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Speaker 1: Ron Anian.

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Speaker 2: When you get a new customer, it's it's kind of

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Speaker 2: hard because you're not quite sure what they're thinking. So

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Speaker 2: here's this twelveth Cadillac that everything was original under the hood.

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Speaker 2: When I tell you everything was original, everything was original.

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Speaker 2: A lot of guys wow, like the Car Doctor that

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Speaker 2: ten thousand miles on the clock.

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Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's.

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Speaker 2: Uh forty four sixty four barrel.

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Speaker 4: No, no, I wish you was.

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Speaker 3: It's a four hundred.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I believe it's a two barrel.

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Speaker 1: Okay, it's still not the worst thing to Welcome to

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Speaker 1: the radio home of Ron Ananian, the Car Doctor. Since

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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety one, this is where car owners the world

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Speaker 1: overturned to for their definitive opinion on automotive repair.

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Speaker 2: If your mechanics giving you a busy signal, pick up

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Speaker 2: the phone and call. The garage doors are open, but

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Speaker 2: I am here to take your call at eighty five

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Speaker 2: five five six oh ninety nine.

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Speaker 3: Hundred and now pee.

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Speaker 1: Running.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's just great to be here with you.

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Speaker 2: I should point out that at the bottom of the hour,

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Speaker 2: First Lieutenant Stephen Andenian is in the green room. As

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Speaker 2: we say, we've got an interview with Uncle Steve from

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Speaker 2: days gone by, and it's just a goodie. We think

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Speaker 2: from circa twenty sixteen twenty seventeen. We're not quite sure

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Speaker 2: he passed in eighteen, so we think by references in there,

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Speaker 2: it's approximate time frame. But as always, Uncle Steve is

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Speaker 2: feisty and cranky and full of vinegars, so we'll we

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Speaker 2: look forward to that. That's down around the bottom of

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Speaker 2: the hour. But we are here to take your calls

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Speaker 2: and have conversation with you the rest of the time.

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Speaker 2: The phone numbers eight five, five, five six zero nine

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Speaker 2: nine zero zero. Let's get out to Nancy and Wisconsin

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Speaker 2: and talk to her. And Nancy, welcome to the car doctor.

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Speaker 2: How can I help?

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Speaker 3: Well, thank you for taking my call. I was wondering,

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Speaker 3: is it a good idea? I have a twenty twenty

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Speaker 3: tracks Chevy Tracks to put this complete fuel system, cleaner

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Speaker 3: liquid in.

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Speaker 2: What brand are you using?

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Speaker 3: Well, it's it says Techron, Chevron.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I like Chevron, Techron That's yeah.

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Speaker 3: Why not?

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Speaker 4: Is that?

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Speaker 2: I listen? We do it. We do it at the

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Speaker 2: shop every oil change for customers. We're putting. We're putting,

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Speaker 2: We're putting a fuel system and cleaner in a car

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Speaker 2: every oil change. It's a you know, think of it

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Speaker 2: like this, to have an annual fuel system cleaning where

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Speaker 2: they hook up a machine and they'll do, you know,

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Speaker 2: some sort of cleaning through the line, a B G

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Speaker 2: fuel system cleaning service something like that on a regular basis,

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Speaker 2: that's a you know, that's that's that's that's the physical

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Speaker 2: test of physical that's more of a physical maintenance type

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Speaker 2: of an item. But adding a fuel system cleaner to

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Speaker 2: the gas tank every every oil change, or perhaps once

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Speaker 2: a month depending on your driving schedule, that's the vitamin right.

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Speaker 2: Doing the doing the fuel system cleaning, you know, is

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Speaker 2: the maintenance. But the you could argue that in the

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Speaker 2: tank is maintenance also, but it's it's a lighter scaled

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Speaker 2: version of that. You do that so when you get

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Speaker 2: to do the fuel system cleaning, it's not a severe

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Speaker 2: or harsh or it gets the fuel system cleaning process

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Speaker 2: actually has a greater chance of survival, if that makes sense.

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Speaker 3: Well, you said you do that for oil changes, so

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Speaker 3: perhaps are they doing that to my oil change? And

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Speaker 3: I don't know it probably not.

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Speaker 2: You should, Yeah, you would, I would ask them about that.

