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Speaker 1: Ron An Adian, and I'm talking to somebody in the

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Speaker 1: automotive industry on Wednesday, and it's a zoom call and

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Speaker 1: she's sitting there looking at me, and she's looking and

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Speaker 1: we're talking and we're talking about something that's one of

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Speaker 1: the industry manufacturers. All of a sudden she goes, I

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Speaker 1: know who you are. My dad listens to you.

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Speaker 2: O Ry.

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Speaker 1: The car Doctor. When you're looking for a water leak, Camden,

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Speaker 1: don't spray water right at the car hard. You want

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Speaker 1: to thumb over the end of the hose and I

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Speaker 1: always point the hose straight up so it rains on

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Speaker 1: the car. You know what I'm saying. You want to

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Speaker 1: try and duplicate brain.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the radio home of ron An Aian, the

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Speaker 2: Car Doctor. Since nineteen ninety one. This is where car

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Speaker 2: owners the world overturned to for their definitive opinion on

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Speaker 2: automotive repair. If your mechanics giving you a busy signal,

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Speaker 2: pick up the phone and call in the garage doors.

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Speaker 1: Are open, but I am here to take your call

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Speaker 1: at eight five five five, six, ninety nine hundred and now.

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Speaker 2: Running.

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Speaker 1: Did you have a great week? I had a great

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Speaker 1: root it was it was great down, down, down down.

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Speaker 1: We we're quiet in the shop. You know, it's that

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Speaker 1: time of year. It's it's it's it's mid March and

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Speaker 1: we're stuck between winter and spring. And you know it's

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Speaker 1: not it's not. We're not standing around, but we're not

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Speaker 1: as jam packed as we always are. And it's good, right.

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Speaker 1: Every once in a while you get a chance to,

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Speaker 1: you know, come up for air and and get a

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 1: So you know, Danny carried most of the shop this week,

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Speaker 1: he did most of the work. I jump in where

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Speaker 1: he needed me, and you know, as he got a

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Speaker 1: little behind, or as we got behind. A couple of days,

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Speaker 1: I did my usual routine working in the shop and stuff.

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Speaker 1: But what I'm leading up to is I had the

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Speaker 1: thrill of working in the back room. You know, if

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Speaker 1: own a repair shop, I challenge you to clean out

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Speaker 1: absolutely staggering. It's it's crazy what's back there. And it's

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Speaker 1: a generational thing. You know, you can see I found

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Speaker 1: things I haven't seen in forty years. And the sad

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Speaker 1: part is I remember buying them. You know, it's it's

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Speaker 1: you know, you're like, well, I thought i'd need I

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Speaker 1: thought I would need seventeen of these. What do you

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Speaker 1: mean that all those cars are gone? What? They don't

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Speaker 1: make chavettes anymore? What are you kidding me? But it's

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Speaker 1: kind of fun too. You know, every every repair shop

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Speaker 1: has trays, you know, nutting bolt trays, the stores trades,

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Speaker 1: you know, the metal trays with the lid that popped

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Speaker 1: or twenty four compartments that you you know, there's things

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Speaker 1: And I've had I've had three junk draws, as I

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Speaker 1: call them. Right, everybody's got a junk draw in their kitchen. Well,

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Speaker 1: you know, repair shops have junk draws in the shop.

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Speaker 1: And you know, I had three junk draws that I've

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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty two, forty GR valves. It was an EVP

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Speaker 1: and those sensors they were either gray, black, or white,

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Speaker 1: the black ones had to have a minimum voltage of

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Speaker 1: I can still see it like it was yesterday.

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Speaker 1: There was a red wire, which is the five vault signal.

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Speaker 1: with a green trace, and that was always return. I

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Speaker 1: found all these orange O rings, which I don't know

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Speaker 1: now because every time every time you did a forty

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Speaker 1: Look at this, I'm all setting ready to go out

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Speaker 1: of the junk draws I had a replacement hose end

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Speaker 1: I don't remember doing this many exhaust manifolds. I don't

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Speaker 1: the dinosaur. And that's what's kind of neat about taking

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Speaker 1: Still there's a lot of good in the back room, though.

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Speaker 1: I found a lot of things that I've been looking for.

