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Speaker 2: I love the last minute stuff. It's just it's just great.

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Speaker 2: So just so you guys know, I'm flying without a

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Speaker 2: call screen today and it's sort of life imitating art

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Speaker 2: because that's really the way it was at the shop

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Speaker 2: this week. We're ready for snowmageddon here in New Jersey,

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Speaker 2: because that's what they're telling us is going to happen.

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Speaker 2: And I get it. It's going to be a huge

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Speaker 2: snowstorm Texas to the northeast right across twelve to fifteen

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Speaker 2: states at once, you know. And you look at the

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Speaker 2: level of preparation that has gone on for supermarkets, right

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Speaker 2: I know firsthand from people that work in supermarkets here

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Speaker 2: in the Northeast. In one single day, in less than

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Speaker 2: three hours, everything is cleaned out, meat, chicken, poultry, water.

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Speaker 2: The laundry detergent was the one that got me. How

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Speaker 2: many clothes do you think you're going to wash in

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Speaker 2: the middle of a snowstorm. I don't understand that. I'm

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Speaker 2: not quite sure what that's about. And I just think

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Speaker 2: of all this preparation. Has anybody checked the wiper blades

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Speaker 2: on their car? Has anybody done basic? You know, if

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Speaker 2: I have to get somewhere in an emergency, my vehicle

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Speaker 2: is going to take me there. God's a funny guy. Wednesday,

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Speaker 2: the phones kind of stopped bringing at the shop and

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Speaker 2: I looked at Danny and I said, this is the

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Speaker 2: this is the universe telling us let's get ready. So

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Speaker 2: it wasn't a lot to do. To the plow truck.

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Speaker 2: The plow truck is. You know, it's usually right on

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Speaker 2: top of its game. It's all setting ready to go

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Speaker 2: most of the time. Hook up the plow, grease a

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Speaker 2: few things, you know, fill up the gas tank. You're done,

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Speaker 2: ready to go. And I thought that was it and

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Speaker 2: it was all good. And Danny went and got a

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Speaker 2: snowblower from home. And I'm not sure what possesses these youngsters.

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Speaker 2: And I consider Danny a youngster and I love him

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Speaker 2: like a son. But he you know, they're funny. Right,

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Speaker 2: here's this perfectly good snowblower that he's just been so

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Speaker 2: busy asn't got around to fixing. So Wednesday after was

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Speaker 2: sat for a while, he brings it in and now

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Speaker 2: we're going to work on it. Well, the old man,

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Speaker 2: meeting me, knowing life as it is, had ordered a

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Speaker 2: replacement carburetor. I'm a believer in inventory. I just damn

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Speaker 2: you know too many years in the oder repair business

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Speaker 2: that when you take a part off a shelf that's

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Speaker 2: common that you know is going to fail. Take that

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Speaker 2: part off the shelf, put another one on the shelf.

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Speaker 2: You never want to go shoes shopping with me, all right.

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Speaker 2: You don't want to open up the door to the

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Speaker 2: inventory closet for sneakers. It's kind of staggering because you know,

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Speaker 2: black sneakers, lifting sneakers, running sneakers. But that's just the

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Speaker 2: way I'm built. So Danny snowblower needed a carburetor. Now

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Speaker 2: it's a nineteen eighty three MTD ten horse to come

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Speaker 2: to horizontal shift twenty eight inch snowblower nineteen eighty three

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Speaker 2: only because that's when I got it. And when I

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Speaker 2: got the new one, I gave it to Danny, and

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Speaker 2: you know, it still starts on one started on one

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Speaker 2: pull when I gave it to him, you know, and

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Speaker 2: it just sat and he just got caught up on

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Speaker 2: other things. And he brought it in and he looked

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Speaker 2: at me and he said, what do you think. I said,

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Speaker 2: I think you need a carburetor. I can almost guarantee

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Speaker 2: you need a carburetor because they tend to get gummy

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Speaker 2: I'm a believer, and I only use true fuel, you know,

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Speaker 2: the non ethanol stuff and all my small equipment. And

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Speaker 2: I'm sure in his haste in youth, and I say

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Speaker 2: that with love, that dumb he didn't. So he said wow.

