in a husband and a wife together,

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Speaker 1: and you have to listen to both of them. And

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Speaker 1: I'm not picking on husbands and wives, and I'm not

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Speaker 1: trying to make this about marriage, but it's interesting two

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Speaker 1: people live together, and they experienced the same things side

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Speaker 1: by side, and yet they tell the story a different way.

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Speaker 1: They'd been to several repair shops. The husband looked exhausted,

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Speaker 1: the wife looked well. She had that look on her

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Speaker 1: face that said, I've had enough. He walked up to

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Speaker 1: the counter carrying a folder like an inch thick, and

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Speaker 1: there were repair invoices inside of it. Fuel pump, battery, throttle, body,

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Speaker 1: tune up. Even one invoice even had a note that

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Speaker 1: read no problem found. Thousands of dollars had been spent

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Speaker 1: over time, the vehicles still stall. There was no warning lights,

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Speaker 1: there was noes, there was no pattern anyone could find.

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Speaker 1: Some of the parts had been reinstalled, some of the

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Speaker 1: parts had been swapped around, some of the parts had

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Speaker 1: been changed multiple times. And I started to ask a question,

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Speaker 1: but before I could, the husband said to me, Ron,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you right now. If you can't

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Speaker 1: figure this out, I understand. And that bothered me. It

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Speaker 1: caught my attention not because he doubted me, but because

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Speaker 1: be fixed. He lost confidence in the process. And that

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Speaker 1: didn't write up the order. I just pointed to two chairs.

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Speaker 1: I said, tell me everything. The husband started first. You know,

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Speaker 1: I often think about I used to go to breakfast

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Speaker 1: And I'd spend every Friday morning with Richie. We'd have

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Speaker 1: He's great? How's his wife she's good? How's his kids good?

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Speaker 1: What did you guys talk about? I don't know what?

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Speaker 1: Did he say? Nothing? And you know, it was just

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Speaker 1: We're noncommittal. We kind of grunted and grown a lot

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Speaker 1: And I asked him, I said, when does it stole?

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Speaker 1: she said, well, no, she goes and she looked at

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Speaker 1: And I've been doing this long enough. I leaned back

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Speaker 1: let people talk. People need time, They need to process this.

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Speaker 1: They need to tell you about the vacation they were on.

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Speaker 1: They need to tell you where they bought the car.

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Speaker 1: You know what, I start running the diagnostic clock whether

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Speaker 1: the clue. The husband kept talking about all the money

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Speaker 1: they spent, the wife kept talking about what the car

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Speaker 1: actually did. And it's two very, very different conversations. And

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Speaker 1: but the wife would describe it. She'd say things, well,

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Speaker 1: not exactly. It seems like I think, and those words

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Speaker 1: matter because he said something almost in passing. She said,

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Speaker 1: And I looked up and I said, what do you

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Speaker 1: mean it doesn't happen coming home? Why doesn't it happen?

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Speaker 1: You know, if you go down to a stop sign

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Speaker 1: And the husband looked surprised, and he said, I never

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Speaker 1: thought about that. And then she added another little detail.

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Speaker 1: She says, I back out of the driveway, I put

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Speaker 1: the stop sign, it sometimes it just quits. And that

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Speaker 1: was interesting because their driveway, they explained to me, was

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Speaker 1: He backed it into the garage, he said, and I

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Speaker 1: completely different routines. Now, before anybody starts blaming the wife,

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Speaker 1: I say this all the time, you can't look for broken.

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Speaker 1: You've got to look for different. You got to look

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Speaker 1: for what's good. So I asked her one more question.

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Speaker 1: I said, tomorrow morning, can you drive exactly the way

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Speaker 1: you you normally drive? I said, just come down to

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Speaker 1: the shop. She said sure. She came into the shop.

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Speaker 1: The next morning, we went for a ride, same routine,

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Speaker 1: same stop sign a couple hundred feet away, all right.

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Speaker 1: I made her duplicate the condition, and the engine stumbled.

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Speaker 1: It didn't set a code, it didn't turn on the light.

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Speaker 1: It just stumbled. It hesitated long enough to make you

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Speaker 1: wonder if it was going to die. Back in the

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Speaker 1: shop after she left it, I hooked up a scan tool.

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Speaker 1: Not because I expected it to tell me the answer,

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Speaker 1: was able to track down looking at the way it

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Speaker 1: Now this was it had gone back to the original

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Speaker 1: It wasn't enough to set a code. It wasn't enough

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Speaker 1: all the parts that were changed. My suspicion is but

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Speaker 1: in reality, when I took the throttle body off to

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Speaker 1: body cleaning had been done poorly, and they just they

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Speaker 1: good bit of carbon build up. I cleaned the throttle body.

