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Speaker 1: I've known Barbara a good many years, and you know,

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Speaker 1: We're on any and at your service. How can I help? Um,

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Speaker 1: right after this. Welcome back. We're on any of the

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Speaker 1: car doctor here at five zero nine zero zero. Let's

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Speaker 1: get over Dave and Vermont. Dave, welcome a board, sir.

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Speaker 1: How can I help? Well, I was just curious. I

429
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Speaker 1: was going to comment on some discussion that you had

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Speaker 1: a week ago, um about oil consumption on a lot

431
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Speaker 1: of these cars with the entry level for in four

432
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Speaker 1: cylinder engines, and you know the fact that a lot

433
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Speaker 1: of them have oil consumption. I'm at I, in fact

434
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Speaker 1: a dealer car dealer and independent at a service shop,

435
00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:07,240
Speaker 1: and we run across this way too often. Were these

436
00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:10,840
Speaker 1: cars that are running fine, but they're going through lots

437
00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:14,399
Speaker 1: of oil? And I remember you discussed last week about

438
00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:18,679
Speaker 1: light duty piston rings and and all that, And I

439
00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:22,120
Speaker 1: just wanted to make mention of the fact that I've

440
00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:27,040
Speaker 1: noticed over the years that the UH interval for oil

441
00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:31,320
Speaker 1: service is now and many cars ten thousand miles, most

442
00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:34,720
Speaker 1: cars ten thousand miles. In some cars like BMW fifteen

443
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Speaker 1: thousand miles, and that's a long way on oil changes.

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Speaker 1: And I'm just wondering what else you found that we

445
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Speaker 1: can help our customers with that to see if we

446
00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:46,760
Speaker 1: can't bring this thing in somehow at having to rebuild

447
00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:48,880
Speaker 1: the motor every time. Well, what I you know, Dave,

448
00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:50,919
Speaker 1: Whenever I have this conversation at the counter, and I

449
00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:53,919
Speaker 1: appreciate the question, I think it's a great question. Is

450
00:25:54,359 --> 00:25:56,520
Speaker 1: I tell people point blank, listen, I'm not going to

451
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Speaker 1: retire on oil changes. I'm not here to sell you

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Speaker 1: an oil change to make my number. Okay, you know

453
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Speaker 1: that's not my quote. Of my job is to take

454
00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:08,280
Speaker 1: proper care of the vehicle. Um BMW, if I'm not mistaken,

455
00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:11,480
Speaker 1: in the last five years, has rolled back that fifteen

456
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Speaker 1: thousand mile interval. I understand now they're hovering around ten

457
00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:17,679
Speaker 1: to twelve thousand miles, depending upon the vehicle because at

458
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Speaker 1: the fifteen thousand mile mark, guess what they had issues.

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00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:23,840
Speaker 1: You know, oil and oil just can't it just can't

460
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Speaker 1: do it. Um. The thing, the thing I always make

461
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Speaker 1: people aware of two is a vehicle manufacturer wants to

462
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Speaker 1: sell you a car. Listen, let's call it what it is.

463
00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:38,920
Speaker 1: It's it's marketing. It's not it's not designed to make

464
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Speaker 1: that car last a long time. It's to make that

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Speaker 1: car last until you're ready to buy another one, and

466
00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:46,920
Speaker 1: hopefully it's three years because that's the cycle. That's when

467
00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:48,720
Speaker 1: they want that car back and they can sell it

468
00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:51,800
Speaker 1: to the next guy, and you know, create that perfect scenario.

469
00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:53,399
Speaker 1: The person that you know is going to buy that

470
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Speaker 1: used car that's doesn't want to spend fifty but they've

471
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Speaker 1: got twenty or twenty five and they want that car

472
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Speaker 1: with forty or fifty thousand miles on it. You know

473
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:04,160
Speaker 1: the story. You there's what you do for a living, right, Um,

474
00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:08,760
Speaker 1: it's that's that's that's the perfect scenario. What I tell

475
00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:11,159
Speaker 1: people is can the well I explained it like this.

476
00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:13,200
Speaker 1: I just said this yesterday to someone. We were talking

477
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Speaker 1: about Carol had come in. She had gotten a flat

478
00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:18,840
Speaker 1: on a Sunday and where she went again, She went

479
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:21,240
Speaker 1: to a tire store. And I'm not condemning all tire stores.

