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Speaker 1: Ron and Nanian. The day you don't hear this radio

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Speaker 1: show is the day I close the shop because I

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Speaker 1: can't do one without the other. Because every week I

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Speaker 1: am live in the base. I am fixing cars every day,

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Speaker 1: every day of every week. I'm in there, banging away,

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Speaker 1: for them, the car Doctor. So this twenty twenty two

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Speaker 1: Chevy Malibu is doesn't hand no fuel cap on it.

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Speaker 1: They make up available on the internet or something you

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Speaker 1: can pop over the top of those little next stick

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Speaker 1: to keep it, maybe more water tight or something. No,

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Speaker 1: and they've got you know, they've got a watertight seal.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the radio home of Ron and Aanian, the

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Speaker 1: Car Doctor since nineteen ninety one. This is where car

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Speaker 1: owners the world overturn to for their definitive opinion on

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Speaker 1: automotive repair. If your mechanics giving you a busy signal,

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Speaker 1: pick up the phone and call in. The garage doors

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Speaker 1: are open, but I am here to take your calls.

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Speaker 1: At eighty five five five six hundred and now he's running.

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Speaker 1: I want to talk to you about cherry picking, not

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Speaker 1: the fruit I want to talk to you about. I

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Speaker 1: want to talk to you about cherry picking. You know,

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Speaker 1: we use a term here in New Jersey. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if it's a I don't know if it's a

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Speaker 1: national or international term when it comes to automobile repair,

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Speaker 1: but I know it is cherry picking. And cherry picking

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Speaker 1: is a dangerous, dangerous thing to do. It really is,

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Speaker 1: and I'm going to prove it to you right here.

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Speaker 1: We had a new customer come in the shop this week.

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Speaker 1: And you know, as always when I tell you these stories,

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Speaker 1: I always welcome your feedback. You know, Ron, You're crazy,

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Speaker 1: Ron great? You know, Ron, I disagree? Tell me why,

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Speaker 1: so send me an email, of course, can you call,

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Speaker 1: send me an email whatever. We had a new customer

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Speaker 1: come in the shop and his simple request was, and

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Speaker 1: it was simple, it was an oil change. Checked the

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Speaker 1: brakes in a state inspection, so we you know, looked

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Speaker 1: the car over and did the oil change. And it

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Speaker 1: was clearly due for front breaks and it had problems

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Speaker 1: in the left rear tire was dry rotted and cracking,

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Speaker 1: and the right rear tire wasn't that great as far

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Speaker 1: as tread depth. You can see that the two rear

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Speaker 1: tires were older, and that the front tires had already

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Speaker 1: been replaced, you know, somewhere else, some time ago. But

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Speaker 1: they had life in them. They were you know, they

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Speaker 1: weren't desperately in need of So, you know, we always

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Speaker 1: try to just here's what we need. Now, here's what

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Speaker 1: you're going to need in the future, you know, that

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Speaker 1: type of a thing. And I explained it to Frank.

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Speaker 1: I said, Frank, you need front breaks, you need two

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Speaker 1: rear tires. And before I even finished the sense, well, well, well,

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Speaker 1: well I'll take care of the tires, okay, you know,

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Speaker 1: and I get it. Some people are nervous, some people

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Speaker 1: have a different manner, a different demeanor. Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: I can I can live with that. But he's gonna

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Speaker 1: of that you know, I know their reputation. It's it's

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Speaker 1: to do things wrong. I guess is the word? All right?

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Speaker 1: And I kind of let that go, and you know,

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Speaker 1: just when can I do the brakes? And can we

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Speaker 1: And when can I bring it back? And you know,

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Speaker 1: right away, I'm being interviewed for the job. Right away.

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Speaker 1: He's running the show. Let me tell you something, all right,

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Speaker 1: the job done. It's just not my way or the highway.

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Speaker 1: But you know, there's some protocols and there's some things

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Speaker 1: don't have the time to waste. And I said, you

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Speaker 1: Let them do the breaks, let them do the tires.