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Speaker 1: I found a lot of things that, well, maybe I'll

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Speaker 1: I'll throw it out the next time the shop gets slow,

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Speaker 1: maybe you know, six, seven, ten, twenty years whatever, because

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Speaker 1: we're pack rats. But you know what, it also impressed

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Speaker 1: now things are now things are sold as as packages

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Speaker 1: and assemblies, and you know, there is no minute subassembly

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Speaker 1: You're buying it as a completed assembly and you're bolting

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Speaker 1: Either that or maybe they've got back rooms with all

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Speaker 1: so they decided they'll just start throwing everything out and

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Speaker 1: do something with the extra and just make assemblies for everybody.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot going on in the back rooms in

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Speaker 1: order to repair shop. There really is. You know, it's

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Speaker 1: I think it's a neat place to hang out. You

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Speaker 1: can see generational stuff.

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Speaker 1: It made me think of when we first bought the

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Speaker 1: building that we're in almost twenty five years ago now,

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Speaker 1: and we were the first ones to clean out the

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Speaker 1: tell you the story about when I bought the shop

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Speaker 1: an idea of what was in there to buy. Had

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Speaker 1: new from whoever the manufacturer was. It wasn't Ford, it

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Speaker 1: was somebody else out of Chicago. You know, it's crazy.

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Speaker 1: It's crazy what's in the back room of uter repair shops.

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Speaker 1: And and I think that if you're a shop owner,

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Speaker 1: and you ever want to see and find those things,

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Speaker 1: you know what, take half a day and go start looking,

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Speaker 1: because it'll make you realize how much the business has changed,

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Speaker 1: how much your career has changed, how much life has

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Speaker 1: changed in the in the world of water repair. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's it's it's always going to be there, that back room,

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Speaker 1: and it kind of defines the shops to a degree,

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Speaker 1: you know. It's it's also good to unclutter, because I

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Speaker 1: actually felt good by Friday this week because I was

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Speaker 1: all done with my trays. All my trays were caught up.

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Speaker 1: one research Kathy was working on. But she was a

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Speaker 1: her to finish. But we got our stuff done. But

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Speaker 1: it makes you feel good to know that, hey, the

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Speaker 1: do it again, you know, because I'm sure in a

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Speaker 1: two and oh gee, look now, if the first job

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Speaker 1: I start on Monday has orange oe rings in it,

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Speaker 1: that's going to be a sign that, you know what,

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Speaker 1: the universe wants me to have o rings in the

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Speaker 1: seems to be the way that it goes from time

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Speaker 1: to time. Ah The Life of an auto mechanic Phone

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Speaker 1: numbers eight five five five six oh nine nine zero zero.

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Speaker 1: I'll do that again. Eight five five five six o

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Speaker 1: nine nine zero zero. I am ron An eating in

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Speaker 1: the car doctor. You're listening to us live in our

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Speaker 1: revamped studio courtesy of Tom Ray and his genius mind.

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Speaker 1: There was a lot going on in the studio this week.

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Speaker 1: I walk by the UDO eleven o'clock at night, and

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Speaker 1: I'd see the computers doing something, and I knew Tom

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Speaker 1: studio set up with licensing and software. So tip of

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Speaker 1: the hat to Tom. He uh, he did a great

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Speaker 1: job getting us back online, and as he always does,

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Speaker 1: and keeps us, keeps us rolling along. Eight five five

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Speaker 1: take a pause. When we come back, we're gonna open

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Speaker 1: up the phone lines. I'll be back right after this.

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Speaker 1: Don't go away, start down.

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Speaker 4: Stay when you get keep Ron's number handy eight five

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Speaker 1: Hey, let's let's want Let's go to Wisconsin. Let's go

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Speaker 1: talk to Connie Connie, you're on at eight five five

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Speaker 5: I have, well, my boyfriend does now because I sold

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Speaker 5: he added a couple quarts of transmission fluid and it

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Speaker 1: Yeah, boy, let's back up a second county. So when

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Speaker 5: Yes, it was okay, and the time and the time.

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Speaker 1: been forever since it was last changed. I mean, there's there's, there's,

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Speaker 5: Right, just reverse it goals in the reverse it backed.

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Speaker 1: Up into re Okay, then it's got an internal transmission

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Speaker 1: many Connie seventy three thousand original mile not a lot,

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Speaker 1: You know. The question will be, you know, how deep

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Speaker 1: heck with it, Let's go through it and overhaul it,

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Speaker 5: Do you think it's a trans range sensor?