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Speaker 2: So we looked up. We called out to our usual place,

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Speaker 2: rcp W, RCP, I think it's RCPW sohars out in

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Speaker 2: mid Lothian. I think it is Ohio. And you know,

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Speaker 2: I've always bought from them. They have They have a

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Speaker 2: great selection of small equipment. And listen, they're not a

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Speaker 2: sponsor of the show. They don't even know what I'm

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Speaker 2: talking about them. But they're just just a good company, right,

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Speaker 2: They've always been there for the past twenty five years.

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Speaker 2: I'm buying snowblower parts and they can get a carburetor

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Speaker 2: for this forty year old snowblower. But it's going to

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Speaker 2: be five to six weeks just because they're on back order,

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Speaker 2: because I guess everybody waited until the last minute and

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Speaker 2: coming here to New Jersey. So Danny looked at me

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Speaker 2: and said, what are we going to do? And I said,

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Speaker 2: hang on a second. And I walked in the back

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Speaker 2: know it's somewhere. It's right between the power window regulators

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Speaker 2: for the suburban that I'm never going to need, in

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Speaker 2: the fuel pump assembly. Just in case, and I think

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Speaker 2: you know it may need. Oh, here it is. Here's

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Speaker 2: the here's the fuel pumpas, here's the here's the carburetor.

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Speaker 2: And sure enough, there it is, right, it's it's all

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Speaker 2: setting ready to go. Handed him the carburetor said, here,

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Speaker 2: put this on. So we solve the problem of the snowblower. Hey,

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Speaker 2: we were ready. You know what snowblower add true to

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Speaker 2: its word, right, a good carburetor, fresh fuel, fresh spark plug,

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Speaker 2: one pull, started right up forty let's say, nineteen eighty three,

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Speaker 2: forty eight three years old, Is that right? Yeah, I

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Speaker 2: think that's right. So just great, got the new blower,

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Speaker 2: went through the new blower real quick, which didn't need

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Speaker 2: much check the oil, build it up with fuel, air,

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Speaker 2: all set. We had a couple of cars. The rest

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Speaker 2: to roll. Friday came and by now I'm thoroughly convinced

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Speaker 2: as well as everybody else, I should put a stick

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Speaker 2: they send in the helicopter to find us, they're going

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Speaker 2: to have to be looking for the top of the

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Speaker 2: pole because there's just so much snow coming to New Jersey.

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Speaker 2: So we finish out, we have a couple of quick

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Speaker 2: oil changes in the morning, and I tell Daniel we'll

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Speaker 2: you know, bunker down and start shopping firewood, because we're

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Speaker 2: all going to need to either burn the house down

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Speaker 2: three weeks in order to stay warm. Got to be prepared.

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Speaker 2: You guys want to hear about what goes on in

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Speaker 2: the shop. That's the only reason I'm telling you this.

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Speaker 2: One of my faults. And how can I say this

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Speaker 2: without conceit I don't have many. So one of my

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Speaker 2: faults is I'm a little ocd. And ever since they

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Speaker 2: put it together, the left headlight of the snowplow has

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Speaker 2: been down just enough to aggravate me when I'm plowing.

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Speaker 2: Let me just loosen this up, and you know, so

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Speaker 2: I just very gently gave it a tug, not wanting

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Speaker 2: then I've got a whole world of trouble ahead of me,

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Speaker 2: and I just give a little tug, and sure enough,

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Speaker 2: it not only did it break, but it snapped the

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Speaker 2: stud completely in half, and the plow light fell off

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Speaker 2: the plow. This was about, oh, I don't know, twelve

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Speaker 2: fifteen on Friday. Now it's mad cap. I don't know

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Speaker 2: where it is in your state. You know, if you're

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Speaker 2: in southern California, you're laughing at all this going. But

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Speaker 2: you know everything I've heard, you know, everywhere you go,

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Speaker 2: everybody's insane because they're just getting ready for this bags

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Speaker 2: sure why they're buying. So I take the headlight apart.

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Speaker 2: It's you know, it's a typical you know, motor vehicle

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Speaker 2: And to their discredit, Western Snowplow used a light from

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Speaker 2: Grody g R. O. T. E. Grody Company, and they've

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Speaker 2: of the lamp to adjust it. And I get that.