480
00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:23,000
Speaker 1: This guy was just a little hungry that day, and

481
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Speaker 1: he condemned all four shocks, all four struts on her

482
00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:28,720
Speaker 1: oh five Toyota Highlander with a hundred ninety thousand miles

483
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Speaker 1: on it. You know, oh my god, you need shocks

484
00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:32,600
Speaker 1: and this. And then you know, here's a single mom

485
00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:35,480
Speaker 1: raising a kid. Uh, you know, she's panicked. She stopped in.

486
00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:36,920
Speaker 1: We put it up in the air and I said, yeah,

487
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:39,399
Speaker 1: the dust boots on the back are torn. I'm not

488
00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:42,920
Speaker 1: worried about it. It's quiet, it's not clunking, there's nothing

489
00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:46,200
Speaker 1: like you can drive it. Don't worry about it, all right.

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Speaker 1: I can't tell you the number of times and we've

491
00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:52,640
Speaker 1: had that same conversation with the same response, and I

492
00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:54,520
Speaker 1: and I and I well, and I said to her,

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00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:56,040
Speaker 1: I said, do you want to change the oil? And

494
00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:57,840
Speaker 1: she says, well, I don't have the mileage I said, yeah,

495
00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:00,879
Speaker 1: but you're a month late. And I explained to her,

496
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:04,760
Speaker 1: I said, you know, the problem is that if you

497
00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:06,879
Speaker 1: could get in your car and leave New Jersey and

498
00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:10,240
Speaker 1: drive to California at fifty five or sixty miles an hour,

499
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Speaker 1: steady stop for gas, never cooled down, and and come back,

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00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:19,000
Speaker 1: you could probably make that trip one and a half

501
00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:21,639
Speaker 1: or two times. You could put ten thousand miles on

502
00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:24,680
Speaker 1: the oil. The oil stays cleaner, there's no condensation, there's

503
00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:27,800
Speaker 1: no cool down period, there's no variation and load and

504
00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:30,440
Speaker 1: and and everything that goes into what breaks down oil.

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00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:33,359
Speaker 1: The problem is you're doing stop and go driving. You

506
00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:36,359
Speaker 1: live in North Jersey. Traffic grows here like the sky

507
00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:39,120
Speaker 1: is blue on a spring day. It just you know,

508
00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:41,960
Speaker 1: it's it's just the abuse. The oil goes through. What

509
00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:44,680
Speaker 1: I tell my customers and what you can tell your customers,

510
00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:47,280
Speaker 1: and maybe the work is we're so willing to spend

511
00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:49,640
Speaker 1: five to ten dollars for an overpriced cup of coffee

512
00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:53,520
Speaker 1: at least once a week, then then you know, take

513
00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:57,160
Speaker 1: that skip one, skip one fancy cup of coffee, put

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00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:59,560
Speaker 1: an extra oil change into the car and watch how

515
00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:01,960
Speaker 1: much better or the car runs, how much better? It

516
00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:06,280
Speaker 1: lasts how fewer problems you have, because when you get

517
00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:10,239
Speaker 1: into that oil burning arena, you now you're not just

518
00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:13,960
Speaker 1: burning oil, as you well know, Dave right, You're contaminating

519
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:17,480
Speaker 1: the catalytic converter, the oxygen sensors. You're hurting, You're hurting

520
00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:20,200
Speaker 1: the rest of the admission control systems, and you're now

521
00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:24,440
Speaker 1: going down that slippery slope of a failed engine. I

522
00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:26,040
Speaker 1: have a very dear friend who used to be a

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Speaker 1: service advisor for a local Toyota dealer, and we go

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Speaker 1: to dinner and he's just a regular guy and we

525
00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:35,479
Speaker 1: really connect and we you know, I'll never forget. We

526
00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:37,920
Speaker 1: were sitting at the diner one night for four hours

527
00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:41,160
Speaker 1: talking about nothing like car guys can do over eggs,

528
00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:44,040
Speaker 1: right ten o'clock at night, and he said to me,

529
00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:47,040
Speaker 1: he said, you know, Ronnie said, where Toyota went wrong

530
00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:50,400
Speaker 1: was when they went to the longer oil drain interval.

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Speaker 1: We started we started seeing all of our problems right

532
00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:58,640
Speaker 1: after that, and it seems like they've never caught up.

