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Speaker 1: pun intended. I'm driving my lab away, the car Doctor.

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Speaker 1: Could the parking break be hanging up causing the drag?

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Speaker 1: new cable porn. I didn't feel like rebuilding it. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the radio home of Ron and Anian The Car Doctor,

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Speaker 1: since this is where car owners the world overturned to

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Speaker 1: call in the garage doors are open, but I am

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Speaker 1: At least it's not Mount Washington Mount Washington. I think

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Speaker 1: you know, it's it's funny. We were talking about cold

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Speaker 1: When I mentioned this in the NBC today, UH spot

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Speaker 1: When was your oil change done last? You know, you

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Speaker 1: You know, then then I can eliminate that. Only you

426
00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:17,480
Speaker 1: can be the judge of that. You know, what quality

427
00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:19,800
Speaker 1: or what level of part did he use. I won't

428
00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:21,920
Speaker 1: say that he was wrong at two hundred thousand miles.

429
00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:24,000
Speaker 1: It could have been across leak in the rack. I

430
00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:25,760
Speaker 1: don't know what he found. It could have been that

431
00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:28,720
Speaker 1: this is a layered issue. I'm just surprised that he

432
00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:30,639
Speaker 1: didn't go to the next step. Maybe he's not aware.

433
00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:32,920
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm wrong. But I think the next the next

434
00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:34,560
Speaker 1: thing I would look at is I would take a

435
00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:37,680
Speaker 1: look at the steering shift. All right, if if you

436
00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:42,119
Speaker 1: look at the steering column, there are there's an upper

437
00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:44,760
Speaker 1: and a lower what we call an intermediate shift. It's

438
00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:48,399
Speaker 1: basically two drive shifts tied together with a with a

439
00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:53,000
Speaker 1: spline of coupling and a universal joint. And I'm willing

440
00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:56,080
Speaker 1: to bet you know, nine years in Maine with you

441
00:21:56,200 --> 00:22:00,399
Speaker 1: have that thing called snow and corrosion. That if definitely

442
00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:03,719
Speaker 1: if you if you look at the steering shift when

443
00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:06,080
Speaker 1: you're driving and the power steering gets tight, does it

444
00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:08,920
Speaker 1: wine or it just it just gets tight. There's no

445
00:22:09,119 --> 00:22:12,200
Speaker 1: change in the way the steering pump sounds right, It

446
00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:15,200
Speaker 1: doesn't make any sounds just either either. And it's either

447
00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:17,000
Speaker 1: all the way on or all the way on? And

448
00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:19,400
Speaker 1: and do and do you have to drag it back?

449
00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:20,920
Speaker 1: If like you make a left turn, do you have

450
00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:23,320
Speaker 1: to fight to bring the wheel back? It doesn't come

451
00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:27,280
Speaker 1: back by itself. No, I have if I'm if I'm driving,

452
00:22:27,359 --> 00:22:30,040
Speaker 1: it's a lot easier, But it's mostly when I'm stopped

453
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Speaker 1: at at intersection and all of a sudden it goes

454
00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:34,840
Speaker 1: out and I have to wrestle the thing around. But

455
00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:38,280
Speaker 1: while I'm driving, it does come back. I mean, you know,

456
00:22:38,359 --> 00:22:40,520
Speaker 1: while I'm driving, it's not a big issue. Well, but

457
00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:44,119
Speaker 1: while you're driving, you know you're rolling. If you go

458
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Speaker 1: into a parking lot, maneuver, if you're doing ten miles

459
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Speaker 1: an hour and make a hard left turn or a

460
00:22:48,359 --> 00:22:51,159
Speaker 1: hard right turn, does the wheel come back or do

461
00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:53,520
Speaker 1: you have to put a little extra effort into dragging

462
00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:55,680
Speaker 1: it back. Oh? No, I'd have to drag it back.

463
00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:59,879
Speaker 1: I think you've got a frozen intermediate shift, all right.