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Speaker 2: I get that's why they did it that way, but

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Speaker 2: bolt out without physically breaking the headlight. What they do

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Speaker 2: is they put them, they put the top brace in,

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Speaker 2: cover on, and then they glue the headlamp assembly together

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Speaker 2: so you're not getting it apart. If you break it,

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Speaker 2: you got to buy another one, which I would gladly

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Speaker 2: have done. But even though they're five hundred dollars for

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Speaker 2: and you know the problem is when you're snow plowing

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Speaker 2: able to and this is my point, that you've got

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Speaker 2: seems like they come in bunches. They're like grapes. So

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Speaker 2: I'm looking at this snapped bolt. Two snap bolts, actually,

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Speaker 2: because after the first one broke, I said, well, I

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Speaker 2: did as long as i'm you know, let me make

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Speaker 2: this work and I'll figure it out from here. I

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Speaker 2: almost should have shot a video about this. By the way,

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Speaker 2: you get out to the YouTube channel. See the latest

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Speaker 2: video the oil leak in the Hyundai good job dealership.

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Speaker 2: Nice oil change. You want to go see that out

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Speaker 2: on YouTube. Watch it tomorrow when the snow's coming. Then

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Speaker 2: I'll give you something to do. So I took that bolt,

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Speaker 2: something special, and I ground it flat. But it didn't

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Speaker 2: have far to go to be flat, because at least

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Speaker 2: it broke clean. But I ground it flat and I

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Speaker 2: put a little notch in the middle. I went in

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Speaker 2: got out the welder, and I welded the bolt with

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Speaker 2: the notch into the other piece, took it over the grinder,

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Speaker 2: ground it down, got out the hacksaw, cut it, flush,

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Speaker 2: stud I did the same thing to the other side.

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Speaker 2: I'm here. Yeah, the phones are goofy today, so I apologize.

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Speaker 3: Yes, sir, I'm right in right in there where that

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Speaker 4: Now, are you?

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Speaker 2: Are you in line for the snowstorm?

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Speaker 3: Well, actually the more the freezing rain and sleet, not

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Speaker 2: But yeah, so it's going to be nasty. So what

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is a two thousand Discovery Silver Auto Pile three.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so and so does the does does thee come

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Speaker 3: Yes, it does. It comes up to camp. It'll come

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Speaker 2: Right, So, I'm gonna make you spend a couple of bucks,

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Speaker 3: There, I've got one of the laser ermoters.

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Speaker 2: Well, the laser stuff is going to show you surface temp.

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Speaker 3: That's hard for me to answer with him. My father

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Speaker 1: And then.

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Speaker 3: One of my brothers had it and they didn't want it,

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Speaker 2: So there's two hoses going to the heater core right now.

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Speaker 2: This is this a five point three liter?

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Speaker 2: Okay. So the connection at the firewall is kind of tough.

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Speaker 2: It's probably the quick disconnects. And rather than have you

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Speaker 2: and you'll never get them off, and then you'll break

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Speaker 2: Let's take it off at the water pump end, right,

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Speaker 2: there's gonna be a spot where those two hoses come

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Speaker 2: All right, let's verify flow to the core. And I'll

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Speaker 2: tell you what, Brad, stay put, let me pull over.

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Speaker 4: From the city street. It's to the open road tonight. Hell,

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Speaker 2: We are, So let's go back to bread Brad, you're there, sir.

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Speaker 2: So let's verify flow out of the pump. I know

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Speaker 3: Skin I have I haven't looked at it yet.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so we should we should be in the one

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Speaker 3: Right, That's what I was thinking. And I also know

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Speaker 3: Uh yeah, too much faith into.

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Speaker 2: I want to see what's the scan tool showing me?

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Speaker 2: All right? And then last, well, second to last, let's

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Speaker 2: just just common sense grab the up radiator hose, all right?

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Speaker 2: Is it kind of hard to hold. If it's hard

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Speaker 3: Should it be pretty tight? Or should be? Because I

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Speaker 2: Well, that might just be you know, it's twenty six

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Speaker 2: not that's not going to affect heat unless the hose

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Speaker 2: Is the lower hose uncomfortable to touch? I don't want

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Speaker 7: Right?