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Speaker 2: I see how many miles how many miles are on

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Speaker 3: Nancy, fifty three thousand?

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Speaker 2: Bout Yeah, so you know by now fifty three thousand.

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Speaker 2: If I was making a prediction, if we were standing

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Speaker 2: at the counter talking about it, Hey, Ron, I don't

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Speaker 2: know what was done to my car. My first question

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Speaker 2: would be did you do a thirty thousand mile service?

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Speaker 2: Did you?

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Speaker 3: I don't know. I put it up. I leave it

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Speaker 3: up to them whatever they suggest.

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Speaker 2: So I always tell everybody, if you don't know, go

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Speaker 2: back and look through the checkbook. A thirty thousand mile

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Speaker 2: a check for that amount? The chances are that was

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Speaker 2: the thirty. A thirty would have been an oil change,

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Speaker 2: a tire rotation, probably a set of wiper blades or inserts,

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Speaker 2: aaron cabin filters, and depending upon the shop, it could

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Speaker 2: be a fuel system cleaning.

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Speaker 3: Right, Okay, so that goes that's all of that together,

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Speaker 3: is what you're talking.

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Speaker 2: Right, So that's a thirty, and then you know, and then.

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Speaker 3: Obviously I think I had that done yet, And then

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Speaker 3: you know.

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Speaker 2: It's a look over peak at the brakes peak a suspension,

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Speaker 2: all that good stuff. Now you're at fifty three, so

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Speaker 2: in seven thousand miles, it's sixty is your next big service,

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Speaker 2: So it'll be a repeat of the thirty plus. Maybe

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Speaker 2: they'll consider doing some driveline fluids, depending.

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Speaker 3: Upon the vehicle TRANSMISSI wouldn't it be, It could be, It.

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Speaker 2: Could It depends. It depends on the trans but yes,

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Speaker 2: by all means.

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Speaker 3: You know for sure, Okay, and then I should be

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Speaker 3: getting a battery. But I thought, no, Well, these tariffs

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Speaker 3: affect my battery, and I thought I'd put it off

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Speaker 3: till fall with the tariffs affect the cost of the battery.

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Speaker 3: And if I can get a battery, I don't think.

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Speaker 2: I don't think so. Most of the batteries are still

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Speaker 2: made here in the States. To tell you the truth,

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Speaker 2: there's only three battery manufacturers that I know of here

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Speaker 2: the batteries that you see out there, so brand X, Y,

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Speaker 2: think there's one in Pennsylvania actually, and they're all contracted

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Speaker 2: and they're built to a certain spec. So I don't

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Speaker 2: I don't think so. I would encourage you though that

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Speaker 2: I would replace a battery sooner rather than later if

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Speaker 2: you get stuck, If you get stuck with a bad

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Speaker 2: battery as a woman, it could be a life and

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Speaker 2: death situation for a for a guy. Guys are a

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Speaker 2: little goofy. Sometimes we think it's an adventure. We don't.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if we mind. I don't know if

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Speaker 2: we mind it as much I do I do. I

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Speaker 2: tend to be battery centric, but you know, it's just

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Speaker 2: I would change it. More batteries get lost during the

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Speaker 2: course of summer than winter, believe it or not, because

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Speaker 2: the heat. Because of the heat, the heat will actually

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Speaker 2: cause a battery failure a lot faster. As crazy as.

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Speaker 3: That sounds, I thank you. It's nice to little batteries

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Speaker 3: are made.

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Speaker 2: Here, yep, yes, ma'am. To my knowledge, they're all made here. Now.

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Speaker 2: Given the current economic situation and tariffs coming in, what's

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Speaker 2: has everybody tries to survive and eat and you know continue.

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Speaker 2: I can't answer that question, but you have to think

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Speaker 2: just the tariffs and how they're going to raise the prices.

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Speaker 2: I think there's I don't know. I don't want to

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Speaker 2: make it political. I think there's a squeeze coming for

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Speaker 2: the short term anyway. But the bigger problem is, and

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Speaker 2: this is what I want to try and keep everybody's

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Speaker 2: eye on. I can't get a master cylinder for a

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Speaker 2: fifteen year old car that I had to scrounge parts for.