464
00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:02,840
Speaker 1: I think I think the couplings themselves. Now, you could

465
00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:05,520
Speaker 1: try a little science project if you're game, all right,

466
00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:07,840
Speaker 1: get get down to your local Loto parts store. Get

467
00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:11,760
Speaker 1: a can of PB Blaster rust penetrant, all right, and

468
00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:14,120
Speaker 1: you want to put a drip pan underneath coming out

469
00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:16,800
Speaker 1: of the by the left front tire. All right, you'll

470
00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:19,600
Speaker 1: see there's gonna be a little rubber flap built into

471
00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:21,800
Speaker 1: the inner wheelhouse. You might have to take the tire

472
00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:23,720
Speaker 1: off to get to this. It depends on you know,

473
00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:26,400
Speaker 1: how flexible you are, and if you want to reach

474
00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:28,640
Speaker 1: over the tire. But you know you'll have to pick

475
00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:31,000
Speaker 1: up that flap and you'll see the shaft coming out

476
00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:33,840
Speaker 1: of the firewall going down to the steering rack. You

477
00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:37,600
Speaker 1: want to if that if those universal joints look rusty

478
00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:41,840
Speaker 1: and crunchy, all right, soak them all right? Do you

479
00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:43,400
Speaker 1: have a Do you have a garage you can put

480
00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:48,920
Speaker 1: this in at night? Is it heated? Okay, I'm surprised

481
00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:51,600
Speaker 1: you're in mean, it's it's it's seventeen it's seventeen below.

482
00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:54,639
Speaker 1: What's wrong with you? Tell tell mommy you need a

483
00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:57,119
Speaker 1: heated garage. It's the next thing. There's nothing like it.

484
00:23:57,400 --> 00:23:59,520
Speaker 1: I've got a heated garl I've got a heated garage

485
00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:01,640
Speaker 1: in New Jerry. I'm getting soft on my old age.

486
00:24:02,119 --> 00:24:04,880
Speaker 1: So but um, you know, put it in the garage

487
00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:06,800
Speaker 1: and set it up with a drip pan underneath, because

488
00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:08,520
Speaker 1: you're gonna make a mess. And let the p B

489
00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:11,639
Speaker 1: be liberal, all right. Spray it on the U joints,

490
00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:14,359
Speaker 1: spraying on the shaft itself, the pieces that move, and

491
00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:18,800
Speaker 1: let it soak. And there are two joints right near

492
00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:20,560
Speaker 1: the steering wheel and one at the other end right,

493
00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:22,840
Speaker 1: So the one near the steering wheel is probably fine.

494
00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:25,520
Speaker 1: I've never seen one of those go bad. It's the

495
00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:28,440
Speaker 1: ones it's the ones that are on the outside of

496
00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:30,919
Speaker 1: the firewall in the engine compartment that have been exposed

497
00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:33,639
Speaker 1: to the elements, and you know now they're starting to

498
00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:36,600
Speaker 1: rust and bind and clunk, and uh, you know I

499
00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:39,320
Speaker 1: I just went through this on to Tacomas. As a

500
00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:41,800
Speaker 1: matter of fact. Uh, to Tacoma is in a tundra,

501
00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:46,119
Speaker 1: similar situation, similar age. You know, bad intermediate shaft, the

502
00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:49,480
Speaker 1: lower shaft down at the rack was really a disaster.

503
00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:51,440
Speaker 1: I would like to think that your guy would have

504
00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:56,200
Speaker 1: noticed that, but you know, I can't assume. You know,

505
00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:58,959
Speaker 1: I can't assume because if he did, you wouldn't be here.

506
00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:00,520
Speaker 1: You wouldn't be here talking at me. I've got to

507
00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:03,280
Speaker 1: get it off the table, because if the shaft is

508
00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:06,879
Speaker 1: good and there is no shaft problem, then I've got

509
00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:09,040
Speaker 1: then I've got to go back to, you know, the

510
00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:11,280
Speaker 1: steering columns not binding, there was anything weird with the

511
00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:13,520
Speaker 1: steering column, et cetera. Then I gotta go back to

512
00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:16,560
Speaker 1: the air in What air in the system that wouldn't

513
00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:19,639
Speaker 1: give me on and off like this. No air in

514
00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:21,680
Speaker 1: the system. And that's why I asked, does the does

515
00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:24,520
Speaker 1: the system sound normal? If there was If there was

516
00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:26,240
Speaker 1: air in the system. You'd be telling me how the

517
00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:31,119
Speaker 1: pump wines air and a hydraulic system wines all right

518
00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:34,880
Speaker 1: to create it creates noise. Honda's going back fifteen years ago.

