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Speaker 1: Ron and Nannian. Don't buy a service package that talks

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Speaker 1: think it comes down to there's manufacturer's world, there's dealer's world,

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Speaker 1: the middle. Welcome to the radio home of Ron and

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Speaker 1: Anian the Car Doctor, since this is where car owners

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Speaker 1: Um listening. I think Frasier Crane said that was he real?

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Speaker 1: the Car Doctor, and I'm here ato zero to talk

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Speaker 1: about whatever it is it's bothering you and um, let's

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Speaker 1: keep it. Let's keep the shiny side up, the dirty

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Speaker 1: the car doctor's mantra. We are interview free this hour.

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Speaker 1: I think we're interviewed free both hours. I don't think

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Speaker 1: fellas what happened? What happened that? What happened to that game?

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Speaker 1: You know what? Um? Hey, the Betett team one. That's

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Speaker 1: I can't say with me and Tom really said last Sunday,

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Speaker 1: Really that just did it? Yeah, you know, very bluntly.

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Speaker 1: The pack wanted it better and wanted it more. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And let's get behind green Bay. Now, let's let's go

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Speaker 1: for green Bay. Green Bay all the way, Green Bay

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Speaker 1: Tom and I going from green Bay all the way. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: As they say, speaking of keeping lights on, that was

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Speaker 1: a scan tool, graphing it out. One of the things

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Speaker 1: here's a case for graphing, you know, just just that

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Speaker 1: There were six PIDs I had up. It granched each

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Speaker 1: But I watched specifically the charge rate. And you know what,

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Speaker 1: But you could see it the minute you turn on

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Speaker 1: And my point is other than just an opening rant,

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Speaker 1: the car go, and um, car has been fine. That

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Speaker 1: By the way, I am. I am shopping for new

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Speaker 1: charging with new battery testers. Um, and that's no lie.

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Speaker 1: I called up manufacturers and everybody said, yeah, the new one,

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Speaker 1: I was. I was really amazed. But we are opping

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Speaker 1: Welcome back the car doctor rolling along at eight five

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Speaker 1: five zero nine zero zero. Let's get over to Lou

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Speaker 1: and some spark plug issues. Lou, Welcome to the car doctice, Sir.

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Speaker 1: leave them sit there, um, and they all four fall

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Speaker 1: over to the outside and they're all wearing on the inside. Okay,

426
00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:46,920
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what falling over designates. I've never done.

427
00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:50,119
Speaker 1: It's a pretty white tire, and you would think that

428
00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:54,480
Speaker 1: you could put put the tire on the ground standing up,

429
00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:58,119
Speaker 1: let go and it would stand up, but it falls

430
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Speaker 1: over to the outside. I would think it's ends on

431
00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:01,840
Speaker 1: how much are you got in the tire. I've never

432
00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:05,199
Speaker 1: done that. Testing forty three years truck. I've always you know,

433
00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:06,920
Speaker 1: it's it's because if you look at a tire, a

434
00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:09,680
Speaker 1: tire is a little bulged in the middle. I don't

435
00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:12,000
Speaker 1: know of any tire when it's got you know, it's

436
00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:15,080
Speaker 1: pressure in it, thirty forty, whatever it is, it's always

437
00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:16,920
Speaker 1: bulged in the middle a little bit because it's got

438
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Speaker 1: to compensate. You got to realize when you put the

439
00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:20,720
Speaker 1: weight of a vehicle on it, when you put two

440
00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:23,879
Speaker 1: tons of pressure on those four tires, it's gonna level

441
00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:26,600
Speaker 1: it out and you know, make it sit square to

442
00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:29,920
Speaker 1: the ground because loaded weight is different than unloaded. So

443
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Speaker 1: I don't know that that would be I don't know

444
00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:33,240
Speaker 1: that that would be a good judgment of that. What

445
00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:35,680
Speaker 1: I would tell you is if the tires are continually

446
00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:39,440
Speaker 1: wearing the inside edges, is it all four tires wear

447
00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:42,200
Speaker 1: the inside edges or is it that as you rotate

448
00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:45,840
Speaker 1: them through the inside edges of the front now to

449
00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:48,520
Speaker 1: the back, it looks like all four but it's really not.

450
00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:50,840
Speaker 1: Do we have a toe in issue? Do we have

451
00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:54,200
Speaker 1: a toe issue up front or or or some other

452
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Speaker 1: alignment issue, or do we have an alignment issue on

453
00:24:56,680 --> 00:24:59,800
Speaker 1: the vehicle overall? Yeah, I think it would have to

454
00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:01,600
Speaker 1: be a overall because I've replaced, like I said, I

455
00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:05,400
Speaker 1: replace all the troll arms and all the subsension components. Well,

456
00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:10,880
Speaker 1: I'm not at a line. Okay, Now, who did the alignment? Um?

