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Speaker 1: part of the fun. Welcome to the radio home of

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Speaker 1: Ron and Nanian the Car Doctor. Since this is where

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Speaker 1: car owners the world overturned to for their definitive opinion

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Speaker 1: right after this. He drives that way. But when it

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Speaker 1: uh tell me ron drips, oil drips, grease everywhere. Go ahead,

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Speaker 1: Why is the E S P Light on? Why is

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Speaker 1: Then let's diagnose that. Let's understand what is the electrical involvement?

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Speaker 1: the Car Doctor. How can I help? Yeah, Brad, there's

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Speaker 1: In my opinion, I'm not to have an opinion. America

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Speaker 1: staff and they're helping people that can afford to pay

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Speaker 1: And you know what, that's called paying it forward and

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Speaker 1: leaving the plan in a better place. I would do

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Speaker 1: it tomorrow if I could do it. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's you know, it's to make up for

429
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Speaker 1: all the bad things we did as kids. Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: had a sick We gotta sit down and get back

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Speaker 1: the basics. Hey, I had a wonderful day playing checkers

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Speaker 1: with my seven year old grandson. I'm seventy four and

433
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Speaker 1: he beat me three games and that's good. And you

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Speaker 1: know what, he'll remember that for the rest of his life.

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Speaker 1: Everyone I beat Grandpa three times, and you know it's

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Speaker 1: it's it's a great show and a great crew. Thanks

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Speaker 1: to keep up the good work. Well, thank you, sir.

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Speaker 1: No we ever get out that way, we'll stop in

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Speaker 1: and say hey, so all right, you take good care

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Speaker 1: of Um. I know who that was, Tom, That was

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Speaker 1: Tony Amelia. That was our retired police officer from Chicago

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Speaker 1: most likely. And I was gonna tell you about the

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Speaker 1: h there's a repair shop near my house. They have

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Speaker 1: a big sign out front sixty an hour for labor.

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Speaker 1: And I've been sitting here going, you know, here's wonder

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Speaker 1: what's wrong with this picture? Well, well I can tell

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Speaker 1: you what that is. I can tell you about the

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Speaker 1: de labor rate thing is even easier to explain. Okay,

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Speaker 1: you know what, I'll tell you my labor rate. It's

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Speaker 1: an hour. How do you count your hour exactly? It's

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Speaker 1: how you count ours? Right, Um, you know what's it?

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Speaker 1: What's it worth it? Do any of this? And orto

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Speaker 1: repair like lawyers like m like doctors, like so many

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Speaker 1: service based businesses. It's about results and you know what's

455
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Speaker 1: the long and the short of it and how do

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Speaker 1: we make it work? And that's you know, that's really

457
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Speaker 1: where all of this is at. Um, So just something

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Speaker 1: to be aware of. He let me just do this

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Speaker 1: quick piece of email from Mitchell. I've been dying to

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Speaker 1: read this, you know, Mitchell. The folks over at Mitchell

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Speaker 1: Information Systems comes out with these real fixed Sure trek

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Speaker 1: Um emails to me once in a while, and though

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Speaker 1: they come out on an actually a regular basis, this

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Speaker 1: one's kind of interesting. It's a real fix from Mitchell's

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Speaker 1: new short track expert information source mp A. What's mp

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Speaker 1: A Vehicle service information? It continues, is jam packed with acronyms,

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Speaker 1: and keeping track of what they all mean can be

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Speaker 1: a full time job. Boy, that's the truth. A bs

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Speaker 1: tcs PCM m p A. The definition of an mp

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Speaker 1: A switch might not come immediately to mind. The short

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Speaker 1: track Fix of the Week continues, and it says, but

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Speaker 1: follow this kind of like escalad real fix to see

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Speaker 1: how it relates to diagnosing and repairing a code C

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Speaker 1: zero to six corrected or connected a scan tool and

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Speaker 1: found C zero eighty six mp A switch remains closed,

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Speaker 1: open or mp A intermittent. Well, you gotta make up

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Speaker 1: your mind which one is. It. Used the scan tool

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Speaker 1: clear the code, performed an anti lock brake system function

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Speaker 1: test with the scan tool and reset the code right away.