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Speaker 1: No trans range sensor. It doesn't care. It'll affect shift operation,

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Speaker 1: but it'll go into well and that's listen. Let's diagnose it.

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Speaker 1: Let's let's go with your assumption. Let's put a scan

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Speaker 1: I've never seen a trans range centric cause that, but

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Speaker 5: So if this was tw it's worth fixing, then it's

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Speaker 5: a two thousand and four. I only paid three thousand

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Speaker 1: Well, how much rust is on it?

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Speaker 5: Not much because it's not a Wisconsin truck. It came

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Speaker 1: Okay. So do you need a pickup truck?

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Speaker 5: Well, yeah, we could use one.

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Speaker 1: Okay. So so if you don't fix this, watch watch

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Speaker 1: that'll convince you. You know, it's it's how bad do

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Speaker 1: You know? To work? You'll probably if we're talking in

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Speaker 1: to be four to five grand. You know, I'm assuming

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Speaker 1: this is a four wheel drive pick up.

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Speaker 5: No, it's a front wheel drive.

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Speaker 1: You mean rear wheel drive.

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Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, real, real drive.

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Speaker 1: Well, even so it may not be that bad. I listen,

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Speaker 1: you can always use a cheap pickup truck, right, and

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Speaker 1: even if it's a couple of grand, you know, you know.

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Speaker 1: So to spend three grand on this, how long have

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Speaker 5: Well, I've had it like two years and then and

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Speaker 1: Okay, Well but.

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Speaker 5: I had it before that, and then I told it

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Speaker 1: Well, so you got your money's worth out of it?

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Speaker 5: Well two years I had it, right, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: He got you got your money's worth out of it.

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Speaker 1: For him, Well, he still must like it. He's still

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Speaker 5: Just another story two we won't go.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sorry. You see it's that darn truck. You

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Speaker 5: I think if I paid two three thousand, that's that's

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Speaker 5: that's gonna be about what it's going to be.

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Speaker 1: Man, Yeah, that's you know, And that's and and then

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Speaker 1: the conversation here. You can't. You cannot own a vehicle

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Speaker 1: you know it's too great now. The trade off is

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Speaker 1: Talk to shops. No, you don't want a Junkyard transmission.

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Speaker 1: I heard you think of that, Connie. You don't want

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Speaker 1: Go find out what it would cost to overhaul this

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Speaker 1: It's a call, leave a message if we're not here.

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Speaker 1: We're live in the studio Saturdays two to four pm

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Speaker 1: that's what we do. That's what we're all about. Let's

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Speaker 1: I help? Randy? Is Randy? There is the phone system

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Speaker 1: hung up? Randy? You there?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Can you hear me?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Brother, there you are. So I knew technology would

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Speaker 3: Well, I've got the old one, yep.

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Speaker 1: So what's going on?

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Speaker 3: Okay? The ozmobile is waking a little bit. I believe

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Speaker 3: I checked it. It's like a half a cup I

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Speaker 3: mean a cup down on anti freeze. Okay, I haven't

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Speaker 3: checked it in a while. I'm getting a little old

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Speaker 3: I saw a spot right under the valve cover where

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Speaker 3: there right, and it's a little it looks suspicious there.

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Speaker 3: I'm thinking it's leaking there and it had a leak earlier,

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Speaker 3: like two thousand, and they supposedly did a head gasket

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Speaker 1: Well wait, okay, let's let's back up a second. It

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, way back.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so that's by my math, that's twenty five years ago.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, all right.

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Speaker 1: How many miles we're on it now.

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Speaker 3: It's one hundred and thirteen thousand.

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Speaker 1: How many miles were on it then?

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Speaker 3: Probably ninety five thousand?

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Speaker 3: You told me that he did the head gasket and

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Speaker 1: Why would you do that?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, something something there's cockyd uh. You know. So, so

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Speaker 1: now the question becomes, you know, what are our choices.