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Speaker 2: All right, you've you've proven that the engine can put

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Speaker 2: the water pump area. We've got good return back from

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Speaker 3: Okay, right, all right.

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Speaker 2: But the one thing that's in the back of my

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I have looked into the reservoir itself, and it

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Speaker 2: got a laser temp gun, Yeah, you know, why don't

430
00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:52,640
Speaker 2: you get it up the temp before you even get

431
00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:55,960
Speaker 2: it apart? And you know, I don't want to take

432
00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:58,639
Speaker 2: this as an indicator aflow, but I'll take it as

433
00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:00,720
Speaker 2: an indicator of temp. Why don't you look at the

434
00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:02,480
Speaker 2: inlet and the outlet temp of the heater core?

435
00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:04,000
Speaker 3: Okay?

436
00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:08,200
Speaker 2: All right, because if they're not good, what I'm thinking

437
00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:13,160
Speaker 2: about is the inside of the heater core coded? Has

438
00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:18,720
Speaker 2: it got cred built up? Okay? And in which case,

439
00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:21,840
Speaker 2: go by yourself. You know, four feet of heater hose

440
00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:25,680
Speaker 2: and I would work from the water pump end because

441
00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:27,760
Speaker 2: trying to get those nipples off at the heater core

442
00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:30,160
Speaker 2: is going to be a pain in the neck. You'll

443
00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:32,400
Speaker 2: learn a few more swear words if you haven't already,

444
00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:35,720
Speaker 2: all right, and you know you'll get frustrated. I would

445
00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:37,719
Speaker 2: get down to an aeroparts store. Go go to an

446
00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:40,720
Speaker 2: advanced autoparts they'll have it all right. You ever see

447
00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:43,480
Speaker 2: they make those plastic nipples to splice a hose section

448
00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:47,600
Speaker 2: onto a host section, all right, So so use those

449
00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:49,760
Speaker 2: working from the water pump end This way, you know

450
00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:52,600
Speaker 2: it's easier to get to. You've got access by two

451
00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:55,640
Speaker 2: four feet sections of hose of the right diameter. Put

452
00:22:55,640 --> 00:23:00,200
Speaker 2: your nipples on and backflush with a garden It was

453
00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:04,200
Speaker 2: gentle pressure and backflush into a bucket and you'll see

454
00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:07,399
Speaker 2: all the crud come out. Okay, all right, kittle, and

455
00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:08,960
Speaker 2: let's see let's see what that does.

456
00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:12,440
Speaker 3: So all right, one question on that note you said,

457
00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:14,280
Speaker 3: what was the ideal arrange for that? What was that

458
00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:15,960
Speaker 3: supposed to be around the dut temperature?

459
00:23:16,280 --> 00:23:19,639
Speaker 2: Duck temperature? I typically like duck temperature somewhere in the

460
00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:22,439
Speaker 2: one sixty five to eighty range.

461
00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:26,200
Speaker 3: All right, I wanted to set that down, all right, Okay,

462
00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:27,239
Speaker 3: one a thank you, sir.

463
00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:29,560
Speaker 2: You're very welcome to let us know what happens. Brett

464
00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:32,720
Speaker 2: be safe, all right, brother. Let's go on to Mike

465
00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:36,120
Speaker 2: in Florida with an O two GMC and some problems

466
00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:38,720
Speaker 2: with toe hol Mike. Welcome to the car, doctor, sir,

467
00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:39,280
Speaker 2: How can I help?

468
00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:44,399
Speaker 6: Thank you? Ron, thank you you're welcome. Uh did your

469
00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:46,760
Speaker 6: call screen or give you a run? Now?

470
00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:49,480
Speaker 2: No, give me the give me the listen. I'm flying blind.

471
00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:51,199
Speaker 2: I'm flying blind. Without a net, I don't have a

472
00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:53,080
Speaker 2: call screen, I don't have a clock, I don't have anything.

473
00:23:53,119 --> 00:23:55,320
Speaker 2: And somehow it's all working today. So tell me what's

474
00:23:55,359 --> 00:23:55,760
Speaker 2: going on.

475
00:23:56,320 --> 00:23:59,480
Speaker 6: This is the O two GMC here halftime.

476
00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:01,520
Speaker 2: Okay, uh to will drive?