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Speaker 1: And then I did something that I didn't see anywhere

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Speaker 1: on any of the invoices. I did a throttle body relearn.

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Speaker 1: I did a real throttle body releader as per the book,

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Speaker 1: looked it up in all data went through the procedure.

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Speaker 1: While data laid it out for me on this particular car,

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Speaker 1: You have to do this. Gave him back the car

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, no charge. Drive the car.

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Speaker 1: Come back in a week. They came back Thursday morning.

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Speaker 1: You know what, the car's fixed. What'd you do? And

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Speaker 1: I told him. I sat them down and I listened

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Speaker 1: part of the game. Patience is an important part of it,

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Speaker 1: you know. It's what I always say. It's not how

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Speaker 1: many parts do you need to fix the cards? How

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Speaker 1: many parts can you avoid putting in to repair the vehicle?

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Speaker 1: Mary told me that. Mary taught me this week the

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Speaker 1: value of listening, the importance of listening. And I tell

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Speaker 1: You gotta let them finish, you gotta let them have

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Speaker 1: say and how they say it. It's just that important.

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Speaker 1: More often than not, people don't realize it. Repairing a

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Speaker 1: car starts with a conversation, and sometimes I find the

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Speaker 1: answer is sitting right across from me in a chair

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Speaker 1: while I'm standing at the counter. I'm ronning any in

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Speaker 1: the car doctor, and together we're going to fix all

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Speaker 1: Don't go anywhere. Speaking of ron By the way, today

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Speaker 1: and fiftieth anniversary, America's birthday, the forest Power to Horsepower

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Speaker 1: t shirt. So when we're done with the call, everybody

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Speaker 1: with your call today, make sure you give Tom your information, name, address,

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Speaker 1: t shirt size. Please, we have to go ahold of

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Speaker 1: Donald from I think Louisiana Lyst Week. You forgot to

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Speaker 1: give us his T shirt size and we can't guess. So, Donald,

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Speaker 1: America here on the fourth of July. Bill in East Tennessee.

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Speaker 1: How are you, Bill? What's going on?

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Speaker 3: Couldn't be better. I'm sitting on the side of a

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Speaker 3: crystal clear river flowing out of the mountains with my

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Speaker 3: wife eating chicken salad sandwiches, enjoying our freedom.

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Speaker 1: Brother, that sounds wonderful. You got that, Ran. We need

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Speaker 1: to appreciate our freedom in this crazy world of ours.

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Speaker 1: So what can I do for you today? Sir?

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Speaker 3: Do you want to hear the backstory on my truck

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Speaker 3: or do you want to jump right into it?

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Speaker 1: Well, I don't give me, give me, give me the first minute,

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Speaker 1: just the highlights.

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Speaker 3: Just bought the truck brand new. It's one f two

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Speaker 3: fifty seven point three diesel. I had it for three

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Speaker 3: hundred and fifteen thousand miles.

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Speaker 4: My wife drove it, my.

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Speaker 3: Kid grew up in the back seat in it, you know,

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Speaker 3: in the car seat. That's why I attribute Hurst Marts too. Anyhow,

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Speaker 3: I use it hunting and fishing on the weekends. I

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Speaker 3: decided to start my own business back in twenty sixteen.

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Speaker 3: I used the truck to pull a bunch of logs

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Speaker 3: that I cut up on my sawmill to make my

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Speaker 3: business on the side of the river over here, and

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Speaker 3: dubn't truck means so much to me. And I'm going

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Speaker 3: to be very soon and pulling a ten thousand pound

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Speaker 3: trailerable house boat.

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Speaker 1: That's the vehicle. Love, that's the vehicle to do it with.

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Speaker 1: Let me tell you.

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Speaker 3: I know, I know. And I've also I like the Godzilla.

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Speaker 3: The new Godzilla is in all, I'm just going to

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Speaker 3: be traveling to different lakes in East Tennessee and spending.

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Speaker 4: Two or three nights.

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Speaker 3: But I love my old truck and it's got a

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Speaker 3: lot of memories in it, and I'd love.

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Speaker 1: To get that fixed up.

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Speaker 3: But it's been sitting for a year, maybe longer. I

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Speaker 3: drove it there to my house and it's been sitting there. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: and all the fuels drained out of the fuel filter

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Speaker 3: and you know, can't start it, blah blah blah. And

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Speaker 3: I'm wondering, since it sat so long, is that going

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Speaker 3: to hurt the seals? And it's never leaked any oil,

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Speaker 3: it has the same transmission, It's never given me any problems,

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Speaker 3: it's always started. It's been a wonderful truck. But is

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Speaker 3: it worth fixing up or just selling it and getting

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Speaker 3: a new one with a Godzilla motor in it?

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Speaker 1: Boy, that's a tough question. Bill. I like the old

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Speaker 1: seven three power strokes. I think there's such a strong motor.