533
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:02,160
Speaker 1: And I think that's true, and most of them, yeah,

534
00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:04,840
Speaker 1: it really is. They're not. They're they're not there to

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00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:08,560
Speaker 1: make the car last lifetime warranty is until they think

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00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:10,760
Speaker 1: they you should have another car, which is typically three

537
00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:13,600
Speaker 1: or four years, because nobody at ninety or a hundred

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Speaker 1: thousand miles is gonna put what's probably a three to

539
00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:19,920
Speaker 1: five thousand dollar engine in a car today because oh

540
00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:21,880
Speaker 1: my god, the car is old, it has no value.

541
00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:26,560
Speaker 1: But they'll just go buy another car, you know, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: just to show you how it's changed. The car I'm driving,

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Speaker 1: which is a two thousand nine out a five in

544
00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:35,080
Speaker 1: my own car, I've owned it three times now because

545
00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:38,960
Speaker 1: it keeps getting traded in. It offers something newer. And

546
00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:43,600
Speaker 1: that car just turned two d thousand miles. I'll put

547
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Speaker 1: a quarter oil in maybe at three thousand, and maybe

548
00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:49,360
Speaker 1: when I get to five thousand miles will be down

549
00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:52,320
Speaker 1: a half a quart. So we change it, and uh,

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00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:55,400
Speaker 1: that car is gonna turn three hundred. I can guarantee you. Yeah, yeah,

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00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:59,120
Speaker 1: it's you know. I also give people the the chicken

552
00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:02,880
Speaker 1: soup is what may oil conversation. You know, it's mom.

553
00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:05,760
Speaker 1: Your mom made chicken soup. My mom made chicken soup.

554
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:09,320
Speaker 1: So everybody starts with based stock chicken soup, all right,

555
00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:11,560
Speaker 1: and then your mom put in a couple of the

556
00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:13,959
Speaker 1: same additives as my mom. But your mom thought this

557
00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:16,000
Speaker 1: was better and my mom thought that was better. And

558
00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:18,880
Speaker 1: it was both good soups. It's just you know which

559
00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:21,160
Speaker 1: one was a little bit better. Everybody's oil is a

560
00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:24,400
Speaker 1: little bit different. But you know what, all these oils

561
00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:27,600
Speaker 1: have the same based stock chicken soup in them. And

562
00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:31,960
Speaker 1: the rule of thumb, conventional oil three to four thousand miles,

563
00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 1: synthetic oil five to six thousand miles proved me wrong.

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00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:41,600
Speaker 1: All right, you know, Dave, I'm floored by these guys.

565
00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:43,880
Speaker 1: And I'll probably get a half a million emails after

566
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Speaker 1: this week about you know, well, I take my listen,

567
00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:49,360
Speaker 1: do whatever you want to do, all right. I uh,

568
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:51,240
Speaker 1: you know, it doesn't matter to me. You know, they'll

569
00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:53,480
Speaker 1: waste all this time and money sending the oil out

570
00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:56,360
Speaker 1: for analysis to the labs and come back. And it

571
00:31:56,440 --> 00:32:00,560
Speaker 1: doesn't matter common sense because because the other other thing

572
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:03,479
Speaker 1: that oil changes do if they're done properly, And I'll

573
00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:05,280
Speaker 1: leave it here because I could go on about this

574
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:07,760
Speaker 1: for a couple of hours. Um. The other thing that

575
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:10,440
Speaker 1: oil changes do in the hands of a good mechanic,

576
00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:15,320
Speaker 1: that that's that's that's looking and honest and caring, is

577
00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:18,600
Speaker 1: it keeps the car safe and reliable, and it keeps

578
00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:21,760
Speaker 1: that person upright and moving down the road in a

579
00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:24,040
Speaker 1: much better position than the car that goes a year

580
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:28,080
Speaker 1: in between oil changes, especially when that becomes an older car. Dave,

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00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:30,680
Speaker 1: I appreciate the conversation. Good luck to you and yours.

582
00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:32,480
Speaker 1: Stay safe. I'm run on any of the car. Doctor.

583
00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:45,800
Speaker 1: We're coming back right after this. Doctor. Did you see

584
00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:48,840
Speaker 1: the article? Yeah, it's a great article to read, Dale Dale.