457
00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:16,400
Speaker 1: I usually go to the local firestorm shop. Um, if

458
00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:20,080
Speaker 1: they're the only guys doing the alignment, Yes, all right?

459
00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:23,520
Speaker 1: Do you get a print out before and after? All right?

460
00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:26,920
Speaker 1: Does it show that it's in a line? Yes, everything's

461
00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:29,360
Speaker 1: in the ingrain. I do have an issue on one

462
00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:32,680
Speaker 1: of the facts where it's just barely within tolerance, but

463
00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:34,879
Speaker 1: I got that much of a justin they can do

464
00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:39,120
Speaker 1: on that. Well, how how long has how long has

465
00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:43,960
Speaker 1: the car been doing this tire wear issue? Really years,

466
00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:46,040
Speaker 1: I've been one of the things I've been fighting with

467
00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:48,920
Speaker 1: the car. Tell them to look on their alignment machine.

468
00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:52,439
Speaker 1: Chances are that there's a way and a spec. They

469
00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:54,840
Speaker 1: might have to remove something and put on a couple

470
00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:58,440
Speaker 1: of it on shims or make some modifications to it.

471
00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:02,800
Speaker 1: But I almost be willing to bet that there is

472
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Speaker 1: a way to adjust those rear alignment angles that aren't adjustable. Okay,

473
00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:15,880
Speaker 1: all right, all right, appreciate, okay, sir, Good luck to you. Zero,

474
00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:51,199
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475
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478
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479
00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:03,800
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483
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485
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486
00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:20,879
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487
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Speaker 1: stream is available all the time, not the stream, but

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489
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490
00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:32,680
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491
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:35,840
Speaker 1: Tom is in the middle of something technical. Um I noticed,

492
00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:38,280
Speaker 1: how is that twenty fish sandwich? So let's let's get

493
00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:40,159
Speaker 1: over to line one and see what's going on with

494
00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:42,720
Speaker 1: Nicholas and Fort Lauderdale. Nicholas, welcome to the Car Doctor.

495
00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:46,200
Speaker 1: How can I help hi? Ron? Um? I just want

496
00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:48,520
Speaker 1: to say, um uh I'm glad I found your show

497
00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:50,600
Speaker 1: on the internet. I used to listen in New York

498
00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:53,040
Speaker 1: about ten years ago. Okay, I learned a lots on

499
00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:58,320
Speaker 1: your show. Thank you, sir for basic Carl Car knowledge. Um,

500
00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:01,359
Speaker 1: I I know I you we talk a lot about Volkswagen,

501
00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:03,199
Speaker 1: but I was wondering if you know if it's a

502
00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:07,120
Speaker 1: bad card to invest in in two thousand seventeen. Well,

503
00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. I'll tell you what, Nicholas Ah,

504
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,240
Speaker 1: let me ask you this question, how bad do you

505
00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:17,359
Speaker 1: want a Volkswagen? Well, I really I've always liked the

506
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:19,760
Speaker 1: Jetta for some reason. I have a two thousand seven

507
00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:22,960
Speaker 1: Cobalt Bot. Now I keep up with the maintenance, but

508
00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:25,840
Speaker 1: I'm just like, I'm bored of driving it. Okay, So

509
00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:28,520
Speaker 1: you know, and and all fair points. Who's gonna work

510
00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:32,760
Speaker 1: on the Volkswagen. Uh, That's what I was hoping you

511
00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:35,160
Speaker 1: would know. Is it hard to find a Volkswagen mechanic

512
00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:38,840
Speaker 1: in Florida? Well, and the the key comes to that.

513
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:44,760
Speaker 1: Volkswagen and and in their technology requires somebody. You know.

514
00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:47,240
Speaker 1: I won't say they've got to have blonde hair, blue eyes,

515
00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:49,160
Speaker 1: but they've got to be close to it. They've got

516
00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:51,880
Speaker 1: to be from the fatherland, so to speak. Uh, you know,

517
00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:53,560
Speaker 1: they've got to they've got to walk to walk and

518
00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:55,760
Speaker 1: talk to talk because they are a very specific car.

519
00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:59,239
Speaker 1: They're very particular. Um, you know, it's it's and and

520
00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:03,160
Speaker 1: that's exactly what it is. When the local Volkswagen dealer

521
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:07,920
Speaker 1: up here has issues fixing Volkswagens, and I see that firsthand.

522
00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:12,200
Speaker 1: My sister owns a Beatle and to this day they

523
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:14,160
Speaker 1: haven't been able to fix the car. So when when

524
00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:18,200
Speaker 1: her car, when it's cold out, her her doors freeze.

525
00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:21,240
Speaker 1: And their answer was, when you parked the car the

526
00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:23,480
Speaker 1: night before, I used the remote start to set it up,

527
00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:25,920
Speaker 1: put the heat on, start the car for twenty minutes.