519
00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:37,159
Speaker 1: I had a problem with the o ring at the

520
00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:40,159
Speaker 1: power steering pump. The factory over rings were brown. They

521
00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:41,920
Speaker 1: came out with a different over ring that was blue.

522
00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:44,680
Speaker 1: Then there was a green version because they would leak

523
00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:46,920
Speaker 1: when they were cold and let air into the system,

524
00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:49,840
Speaker 1: and the pumps would wine and they'd lose power steering.

525
00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:52,160
Speaker 1: You don't have any noise. You don't have any noise.

526
00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:54,720
Speaker 1: You've got good hydraulics. Now he could hook he could

527
00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:56,840
Speaker 1: hook up a pressure gauge if he wanted to see.

528
00:25:56,920 --> 00:25:59,200
Speaker 1: You're gonna see as I out of that pump and

529
00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:02,359
Speaker 1: idle warmed up. But I think you're kind of pass that.

530
00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:04,080
Speaker 1: I think you've got to take a look at this

531
00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:07,800
Speaker 1: intermediate shift. You have a question, Oh, just is this

532
00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:13,040
Speaker 1: this is hydraulic not not a electronic assist? Correct? Correct?

533
00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:16,080
Speaker 1: I believe this is a completely hydraulic system. That's what

534
00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:19,440
Speaker 1: I thought. Yeah, okay, so all right, And the easiest

535
00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:21,160
Speaker 1: ways to find out is look in your owner's manual.

536
00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:23,240
Speaker 1: What do they call for fluid was this should be

537
00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:26,680
Speaker 1: a dex Ron three or an automatic transmission fluid type vehicle.

538
00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:30,840
Speaker 1: There should be nothing fancy to my knowledge. Okay, all right, okay,

539
00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:34,120
Speaker 1: if it is, if the pd blaster test works, then

540
00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:37,000
Speaker 1: we get a new well, you can, you can get

541
00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:39,600
Speaker 1: a new shaft if you want to. You can just

542
00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:42,280
Speaker 1: try and soak it occasionally with the p B blaster.

543
00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:44,840
Speaker 1: It works really well. And you know, if you want

544
00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:46,720
Speaker 1: to avoid the expense, if you want to solve it

545
00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:48,600
Speaker 1: now while you can, while you can still get a part,

546
00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:50,760
Speaker 1: you know, and then do it at you're convenience, you

547
00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:53,760
Speaker 1: can surely do that. But usually uh, you know, when

548
00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:55,720
Speaker 1: you get it in there with p B p B

549
00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:57,760
Speaker 1: is pretty good. It will soak down into it. My

550
00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:00,080
Speaker 1: concern is what would make me want to change it

551
00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:03,760
Speaker 1: is if the PV blaster proves that it is a

552
00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:06,720
Speaker 1: binding shaft, how long has this been going on and

553
00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:09,399
Speaker 1: how much were happened to the shaft and how much

554
00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:11,560
Speaker 1: damage happened to the cheft. So all I'm trying now

555
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:14,560
Speaker 1: to do is diagnose and prove it, and then it

556
00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:18,480
Speaker 1: might make sense to replace it. So all right, sir, well, great,

557
00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:21,479
Speaker 1: thank you very much, You're very welcome. You're very welcome, sir.

558
00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:22,760
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. You have a good rest of

559
00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:25,560
Speaker 1: the weekend. Eight five five five zero nine zero zero.

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00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:27,320
Speaker 1: Ron a Nanny and the Car Doctor. I'll be back

561
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565
00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:54,639
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566
00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:57,239
Speaker 1: East Coast time. But you can call the aforementioned eight

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568
00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:03,400
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00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:05,239
Speaker 1: Thomas Ray the third. We'll call you back and put

570
00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:07,399
Speaker 1: you in the next life que And we really want that.