477
00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:06,320
Speaker 6: And around one hundred and fifty thousand I had ah,

478
00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:10,679
Speaker 6: my transmission went out and I had a uh I

479
00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:13,720
Speaker 6: guess you call it a factory three man transmission put

480
00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:18,640
Speaker 6: in it? Okay and and uh before before my transmission

481
00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:22,160
Speaker 6: went out, I had already lost the tow hall function.

482
00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:25,959
Speaker 2: Meaning meaning you hit the button on the on the column,

483
00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:29,040
Speaker 2: on the on the lever, and the light wouldn't come on,

484
00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:31,720
Speaker 2: and it wouldn't keep it out of it, wouldn't put

485
00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:34,560
Speaker 2: it into tow hall. You'd always be in converter, would

486
00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:35,399
Speaker 2: always apply.

487
00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:40,960
Speaker 6: Okay, exactly, yes. Uh. So I was thinking that it

488
00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:44,840
Speaker 6: may be a problem in the transmission itself, and so

489
00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:50,080
Speaker 6: I waited till after after the transmission was replaced, and

490
00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:52,280
Speaker 6: I still had no function.

491
00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:53,840
Speaker 2: All right. Did you happen to mention it to the

492
00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:56,760
Speaker 2: guys when they were doing the trans Yes, I did.

493
00:24:56,840 --> 00:25:00,760
Speaker 6: And what they say, uh, they said that as I

494
00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:03,119
Speaker 6: was expecting him to say, that's probably going to be

495
00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:06,119
Speaker 6: in the steering column from the ship, from the shift

496
00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:10,040
Speaker 6: TI TI tilt steering going up and down, and the

497
00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:15,160
Speaker 6: wild wire separating in the column that the controls that

498
00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:20,359
Speaker 6: leads to that multi that UH toe haul button. You

499
00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:22,280
Speaker 6: know what I mean, You know what I mean. That's

500
00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:25,840
Speaker 6: That's what I'd always heard was was most likely that's

501
00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:28,359
Speaker 6: going to be the problem, and that's what the guys

502
00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:32,880
Speaker 6: at the transmission shop told me also. So now I'm

503
00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:40,119
Speaker 6: wondering if if wanting your opinion on replacing the UH

504
00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:45,040
Speaker 6: multi function switch or tearing the column apart and looking

505
00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:45,879
Speaker 6: for a broke wire?

506
00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:47,400
Speaker 2: Do you want do you want to scantal?

507
00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:49,280
Speaker 5: No?

508
00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:50,680
Speaker 2: Okay, I'll tell you what.

509
00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:53,080
Speaker 6: I have access to one, all right.

510
00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:56,000
Speaker 2: So so before we take anything apart, well, i'll tell

511
00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:58,000
Speaker 2: you what. Let me pull over and take a leisurely pause,

512
00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:01,200
Speaker 2: and when I come back, we'll we'll finish up. How's

513
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:01,520
Speaker 2: that sound?

514
00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:01,760
Speaker 6: All right?

515
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:03,760
Speaker 2: Don't go anywhere, Mike, stay put in Florida. I'm running

516
00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:19,160
Speaker 2: any in the car. Doctor. We'll return right after this. Okay,

517
00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:21,639
Speaker 2: let's go on and get back to Mike and Florida.

518
00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:24,879
Speaker 2: Mike you're there, sir, Yes, I am so real quick

519
00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:26,480
Speaker 2: you've got a scan tool. You want to go in

520
00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:30,119
Speaker 2: your Make model not OBD two, right, You've got to

521
00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:32,760
Speaker 2: go in your Make model either in body module or

522
00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:35,760
Speaker 2: engine controller, and you're gonna push the toe hall button

523
00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:38,119
Speaker 2: and you will see it either go on off or

524
00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:41,679
Speaker 2: nothing will happen. If nothing happens, there's your problem that

525
00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:45,679
Speaker 2: it's not seeing connectivity to the body computer. Right, So

526
00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:50,159
Speaker 2: your next step at that point is to verify this

527
00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:53,520
Speaker 2: switch itself. You can either go down to the BCM

528
00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:56,880
Speaker 2: trace out the wire. If I remember it correctly, it's

529
00:26:56,920 --> 00:26:59,320
Speaker 2: a light blue wire that comes into the BCM connector

530
00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:01,600
Speaker 2: and obviously I'm gonna you get out a wiring diagram.