528
00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:27,520
Speaker 1: That'll follow the car out. That way he can get

529
00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:29,719
Speaker 1: the doors open so you can go to work. And

530
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:34,240
Speaker 1: I said, I said, really, that's their answer. She said, yeah,

531
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:39,320
Speaker 1: Why isn't that okay? Well, you know, uh so you know,

532
00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:41,240
Speaker 1: a Volkswagen is only as good as the guy working

533
00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:43,040
Speaker 1: on it. Like any other car, the question is who's

534
00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:46,320
Speaker 1: gonna work on it. When they're new, they're great, They

535
00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:48,160
Speaker 1: really are. There a lot of fun. They're a blessed

536
00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:49,600
Speaker 1: to drive as long as you get a good one,

537
00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:53,200
Speaker 1: they're a nice car. A lot of good engineering, a

538
00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:57,960
Speaker 1: lot of good conceptual practical you know, thought goes into

539
00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:02,160
Speaker 1: building a Volkswagen fix room. It gets to be expensive,

540
00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:06,200
Speaker 1: is the car's age. You know, to me in my experience,

541
00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:07,880
Speaker 1: they're not the cheapest thing to keep on the road.

542
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:10,640
Speaker 1: But then to a large degree, what is um I

543
00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:14,920
Speaker 1: will say this their engines. Their engines are great there

544
00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:17,200
Speaker 1: you know, you'll take the engine apart of a hundred

545
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:19,160
Speaker 1: fifty thousand miles, it's still got the cross hatch in

546
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:22,800
Speaker 1: the cylinder walls. They're just seating the rings. But the

547
00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:29,200
Speaker 1: rest of the car, the electronics, yeah, it can be

548
00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:34,080
Speaker 1: it can be an issue. But you know, most important,

549
00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:38,400
Speaker 1: I think Volkswagen is clearly one of those cars that, yeah,

550
00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:40,560
Speaker 1: the guy that's working on it, this is not what

551
00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:43,280
Speaker 1: i'll call a gas station car. You can't think of

552
00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:45,520
Speaker 1: that with the Bob's and you know, Bob's got the

553
00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:48,120
Speaker 1: kid working the pumps and the service in your Volkswagen

554
00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:51,120
Speaker 1: on the side. You know, then again, what is today

555
00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:53,280
Speaker 1: Not that a lot of cars are like that today,

556
00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:56,720
Speaker 1: but it's just it's just getting very particular. So I

557
00:30:57,280 --> 00:31:00,200
Speaker 1: think to answer your question in all fairness, Nicholas. I

558
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:03,400
Speaker 1: think it really comes down to, you know, my opinion,

559
00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:06,440
Speaker 1: it's not for the faint of heart. You've you've got

560
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:08,400
Speaker 1: to be willing to pay for it and enjoy it.

561
00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:11,440
Speaker 1: And that's okay. Life's too short. I say that all

562
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:15,120
Speaker 1: the time. You know, what if if you really want

563
00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:19,120
Speaker 1: to Volkswagen, I say, get a Volkswagen. I you know what,

564
00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 1: dri enjoy it? Okay. I I assume the same. The

565
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:26,160
Speaker 1: same answer would be if I asked you about a

566
00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:30,600
Speaker 1: because that's a very unique car too, I would imagine. So, yeah,

567
00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:32,479
Speaker 1: but I'll tell you what I think. MAS is a

568
00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:40,800
Speaker 1: little bit more independent, repair shop friendly than Volkswagen. All right, yeah,

569
00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:42,880
Speaker 1: well see a lot of it too. Is you know

570
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:49,480
Speaker 1: how how readily available is information for me right now?

571
00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:53,880
Speaker 1: For me in North Jersey, it's it's difficult finding a

572
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:58,160
Speaker 1: Volkswagen dealer they can get me parts. Huh, all right,

573
00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:00,440
Speaker 1: it's it's not the easiest thing in the world to

574
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:04,360
Speaker 1: get parts for as funny as that sounds. And you know,

575
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:07,200
Speaker 1: it's just I'm not I can't explain it. I'm not

576
00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:11,920
Speaker 1: really sure why. But you know, well, yeah I'm not.

577
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:14,800
Speaker 1: I'm not ready. I'm not ready for that yet. I um,

578
00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:16,720
Speaker 1: but you know, when it comes to Masda, my mas

579
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:19,480
Speaker 1: the dealer is great again. Who's gonna work on it?

580
00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:22,520
Speaker 1: Where are we getting parts from? That's the key, and

581
00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:25,920
Speaker 1: that's you know, and and I can't say it's just

582
00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:28,720
Speaker 1: this one Volkswagen dealer. I hear its stories about. It's

583
00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:31,240
Speaker 1: a lot of the Volkswagen dealers in the area. So

584
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:34,240
Speaker 1: just you know what, do some research on the dealer

585
00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:36,640
Speaker 1: whichever you're gonna buy, and and kind of go from there.