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Speaker 1: The code came back into the words, used the scan

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Speaker 1: tool to monitor live data and found the ah ha,

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Speaker 1: here's what m p A is. Medium pressure accumulator switched

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Speaker 1: parameter indicated uncharged with the key on engine and the

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Speaker 1: engine off. The scan tool watched the live data, connected

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Speaker 1: a fuse jumper across the switch and the supply circuit

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Speaker 1: and observed the switch parameters start changed state to charge,

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Speaker 1: meaning that they left it plugged in. They put a

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Speaker 1: fuse across or they put a fused wire across the

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Speaker 1: connector and they showed now it changed too. Shows the

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Speaker 1: switch as closed, so that where the wiring harness was

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Speaker 1: intact leading back to the A B S controller. So

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Speaker 1: we knew the problem wasn't in the wiring harness or

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Speaker 1: the A B S. It was somewhere ahead of us,

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Speaker 1: which is the switch which is located the mp A

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Speaker 1: switch which is located in the break pressure modulator valve assembly.

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Speaker 1: They put a modulator valve in. It cleared the codes

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Speaker 1: and the vehicle operator properly. The customers concerned did not return.

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Speaker 1: This is kind of a neat feature. We're gonna try

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Speaker 1: and start and do more of these. But you know,

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Speaker 1: short track is something that our real world fixes. Mitchell

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Speaker 1: Repair Information they add that to all of their you know,

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Speaker 1: their their shot management software. You can find more information

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Speaker 1: out on the web at mitchell one dot com and

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Speaker 1: we thank them for their efforts and trying to make

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Speaker 1: lives easier for mechanics everywhere. Eight five five zero nine

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Speaker 1: zero zero. I'm rondading the car doctor and I'm back

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Speaker 1: right after this. Need advice on how to maintain that

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Speaker 1: classic g t O. Ron is the guy eight five

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Speaker 1: five five zero nine zero zero. Here's Ron. I can

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Speaker 1: think you how to maintain the g t O started

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Speaker 1: up winded out when you pull second year, just make

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Speaker 1: sure that second gear and when you see it, feel

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Speaker 1: the fire smoke. And just a lot of gt O stories,

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Speaker 1: some of them we can't talk about on air. Let's

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Speaker 1: go and talk to Bob in Phillisberg Volkswagon Beetle. How

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Speaker 1: can I go from a g t O to a

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Speaker 1: conversation about a Volkswagen Beetle? Robert, how are you? Sir? Hey? Fine?

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Speaker 1: I want to give a shout out. I finally got

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Speaker 1: somebody interested in listening to your show. Can give them

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Speaker 1: a shout out. It's Dan from Johanna and the Garage.

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Speaker 1: Just one of the he's he's he listens to you

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Speaker 1: all the time. Now I finally talked him into it. Well, good.

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00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:38,840
Speaker 1: Now I got seven listeners, so um, yeah, we're climbing.

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Speaker 1: What's going on? The sixty five beetles got Grantlin's in

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Speaker 1: the starting circuit to the wiring of fees from the

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Speaker 1: ignition switch to the starter. Uh So it turned out

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Speaker 1: that the wiring harness is going to have to come

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Speaker 1: out because the boltings drop is horrendous. So temporarily what

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Speaker 1: I'm doing is is running a sick fault relay. There

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Speaker 1: By the bat round or needs a back seat to

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Speaker 1: be you know, powers of this Illinois. You know right

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Speaker 1: off the batteries that I'll get me going for a while.

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Speaker 1: But the wiring harness is going to have to come out.