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Speaker 1: Let's let's assume which is a dangerous word that it's

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Speaker 1: a head gasket, all right, or or something seeping. All right,

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Speaker 1: You didn't pay for this head gasket repair. You weren't

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I was, Oh you're the original owner.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. It was like a two thousand dollars job. He

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Speaker 1: Okay, so so let's let's let's let's let's look at

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Speaker 1: the scenarios, all right. I mean, and listen, no matter

436
00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:42,520
Speaker 1: how we look at it, if it's still got a

437
00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:44,960
Speaker 1: coolant leak out the front corner of the cylinder head,

438
00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:48,520
Speaker 1: guess what it's leaking, all right? And I mean we

439
00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:50,880
Speaker 1: could have a conversation about why, you know, I could

440
00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:52,679
Speaker 1: I could ask you do you think when they did it?

441
00:21:53,119 --> 00:21:57,119
Speaker 1: Did they did they you know, machine the heads? Did

442
00:21:57,160 --> 00:21:59,359
Speaker 1: they just do head gaskets? Did they send the heads

443
00:21:59,359 --> 00:22:02,160
Speaker 1: out to get them, you know, checked for square? I mean,

444
00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:05,560
Speaker 1: did they do a coolant exchange? You know? Was it

445
00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:06,080
Speaker 1: was it?

446
00:22:06,359 --> 00:22:06,560
Speaker 3: You know?

447
00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:09,480
Speaker 1: Or has the coolant gone bad over time? Let me

448
00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:11,000
Speaker 1: ask you that question. When was the last time he

449
00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:12,440
Speaker 1: did a coolant service to this car?

450
00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:15,520
Speaker 3: Don't say no, I think that's the problem. Don't say

451
00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:18,800
Speaker 3: it's got an acid build up in there. I know, yeah,

452
00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:22,480
Speaker 3: it's been. It's been like probably it could be five years.

453
00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:22,960
Speaker 5: I don't know.

454
00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:25,280
Speaker 1: Right, it's running green coolant.

455
00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:29,479
Speaker 3: It's real clean green, right. It looks really good and

456
00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:31,080
Speaker 3: the oil looks real good and clean.

457
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Speaker 1: Okay. I mean you can go to a parts house

458
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Speaker 1: and get what we used to call coolant test strips,

459
00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:39,159
Speaker 1: dip strips we call them. And it was the old

460
00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:41,639
Speaker 1: high school litmus test with a dip strip where you

461
00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:43,239
Speaker 1: would just dip it and you would see it, you know,

462
00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:46,440
Speaker 1: how acidic the coolant is. They they do make, They

463
00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:49,040
Speaker 1: do make cooling system you know, test strips. You might

464
00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:50,720
Speaker 1: find them on Amazon, you might find them at a

465
00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:53,960
Speaker 1: parts house. Uh, you know, the technology works. At least

466
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Speaker 1: it'll tell you how acidic it is, you know, or

467
00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:58,600
Speaker 1: is it a cidic at all? You know? Do I

468
00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:01,840
Speaker 1: think it's worth pulling apart? I think before I pulled

469
00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:06,560
Speaker 1: apart in eighty eight, olds that were suspect of you know,

470
00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:08,560
Speaker 1: how much work was done or how the work was

471
00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:11,520
Speaker 1: done is you know, technology has gotten a lot better

472
00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:15,320
Speaker 1: in twenty five years. In the year two thousand, we

473
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Speaker 1: called it stop leak in the year twenty twenty five.

474
00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:22,200
Speaker 1: We call it K Sealed head gasket Sealer K seal

475
00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:24,679
Speaker 1: makes you know, there's two versions of K seal cooling

476
00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:28,240
Speaker 1: system repair. There's the standard cooling system repair. What we

477
00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:30,639
Speaker 1: know is K seal, which is you know, leaks and

478
00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:34,480
Speaker 1: radiator seams and you know, small things. And then there's

479
00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:39,600
Speaker 1: there's that K Seal head gasket seiler, all right, which

480
00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:41,720
Speaker 1: has a third more I think it's a third more,

481
00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:45,679
Speaker 1: a third more ceiling power. Now you know, whatever that

482
00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:48,800
Speaker 1: costs thirty forty fifty sixty bucks, whatever it is, is

483
00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:51,919
Speaker 1: still cheaper than trying to do head gaskets on a

484
00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:56,359
Speaker 1: on a nineteen eighty eight oldsmobile, all right, So I

485
00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:58,680
Speaker 1: would clearly try that. I would. You know, you'll find

486
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Speaker 1: more information at K Sealed. You'll find that, you may

487
00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:04,960
Speaker 1: find that on on Amazon, you may find that. You'll

488
00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:07,120
Speaker 1: probably find it at your local parts house. But it's

489
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Speaker 1: K Seal head gaskets Sealer. It's a step above regular

490
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Speaker 1: K seal. I think the part number is either don't

491
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Speaker 1: hold me to this, but it's either s T thirty

492
00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:17,400
Speaker 1: five oh one or s T fifty five oh one.