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Speaker 1: I've seen them go a million miles with proper care.

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Speaker 1: So this is really a question also about what does

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Speaker 1: the rest of the truck look like any rot and

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Speaker 1: he rust any structural issues it is. It is twenty

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Speaker 1: six years old now. And the other factor that comes

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Speaker 1: into this is parts availability. As always, you know, we

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Speaker 1: can find parts for anything, and we can fix anything.

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Speaker 1: It's just how much do you want to put up

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Speaker 1: with and what's your downtime like? Now, keep in mind,

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Speaker 1: any newer vehicle is going to have three times as

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Speaker 1: many computers and modules on it as that older truck,

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Speaker 1: and therefore it makes it, you know, just as well,

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Speaker 1: if not more complicated to deal with and work on.

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Speaker 1: It's more of an electronic diesel than that seven to

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Speaker 1: three power stroke. So I think the game changer' here

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Speaker 1: and to. You know, the decider is going to be

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Speaker 1: who's working on it, the local garage, the dealer. Do

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Speaker 1: you have a competent dealer with a good diesel mechanic,

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Speaker 1: a good diesel crew.

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Speaker 3: Oh man, I've got a certified master powerstroke mechanic three

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Speaker 3: miles from my house that owns his own shop.

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Speaker 1: Well, younger guy, you always have to have a doctor

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Speaker 1: younger than you. I've learned that.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 1: Remember remember what, Remember what George Burns said that Johnny

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Speaker 1: Carson sitting in the chair in one of his last interviews,

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Speaker 1: and George was smoking his seventeen cigar the day and

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Speaker 1: Johnny Carson goes, what does your doctor saying? George burn says,

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Speaker 1: my doctor is dead, So you know it's it's George

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Speaker 1: Burns was like ninety seven at the time. So I've learned.

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Speaker 1: You know, you've got to You've got to have a

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Speaker 1: younger doctor. I kind of like fixing the powerstroke bill.

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Speaker 1: You know, you'll you'll you'll spend a bunch of money,

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Speaker 1: but at least you know what you got and there's

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Speaker 1: nothing that you know. It's it's an emotional thing, right,

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Speaker 1: You're gonna look around that truck and remember when the

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Speaker 1: kid was riding around in the back seat. And you know,

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Speaker 1: memories in a vehicle can't be purchased. They're made, and

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Speaker 1: to throw them away as long as the vehicle meets

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Speaker 1: your need, as long as and maybe we should leave

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Speaker 1: it up to this as the tiebreaker, you know, get

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Speaker 1: it down to your diesel mechanic, let them look it over.

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Speaker 1: If it's been sitting any length of time, it's probably

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Speaker 1: got to have the fuel system gone through. And if

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Speaker 1: you know, maybe put a number on it. By the

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Speaker 1: time you overhould a fuel system, if you had to

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Speaker 1: pull the motor and reseal it and freshen it up

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Speaker 1: a little bit, and if you spend twenty five grand,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna put a scary number or what I think

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Speaker 1: to put twenty five grand in it. Right, what does

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Speaker 1: the body look like? What does the rest of it

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Speaker 1: look like? Now, by your own admittance, you're gonna take

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Speaker 1: this thing through rough country, right, You're gonna be pulling trees,

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Speaker 1: You're gonna be driving around to different lakes.

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Speaker 3: You're gonna be it's already done. It's worked. Like me,

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Speaker 3: I'm sixty five you know, and I cut down my

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Speaker 3: trains on the property and all the logs to my

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Speaker 3: thamba blah blah blah, and then all the eighty eight

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Speaker 3: and everything. So it's got dance on it for me

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Speaker 3: accidentally hitting you know, tree beames on the truck. So

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Speaker 3: it's got quite a few dents on it. But I'm

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Speaker 3: the only thing it's gonna do is pull that house

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Speaker 3: boat to the lake.

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Speaker 4: Well, it's the only thing it's gonna do.

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Speaker 1: Then maybe it's talked to your mechanic. Let him be

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Speaker 1: the typebreaker. Hey, if we overhold a fuel system, if

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Speaker 1: the engine leaks a little oil, who cares. It'll keep

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Speaker 1: it from rusting. And if it's got a couple of

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Speaker 1: dense in it, well it's it sort of looks like

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Speaker 1: the owner. You've got a couple of dents in it,

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Speaker 1: and you've got a couple of dents in you. The

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Speaker 1: truck's got a couple of dents in it, and maybe

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Speaker 1: you guys will match. I say, let your mechanic look

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Speaker 1: at it fuel system wise and make the decision from there.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate it, build t shirts on its way. I'm running

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Speaker 1: any of the car doctor We're back right after this

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Speaker 1: from city streets to the open road and.