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Speaker 1: In order to do that. I gotta when the energie

535
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Speaker 1: comes out, when I want to overall, I want to

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Speaker 1: prepare the wiring harness. Now my question is where do

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Speaker 1: you buy electrical wire and you know, connectors and that

538
00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:28,960
Speaker 1: and all that for shops supplies. Well, I would just

539
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Speaker 1: various companies, but nothing that's really gonna work for the Volkswagen.

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00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:36,800
Speaker 1: It's very specific. I would just buy a wiring harness. Well,

541
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Speaker 1: that's the problem. I've already looked a couple and here

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Speaker 1: they're designed for a twelve bowl and there's something keeping

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Speaker 1: sixth bowls. Well, but the wiring is a different gauge. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but you know, the problem, Bob is gonna be that

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Speaker 1: you're gonna have to find exact connectors and exact pins

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Speaker 1: to match what's there. Right, I mean you're talking. What

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Speaker 1: you're basically asking me is or telling me, is you

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Speaker 1: want to make your own wiring harness for this car. Right, Well,

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Speaker 1: then you've just you know, I don't think any I

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00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:08,840
Speaker 1: don't think any present day sore as. We buy them

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Speaker 1: from a company. We buy a lot of our electrical

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Speaker 1: stuff from a company called Rogo. They're located up in Middletown,

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Speaker 1: New York. But they're all model, they're all modern day,

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Speaker 1: you know, everyday transportation vehicles. You're looking for something that's

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Speaker 1: gonna be specialty six Volkswagen brother. You know that's that's

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Speaker 1: fifty years ago. Uh you know, it's it's it's it's

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Speaker 1: gonna become a specialty item. And and frankly, I just

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Speaker 1: gotta believe it's somewhere somebody's gonna make a wiring harness.

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Speaker 1: And you know, um uh you know, just uh just

560
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Speaker 1: just you're gonna need a wiring harness. You're gonna need

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Speaker 1: to really replace the harness as an assembly because what

562
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Speaker 1: you're trying to do is so tedious. Uh you know, listen,

563
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Speaker 1: you'll you'll finish it, but it might be ten years.

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Speaker 1: It's it's an exacting task what you're trying to do.

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Speaker 1: And I think you're going along the wrong way around

566
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Speaker 1: the barn to make the point. Yeah, okay, all right, okay,

567
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:02,840
Speaker 1: what I needed to know because you know, I when

568
00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:05,680
Speaker 1: you get running driving this car because the weather is

569
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Speaker 1: starting to break and uh and uh, you know, go

570
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Speaker 1: up there and hopefully I could do one of if

571
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:15,000
Speaker 1: your cruises. Well, you know, if the Volk's wagon is

572
00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:18,800
Speaker 1: stuck in the garage, you know, that's it's safer there.

573
00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:22,440
Speaker 1: Nothing could happen to it. Um, we gotta have reliability.

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Speaker 1: Who well, that's rights. Yeah, we gotta make it. We

575
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Speaker 1: gotta make sure it works. But at least nothing and

576
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Speaker 1: won't get lost, Um, won't get stolen. It could float

577
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Speaker 1: down the river though, still you know you can turn

578
00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:37,920
Speaker 1: it into a riverboat. Um. Yeah. Beetles, No, beetles do float.

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Speaker 1: Don't ask me how I know. So they do. There

580
00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:44,000
Speaker 1: was actually a commercial years ago, did you know that. Seriously,

581
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:46,880
Speaker 1: there was a commercial years ago. It does everything including

582
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Speaker 1: float or some sets thing like, I gotta look for

583
00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:53,440
Speaker 1: that on YouTube. But John Paul Georgia Ringo, Yeah, well

584
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:57,880
Speaker 1: stay on outside of the glass story. Every everybody's got

585
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Speaker 1: a Beatles story. And every time and I sit there

586
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:02,800
Speaker 1: a while, I never got the call. Yeah, I have

587
00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:05,720
Speaker 1: more people come over and and it puts a smile

588
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:07,560
Speaker 1: on their face. And some of them are some of

589
00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:10,960
Speaker 1: them are good stories. Um, anyway, I gotta go, Robert.