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Speaker 1: And he couldn't understand why. I told them, it's not

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Speaker 1: that you're taking business from us, it's I want to

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Speaker 1: see the whole car. I want the opportunity to work

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Speaker 1: You were the last guys to touch it, I said

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Speaker 1: know we're gonna do front breaks, they're gonna do rear tires.

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Speaker 1: I said, I don't want to be responsible when after

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Speaker 1: pulse because the wheels aren't tightened properly. Well, no, they're

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Speaker 1: going to do back tires, I said, right, But chances

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Speaker 1: how correct did they tighten those wheels? Did they tighten

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Speaker 1: Because one of the biggest complaints we've had from this

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Speaker 1: have lug nuts that either don't come off, or they

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Speaker 1: come off stripped, or they snap. You know, they haven't

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Speaker 1: But he wants to deal with them. I'm not going

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Speaker 1: you want to go there? Go there? You know you

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Speaker 1: want to you want to walk on broken glass, barefoot,

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Speaker 1: go ahead, It's up to you. It's we're all big

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Speaker 1: boys and girls. We're all over age twenty one here,

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Speaker 1: we're all adults. He didn't like that answer. He just

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Speaker 1: kind of looked at me funny, scratching his head. You

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Speaker 1: know why, you know? Auto repair is a is a

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Speaker 1: it's a way of life. It's it's a freedom thing.

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Speaker 1: You all get to choose where you want to go

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Speaker 1: you choose responsibility, some of you choose convenience. And you've

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Speaker 1: I tend to see the people that choose correctly for themselves,

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Speaker 1: they can get it quicker, they usually create chaos. There's

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Speaker 1: usually an issue amongst themselves where they're you know, they've

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Speaker 1: selective hearing for a partner. Wait, another customer this week

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Speaker 1: with a two thousand and seven Toyota, and I like Andrew.

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Speaker 1: I think Andrew's a great guy. I know what he's

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Speaker 1: trying to do. He purchased this OH seven four Runner

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Speaker 1: and I told him, point blank, don't buy this car.

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Speaker 1: I said, this isn't the car you want to buy.

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Speaker 1: I said, there's a lot here, There's going to be

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Speaker 1: It's becoming a nice truck. But he's already exceeded the

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Speaker 1: he needed two lower control alarms, there's problems with the

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Speaker 1: double the value of the vehicle. And he said to

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Speaker 1: me yesterday we were talking about, you know, where's the

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Speaker 1: work in progress and where's the price point? Now? When

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Speaker 1: I told him how much money he spent already, he

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Speaker 1: worth of work, and we're right around four grand right now,

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Speaker 1: so you can't be surprised. It's it's right where we

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Speaker 1: what's actually going on. Somebody makes the comment tho these

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Speaker 1: ways you get people to sign, I don't know, because

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Speaker 1: I don't think signing does anything either. It just puts

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Speaker 1: the onus in your favor that you know, you hold

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Speaker 1: this piece of paper and it's not hearsay. And I

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Speaker 1: I've lost the argument already. You've got to be careful

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Speaker 1: You've got to make sure that you know clear communication,

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Speaker 1: clear information on both sides, and be mindful of the process.

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Speaker 1: Be mindful of the procedure. The last conversation with Andrew

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Speaker 1: was if I bring the lug nuts by on Monday,

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Speaker 1: at the new wheels? And I looked at him and

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Speaker 1: I said, Andrew, the car's done. It's on the ground.

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Speaker 1: and it's done. I said, you're asking me to put

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Speaker 1: Is it trans fluid. No, it's trans transform heavyweight gear oil. Okay.

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Speaker 1: show Tom, have we done? Tom Good? Can I hate

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Speaker 1: There you go? Bill? Yeah, Tom's got a niche trigger

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Speaker 1: Thanks for taking the call. Youngest son has a twenty

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Speaker 1: Let alane. Vehicle is expensive, it's not so dynamic. So um,

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Speaker 1: But and I know why it's there. It's it's there

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Speaker 1: for fuel economy. It's there to meet emission standards. It's

426
00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:23,560
Speaker 1: there to you know, be in government compliance. But you know,

427
00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:26,160
Speaker 1: at what cost, and the consumer ends up paying the cost.