493
00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:20,080
Speaker 1: One of those. One of those is the regular seiler,

494
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Speaker 1: and one of those is the head gaskets sealer, I

495
00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:23,720
Speaker 1: believe fifty five oh one or thirty five oh one,

496
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Speaker 1: And and I would definitely try that. And if it

497
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Speaker 1: makes the problem go away, so be it.

498
00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:32,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, because I'm not playing on keeping it that long. Probably,

499
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Speaker 3: I mean it'll probably outlast.

500
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Speaker 1: Meet, right, Well, yeah, and I get it. Uh, you know,

501
00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:37,760
Speaker 1: I get it. And you know what, it's just what's

502
00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:41,119
Speaker 1: the most reasonable economical solution at this point? And I

503
00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:43,639
Speaker 1: think I think that's where I would take this. You know,

504
00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:46,040
Speaker 1: you know, you've got some sort of eleak going on,

505
00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:49,480
Speaker 1: and I think just we're more critical is you've just

506
00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:51,240
Speaker 1: got to try and find a regular mechanic now to

507
00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:52,960
Speaker 1: want to take care of it, because it's you know,

508
00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:55,600
Speaker 1: it's an older vehicle. Older vehicles are actually probably more

509
00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:57,880
Speaker 1: of a problem to get serviced and repaired now than

510
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Speaker 1: the newer ones. Yeah, you know, it's it's either lack

511
00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:04,120
Speaker 1: of parts or lack of knowledge. There's there's there's nobody left.

512
00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:07,600
Speaker 3: And I had just gotten I had just gotten the

513
00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:09,840
Speaker 3: bubbles out of a while back, right, you know, when

514
00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:12,920
Speaker 3: you change it. I'm wondering you had a good tip

515
00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:16,200
Speaker 3: on parking it on a hill and uh and letting

516
00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:16,720
Speaker 3: the bubbles.

517
00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:19,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, nos, up, I always park you know, if you

518
00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:20,920
Speaker 1: if you ever went to the shop, one side of

519
00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:24,280
Speaker 1: the parking lot's got a slight incline to it, you know,

520
00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:26,480
Speaker 1: any any any And I did it purposely like that

521
00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:28,159
Speaker 1: when we did the parking lot, because I looked at

522
00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:29,480
Speaker 1: it and I said, here's how we're going to solve

523
00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:32,160
Speaker 1: cooling system problems. We we do the job, it's usually

524
00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:33,439
Speaker 1: late in the day by the time, you know, we're

525
00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:35,200
Speaker 1: doing a water pump or something, and it'll be later

526
00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:37,199
Speaker 1: in the day when we get the cooling system back together.

527
00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:39,800
Speaker 1: We park it outside. We we you know, we we

528
00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:44,280
Speaker 1: will use a bleeder, a a type of cooling system

529
00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:47,120
Speaker 1: fill tool that will draw out as much air as possible.

530
00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:48,960
Speaker 1: We'll fill it with cool it, we'll run around the block,

531
00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,360
Speaker 1: we'll circulate it, and then we let it sit overnight

532
00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:54,920
Speaker 1: and it works every time. All the bubbles, you know, bubbles,

533
00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:58,080
Speaker 1: bubbles find the highest spot and they work their way

534
00:25:58,119 --> 00:25:59,760
Speaker 1: up and we come in the morning and it's burped

535
00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:01,639
Speaker 1: and we top up the radiator a little bit and

536
00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:04,280
Speaker 1: down the road it goes. So you know, you might

537
00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:06,879
Speaker 1: achieve the same thing, either with Jack stands or if

538
00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:09,200
Speaker 1: you've got an incline around the house, just just park

539
00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:10,080
Speaker 1: it nose up that way.

540
00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:12,719
Speaker 3: Well, I could pull it up on ramps.

541
00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:13,280
Speaker 1: Right and that'll work well too.

542
00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:17,720
Speaker 3: Absolutely, all right, sir, all right, thank you so much.