531
00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:04,000
Speaker 2: You will see high voltage there and when then when

532
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:06,440
Speaker 2: you press the button, you will see that voltage drop

533
00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:09,240
Speaker 2: showing state of change that the switch is working. If

534
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:10,919
Speaker 2: nothing were to happen, then I would tell you to

535
00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:14,480
Speaker 2: take down the bottom steering column cover and get access

536
00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:17,560
Speaker 2: to the end of that stalk lever where the wire

537
00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:20,719
Speaker 2: comes out. At that end, it's probably broken right at

538
00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:23,280
Speaker 2: the base of the column itself, right at the base

539
00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:25,760
Speaker 2: of the switch itself, and you'll be able to see it.

540
00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:27,720
Speaker 2: So it depends on how you want to diagnose it.

541
00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:30,800
Speaker 2: But the first step is to definitely use a scan

542
00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:33,199
Speaker 2: tool before you take anything apart, because you see a

543
00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:36,720
Speaker 2: change of state going in that the computer sees the

544
00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:40,040
Speaker 2: switch state change, then your problem is deeper and we

545
00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:41,080
Speaker 2: can go look elsewhere.

546
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:44,320
Speaker 6: All right, So you don't think it's going to be

547
00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:48,360
Speaker 6: related to the tilt steering up in the upper part.

548
00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:50,560
Speaker 2: It could be, sure, But before I take something apart,

549
00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:53,480
Speaker 2: isn't it easier? What's easier to plug a scan tool

550
00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:54,880
Speaker 2: in and take three minutes and.

551
00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:57,439
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yeah, right, definitely, you know, and.

552
00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:00,280
Speaker 2: Look at that. And then if I see that, yeah,

553
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:02,200
Speaker 2: at that point you want to take the column apart

554
00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:04,159
Speaker 2: and go look for a broken wire. My guess is

555
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:05,800
Speaker 2: you're going to see the broken wire at the base

556
00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:08,320
Speaker 2: of the lever, which is usually where they break. But

557
00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:10,720
Speaker 2: I have seen them also break depending upon how the

558
00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:13,439
Speaker 2: column flexes. So how much of the column do you

559
00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:15,879
Speaker 2: want to or should we have to take apart before

560
00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:18,520
Speaker 2: I go to that depth. I still want to plug

561
00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:19,960
Speaker 2: in a scan tool. I still want to see that

562
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:22,880
Speaker 2: change of state. All right, kiddo, do that and give

563
00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:24,399
Speaker 2: me a call back. We'll go from there. Let's go

564
00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:28,239
Speaker 2: over to Bruce and Wisconsin sixteen Nissan Ultimate and some

565
00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:29,480
Speaker 2: problems with the transmission.

566
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:34,679
Speaker 7: What's going on, Bruce, Hey, my twenty sixteen Nissan is

567
00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:38,120
Speaker 7: ten years old. I dive it seven thousand miles, so

568
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:41,160
Speaker 7: I've got sixty six thousand miles on it.

569
00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:41,640
Speaker 2: Okay.

570
00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:48,680
Speaker 5: A couple of summers ago, I started slipping, and it's

571
00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:54,080
Speaker 5: just getting gradually more and more slipping. And I checked

572
00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:57,560
Speaker 5: online and there was a TSD from Nissan saying, you

573
00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:02,520
Speaker 5: know that these transmissions are slipping, and I need to

574
00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:04,600
Speaker 5: know if I'm going to have to get a new

575
00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:07,560
Speaker 5: transmission or if it can be fixed.