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Speaker 2: Does that? And is that? That's because for the past

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Speaker 2: twenty years we haven't made anything here. So are the

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Speaker 2: tariffs going to cause a change to that? And that's

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Speaker 2: the challenge question I keep in the back of my mind.

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Speaker 2: As much inconvenience as it's going to be, and even

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Speaker 2: if things are more expensive, what's the outcome on the

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Speaker 2: other side? Is it going to be better for us?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 2: That's what we get to see.

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Speaker 3: Right, And all the batteries are pretty comparable as when

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Speaker 3: you guess earinal I.

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Speaker 2: Would do it by application. You know, you should get

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Speaker 2: out to auto batteries dot Com. Great website all right,

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Speaker 2: powered by Clarios and it talks all about batteries, how

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Speaker 2: to pick a battery, what to look for, and you'll

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Speaker 2: find a ton of information there. We use it in

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Speaker 2: the shop on a regular basis to help educate customers.

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Speaker 2: But auto Batteries dot Com has a lot going on

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Speaker 2: for you there in your situation. Are you going to

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Speaker 2: the dealer for your service on your vehicle?

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Speaker 3: I usually have yes, okay, and.

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Speaker 2: You plan to continue to do so for the foreseeable future.

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Speaker 3: I thought, so that's fine.

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Speaker 2: No, No, that's fine, And that's the old likelihood. They're

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Speaker 2: going to sell you a Delco battery, which is you

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Speaker 2: know again, they're all made in the same places. It's

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Speaker 2: not that much different. It's branding. But I would ask

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Speaker 2: that get handled different battery manufacturers, well, for different programs.

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Speaker 2: So those are some of the talking points in some

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Speaker 2: of the conversations to have. But for the most part, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: a Delco is a great battery. We sell them in

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Speaker 3: All right, thank you very much. And for the adding

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Speaker 3: of that fuel cleaner, so I think I've done it

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Speaker 3: like every five thousand miles.

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Speaker 2: That's good. Yeah, that's great. No, that's great, listen to

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Speaker 2: that's that's much. No, that Nancy, that's more than most.

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Speaker 2: That's fine. And you know, make sure you're doing it

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Speaker 2: with a near full tank. All right, you don't want

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Speaker 2: people bring cars in for oil changes and I have

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Speaker 2: to scold them a little bit. They'll bring me a

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Speaker 2: car with less than a sixteenth of a tank of fuel,

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Speaker 2: and I'm like, how do I number one road test

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Speaker 2: the car safely? You know, the dashboards saying thirty nine

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Speaker 2: miles till empty? Well, what good is that? And then

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Speaker 2: if if I put a bottle a fuel system cleaner

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Speaker 2: in it and then they drive to the gas station,

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Speaker 2: half the bottle was used up trying to drive them

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Speaker 3: So it's okay, thank you very much, thanks for your time.

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Speaker 2: You're very welcome. Nancy. You'll be well. Eight five five

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Speaker 2: five six zero nine nine zero zero. Run any of

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Speaker 2: the car, doctor. We're back right after this. Whether it's

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Speaker 2: a little red Corvette or you go. You've come to

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Speaker 2: the right place to get that car fixed.

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Speaker 5: Ron An Ay in the car doctor eight five five

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Speaker 5: five six zero nine nine zero zero.

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Speaker 2: Now back to on. You know, one of the things

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Speaker 2: you should never ever ever do is leave it completely

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Speaker 2: up to this show up on what should be done.

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Speaker 2: They should have advice for you. They should look at

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Speaker 2: that vehicle because every vehicle, I think is unique, Every

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Speaker 2: driving situation is a little bit unique, and a lot

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Speaker 2: of cars will fall into that general category of they

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Speaker 2: all need these five or six or seven items at

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Speaker 2: this particular moment. But for example, Nancy, in your case,

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Speaker 2: you want to get out to bgfind ashop dot com

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Speaker 2: and that will help you find a repair shop in

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Speaker 2: Uncle Steve was larger than life to me. You know,

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Speaker 2: I'm sure you have them, you know, Memorial Day, Uncle Steve.

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Speaker 4: we did a couple of slow rolls and I was

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Speaker 4: nice hanging by your seat.

435
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Speaker 2: And I'm sure you wanted to grab the stick of course.

436
00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:09,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, well we all the things. They didn't have one

437
00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:12,760
Speaker 4: for me. I guess right right, I'm.