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Speaker 5: Leave you riding.

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Speaker 1: He's hell, Ron, we'll keep you rolling right.

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Speaker 6: He's a car doctor, doctor, car and fast.

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Speaker 1: The guys in the band get a T shirt. I

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Speaker 1: wonder which size are they? Say again, Tom, I don't

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Speaker 1: hear you. They should. I don't know why they shouldn't.

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Speaker 1: Well they should, Okay, Well they have to call in

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Speaker 1: with a question, though, So I want to hear something

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Speaker 1: more than just singing. By the way, Yeah, did you

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Speaker 1: time last night. Oh good, y'all good. So you went

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Speaker 1: to taylor Swiss wedding. Oh yeah, I was there. I

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Speaker 1: didn't want to ask you. I didn't want to tell

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Speaker 1: Travis says. Travis didn't say, well she is. But and

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Speaker 1: Travis didn't say much because he knows what a Giants

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Speaker 1: fan you are. So he said, he said, you're raut.

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Speaker 1: That's why, and that's why you didn't get to go

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Speaker 1: to the wedding. Me, on the other hand, I'm a neutral,

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Speaker 1: so well, I forgured you were an a lister, so

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Speaker 1: you had to go, well, you know, I'm an A lister,

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Speaker 1: I'm a B lister, I'm a I'm more whatever you

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Speaker 1: want to be. I'm flexible. So but in any event,

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Speaker 1: back to shirts. Just remember give Tom your address name

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Speaker 1: and the T shirt size. Let's go over to John

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Speaker 1: and Oregon. John, what's going on? Twenty Silverado? What did

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Speaker 1: you do to this?

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Speaker 4: Hey?

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Speaker 6: Ron, Hey, you caught me at a car show over

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Speaker 6: here in my local town with my sixty six Mustang.

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Speaker 6: Cool but the twenty twenty Silverado. Okay, So my son's

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Speaker 6: got an O three Silverado and the rats must have

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Speaker 6: gotten to the fuel line and it's dripping. So I

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Speaker 6: twenty Silverado and I make it then and make it

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Speaker 6: down the road about a mile and crank, no start.

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Speaker 6: So call the wrecker taking the mechanic. They took a

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Speaker 6: look at it and diagnosed that it was cloudy fuel. Okay,

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Speaker 6: So he dropped the tank, cleaned it out, put it

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Speaker 6: back up. Try to start a click click click, oh

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Speaker 4: The motors seized.

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Speaker 1: Wait a minute, time, Yeah, time. Wait a minute, was

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Speaker 4: No, it was parked and it was dripping gas.

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Speaker 1: Well, how long had it been since it was since

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Speaker 6: Oh uh, I'm not sure I've driven ed it. It

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Speaker 6: ran fine when I parked it, and it was just.

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Speaker 4: Dribbling out gas? Was it time?

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Speaker 1: Was it was?

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Speaker 4: It?

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Speaker 1: Was it parked more than a month?

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Speaker 4: Had it been?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but it had pretty fresh gas in it?

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Speaker 1: Okay? But I mean was it was it? You know?

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Speaker 1: Was it parked a month? Three months, six months, a year?

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Speaker 4: Probably probably three months?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, three months shouldn't do it. Three months should

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Speaker 1: But you know, listen, I can't tell you the number

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Speaker 1: still start. They start every time.

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Speaker 6: So don't put gas in your car that you don't

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Speaker 1: So then the question, the question I've got is did

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Speaker 1: you drain your son's tank? Is your son's tank still

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Speaker 1: got the alleged contaminated gas in it?

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Speaker 4: Well, I don't know if it was contaminated.

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Speaker 6: By rain water or what.

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Speaker 4: But no, I haven't drained the tank.

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Speaker 1: Well, but but why would rainwater get in the tank?

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Speaker 1: And help me understand that?

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Speaker 6: Well, you know, I don't know, but I like I say,

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Speaker 6: I caught it from underneath the car when it was dripping,

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Speaker 6: because the fuel line was was penetrated by rats.

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Speaker 1: So maybe maybe some maybe some maybe some rust came

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Speaker 1: Is that what you're thinking? Yeah, well, but I'm thinking bigger.

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking bigger chunks of rust and crud. I would

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Speaker 1: think you would see that pouring it out. Uh, you know, listen.

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Speaker 1: It would be easy for me to sit here and

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Speaker 1: say listen, you know, and and I don't want to

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Speaker 1: yell at you. You feel bad enough. I got I got

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Speaker 1: a hard time buying that this is a result of

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Speaker 1: the fuel. I've got to see what kind of fuel

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Speaker 1: is coming out of that tank. Can we disconnect the line.