571
00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:08,680
Speaker 1: We want to get you up here on are because

572
00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:11,399
Speaker 1: we want to talk about your problem so everyone benefits everyone.

573
00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:13,840
Speaker 1: Here's the answer. Let's go over to Perry and Louisiana.

574
00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:17,040
Speaker 1: Some questions about a Kia Soul. Perry, welcome to the

575
00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:20,199
Speaker 1: Car Doctor, sir. How can I help? Oh? Thanks, Ron,

576
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:23,760
Speaker 1: I appreciate your show. UM I actually owned a two

577
00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:28,040
Speaker 1: thousand nine Honda Civic right now, good reliable card fourteen

578
00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:30,200
Speaker 1: years bull now, but I'm looking to step up to

579
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:34,080
Speaker 1: like a subcompact suv, getting a little older, looking for

580
00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:36,720
Speaker 1: something easier to get into a better vision, you know,

581
00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:38,920
Speaker 1: kind of a little higher seating, and I'm looking at

582
00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:42,800
Speaker 1: the Kia Soul. Heard some good things from present owners,

583
00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:45,840
Speaker 1: but then heard a lot of bad things from previous owners,

584
00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:47,800
Speaker 1: like especially if you go online and something like that.

585
00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:50,240
Speaker 1: So I just wanted your take on the Kia Soul.

586
00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:53,000
Speaker 1: I heard you talking maybe a couple of weeks ago

587
00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:57,040
Speaker 1: about Kia and Honde, uh the line, and I didn't

588
00:28:57,120 --> 00:28:59,560
Speaker 1: catch the whole drift of what you were saying. So

589
00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:02,440
Speaker 1: I wanted to to get some insight into that. The

590
00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:06,320
Speaker 1: older Hyundai Kyas, I guess somewhere starting around model year

591
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:11,200
Speaker 1: two thousand twelve, two thousand thirteen, running up until about

592
00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:14,600
Speaker 1: fifteen or sixteen, with the one eight engine, we're seeing

593
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:17,920
Speaker 1: all sorts of major engine problems where the engines are

594
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:21,120
Speaker 1: failing in all levels and models of the Hunday's and

595
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:24,760
Speaker 1: Kias and Hunday's making good on it. They're replacing the engines,

596
00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:27,440
Speaker 1: but and this is the four cylinders. But the problem

597
00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:29,600
Speaker 1: becomes who wants to deal with that? It's you know,

598
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:32,720
Speaker 1: you're without your car. I'm seeing stories of anywhere you're

599
00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:36,600
Speaker 1: without the car from you know, three months to six

600
00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:39,880
Speaker 1: months to you know, whenever. They they're having issues with

601
00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:43,680
Speaker 1: parts availability, they're having issues with rentals, loaner cars, and

602
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:47,320
Speaker 1: things like that. That being said, it seems like the

603
00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:51,160
Speaker 1: newer versions anything after sixteen seventeen have been okay. Now,

604
00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:53,000
Speaker 1: they don't have the mileage on them that the older

605
00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:56,360
Speaker 1: ones do in all fairness, but you know, I also

606
00:29:56,440 --> 00:29:58,960
Speaker 1: look at the culture of the company. Hyundai and Kia

607
00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:00,880
Speaker 1: are trying to stand behind that. I think it's a

608
00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:03,800
Speaker 1: little overwhelming at this point. I I know more than

609
00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:07,479
Speaker 1: a few dealerships have anywhere at any given time somewhere

610
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:11,400
Speaker 1: between fifteen and thirty cars apart with engines out being replaced,

611
00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:14,400
Speaker 1: which is nuts. Um God bless him. It's I don't

612
00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:16,440
Speaker 1: know how they keep up, but you know, it's it's

613
00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:19,920
Speaker 1: a major undertaking. I did hear some rumblings, oh, a

614
00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:23,000
Speaker 1: couple of months back that you know, will a recall.