543
00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:19,760
Speaker 1: You're very welcome, Randy. Good luck to you. Enjoy the car.

544
00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:21,879
Speaker 3: You're really good at this diagnos and stuff.

545
00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:24,359
Speaker 1: I know, you know, they tell me that I can't

546
00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:25,040
Speaker 1: figure it out.

547
00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:29,560
Speaker 3: I've been mechanican for years and and you do all

548
00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:30,240
Speaker 3: the right stuff.

549
00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:32,639
Speaker 1: Thank you, sir. That means a lot. I appreciate that

550
00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:35,200
Speaker 1: you be well, Randy. You have a great rest of

551
00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:37,600
Speaker 1: the day. Yeah, that's sort of like you know, I

552
00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:39,159
Speaker 1: love that. You know. It's like somebody says I know

553
00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:41,359
Speaker 1: who you are. I'm like, yeah, I hope it's the

554
00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:43,239
Speaker 1: guy who's underwhere I got on, because I hope it's

555
00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:46,160
Speaker 1: the same name. So I'm running ye in the car doctor. Yep,

556
00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:59,040
Speaker 1: that's what it says. I'll be back right after this.

557
00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:06,000
Speaker 1: And let's let's take our attitude and go over to

558
00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:09,679
Speaker 1: Let's go to Georgian, Connecticut. Oh seven BMW, George, you're

559
00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:11,280
Speaker 1: on with the car doctor at a five five five

560
00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:13,680
Speaker 1: six zero nine nine zero zero. How can it help? Sir?

561
00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:18,560
Speaker 6: Thank you so much for taking my call. My question is,

562
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:22,840
Speaker 6: so it seems like the air conditioning blows cold air. Now,

563
00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:25,240
Speaker 6: I bought this car a couple of months ago. My

564
00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:28,120
Speaker 6: question to you is how often should somebody have their

565
00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:30,879
Speaker 6: air conditioning checked? Because we know before we know what

566
00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:33,840
Speaker 6: the that the heat and saturated the amdity is coming.

567
00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:39,320
Speaker 1: Okay, good question. So, first of all, gauging air conditioning operation.

568
00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:42,520
Speaker 1: You're in Connecticut right, correct? How cold is it there?

569
00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:46,560
Speaker 6: I mean it's been like in a high fifties, low sixties.

570
00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:48,520
Speaker 6: I said, you know, you feel it cold, but you

571
00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:49,920
Speaker 6: can't really gauge, right.

572
00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:53,560
Speaker 1: It's not enough. There's no heat load on the system.

573
00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:53,840
Speaker 3: Right.

574
00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:56,640
Speaker 1: So you know the fact that you bought the car

575
00:27:56,800 --> 00:28:01,080
Speaker 1: used recently, you said, George, yes, the last year. You

576
00:28:01,119 --> 00:28:02,240
Speaker 1: have a trusted mechanic.

577
00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:03,359
Speaker 3: Yes, I do.

578
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:06,520
Speaker 1: I would take it to him, you know, early May,

579
00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:10,720
Speaker 1: mid May and say, hey, listen, you're my guy. I

580
00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:13,399
Speaker 1: bought this in December, and I want you to go

581
00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:16,280
Speaker 1: through and service it. It seems like a reasonable request.

582
00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:19,880
Speaker 1: And then from there on, right, it's because it's not

583
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:22,200
Speaker 1: just about charge level, It's not just about how much

584
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:24,920
Speaker 1: refrigerant has in it, we also want to look at

585
00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:26,920
Speaker 1: and you know, we want to you know, by by

586
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:28,840
Speaker 1: doing a proper service. Let me say it like this,

587
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:32,320
Speaker 1: by doing a proper service, recovering what's in there, pulling

588
00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:36,119
Speaker 1: a vacuum on the system, and pulling a vacuum properly

589
00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:40,240
Speaker 1: up to sixty minimums up to sixty minutes at a minimum,

590
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:43,480
Speaker 1: is going to boil off any moisture that's collected inside

591
00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:45,440
Speaker 1: the system and get rid of any impurities and help

592
00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:49,040
Speaker 1: keep the system clean. And you know, this is regular service.