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Speaker 1: Let's solve this one step at a time. Can we

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Speaker 1: disconnect the line and get a fuel sample out of

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Speaker 1: the tank. What does it look like?

432
00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:20,400
Speaker 4: Yeah?

433
00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:25,760
Speaker 1: Right, you know, because to seize the engine, to go

434
00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:28,359
Speaker 1: three miles down the road and seize the engine, I

435
00:22:28,359 --> 00:22:31,399
Speaker 1: could see contaminated fuel here think of it like this.

436
00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:34,119
Speaker 1: Let's say let's say it was pure rust in the

437
00:22:34,359 --> 00:22:38,120
Speaker 1: in the fuel, right, What don't you think? First of all,

438
00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:40,840
Speaker 1: there's a filter in the tank, so that filter would

439
00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:45,080
Speaker 1: clog or restrict a greater portion of it, some of

440
00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:47,199
Speaker 1: the if some of the crud made it through, and

441
00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:50,360
Speaker 1: it probably would, all right, maybe it made its way,

442
00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:52,399
Speaker 1: if you know, maybe it's way made its way up

443
00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:55,080
Speaker 1: to the high pressure fuel fuel pump if it has one.

444
00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:58,000
Speaker 1: Depending upon what engine this is, it might affect that,

445
00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:00,119
Speaker 1: and then it would get down to the injectors. I

446
00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:04,680
Speaker 1: could see clogging injectors. Yeah, but to do physical damage

447
00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:05,480
Speaker 1: to the engine.

448
00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:08,919
Speaker 4: This is crank. This is cranking in the shops, so

449
00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:13,159
Speaker 4: it'll crank. Well, it was cranking. Now it doesn't. And

450
00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:16,919
Speaker 4: we took a uh, we took a ranch to the

451
00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:18,920
Speaker 4: uh crank and it doesn't turn.

452
00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:22,240
Speaker 1: How many miles around the Silverado fifty?

453
00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:24,000
Speaker 4: I don't know.

454
00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:27,320
Speaker 1: I don't buy that this is fuel. I'd want to

455
00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:31,119
Speaker 1: see a fuel sample, I really would. I'd want to.

456
00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:33,119
Speaker 1: I'd want to see a fuel sample. You put a

457
00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:35,800
Speaker 1: you put a you put a ratchet or I'm sorry,

458
00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:37,240
Speaker 1: a breaker bar in the front of the motor and

459
00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:41,440
Speaker 1: this thing's locked up. Yeah, it's got to have water

460
00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:43,120
Speaker 1: in the fuel. Then it's got to have an extreme

461
00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:44,359
Speaker 1: amount of water in the fuel.

462
00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:46,320
Speaker 4: I guess, all.

463
00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:48,600
Speaker 1: Right, I would take a fuel sample, just say, you.

464
00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:52,720
Speaker 4: Know, okay, all right, that's for the other one. Yeah, yeah,

465
00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:54,760
Speaker 4: So we put we pulled the plugs. We put in

466
00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:57,760
Speaker 4: PV Blasser and Marlboro mister oil. We're let this soap

467
00:23:57,800 --> 00:24:00,959
Speaker 4: over the weekend, and I hope that will help it.

468
00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:02,840
Speaker 4: You have any other ideas.

469
00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:09,240
Speaker 1: Any any any any liquid come out of the cylinders? Well, again,

470
00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:11,800
Speaker 1: I'm having a hard time buying that this this this

471
00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:14,359
Speaker 1: failed because of the fuel. I want to see a

472
00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:16,840
Speaker 1: fuel sample. I want to see a fuel sample. I

473
00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:19,800
Speaker 1: want to see how cloudy and dirty it is, all right,

474
00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:22,720
Speaker 1: I want to see an extreme amount of water. All right,

475
00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:25,720
Speaker 1: maybe something hydrostatic locked. But even in the event of

476
00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:28,199
Speaker 1: a hydrostatic lock, I should I should be able to

477
00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:30,840
Speaker 1: crank this. I should be able to move it forwards

478
00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:34,359
Speaker 1: or backwards, and and at least get it to move it.

479
00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:36,679
Speaker 1: Damaged it one way, not the other. But it just

480
00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:40,480
Speaker 1: sounds like something else failed here, and it's just coincidental.

481
00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:43,280
Speaker 1: We're missing a piece of the story. Get a fuel sample.

482
00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:46,240
Speaker 1: Pull a fuel sample out of the tank, and let's

483
00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:48,520
Speaker 1: see what it looks like, all right, and if it

484
00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:51,879
Speaker 1: looks if it looks clean like gasoline, then then you

485
00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:54,240
Speaker 1: got to look for another reason why that engine failed,

486
00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:55,920
Speaker 1: all right, sir?