428
00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:27,480
Speaker 1: You know, to me, I want to drive a vehicle

429
00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:29,480
Speaker 1: three hundred thousand miles. I want to drive a vehicle

430
00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:32,280
Speaker 1: till I'm sick of it. And you know, especially at

431
00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:35,240
Speaker 1: sixty five thousand dollars, imagine at eighty five thousand dollars,

432
00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:38,479
Speaker 1: what's the what's the what's the return on value? So

433
00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:41,320
Speaker 1: to answer your question, Yes, there are companies out there

434
00:21:41,359 --> 00:21:44,480
Speaker 1: that are you know, going in via software or a

435
00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:48,160
Speaker 1: dongle at the OBD two plug. They're they're making changes.

436
00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:52,040
Speaker 1: M I hear great success stories. I haven't seen anything detrimental.

437
00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:55,480
Speaker 1: My one concern is, you know, there's software chips that

438
00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:58,719
Speaker 1: add on, there's OBED two chips that seem to plug in.

439
00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:01,760
Speaker 1: I'm always concerned learned about leaving something plugged in at

440
00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:04,200
Speaker 1: the OBED two port on a full time basis, because

441
00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:07,600
Speaker 1: that's not really meant as a full time communication port.

442
00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:11,320
Speaker 1: You know, things that you see like your insurance company

443
00:22:11,440 --> 00:22:15,119
Speaker 1: or the phone companies that are offering tracking, or you know,

444
00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:17,560
Speaker 1: we'll watch where you go and if you drive under

445
00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:19,480
Speaker 1: fifty five miles an hour, we're going to lower your

446
00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:22,960
Speaker 1: insurance premium. All that. Technically, if you talk to it,

447
00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:25,000
Speaker 1: if you talk to an automotive engineer, they'll tell you

448
00:22:25,119 --> 00:22:27,639
Speaker 1: that's not what that port's designed for. It's designed for

449
00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:32,479
Speaker 1: diagnostic aid, it's designed for diagnostic information. You know. So

450
00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:36,000
Speaker 1: I don't know that it's it's it's okay, Bill, I

451
00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:39,720
Speaker 1: don't know of any long term consequences yet, but it's

452
00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:42,239
Speaker 1: just something to be mindful of I will tell you this,

453
00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:45,040
Speaker 1: if you don't modify the software, if you don't make changes.

454
00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:46,480
Speaker 1: And you already know this, so I'm saying this for

455
00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:50,600
Speaker 1: everyone else's benefit. Here's a vehicle that absolutely needs regular

456
00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:53,560
Speaker 1: oil changes. I you know, and I'm saying every five

457
00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:56,720
Speaker 1: thousand miles five months, like religion, like going to church tomorrow.

458
00:22:56,720 --> 00:22:59,280
Speaker 1: It's just, you know, it's just what you want to do,

459
00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:04,399
Speaker 1: because they cancel the cylinders by disabling lifters and working

460
00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:07,680
Speaker 1: the valve train. And it just proves the point that

461
00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:11,680
Speaker 1: the last thing oil does in an engine today is lubrication.

462
00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:16,080
Speaker 1: Here's a classic example of using engine oil for hydraulic

463
00:23:16,119 --> 00:23:19,639
Speaker 1: pressure and control and valve changing and a slew of

464
00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:23,240
Speaker 1: other things. So you know, the oil change that goes

465
00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:26,399
Speaker 1: too long over time at one hundred thousand miles, that

466
00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:29,119
Speaker 1: car will need an engine without a doubt. Now we

467
00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:31,919
Speaker 1: do it every four run and use the full synthetic

468
00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:35,600
Speaker 1: in it as it called for. That seems to help.

469
00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:39,800
Speaker 1: And again supporting your statement, I have read similar instances.

470
00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:42,440
Speaker 1: You let it go, buy an oil monitor. You're buying

471
00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:45,040
Speaker 1: yourself a big problem in a short time. Yep, yeah,

472
00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:49,080
Speaker 1: I you know. It's it's funny and I don't care.

473
00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:50,520
Speaker 1: You know, Bill, have been on the air long enough.