438
00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:14,800
Speaker 2: Sure you wanted to. I remember a couple of years ago,

439
00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:17,440
Speaker 2: you were back up here in North Jersey, down at

440
00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:20,840
Speaker 2: Teeterborough Airport when they had the you know, uh B

441
00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:25,000
Speaker 2: seventeen there. Yeah, and they realized, you know, you had

442
00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:26,800
Speaker 2: flown and they took you up into the cockpit and

443
00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:29,359
Speaker 2: you were explaining the cockpit to them, and it was

444
00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:32,760
Speaker 2: it was. It was a great conversational exchange about you know,

445
00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:35,560
Speaker 2: from from old to new, so to speak about here's

446
00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:37,520
Speaker 2: how this plane worked and here's what it did. And

447
00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:40,400
Speaker 2: they listened very very intently to each and every word

448
00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:41,320
Speaker 2: as you dispensed it.

449
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Speaker 4: You know, you were talking about the mechanics and you

450
00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:51,119
Speaker 4: know airplanes, well we were you had age, you know,

451
00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:55,320
Speaker 4: World War two, over twenty years old. We were a

452
00:23:55,320 --> 00:24:00,280
Speaker 4: little about cars. You know. When I flew in combat,

453
00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:06,960
Speaker 4: three months before I went the combat, I flew full

454
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Speaker 4: of reconnaissance. I flew practice every airplane you could imagine,

455
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Speaker 4: every plane but the P fifty one. When I got

456
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Speaker 4: as a combat, I had one hour flying time in

457
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Speaker 4: the P fifty one, and that's when I got hit

458
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Speaker 4: by antiocha fire and had to bear out into the

459
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Speaker 4: North Sea. So I threw that airplane, which they say

460
00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:36,480
Speaker 4: you can't five more than five minutes without oil. Well

461
00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:40,480
Speaker 4: I flew it for forty five, forty five minutes losing

462
00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:46,320
Speaker 4: oil away. And my buddy who was escorting me, he

463
00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:50,040
Speaker 4: saw me violently rocking in the rings and he says,

464
00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:53,240
Speaker 4: what are you doing. I said, I'm lubricating the engine.

465
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Speaker 4: I was trying to get the oil from the sump

466
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Speaker 4: upon the engine war a sidewalls so that you know,

467
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Speaker 4: and it worked.

468
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Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, so when you went on that first

469
00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:08,919
Speaker 2: combat mission, you had one hour of flying time and

470
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Speaker 2: off you went.

471
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Speaker 4: Yeah. Well the result was we did survive because of

472
00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:20,280
Speaker 4: my ability to handle the airplane. And I was in

473
00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:22,520
Speaker 4: a war for an hour and a half right the

474
00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:27,720
Speaker 4: freezing water. The week before we lost one pot. He

475
00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:30,919
Speaker 4: was down on that water for six minutes and he

476
00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:35,400
Speaker 4: said it is to come to the cold temperatures. When

477
00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:38,800
Speaker 4: I was able to arrive, because when I got into

478
00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:43,399
Speaker 4: the water, I just did nothing but exercise, moved my

479
00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:46,920
Speaker 4: arms and legs and kept going. And that's what kept

480
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Speaker 4: me going.

481
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Speaker 2: How did you have the foethought, Uncle Steve? I mean,

482
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Speaker 2: my gosh, you're you're nineteen twenty years old, your first

483
00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:54,959
Speaker 2: combat mission, You've been shot down, You're in the English Channel,

484
00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:58,399
Speaker 2: freezing cold. There's there's high seas, right, what was it

485
00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:01,880
Speaker 2: ten foot seeds. They weren't going to send and rescue.

486
00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:04,199
Speaker 2: And here you are hanging onto a donut like a mouse,

487
00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:06,440
Speaker 2: onto a life preserver like a mouse, hanging on to

488
00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:10,280
Speaker 2: a donut, and and you know what was going through

489
00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:11,600
Speaker 2: your mind at that moment.

490
00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:17,200
Speaker 4: I was playing. You never heard a guy plays a

491
00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:18,840
Speaker 4: hard in his life.

492
00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:19,600
Speaker 2: Yeah.