593
00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:51,160
Speaker 1: This is what it's part of. And then if the

594
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:53,640
Speaker 1: vehicle has a cabin filter, if that hasn't been changed,

595
00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:56,120
Speaker 1: take a look at that. How dirty is that? How

596
00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:57,800
Speaker 1: packed is that? Take a look at the air filter

597
00:28:57,840 --> 00:28:59,880
Speaker 1: too for the engine. But that's not what the questions about.

598
00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:03,560
Speaker 1: You know, I like to service a one thirty four

599
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:07,200
Speaker 1: refrigerant system, which is what that is, every couple of years,

600
00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:10,680
Speaker 1: every two to three years. You know, my four suburban

601
00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:13,080
Speaker 1: has the original AC compressor in it. There's a reason

602
00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:17,520
Speaker 1: for that now, you know, translate that forward or translate

603
00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:19,920
Speaker 1: it backwards. We can't do that on our twelve vehicles

604
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:23,320
Speaker 1: anymore because there's no R twelve left and everything's been

605
00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:25,640
Speaker 1: converted to one thirty four if if even if they're

606
00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:29,239
Speaker 1: still around, So that solves that question. Go forward. You know,

607
00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:31,960
Speaker 1: the one two, three four YF cars. The refrigerant is

608
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:36,280
Speaker 1: so blasted expensive you can't justify nor have I seen

609
00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:38,720
Speaker 1: the type of problems that the one thirty four systems

610
00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:42,880
Speaker 1: are you know, prone to. So the jury is still

611
00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:45,040
Speaker 1: out on how often to service the twelve thirty four

612
00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:47,840
Speaker 1: YF cars. But one thirty four a back in the

613
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:50,480
Speaker 1: day when they were more predominant, because now they're ten

614
00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:54,400
Speaker 1: years old at least, right twenty fifteen twenty sixteen was

615
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:58,080
Speaker 1: kind of like the end of those in volume. You know,

616
00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:00,600
Speaker 1: we would service AC every two to t three years,

617
00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:04,640
Speaker 1: and you know most of our customers got the life

618
00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:06,560
Speaker 1: of the vehicle out of the AC system, which you

619
00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:10,120
Speaker 1: know we must have been doing something right, right, you know,

620
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:11,840
Speaker 1: But you want to do this in the middle of

621
00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:15,480
Speaker 1: May and then at least you know you've got proper

622
00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:18,760
Speaker 1: chance at good heat load. The other issue is a

623
00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:23,160
Speaker 1: modern day vehicle has such a small refrigerate amount, even

624
00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:26,400
Speaker 1: a one thirty four, and there's no way, I don't

625
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:29,000
Speaker 1: care how good you think you are. There's no way

626
00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:34,080
Speaker 1: to properly charge a vehicle. You know, it feels like this,

627
00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:36,440
Speaker 1: It feels like that. It sounds like this, It sounds

628
00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:39,320
Speaker 1: like that. It doesn't work. You know what if you

629
00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:41,680
Speaker 1: pull out a pounds and a half and the system

630
00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:43,280
Speaker 1: is supposed to have two pounds in it, and you're

631
00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:45,560
Speaker 1: using a machine and you're doing it properly, and you're

632
00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:48,840
Speaker 1: going to you know, verify oil discharge and so forth.

633
00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:51,239
Speaker 1: You know, at least, you know, when you put your

634
00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:54,000
Speaker 1: two pounds in, you're within a couple of ounces of correct,

635
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:56,440
Speaker 1: all right. At least then you've got a base to

636
00:30:56,520 --> 00:31:00,680
Speaker 1: work from, something accurate. But you know, for the who says, oh,

637
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:02,560
Speaker 1: let me just put three or four ounces in it,

638
00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:05,440
Speaker 1: he's shooting in the dark until he finds the right number.

639
00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:08,200
Speaker 1: And that can be a bigger problem for you as well,

640
00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:11,480
Speaker 1: because he can also overcharge the system, cost you more money,

641
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:14,920
Speaker 1: and possibly do damage to the system too. Makes sense,

642
00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:18,840
Speaker 1: makes total sense, yep. So I would vote for you know,

643
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:21,840
Speaker 1: May mid May see what kind of season we're going

644
00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:24,520
Speaker 1: to have. You know, it's it's you know, it's sort

645
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:26,760
Speaker 1: of like central air in the house. It's becoming like

646
00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:28,320
Speaker 1: that how often do you get the central air in

647
00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:31,360
Speaker 1: the house check? I do it every two years, regardless

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Speaker 1: of yeah, you know, regardless, it's it's no different. The

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Speaker 1: principles of refrigeration are the same. You know, if you

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Speaker 1: lived in Florida, you're probably getting the AC serviced every

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Speaker 1: year because you wanted a peak performance. You know, it's

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Speaker 1: just just common sense.