576
00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:10,600
Speaker 2: Well, you're asking the wrong guy in the sense that

577
00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:13,200
Speaker 2: you should be talking to the dealer, because that bulletin

578
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:15,760
Speaker 2: also talks about how there's such a common problem. This

579
00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:19,520
Speaker 2: is a CBT correct correct, right, And this is the

580
00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:22,600
Speaker 2: conversation about Nissan had so many problems with their CBT

581
00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:26,080
Speaker 2: transmissions got to it got the inner joke among the

582
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:27,959
Speaker 2: industry was that it got to the point of its

583
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:30,200
Speaker 2: sixty thousand miles. You changed the oil, did a fuel

584
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:34,480
Speaker 2: system cleaning, and replaced the transmission, and a lot of them,

585
00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:37,440
Speaker 2: early enough on were under some kind of an extended

586
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:41,520
Speaker 2: warranty so it's you know, this is a conversation where

587
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:44,920
Speaker 2: depending upon dealer discretion and you know the fact that

588
00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:48,200
Speaker 2: it's got low miles and even though it's ten years old,

589
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:52,040
Speaker 2: you know, honestly you would have had a stronger case

590
00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:55,000
Speaker 2: three years ago because it was three years newer with

591
00:29:55,040 --> 00:30:00,200
Speaker 2: even lower miles. But yeah, absolutely there is there's no

592
00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:03,880
Speaker 2: rebuilding of those CBTs as I understand it. It's replacement,

593
00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:09,040
Speaker 2: and it's it's a very common, very common problem. The

594
00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:11,800
Speaker 2: numbers I'm hearing and it's been a while since I've

595
00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:14,360
Speaker 2: actually had exposure to this, but within the last year,

596
00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:16,560
Speaker 2: the numbers I was hearing was somewhere in that five

597
00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:20,080
Speaker 2: to six thousand dollars range for a trance. Now, you know,

598
00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:22,680
Speaker 2: when you consider the price of a new vehicle, that's

599
00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:25,120
Speaker 2: not so bad. But if you can get it for free,

600
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:27,320
Speaker 2: like mom said, why not ask? Right?

601
00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:31,480
Speaker 5: Yeah, how gracious is a Nissan on this though?

602
00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:34,320
Speaker 2: Have you been back to the dealer at all in

603
00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:35,560
Speaker 2: the ten years you've had the vehicle?

604
00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:39,640
Speaker 5: I well, a couple of oil changes ago, which means

605
00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:42,520
Speaker 5: you know, a year and a half two years ago, right,

606
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:46,080
Speaker 5: you know, because I'm such low mileage, I told them

607
00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:48,120
Speaker 5: about you know that it's certain it's up and they

608
00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:53,440
Speaker 5: said okay, but they didn't do anything about it.

609
00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:55,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, then maybe you know, you may not have the

610
00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:58,000
Speaker 2: right dealership. They're not curious or have your best interest

611
00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:00,760
Speaker 2: at heart. I would is that where you just the vehicle?

612
00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:05,000
Speaker 5: No, but I've taken it there ever since I've had

613
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:05,280
Speaker 5: the car.

614
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:07,120
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, then there's your argument.

615
00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:11,440
Speaker 3: I got the car at thirty you know, you know what,

616
00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:15,000
Speaker 3: you know what, you know what, Bruce, You're a loyal customer.

617
00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:18,960
Speaker 2: That's got to count for something in my mind. So, like,

618
00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:21,440
Speaker 2: like Mama also said, if you wait long enough, somebody

619
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:24,800
Speaker 2: will show you what they're really about. So I you know,

620
00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:27,800
Speaker 2: you're gonna get the opportunity, you know, and it's it's

621
00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:30,520
Speaker 2: it's going to be a conversation with either I would

622
00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:35,560
Speaker 2: either start with the service manager or Nissan Nissan Corporate. Hey,

623
00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:38,400
Speaker 2: I've got this sixteen Ultimus sixty seven thousand miles. I

624
00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 2: go seventh, just like you explained it to me, brother,

625
00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:43,120
Speaker 2: all right, and here I am with that with the

626
00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:46,640
Speaker 2: same problem your bulletin's talking about. I'm just curious what's

627
00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:50,120
Speaker 2: the best course of action. I understand it's ten years old,

628
00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:52,560
Speaker 2: but it's also a real low mileage and real low use.

629
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:54,960
Speaker 2: Are you going to do anything for me? And I

630
00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:58,800
Speaker 2: would be direct, you know what. And if it's you know,

631
00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 2: if it's going to be a case, we're not going

632
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:03,000
Speaker 2: to do anything for you, the parting shots should be

633
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:07,800
Speaker 2: I should have bought a toyota. Uh, you know it's

634
00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:11,480
Speaker 2: all right, sir, So that's it. I gotta run. You

635
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:13,320
Speaker 2: be well, let me know what happens if you need more.