585
00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:51,080
Speaker 1: Aaron Hart Jr. Was asked a question in a recent

586
00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:53,040
Speaker 1: interview where he talked about what do you ever want

587
00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:56,320
Speaker 1: to see his kids become race car drivers? And you know,

588
00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:58,480
Speaker 1: as a dad would say, listen, I want my kids

589
00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:00,000
Speaker 1: to do whatever they want to do and be success,

590
00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:01,840
Speaker 1: will be good at it. But he said as far

591
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:04,320
Speaker 1: as being race car drivers, and I'm sort of paraphrasing here,

592
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:07,520
Speaker 1: his comment was no, because it's just too darn expensive.

593
00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:10,360
Speaker 1: And I think about that, right, what it costs to

594
00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:16,280
Speaker 1: become a successful professional NASCAR racer or any any area

595
00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:20,040
Speaker 1: arena of motorsports, right, what that's gonna take to become that?

596
00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:23,480
Speaker 1: And yeah, it's freaking expensive, as Dala and Hard Jr. Said,

597
00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:26,440
Speaker 1: And you sit there and it's an exact quote, and

598
00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:29,560
Speaker 1: you sit there and you say to yourself, it's expensive,

599
00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:34,959
Speaker 1: which means it's a multibillion dollar industry. And yet we're

600
00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:38,360
Speaker 1: gonna convert this to an electric car country. And what's

601
00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:41,840
Speaker 1: gonna happen to NASCAR, what's gonna happen to motorsports? You

602
00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:43,800
Speaker 1: know it's it's gonna be very quiet. Can you see

603
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:45,040
Speaker 1: it now? You want to know what it's gonna sound

604
00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:49,720
Speaker 1: like going around the track at Daytona for about two hours?

605
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:53,920
Speaker 1: Can you imagine that? Just it'll just be too weird. Um,

606
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:56,480
Speaker 1: it'll just be too weird. So uh to Dale or

607
00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:58,280
Speaker 1: and Hard Jr. I hope your kids become what they

608
00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:01,280
Speaker 1: want to become, maybe to become cheaper and uh less

609
00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:05,800
Speaker 1: expensive when it's electric cars and not necessarily not necessarily

610
00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:09,080
Speaker 1: internal combustion engine. Um. I read that article and I

611
00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:11,000
Speaker 1: immediately thought of electric cars and how it's going to

612
00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:13,279
Speaker 1: affect it, um, as well as the rest of the

613
00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:15,680
Speaker 1: country and the rest of the industry. Hey, we had

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00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:18,960
Speaker 1: a two thousand eleven Ford Edge this week that, um

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00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:21,200
Speaker 1: we had to do an outside door handle, a driver's

616
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:24,400
Speaker 1: door handle, right, simple simple door handle, and it was

617
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:27,360
Speaker 1: you know, normally we can replace them from the outside.

618
00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:30,919
Speaker 1: It's a door handle clips in and then slides back

619
00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:33,680
Speaker 1: into position. And there's a little cheesy, for lack of

620
00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:36,279
Speaker 1: a better word to put it, plastic chrome cover that

621
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:38,800
Speaker 1: sits in the back of it. But this one needed

622
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:41,960
Speaker 1: the reinforcement handle. The handle that sits there's a plate

623
00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:45,359
Speaker 1: that sits behind the door on the other side. So

624
00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:48,359
Speaker 1: in the interest of let's build a quicker car. Coming

625
00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:51,720
Speaker 1: down the assembly line, Ford puts the regulator, the power window, switches,

626
00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:55,440
Speaker 1: the lock actuators, everything onto a plate and then bolts

627
00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:57,440
Speaker 1: it to the inside of the door. And then you

628
00:34:57,520 --> 00:35:00,560
Speaker 1: have to take all that apart to get the actuator

629
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:02,280
Speaker 1: to get to the plate, to get to the clip

630
00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:05,920
Speaker 1: to replace the door handle. The simple door handle becomes

631
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:10,440
Speaker 1: fi uh. You know, you've got to realize that all

632
00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:13,440
Speaker 1: this stuff is getting more complicated and more involved, and

633
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:15,919
Speaker 1: plastic has an infinite light. There's only so many times

634
00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:19,320
Speaker 1: you can take plastic apart. Oh, the future of auto repair,

635
00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:21,560
Speaker 1: where's it going? I'm ronding any in the car doctor

636
00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:24,120
Speaker 1: reminding you this time every time for a good time.

637
00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:28,000
Speaker 1: Good mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. See you