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Speaker 6: So all right, sir, thank you so much appreciated.

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Speaker 1: You're very welcome your time. You're very welcome, sir. You

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Speaker 1: enjoy the car, You have a great rest of the day.

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Speaker 1: Hey five five five six zero nine nine zero zero.

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Speaker 1: I'm running inning in the car. Doctor. I'll be back

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Speaker 1: right after this. So you know, words of wisdom, right that,

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Speaker 1: you know, with wisdom comes age. Ginny came in this

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Speaker 1: week with her fourteen Honda passport and you know we

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Speaker 1: were working on a pilot passport, yeah one or the other,

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Speaker 1: and I needed front end work and it needed a

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Speaker 1: couple other things, and it was quite extensive. It was

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Speaker 1: about fort grand worth of repairs. Now, Jinny's in her

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Speaker 1: mid nineties. She's a riot. You know, she's still driving

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Speaker 1: every day. You would never know it to look at

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Speaker 1: her her age and when she came to pick up

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Speaker 1: the car. I you know, we went over the bill.

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Speaker 1: I explained everything to her as I had before, and

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Speaker 1: I pointed out what was wrong, and I showed her

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Speaker 1: the bad parts and she looked at me and she said,

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Speaker 1: I don't know why you show me these things. She goes,

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Speaker 1: I trust you, she said. But importantly, she said, you

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Speaker 1: hold my life in your hands, and you keep me

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Speaker 1: safe on the road. Because she's still active. She drives everywhere,

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Speaker 1: you know, Kentucky, Florida, Midwest. You know, she gets in

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Speaker 1: the car and goes like it's nothing. It's it's crazy,

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Speaker 1: but she's right. I haven't thought about this in a while.

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Speaker 1: You know, mechanics do hold the customers lives in their hands,

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Speaker 1: and it's it's a responsibility that I think a lot

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Speaker 1: of us acknowledge that. You know, we recognize what it's about,

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Speaker 1: what we're there for. You know, we're there obviously to

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Speaker 1: keep the car, you know, safe, and to keep the

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Speaker 1: car reliable. But you know, there's a whole bigger perspective

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Speaker 1: than that, and I think that's what's important about being

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Speaker 1: a mechanic. And you know, it's it's it's just part

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Speaker 1: of the process that that we all go through. I

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Speaker 1: really do, I think, and I think that for those

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Speaker 1: of you listening, I think you understand that too, because

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Speaker 1: you're not here. You're not here to be bored. You're

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Speaker 1: here to be and you're not here to be entertained

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Speaker 1: to a degree here because you're trying to get some

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Speaker 1: knowledge about your vehicle, and you know, you're trying to

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Speaker 1: understand things so that when you go talk to your

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Speaker 1: mechanic and maybe when you work on it on your own,

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Speaker 1: you have a better understanding. You know, it's you need

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Speaker 1: more knowledge, and that's it's just going to continue like

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Speaker 1: that for the longest time. So you know, kudos to

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Speaker 1: Ginny I you know, you hold your life in my hands.

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Speaker 1: But at ninety four, she just came back, I think

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Speaker 1: from Kentucky and she's she's taken off on the road

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Speaker 1: again this week. So it's crazy, not the most impossible thing. Listen,

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Speaker 1: I've got another guy, Dave, and Dave listens to the

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Speaker 1: show on a regular basis. I never know where Dave is.

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Speaker 1: You know, he's driving, he's driving an older super roup. Heck,

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Speaker 1: he just came back from Texas. He's going to Florida.

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Speaker 1: He's going to Georgia. He just doesn't stop, and he's

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Speaker 1: like eighty three. God bless him. You know what, I

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Speaker 1: can't wait. I want to do that much driving when

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Speaker 1: I get to that age. But I'll still be here

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Speaker 1: on the weekend. So till the next time, I'm Ronn

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Speaker 1: a Eni and the car Doctor. Good grief. Till the

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Speaker 1: next time. Good mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. See you