590
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:14,080
Speaker 1: I love you to death. You take good care of yourself, right,

591
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:15,800
Speaker 1: you take by bye. I'm running any of the card

592
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Speaker 1: doctor I'll be back right after this. Welcome back, aren't

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Speaker 1: any of the card ocerated by five zero zero card

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Speaker 1: Doctors show, dot com podcasting and all the good stuff.

595
00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:33,760
Speaker 1: I'm real quick. Listener called in regarding Bob and Phillipsburg

596
00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:35,680
Speaker 1: with the six volkswagon, and we thank them for this.

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00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:38,120
Speaker 1: We love it when you guys calling and give us information.

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00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:42,000
Speaker 1: But he suggested called painless wiring. Painless wiring, Bob. If

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00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:44,840
Speaker 1: you're listening or your friend Dan is listening, painless wiring

600
00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:47,440
Speaker 1: there down in Texas. Little caller said, Um, I have

601
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:49,560
Speaker 1: heard of painless wiring. I know they make stuff for

602
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:53,200
Speaker 1: you know, muscle cars and modern or modern performance vehicles,

603
00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 1: et cetera. But maybe they've got something for six volt volkswagons.

604
00:32:56,840 --> 00:32:59,360
Speaker 1: Um uh you know, and you can solve your problem

605
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:02,400
Speaker 1: that way. So painless wiring down Texas way, we're told,

606
00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:04,120
Speaker 1: take a look at that. Let's get it over and

607
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:07,760
Speaker 1: talk to Tony in Iowa. Return call ninety Volvo C seventy.

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00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:10,320
Speaker 1: Hey Tony, how are you today? I'm good, Ron, Thanks

609
00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:13,160
Speaker 1: for taking my call. It is actually my senate call

610
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:14,640
Speaker 1: then a couple of weeks ago, and I want to

611
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:17,760
Speaker 1: thank thank you. You helped him to diagnose the problem

612
00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:22,360
Speaker 1: with this. This car is being a torottle body, right yeah, um,

613
00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:23,760
Speaker 1: this was the car. What was it doing? It was

614
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:27,600
Speaker 1: stalling or didn't have power or something went in the lip?

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00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:32,120
Speaker 1: Hum yeah yeah, yeah, having trouble starting once it was

616
00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:35,920
Speaker 1: started with run for a while and anyway, he got

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00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:39,160
Speaker 1: to a local Volvo mechanic and and they agreed that's

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00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:41,440
Speaker 1: what it was. I haven't done anything with him, may

619
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Speaker 1: not either. It's it was expensive report prepare for that. Yeah,

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00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:51,840
Speaker 1: um part if I remember, right? Okay, well it went

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Speaker 1: up yet it's it's you know, um, isn't that sad too?

622
00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:57,600
Speaker 1: You know? It's you can spend all that time and

623
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Speaker 1: take care of an older car and all of a

624
00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:02,120
Speaker 1: sudden that one p that's electronic that you need, and

625
00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:04,800
Speaker 1: across so much to keep those electronic pieces on the shelf,

626
00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:07,880
Speaker 1: but now all of a sudden you just price yourself

627
00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:09,719
Speaker 1: out of existence. You can't afford to drive the car.

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00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:13,560
Speaker 1: It's terrible. Yeah, you know it's it's uh. I think

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Speaker 1: it's well, we mechanic does probably the center, not the

630
00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:22,960
Speaker 1: actual throttle body, but I think the sensor is part

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00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:24,600
Speaker 1: of the throttle body. I don't think you can buy

632
00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:30,720
Speaker 1: it separately, if I recall correctly. I see any on eBay.

633
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:34,000
Speaker 1: One of the forums recommended you can update it to

634
00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:38,200
Speaker 1: a magnetic one that eliminates the carbon tracking. But you know,

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