493
00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:25,000
Speaker 4: But what the other part of that story is, well,

494
00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:29,359
Speaker 4: I was rescued by the AIRCA rescue flying boat. The

495
00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:34,720
Speaker 4: pilot saw worked by situation was and you knew I

496
00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:38,920
Speaker 4: couldn't survive. And so even though there was ten foot

497
00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:44,200
Speaker 4: seas he landed his airplane on that water, came over.

498
00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:47,240
Speaker 4: They pulled me up to the side of the plane.

499
00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:50,240
Speaker 4: They couldn't be threw me into the airplane because I

500
00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:54,080
Speaker 4: was a war orog and a mind sleeper that was

501
00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:57,680
Speaker 4: there in the area came over and they took me aboard.

502
00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:02,800
Speaker 4: And these guys when it's look off, they crashed the plane.

503
00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:08,840
Speaker 4: The pontum came off, and they had to be rescued themselves.

504
00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:14,360
Speaker 4: So what I'm saying is, you know, everybody was risking

505
00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:19,280
Speaker 4: their lives for each other without even thinking about it.

506
00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:21,280
Speaker 2: Because that's the situation we were in. We had to

507
00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:21,600
Speaker 2: do that.

508
00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:26,560
Speaker 4: And this is what's wrong. Now. What we do is

509
00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:30,359
Speaker 4: what we had of a war, we don't resolve it.

510
00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:34,560
Speaker 4: We have a ceasefire. Everybody says, Okay, it's over, but

511
00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:36,520
Speaker 4: it's not right.

512
00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:38,520
Speaker 2: So what you're saying is, let's go finish it and

513
00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:39,159
Speaker 2: get it over with.

514
00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:42,240
Speaker 4: You know, you'll have to go to the end. My

515
00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:50,840
Speaker 4: rast vision I had of Berlin were smoke coming up

516
00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:56,440
Speaker 4: from the rubble up to twenty five thousand feet, Flames

517
00:27:56,440 --> 00:28:01,520
Speaker 4: were up to five thousand feet, and the uh Blin

518
00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:06,000
Speaker 4: was nothing but a sea of rubble and the only

519
00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:09,240
Speaker 4: thing that you could see was it we rule valley

520
00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:14,959
Speaker 4: and that was where the subway, the under the Linden

521
00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:19,879
Speaker 4: had collapsed, and you could see that. And that was

522
00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:23,880
Speaker 4: my vision that I still have to this day of Berlin.

523
00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:25,919
Speaker 2: Of that's how the of that's how we've got to

524
00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:27,960
Speaker 2: finish it. Let's finish it.

525
00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:31,760
Speaker 4: When you had that kind of devastation when the war

526
00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:35,240
Speaker 4: was over, who is who are our best friends now?

527
00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:36,359
Speaker 4: The Germans?

528
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:39,240
Speaker 2: Right, because they wanted us to rebuild them.

529
00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:42,920
Speaker 4: Well, because we went in and after we defeated them,

530
00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:46,920
Speaker 4: we helped their economy and we helped them to grow.

531
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Speaker 2: Yep, yep, Uncle Steve, it's it's it's you know, truer

532
00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:55,880
Speaker 2: words are never spoken. We enjoy you each and every year.

533
00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:58,480
Speaker 2: I've got a minute left. What would you like to

534
00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:01,720
Speaker 2: tell the listeners to remind them of what this weekends about.

535
00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:06,560
Speaker 4: Well, just remember one thing. Freedom is not free.

536
00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:09,640
Speaker 2: And someone made a sacrifice for us to be here

537
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:12,960
Speaker 2: today and we should appreciate it. Yep, absolutely, Uncle Steve,

538
00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:15,680
Speaker 2: God love you, keep you safe, and then we hope

539
00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:18,360
Speaker 2: to talk to you again next year, same time.

540
00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:20,280
Speaker 4: Twenty six years.

541
00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:23,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, twenty six years on radio. Yeah, remember when I started.

542
00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:28,600
Speaker 2: It just seems like yesterday. So I'll have some stories

543
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:30,400
Speaker 2: on my own, Uncle Steve. I'll talk to you during

544
00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:32,080
Speaker 2: the week, and you take good care of yourself.

545
00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:34,720
Speaker 4: Thank you, everybody, take care.