636
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:15,400
Speaker 2: But you're in the right. You're in the right, you're

637
00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:17,440
Speaker 2: on the mountain or right as they say, let's see

638
00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:18,920
Speaker 2: if they're going to be in the valley of the spare.

639
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:20,680
Speaker 2: I'm run an eney in the car. Doctor. I'll be

640
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:37,080
Speaker 2: back right after this. I want to finish the conversation about,

641
00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:39,720
Speaker 2: you know, the things we don't talk about to be

642
00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:42,120
Speaker 2: ready for the snowstorm. All right, we were talking about

643
00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:45,160
Speaker 2: air in the spare. Does anybody ever put air in

644
00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:46,680
Speaker 2: their spare? There's anybody ever check? Can you get to

645
00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:48,200
Speaker 2: the spare, which is the one I always want to

646
00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:51,040
Speaker 2: know about, you know, And if the spare tire is

647
00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:54,000
Speaker 2: under the vehicle and it's never been down at least

648
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:55,960
Speaker 2: hopefully at the last oil chains if they had access

649
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:58,440
Speaker 2: to it, they could at least smack it. Yeah it's hard, No,

650
00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:02,719
Speaker 2: it's soft. Okay, let's fix it. Do you have all

651
00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:04,640
Speaker 2: the jack tools? Do you know where the jack tools are?

652
00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:07,120
Speaker 2: I want you to have a you know, a means

653
00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:09,520
Speaker 2: or properly charge your cell phone. Listen, first of all,

654
00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:11,080
Speaker 2: you shouldn't be out in any of this stuff. But

655
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:13,280
Speaker 2: there's going to be emergencies that occur in the snowstorm.

656
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:15,200
Speaker 2: But you've got to be out. You've got to go somewhere,

657
00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:17,720
Speaker 2: all right. Hopefully you don't, but it's going to happen, right,

658
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:22,200
Speaker 2: you know, paperwork in the car, registration, insurance card, is

659
00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:24,280
Speaker 2: it valid? Is it legit? Can you get to it?

660
00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:28,920
Speaker 2: You know? In other words, just sort of a mental preparedness,

661
00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:31,360
Speaker 2: you know, make a checklist in your head and decide

662
00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:32,840
Speaker 2: what is it that you have to go after and

663
00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:34,840
Speaker 2: if you have to go out, be ready to go.

664
00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:38,120
Speaker 2: You know, it's those things. Take a walk around the car.

665
00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:41,120
Speaker 2: Do all the lights work or all the lights bright? Right?

666
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:43,800
Speaker 2: You know, it wouldn't hurt to go out there and

667
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:46,960
Speaker 2: clean the windshield if it's salt and crusted already, because

668
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:49,360
Speaker 2: we've had such a rough winter here. Up and down

669
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:51,360
Speaker 2: the East coast, and you know, going into the Midwest,

670
00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:53,160
Speaker 2: it wouldn't hurt to clean that wouldn't hurt to look

671
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:55,240
Speaker 2: at the wiper blades or the wiper blades folded over.

672
00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:57,959
Speaker 2: I know everybody says, do the wipers work? And you know,

673
00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:01,640
Speaker 2: when we're talking about wipers, if you get out there,

674
00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:05,200
Speaker 2: let's see, I guess Monday morning or Sunday night, depending

675
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:07,520
Speaker 2: upon where you are and how bad this is. Don't

676
00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:11,120
Speaker 2: assume that the wiper blades are going to clear your windshield,

677
00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:15,400
Speaker 2: all right. Remember the pivot points for the wipers are strictly,

678
00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:20,560
Speaker 2: strictly plastic pins and bushings, okay, and all they're going

679
00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:24,720
Speaker 2: to do is snap in the extreme cold. So clean

680
00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:27,400
Speaker 2: the glass before you go and do what you're supposed

681
00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:29,600
Speaker 2: to do till the next time I'm running ady in

682
00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:32,800
Speaker 2: the car doctor, good mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless.

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Speaker 6: See yu hey, car doctor.

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Speaker 2: Car Advice to ride