586
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:41,920
Speaker 1: But you know, real quick, Nicholas, how old are you okay?

587
00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:44,080
Speaker 1: By by the Volkswagen. You'll feel good about it. You'll

588
00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:46,880
Speaker 1: get rid of it by the time you're forty. Well,

589
00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:48,720
Speaker 1: I was hoping to keep it for ten years because

590
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:50,720
Speaker 1: my car now is ten years old. All right. Well

591
00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:52,200
Speaker 1: that you may not be able to do, but that

592
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:54,680
Speaker 1: will determine by be determined by who works on it,

593
00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:58,400
Speaker 1: all right, kiddo. That's that's good to know. I didn't

594
00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:02,040
Speaker 1: realize that years. Well, it's after five years the cost

595
00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:05,560
Speaker 1: to repair gets very expensive in my in my experience,

596
00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:09,000
Speaker 1: So alright, sir, I gotta go him up against the clock.

597
00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:12,560
Speaker 1: Thanks for calling, Nicholas, and good luck in your motoring ways.

598
00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:40,120
Speaker 1: Zero we're coming back right after this. Don't go away back, Hey,

599
00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:42,240
Speaker 1: welcome back. Why don't leading of the car doctor. I'm

600
00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:45,880
Speaker 1: thinking back over the calls this hour. We had Chuck

601
00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:50,240
Speaker 1: from Connecticut with the h HR talking about the alignments,

602
00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:52,760
Speaker 1: and I just want to stress this before we leave

603
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:55,360
Speaker 1: this hour because I hear this far too often. I've

604
00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:58,200
Speaker 1: been taking the car in for alignment. They did the alignment,

605
00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:00,920
Speaker 1: everything was in the green, but the tires still we're funny,

606
00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:04,840
Speaker 1: and there's nothing more they can do that's wrong, all right.

607
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:08,520
Speaker 1: In the case of Isa HHR, there are front camera

608
00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:10,760
Speaker 1: bolts that can be replaced to give you a better

609
00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:14,719
Speaker 1: or give you adjustable alignment beyond just toe. And in

610
00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:17,360
Speaker 1: the rear there are parts that can be replaced to

611
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:20,880
Speaker 1: give you alignment beyond just toe. If that and my

612
00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:26,239
Speaker 1: point is some alignment places are doing a toe and go.

613
00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:32,480
Speaker 1: They're charging you a flat feed. They're doing alignment alignment,

614
00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:37,279
Speaker 1: the alignment, whatever ridiculous price they've come up with to

615
00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:40,120
Speaker 1: lure you in the door, to get you in as

616
00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:43,239
Speaker 1: a loss leader. Let me explain it to you like this,

617
00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:48,520
Speaker 1: an alignment machine, a decent alignment machine in today's dollars,

618
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:53,520
Speaker 1: is about forty grand. All right, Start thinking about how

619
00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:56,000
Speaker 1: are they making money to keep the lights on, feeding

620
00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:59,680
Speaker 1: everybody and staying in business doing alignments for seventy five

621
00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:03,200
Speaker 1: bucks a throw. If that's the average number, An alignment

622
00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:05,919
Speaker 1: typically takes forty five minutes to an hour, depending upon

623
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:08,040
Speaker 1: what adjustments have to be made. There's gotta be a

624
00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:10,879
Speaker 1: return on investment for that piece of equipment. It's it's

625
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:15,200
Speaker 1: the cost of doing business. Now. If you can't understand that,

626
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:18,000
Speaker 1: then you've got to get used to it. Because understand

627
00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:22,520
Speaker 1: the next generation, the coming generation of four wheel alignment

628
00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:29,640
Speaker 1: machines is seventy thousand dollars seventy dollars. Think about that.

629
00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:31,600
Speaker 1: How are they going to do that? How are the

630
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:37,200
Speaker 1: tow and go alignment places gonna survive charging seventy dollars

631
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:40,040
Speaker 1: a pop for an alignment. It's gonna cost the money.

632
00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:43,440
Speaker 1: It's costing the money. Now it's gonna cost them more money.

633
00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:45,960
Speaker 1: So my point is, if you go to a tow

634
00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:48,040
Speaker 1: and go and they tell you that's it, it's in

635
00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:50,200
Speaker 1: the green, I think it's somewhere else. Or tell them

636
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Speaker 1: look on the machine, because chances are there's a way

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Speaker 1: to do that adjustment. This is gonna take more time

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Speaker 1: and more money and more effort. I'm r Anadi in

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00:35:56,760 --> 00:36:02,120
Speaker 1: the car. Doctor. The mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. See everyone.

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Speaker 1: She was star