546
00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:36,960
Speaker 2: You're welcome. Ron and any and the car doctor eight

547
00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:39,280
Speaker 2: five five five six zero nine nine zero zero. We're

548
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:56,800
Speaker 2: coming back right after this, I think, And Tom, I

549
00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:59,280
Speaker 2: want you to mark that interview as Uncle Steve's last.

550
00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:03,320
Speaker 2: I think that was his last interview. And I think,

551
00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:07,520
Speaker 2: you know it's funny, right, It just brings back a

552
00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:09,840
Speaker 2: flood of memories inside of me. As you can imagine,

553
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:12,440
Speaker 2: I just start to think about growing up with Uncle Steve.

554
00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:15,000
Speaker 2: But I remember in one of his interviews and even

555
00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:18,800
Speaker 2: in conversation with him, he would talk about the losses

556
00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:23,680
Speaker 2: that just the eighth Air Force in England alone suffered.

557
00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:26,720
Speaker 2: He always told me that in his fighter group, the

558
00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:30,200
Speaker 2: three thirty ninth, they were stationed at a Foulmere, they

559
00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:34,240
Speaker 2: lost two out of every three pilots. He said, it

560
00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:36,360
Speaker 2: got to the point where the new guy would show

561
00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:39,440
Speaker 2: up and you wouldn't even want to You'd say hello,

562
00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:41,200
Speaker 2: but you didn't really want to get to know his name,

563
00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:43,880
Speaker 2: because chances are he was probably gone the next day.

564
00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:46,440
Speaker 2: He went up for his first mission, and he probably

565
00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:48,760
Speaker 2: didn't come back. And he said that went on for

566
00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:51,560
Speaker 2: quite a while. And he said one of the most

567
00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:57,560
Speaker 2: chilling sights that he recalled was the stacks of foot

568
00:30:57,560 --> 00:31:01,600
Speaker 2: lockers being sent home that you know, there was just

569
00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:04,560
Speaker 2: just just all the personal effects and they were put

570
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:07,880
Speaker 2: aside for shipping. And I think about that from time

571
00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:10,320
Speaker 2: to time. You know what, it makes a bad day

572
00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:13,600
Speaker 2: at the shop look pretty darn good. You know, it's

573
00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:17,080
Speaker 2: not that bad. Anytime I hear somebody complaining, I go, hey,

574
00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:20,760
Speaker 2: nobody's shooting at you, you know, and it's it's not

575
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:23,400
Speaker 2: that bad. So, you know what, we thank Uncle Stephen,

576
00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:26,800
Speaker 2: that entire generation and all of our generations since then

577
00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:29,880
Speaker 2: that have kept this country safe and free. And we

578
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:33,880
Speaker 2: remember them this Memorial Day. We realize what Memorial Day is.

579
00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:38,360
Speaker 2: It's not happy Memorial Day. Memorial Day is a solemn occasion,

580
00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:41,120
Speaker 2: and that's what you that's what's really important that you

581
00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:44,400
Speaker 2: have to remember. We honor our dead that fought and

582
00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:46,680
Speaker 2: protected us and all the wars that this country has had.

583
00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:48,840
Speaker 2: So let me pull over and take the last pause.

584
00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:50,840
Speaker 2: I'll be back right after this to wind it up. Thanks,

585
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:10,000
Speaker 2: Let's get back to the business of fixing cars. Brian

586
00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:13,360
Speaker 2: writes in this is from February, So I apologize this

587
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:15,000
Speaker 2: is three months old. You know, Tom and I were

588
00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:16,800
Speaker 2: talking about this at the start of the show today.

589
00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:19,000
Speaker 2: We've really got to encourage you guys to call in.

590
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:22,280
Speaker 2: Calling in is the absolute best way we can help

591
00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:24,720
Speaker 2: you because it's so difficult for us to keep track

592
00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:27,160
Speaker 2: of all the emails and all the messages. You know,

593
00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:29,200
Speaker 2: one of the great things about being on social media

594
00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:31,840
Speaker 2: is that more people learn about you, and they see

595
00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:33,720
Speaker 2: you and they know who you are and what you do.

596
00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:36,400
Speaker 2: One of the bad things about being on social media

597
00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:38,520
Speaker 2: is that people learn who you are and what you do,

598
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:40,760
Speaker 2: and they want to talk to you there and not here.