487
00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:57,840
Speaker 4: Let me the next The next The next step is

488
00:24:57,840 --> 00:24:58,840
Speaker 4: they're going to pull the heads.

489
00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:03,119
Speaker 1: And you know, well, because before I pull the heads,

490
00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:06,480
Speaker 1: if if the crank won't turn with the plugs out

491
00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:10,200
Speaker 1: of it, pulling the heads is useless, okay, right, because

492
00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:14,679
Speaker 1: it's the bottom end that's locked up right or or

493
00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:18,639
Speaker 1: or is the trans got a problem and the trans

494
00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:20,280
Speaker 1: is keeping the engine from turning over?

495
00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:23,879
Speaker 4: Like I said, I don't think. So let's run a

496
00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:25,159
Speaker 4: fine one. It's all right.

497
00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:29,720
Speaker 1: Right, well it was, it was running fine until you

498
00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:33,320
Speaker 1: put the alleged contaminated gas in it too, you know.

499
00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:35,359
Speaker 1: But I mean, if you've got all the plugs out

500
00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:38,320
Speaker 1: of it, you can't crank it over. I don't see what.

501
00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:40,320
Speaker 1: I don't see what pulling the heads is going to do,

502
00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:43,560
Speaker 1: because you should be able to spin it by hand.

503
00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:48,919
Speaker 6: Yeah, So so let's let's.

504
00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:50,480
Speaker 1: Let's let's eliminate the obvious. Let's let's uh, let's get

505
00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:52,880
Speaker 1: a fuel sample. And see what we might have put

506
00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:55,760
Speaker 1: into the tank. Stand the line, John, give Tom your name,

507
00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:58,600
Speaker 1: address and T shirt size. Let me ease your pain

508
00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:00,400
Speaker 1: and send you out a Roninani and the our Doctor

509
00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:03,760
Speaker 1: twenty fiftieth anniversary Celebrate America T shirt. We'll get that

510
00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:06,199
Speaker 1: out of your way and keep us posted. This is

511
00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:08,320
Speaker 1: a good story. I'm curious to hear what happened, all.

512
00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:09,960
Speaker 4: Right, sir, Okay, Love, thanks a lot.

513
00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:11,720
Speaker 1: You're very welcome. Enjoy the rest of your car show.

514
00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:13,720
Speaker 1: I'm running any in the car Doctor. We're back right

515
00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:28,040
Speaker 1: after this. Hey, coming into us live from upstate New York.

516
00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:31,440
Speaker 1: Let's go to Bob. I always wanted to do that, Bob.

517
00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:32,920
Speaker 1: How are you welcome? What's going on?

518
00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:34,040
Speaker 4: Hey?

519
00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:36,760
Speaker 5: Ryan? So I'm trying to find out whether I hurt

520
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:39,320
Speaker 5: myself or whether this is just a problem with the car.

521
00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:43,800
Speaker 5: So my entertainment system on this twenty fifteen at the

522
00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:49,240
Speaker 5: Camery XS, the GBL Premium system was giving me some

523
00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:54,479
Speaker 5: inconsistent performance on the GPS system. I went in and

524
00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:58,119
Speaker 5: did an initialization through the screen. All day on the

525
00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:00,919
Speaker 5: app button turned the lights twice. I hit the button,

526
00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:07,119
Speaker 5: and ever since then, some of the touch positions on

527
00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:08,960
Speaker 5: the screen when you're trying to use the radio and

528
00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:12,440
Speaker 5: things are not lining right? Did I break the alignment?

529
00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:13,520
Speaker 4: Is that fixable?

530
00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:20,480
Speaker 1: It's fixable. I've seen this before, Bob. And sometimes you

531
00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:24,919
Speaker 1: can buy the bottom half because it's it's it's a

532
00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:29,400
Speaker 1: calibration problem. You hit the audio nod for like three

533
00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:31,920
Speaker 1: to five seconds of display turned off and and came

534
00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:35,320
Speaker 1: back up right. Yeah, and so now it's at of

535
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:41,560
Speaker 1: calibration and this, this era Camra doesn't provide for complete

536
00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:44,680
Speaker 1: calibration like that. Toyota wants to sell you a new

537
00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:48,119
Speaker 1: control head and I've seen numbers one thousand and fifteen dollars,

538
00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:52,080
Speaker 1: just stupid numbers. There's something, there's a piece called the

539
00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:55,119
Speaker 1: digitizer screen. It's referred to as and I've seen it

540
00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:57,520
Speaker 1: replaced in the aftermarket. You've got to find a source.