474
00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:53,679
Speaker 1: I get criticized no matter what I say, but I

475
00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:56,240
Speaker 1: really do. It's it's amazing. I actually had somebody mad

476
00:23:56,280 --> 00:23:58,399
Speaker 1: at me the other week because I reported the news.

477
00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:00,679
Speaker 1: We talked about a news store. It was in the

478
00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:04,520
Speaker 1: news from ABC News talking about the detriment of electric vehicles.

479
00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:07,480
Speaker 1: And I want you to know, Bill, you are single

480
00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:10,320
Speaker 1: handedly You are talking to somebody that's single handedly trying

481
00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:13,520
Speaker 1: to undermine the EV industry all on his own. Um.

482
00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:15,240
Speaker 1: You know, it's like they should just burn me in

483
00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:18,560
Speaker 1: effigy because it's it's amazing how bad of a person

484
00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:20,439
Speaker 1: I am trying to make people aware of what's in

485
00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:23,639
Speaker 1: the news. I you know, Um back to your point.

486
00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:29,320
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, oil changes, good filters, regular maintenance. And you

487
00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:31,320
Speaker 1: know it's it's the luck of the Irish, as they say,

488
00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:34,800
Speaker 1: since they're so close to Saint Patty's Day. Uh you know, Ron,

489
00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:37,320
Speaker 1: I ask you one more question on the Carlo I

490
00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:40,640
Speaker 1: haven't heard you mention that, are you stuff? Um? Yeah,

491
00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:43,480
Speaker 1: you know what. I'm guilty of too many other projects.

492
00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:46,359
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's it's it's really the truth. I

493
00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:48,800
Speaker 1: pick at it a little bit here and there. Uh,

494
00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:50,399
Speaker 1: you know, I've bought a few more pieces, not that

495
00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:52,000
Speaker 1: I need parts for it, but I am. I am,

496
00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:54,480
Speaker 1: you know, hoarding a few things for the future. I'm

497
00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:57,800
Speaker 1: really trying to get it out this year. Um, I

498
00:24:57,920 --> 00:25:02,439
Speaker 1: got wrapped up in in seven Toyota Tacoma that somebody

499
00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:04,399
Speaker 1: was going to scrap and we ended up buying it

500
00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:06,919
Speaker 1: from them and we're turning it into a family vehicle

501
00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:09,200
Speaker 1: for my son in law. So we've been we've been

502
00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:11,800
Speaker 1: kind of working on that, trying to get that out. Uh.

503
00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:14,600
Speaker 1: You know, this week was, you know, it was a

504
00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:17,040
Speaker 1: strange week at the shop. It was It's always this

505
00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:18,840
Speaker 1: time of year. I can I can track it like

506
00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:22,400
Speaker 1: clock where work for fifty years, this is trade show

507
00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:25,480
Speaker 1: week in my mind. ASP New Jersey has their Northeast

508
00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:29,200
Speaker 1: Trade Show this weekend, and every year for the last

509
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Speaker 1: fifty years, it seems we're always we're always a little

510
00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:36,560
Speaker 1: quiet this week and leading into the trade show. I

511
00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:38,560
Speaker 1: just I just know that, you know, because I always

512
00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:40,359
Speaker 1: remember going to the trade show when I was younger,

513
00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:42,440
Speaker 1: thinking why am I going to this trade show to

514
00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:43,960
Speaker 1: look at the equipment. I don't have any money. It's

515
00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:46,159
Speaker 1: slow this week. You know, you know, you always you

516
00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:47,880
Speaker 1: always have that, and it was the same thing this week.

517
00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:49,600
Speaker 1: I kept Danny busy a week. He had more than

518
00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:50,879
Speaker 1: enough to do. I had a couple of cars to

519
00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:54,400
Speaker 1: pick on. I spent most of my week replacing hard

520
00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:58,720
Speaker 1: drives in computers, changing everything over to SSDs, and upgrading memory.

521
00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:01,120
Speaker 1: And I had a great time doing that and reliving,

522
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:03,440
Speaker 1: you know, the memories of working on computers. It was

523
00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:05,160
Speaker 1: just like working on a car. It's no different, except

524
00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:08,159
Speaker 1: there was no wheels, tires and oil to change, you know.