599
00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:44,680
Speaker 2: So we encourage you to call the show. That's the

600
00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:48,960
Speaker 2: whole point of all this. It just makes life easier

601
00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:51,280
Speaker 2: for us. And you're going to get your question answered,

602
00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:53,400
Speaker 2: You're going to get your problem solved. And you know

603
00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:55,760
Speaker 2: as always the phone numbers eight five, five, five six

604
00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:58,880
Speaker 2: zero nine nine zero zero, and that number is twenty

605
00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:01,200
Speaker 2: four to seven. That number is live to talk to

606
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:06,080
Speaker 2: us direct Saturdays two to four pm Eastern Time. You

607
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:07,920
Speaker 2: can leave a message the rest of the time and

608
00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:09,920
Speaker 2: we will call you back to put you up here

609
00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:14,640
Speaker 2: in the show. But to do it, it's just it's

610
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:17,520
Speaker 2: a physical impossibility to answer each and every question here

611
00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:18,000
Speaker 2: to the point.

612
00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:20,920
Speaker 5: I'd also add, yeah that when people called, nice if

613
00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:23,560
Speaker 5: you left the message, because sometimes I'm just looking at

614
00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:25,280
Speaker 5: a list of phone numbers that show up on the

615
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:28,479
Speaker 5: call or ID, going okay, let's call these people, and

616
00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:31,240
Speaker 5: then some people think it's a scam call and hang

617
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:34,080
Speaker 5: up on me or call me Dirney names.

618
00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:36,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, we don't want that, but in any event, we

619
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:39,200
Speaker 2: want to talk to you here real quick. In my

620
00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:41,800
Speaker 2: last minute. Brian from d Luth, Minnesota, Here again, I've

621
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:44,880
Speaker 2: got a twenty seventeen Buick Lacrosse that had a service

622
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:47,440
Speaker 2: transmission message pop up on the display. A couple of

623
00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:50,320
Speaker 2: days later, it was stating that shifting would stop soon

624
00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:52,320
Speaker 2: the check engine light went on. The code was P

625
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:55,640
Speaker 2: zero seven Baker Edward. I took it to a GM dealer.

626
00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:57,640
Speaker 2: They said the code is for an update. They took

627
00:33:57,680 --> 00:33:59,080
Speaker 2: care of that and the car was good to go.

628
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:01,280
Speaker 2: I've put maybe two hundred and fifty to three hundred

629
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 2: miles out. If the same message as are back along

630
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:05,160
Speaker 2: with the code that was scanned, have you ever heard

631
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:06,480
Speaker 2: of seen of this issue, it'd be a couple of

632
00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 2: weeks or so before I can get back to the dealer. Yes, Brian,

633
00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:11,960
Speaker 2: that is and they are right in one sense the

634
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:15,520
Speaker 2: P zero seven Baker Edward. There is a preliminary piece

635
00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:17,799
Speaker 2: of information out there. GM has come out with a

636
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:21,480
Speaker 2: software update. This is a problem with the vehicles shifter

637
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:24,120
Speaker 2: and if for example, and I don't know if they

638
00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:26,360
Speaker 2: explain this to you, but if you're resting your hand

639
00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:28,919
Speaker 2: on the shifter in the car and you accidentally touch

640
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:32,280
Speaker 2: the park button without realizing it, it will set that code.

641
00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:36,080
Speaker 2: This is an electronics shifter set up, and they're looking

642
00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:38,720
Speaker 2: to see what gear is it in. There is also

643
00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:42,080
Speaker 2: a procedure after the software is updated. There is a

644
00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:45,400
Speaker 2: recalibration and the learn procedure. I would assume the dealer

645
00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:49,839
Speaker 2: did that. I would ask that question, but I would

646
00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:53,080
Speaker 2: get this resolved and you know, just verify everything they've

647
00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:55,040
Speaker 2: done up to this point and get it resolved before

648
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:57,120
Speaker 2: it gets to be bigger, because it could become a

649
00:34:57,120 --> 00:35:00,520
Speaker 2: bigger issue. But if you have any questions, call me

650
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:04,200
Speaker 2: Ronalinie and the car Doctor saying reminding everybody till the

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Speaker 2: next time. Good mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless.

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Speaker 3: See you