541
00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:00,560
Speaker 1: What you could try is and at this point it's broken,

542
00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:03,840
Speaker 1: so you can't break it any worse, right, is try

543
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:06,560
Speaker 1: taking a playing card or a thin credit card and

544
00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:11,600
Speaker 1: go underneath the bottom bezel and can you gently push

545
00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:13,520
Speaker 1: on the button, so line it up with a button

546
00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:16,800
Speaker 1: you're trying to push. Can you physically get to the

547
00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:19,040
Speaker 1: button with the card and push it does the system

548
00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:20,000
Speaker 1: then work.

549
00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:25,320
Speaker 5: And it's it's just out of alignment, right, I mean.

550
00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:30,360
Speaker 1: Right, so, so so if you can physically access those buttons,

551
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:33,520
Speaker 1: chances are if you can find just that what they

552
00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:40,440
Speaker 1: call the digitizer screen or the inter inter uh what's

553
00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:45,560
Speaker 1: the word, the screen in between? All right, you can

554
00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:48,200
Speaker 1: the interface, thank you, the if you can find in

555
00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:50,720
Speaker 1: Bob's a lot going on today. If you can find

556
00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:53,920
Speaker 1: the interface, that screen sometimes called the digitizer, and get

557
00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:56,720
Speaker 1: that replaced, you'll end up saving a bunch of money

558
00:28:57,240 --> 00:28:58,160
Speaker 1: and that will work.

559
00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:01,600
Speaker 5: I mean, it's an eleven year old car, it.

560
00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:04,160
Speaker 1: Works right sort of?

561
00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:05,680
Speaker 4: Okay, right, okay.

562
00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:08,200
Speaker 1: But that's that's that's your answer. So how's life upstate?

563
00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:10,240
Speaker 1: You miss New Jersey?

564
00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:11,920
Speaker 4: You know, it's just different.

565
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:14,479
Speaker 5: It just moving up here is just different than it

566
00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:16,320
Speaker 5: was in the New York City metropolitan area.

567
00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:16,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's fine.

568
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:17,280
Speaker 5: Not here.

569
00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:18,640
Speaker 4: Some family's up here now.

570
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:19,320
Speaker 5: So it's great.

571
00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:20,560
Speaker 1: Slower pace, right.

572
00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:22,280
Speaker 5: It is much slower pace.

573
00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:24,760
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, cool beans. It's always good to hear from you,

574
00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:27,640
Speaker 1: my friend. Listen, whether if you did you did, if

575
00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:29,120
Speaker 1: you didn't, make sure you stand on the line. Get

576
00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:31,440
Speaker 1: your car doctor two and fiftieth anniversary T shirt coming

577
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:32,360
Speaker 1: all right, you'd be well.

578
00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:34,840
Speaker 5: I appreciate you. Have a great Fourth of July.

579
00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:39,160
Speaker 1: Thanks Bob, you two longtime customer right moved out of

580
00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:42,200
Speaker 1: the area, retired. Just a real fun guy, a real

581
00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:46,080
Speaker 1: car guy too. Uh. He's always he's he's drive he

582
00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:48,800
Speaker 1: drives cars like he's driving a fifteen camera. I guarantee

583
00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:50,880
Speaker 1: you that thing's got well over one hundred and fifty

584
00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:54,320
Speaker 1: thousand miles on it now, and it just just always

585
00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:56,760
Speaker 1: made sense. Just a real practical kind of guy. But

586
00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:58,840
Speaker 1: that's a common issue, by the way, with the Toyota's

587
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:01,320
Speaker 1: with the cameras. I see that at the fourteens, the fifteens,

588
00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:05,000
Speaker 1: the sixties, and as good as Toyota is every once

589
00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:08,360
Speaker 1: in a while, sometimes you you know, they have their

590
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:10,640
Speaker 1: issues too, but they do, they do make good on it.

591
00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:12,560
Speaker 1: There's always a way to fix it. Eight five five

592
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:14,800
Speaker 1: five six oh nine nine zero zero. I'm running ad

593
00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:16,520
Speaker 1: in the car doctor. We'll be back right after this.

594
00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:32,200
Speaker 1: Don't go anywhere, Let's go to the mailbed. This one

595
00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:34,960
Speaker 1: comes to us from Sue down in Florida. Dear car doctor,

596
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:38,680
Speaker 1: I recently had my late model Honda. What year Honda

597
00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:42,480
Speaker 1: is this? Nineteen A nineteen Honda Accord and an extensive accident,

598
00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:45,160
Speaker 1: So you got to be specific. My nineteen Honda Accord

599
00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:46,840
Speaker 1: in a front end collision. Ever since I got it

600
00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:49,480
Speaker 1: back from the body shop, it has overheated on me

601
00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:51,240
Speaker 1: each and every time I take it out. Nobody can

602
00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:53,880
Speaker 1: seem to solve the problem. I do notice the cooling

603
00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:57,000
Speaker 1: fan running, and I'm about to service the cooling system

604
00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,160
Speaker 1: because even though Honda says it should go longer, I'm