525
00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:11,480
Speaker 1: But more Monte Carlos stories to come. I'm actually gonna

526
00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:13,400
Speaker 1: I actually had the hot rod out a month ago.

527
00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:14,919
Speaker 1: It was a nice day here in New Jersey. There

528
00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:16,919
Speaker 1: was no salt on the road, so I woke that

529
00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:19,639
Speaker 1: up from its winter slumber. I took that out for

530
00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:22,480
Speaker 1: a midwinter rode. And I'm looking to get that out

531
00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:24,200
Speaker 1: again real soon. I want to be out come May

532
00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:26,399
Speaker 1: first with that, as soon as the salt gets washed away,

533
00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:29,280
Speaker 1: because I don't know much longer we're gonna have gasoline.

534
00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:32,080
Speaker 1: But that's a whole other conversation for another day. So

535
00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:34,920
Speaker 1: that's a scary thought. Yeah, And I appreciate the advice

536
00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:38,360
Speaker 1: and information and we'll follow up and hopefully five years

537
00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:39,760
Speaker 1: from now, when you're still on the air, I'll be

538
00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:42,000
Speaker 1: able to give you a good updating. Thanks Bill, I

539
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,480
Speaker 1: appreciate the thought and the kindness you'd be well. You

540
00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:46,800
Speaker 1: take good carey bye bye. I'm running any of the

541
00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:48,920
Speaker 1: car doctor here at eight five five five six zero

542
00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:51,720
Speaker 1: nine nine zero zero again that's eight five five five

543
00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:54,080
Speaker 1: six zero nine nine zero zero. I'll be back right

544
00:26:54,119 --> 00:27:13,320
Speaker 1: after this. Don't go away, well, come back run an

545
00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:15,800
Speaker 1: end of the car doctorate your service? Um nho you

546
00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:20,800
Speaker 1: stoile n h ou story. I want to see that again.

547
00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:22,399
Speaker 1: Let's come back from that. I can I get the

548
00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:24,160
Speaker 1: bumper music back? Tom? Can you give me that again?

549
00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:27,840
Speaker 1: Real quick? Watch this? No, but I can. I can

550
00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:29,879
Speaker 1: sit here and laugh at you. Can you whistle? So?

551
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:33,040
Speaker 1: How are you today? By the way, Hey, let's doing great?

552
00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:35,399
Speaker 1: How about you? Do you know this guy Daniel NYC

553
00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:38,280
Speaker 1: one nineteen. Isn't that a buddy of yours? Send me

554
00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:41,240
Speaker 1: the email with the forward focus? Why do I think

555
00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:43,200
Speaker 1: you know him? I don't know. Yeah, he probably know

556
00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:45,160
Speaker 1: I think yeah, I think you know him. He's got

557
00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:47,320
Speaker 1: to know FOURD forward focus. He wrote me an email, Hey, Ron,

558
00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:50,440
Speaker 1: then I'll tell you the NHO you story. Hey, Ron,

559
00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:52,440
Speaker 1: can a bad gas cap cause a P zero one

560
00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:54,280
Speaker 1: seven one code? I know this code is probably a

561
00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:56,320
Speaker 1: vacuum leak, but I can't locate it. I have a

562
00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:58,480
Speaker 1: code reader. In my short term fuel trim is zero

563
00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:00,600
Speaker 1: to ten, but long term is almost twenty five. Most

564
00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:03,200
Speaker 1: of the time. Short term fuel trims never read twenty five.

565
00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:06,119
Speaker 1: Any explanation I do two thousand and four Ford Focus

566
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:08,359
Speaker 1: two point three, great show run. Thanks for your help, Daniel.

567
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:10,399
Speaker 1: You have to call me because there's a lot to

568
00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:12,520
Speaker 1: talk about here. There's a lot we can discuss. So

569
00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:14,320
Speaker 1: let me. Let me shoot from the hip in the dark.