615
00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:25,440
Speaker 1: It's not really a recall. I shouldn't say that, but

616
00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:29,200
Speaker 1: will a problem of this magnitude bankrupt the company? It

617
00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:31,479
Speaker 1: hasn't yet, And I've got to tell you it's been

618
00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:35,080
Speaker 1: going on for four years at least, so you know

619
00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:38,640
Speaker 1: it's crazy. Onto your question. Are you talking about a

620
00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:43,000
Speaker 1: newer key Assault? Oh yeah, I'm talking about three okay?

621
00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:47,160
Speaker 1: And how long will you keep it? Oh? The har

622
00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:49,920
Speaker 1: Pacific I have now this is fourteen year or so.

623
00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:52,400
Speaker 1: I'm looking about the same. The soul as well. I

624
00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:56,040
Speaker 1: think that's going to be the catch because I you know,

625
00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:58,560
Speaker 1: I like Kia, I like hun Day. I have not

626
00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:01,080
Speaker 1: seen the longevity out of it that I would add

627
00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:04,040
Speaker 1: of out of a Honda or a Toyota. Just being honest,

628
00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:07,440
Speaker 1: all right. And you know, if you wanted to buy it,

629
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:09,440
Speaker 1: keep it five years and then roll her over into

630
00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:12,240
Speaker 1: something else, Sure, grab one. You know what. We're only

631
00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:14,720
Speaker 1: here on the Blue Marble once. So you gotta go

632
00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:16,520
Speaker 1: for the gust, though, you know, you don't want to

633
00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:18,720
Speaker 1: sit there and wonder. And if you want to take

634
00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:20,760
Speaker 1: that approach to it, do it. If the car really

635
00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:22,800
Speaker 1: fits you and you're really comfortable in it, do it.

636
00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:25,440
Speaker 1: It's not a whole lot of money in comparison to

637
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:27,080
Speaker 1: some of the other things out there. I don't think

638
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Speaker 1: it's a I don't think it's a real mistake. I

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Speaker 1: just think it's going to be different. Um, I think

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Speaker 1: you'll get five really good years out of the car,

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00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:36,400
Speaker 1: and then after that maybe you'll get ten. Maybe. I

642
00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:39,560
Speaker 1: don't know that. I haven't seen the longevity yet without

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Speaker 1: the problems that the other older ones are having. So

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Speaker 1: I can't say more than that. If you get what

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Speaker 1: I'm saying. The only other alternative I'm looking at Honda

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Speaker 1: is the venue. It's a little smaller, less horse powerless power. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And most of my driving he has done in the city.

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Speaker 1: I'll take it on the road maybe every couple of

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Speaker 1: months to visit family out of town, so to fight that.

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Speaker 1: So not a lot of road driving. But the Kia

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00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:09,200
Speaker 1: souls got horsepower and the hand benus got Like by

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Speaker 1: the key I wanna take? You want to come down

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Speaker 1: and take your shopping Perry, all right, just let's let's

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00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:16,560
Speaker 1: let's go buy the KEYA. Let's not lament about this.

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Speaker 1: How much is the car? Let's let's ask the question

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Speaker 1: that way. Uh. By the time everything said, it's about

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Speaker 1: twenty three. Okay, haven't you made bigger mistakes in your

658
00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:29,360
Speaker 1: life and spent in twenty three dollars on something you

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00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:33,080
Speaker 1: didn't really want? Her Neiter was right, I have, no

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00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:36,080
Speaker 1: I have. That's how I got That's how I got

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00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:37,480
Speaker 1: where I am. Now. I know what I want, what

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00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:39,480
Speaker 1: I like, and what I don't like. I've tried everything.

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00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,200
Speaker 1: You know what, if you really like the car, it's

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Speaker 1: going to have a decent warranty on it, right uh.

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00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:47,000
Speaker 1: And then you know what, if you want real peace

666
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:50,280
Speaker 1: of mind, put a long extended warranty on it, all right,

667
00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:51,640
Speaker 1: and see how far you can take it out. And

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00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:54,320
Speaker 1: what's that going to cost? If it's to the price

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00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:56,719
Speaker 1: of the car. So for twenty five grand, you now

670
00:32:56,840 --> 00:32:59,360
Speaker 1: get you know, coverage for six or seven years. But

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00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:01,920
Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna be like the Honda. But

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00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:03,440
Speaker 1: I think it'll do what you wanted to do for

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00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:06,600
Speaker 1: a reasonable cost and a little bit of a science project.