605
00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:01,440
Speaker 1: wondering if maybe put the right coolant back in it,

606
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:04,520
Speaker 1: and I'm considering running straight cooling to give myself some

607
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:07,640
Speaker 1: extra cooling ability. What do you think? I think that's

608
00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:09,920
Speaker 1: a mistake. So first of all, let's let's cover the

609
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 1: Let's cover the obvious first. If the overheat condition wasn't

610
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:17,160
Speaker 1: there prior to the accident, and I doubt that it was,

611
00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:19,040
Speaker 1: because the way you're worded it sounds like this is

612
00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:22,120
Speaker 1: something new since the accident. The cooling fan is running,

613
00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:25,360
Speaker 1: as you say, all the time. Why does the cooling

614
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:28,920
Speaker 1: fan run all the time? Is the cooling fan running

615
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:32,720
Speaker 1: in the correct direction? Is the cooling fan running all

616
00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:35,280
Speaker 1: the time because it's overheating because the cooling fan is

617
00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:38,840
Speaker 1: blowing hot air onto the radiator instead of blowing it forward,

618
00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:42,560
Speaker 1: instead of pulling it in to create proper air distribution

619
00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:46,520
Speaker 1: and heat and cooling. Right stand in front of the

620
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:48,920
Speaker 1: car when the fan comes on, Is it blowing hot

621
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:51,880
Speaker 1: air onto your legs? Or is it? Is it not?

622
00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:54,360
Speaker 1: So that's my first question. Okay, which way is the

623
00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:56,320
Speaker 1: air blown when the cooling fan runs? And I've seen

624
00:31:56,360 --> 00:31:59,760
Speaker 1: accident cars where harnesses get damaged and they'll rewire the

625
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:02,000
Speaker 1: harness and they'll get creative and they'll do all kinds

626
00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:04,120
Speaker 1: of goofy things, and you find out they've got the

627
00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:06,680
Speaker 1: cooling fin run in the wrong direction. That's number one.

628
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:11,320
Speaker 1: Number two, don't run straight coolant. You can't run straight coolant.

629
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:15,720
Speaker 1: Straight coolant has a different density. It will not transmit

630
00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:19,240
Speaker 1: or flow the heat away correctly like a fifty to

631
00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:22,240
Speaker 1: fifty mixture. You know, you've really got to give credit

632
00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:25,400
Speaker 1: to companies like Peak Peak Coolant. All right, we talk

633
00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:27,960
Speaker 1: about them all the time. I was driving around in

634
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:30,600
Speaker 1: my four suburban the other day. It was one hundred

635
00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:33,800
Speaker 1: and three degrees here in New Jersey and I'm driving

636
00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:37,560
Speaker 1: around in my twenty five year old suburban. Whatever twenty

637
00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:40,800
Speaker 1: three year old suburban air conditioning on the ace's blowing

638
00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:43,400
Speaker 1: forty five degrees. It's one hundred and three degrees out

639
00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:46,320
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking to myself, I'm so glad I serviced

640
00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:49,320
Speaker 1: it recently with correct coolant, using peak of course, like

641
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:53,360
Speaker 1: I always do, and it worked and the cooling system's

642
00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:57,360
Speaker 1: holding up. Well, you know, consider maybe the body shop

643
00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:00,040
Speaker 1: didn't service the cooling system properly. If it was a

644
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:02,360
Speaker 1: big enough hit that it got to the radiator, as

645
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:06,520
Speaker 1: you indicate elsewhere in your email, then perhaps they've assembled

646
00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:10,000
Speaker 1: something wrong. Perhaps they ran straight coolant and they're creating

647
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:12,480
Speaker 1: their overheating condition. I would look back at the work

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Speaker 1: that the body shop did. I would look back at

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Speaker 1: which way the cooling fan is running, because I think

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Speaker 1: that's going to be your problem. And last, you don't

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Speaker 1: mention whether this overheats whether you're traveling down the road

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Speaker 1: at speed or whether you're idling in a parking lot.

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Speaker 1: Are all the air dams, all the little air deflectors.

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Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot more going on to these

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Speaker 1: cars today than just a fan, a radiator and a bumper.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of panels that direct there. There's a

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Speaker 1: lot of places where if they're missing lower spoilers, lower balances,

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Speaker 1: that car won't have proper airflow, and that car will

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Speaker 1: have a tendency to overheat. So in order correct coolant peak.

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Speaker 1: You can find that it advanced autoparts. You can also

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Speaker 1: go back over the work that was done and look

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Speaker 1: at this from that particular perspective. I'm running any in

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Speaker 1: the car doctor till the next time. Good mechanics are

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Speaker 1: and expensive, they're priceless.

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Speaker 6: See Yu, He's a car doctor.

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