674
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:08,280
Speaker 1: But I think you'll have five or six good years

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Speaker 1: out of it. All right, sir, you're very welcome. Let

676
00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:14,920
Speaker 1: us know what you do, and good luck, be daring,

677
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:18,640
Speaker 1: be bold, as they say so zero, Well, I would

678
00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:22,800
Speaker 1: do that eight five five zero zero. I'll tell you

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00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:24,880
Speaker 1: the eye doctor story when I come back, don't go away,

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00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:40,400
Speaker 1: does not compene woke up by the hand and that's

681
00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:44,800
Speaker 1: all night with me. Well, So that was a quick

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00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:46,640
Speaker 1: hour and always it's always a quick hour. We get

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00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:48,959
Speaker 1: to this point in the show. So, UM, two comments,

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Speaker 1: um both both regarding emails. I say, if I can

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00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:53,080
Speaker 1: get them both in. UM, A lot of you have

686
00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:55,400
Speaker 1: written in and asked me about my eye, which I

687
00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:57,120
Speaker 1: really appreciate. You know, I went to the eye doctor

688
00:33:57,160 --> 00:33:59,120
Speaker 1: head laser surgery on the right retin ite was torn,

689
00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:00,880
Speaker 1: and UM, a lot he said. You know a lot

690
00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:02,360
Speaker 1: of you would asked about the follow up. And I

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00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:03,360
Speaker 1: just want to tell you that I went to the

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00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:06,520
Speaker 1: eye doctor Wednesday, and UM, I kind of fool around

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00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:07,840
Speaker 1: with the nurse a little bit in the sense that

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00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:09,800
Speaker 1: she left me in the room for ten minutes and

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00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:11,400
Speaker 1: while she was in, while I was in there with

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00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:13,200
Speaker 1: my glasses on, I memorized the right side of the

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00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:15,040
Speaker 1: I chart. She came in, she took my glasses off.

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00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:16,719
Speaker 1: I read the I chart to her. I even read

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Speaker 1: the bottom line that said copyright nine Brig Stratton I

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Speaker 1: Chart Visual Services. And she looked at me and I said, okay,

701
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:25,360
Speaker 1: give me the different charts, but my eyes okay. And

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00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:27,960
Speaker 1: my sense of humor has not changed. For carl and

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00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:30,279
Speaker 1: North Carolina, who writes in my second email, he's got

704
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:33,319
Speaker 1: a hande. He's looking for more mileage and horsepower. He's

705
00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:37,000
Speaker 1: asking about cold air intake systems. Do they work? Yeah,

706
00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:39,560
Speaker 1: they do, They absolutely do. Um, you know, you can

707
00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:41,200
Speaker 1: do one of two things. Get out to go look

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00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:45,120
Speaker 1: at kN N air filter kNN air intake systems. They

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00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:48,239
Speaker 1: are the masters of cold air intakes. They were the

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00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:51,000
Speaker 1: creators of it and have been around for many, many years.

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00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:54,160
Speaker 1: They've got the technology and the science down perfect. And um,

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00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:56,880
Speaker 1: keep in mind that a cold air intake system creates

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00:34:56,880 --> 00:35:00,200
Speaker 1: a denser charge, um, you know. And it will pack

714
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:03,040
Speaker 1: more air into the engine, making it more efficient and

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00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:06,239
Speaker 1: a smoother, cleaner air filter will provide less turbulence so

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00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:08,920
Speaker 1: that the air flows better, and it will make a

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00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:12,160
Speaker 1: better overall running vehicle. If we can make it more efficient,

718
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 1: we're gonna give it better mileage, We're gonna give it

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Speaker 1: more power. And that's part of what the cane and

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Speaker 1: cold air intake systems do. Check them out online, look

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Speaker 1: for kN and cold air intakes. Until the next time,

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Speaker 1: I'm Rodinandi in the car doctor reminding you mechanics aren't expensive,

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Speaker 1: they're priceless. See you