570
00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:16,840
Speaker 1: This code is a vacuum leak. No, I don't believe

571
00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:18,280
Speaker 1: it is a guest cap. I've never seen a guess

572
00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:22,240
Speaker 1: cap cause excuse me, an evap leak like that. And

573
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:24,359
Speaker 1: the reason that you're seeing long term fuel trim at

574
00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:28,200
Speaker 1: twenty five percent is because think of think of building blocks, right,

575
00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:31,280
Speaker 1: stack them up one through twenty five or one through

576
00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:35,120
Speaker 1: thirty all right, long term, short term, if the car

577
00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:39,720
Speaker 1: was running dead on the money, your fuel trim would

578
00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:43,040
Speaker 1: be zero and zero zero short term current zero long

579
00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:47,040
Speaker 1: term history. But as short term starts to climb it's

580
00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:50,560
Speaker 1: building blocks, and when it reaches thirty right, we stack

581
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:53,720
Speaker 1: them thirty high. It resets to zero, and it moves

582
00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:56,640
Speaker 1: the left building block of long term up one block,

583
00:28:57,240 --> 00:28:59,560
Speaker 1: and then the short term counts up again and it

584
00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:02,240
Speaker 1: drops to zero, and it moves the long term block

585
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:06,760
Speaker 1: up to three, and then so on up the ladder four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

586
00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:10,000
Speaker 1: So right now, your long term is at twenty five.

587
00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:12,800
Speaker 1: You're at the twenty five percent index on long term,

588
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:16,040
Speaker 1: but your short term is zero to ten. It can't

589
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:19,480
Speaker 1: rise above more than that because it hasn't pushed it

590
00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:22,560
Speaker 1: higher up the scale. So the fuel trim is out

591
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:26,800
Speaker 1: of balance. Twenty five percent long term, ten percent short term.

592
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:31,200
Speaker 1: Add the two together thirty five percent. Thirty percent is

593
00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:33,720
Speaker 1: usually the stop gap where the check engine lay comes

594
00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:37,720
Speaker 1: on on most cards, so you're out of compliance, all right.

595
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:40,160
Speaker 1: That's why it's twenty five and ten. Don't look for

596
00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:42,440
Speaker 1: short term to get to twenty five, thinking, hey, you

597
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:45,080
Speaker 1: got a problem. You've got a problem. Long term is

598
00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 1: twenty five percent, all right? Long terms a problem when

599
00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:52,400
Speaker 1: it gets over twelve percent fifteen percent in most cases, Okay,

600
00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:56,560
Speaker 1: onto your problem. If you've got. If you've got twenty

601
00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:58,959
Speaker 1: five percent long term and you reset and it just

602
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:02,400
Speaker 1: recounts back up. You've got a hard vacuum leak right now.

603
00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:05,880
Speaker 1: And I know we've talked about this, Daniel, which is

604
00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:07,920
Speaker 1: why I want you to call me. You've looked at

605
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:11,120
Speaker 1: the pcv hos. You found the pcv hos. Did you

606
00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:14,920
Speaker 1: shoot propane down around the intake? Did you look and

607
00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:17,400
Speaker 1: consider the break booster as a possible source of a

608
00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:21,400
Speaker 1: vacuum leak. There's a couple of things. I mean, geez, Louise, dude,

609
00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:23,840
Speaker 1: you got a broken car. This has got to be reparable.

610
00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:27,280
Speaker 1: It's it can't be doing this just based on itself.

611
00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:29,480
Speaker 1: So call me. We can talk more in depth with

612
00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:31,160
Speaker 1: Those are the answers to the questions you gave me

613
00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:35,440
Speaker 1: at the moment. NH Oil undercoating carpenter. Bob's gonna put

614
00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:37,239
Speaker 1: his van back on the road. I finally convinced him

615
00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:40,360
Speaker 1: he's tired of driving his wife's Mazda. I'll tell you what.

616
00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:43,000
Speaker 1: In Bergen County, if you if you if you've seen

617
00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:45,400
Speaker 1: the big bearded guy that looks like Charles Manson with

618
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:47,400
Speaker 1: the lumber sticking out of the back of the three

619
00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:51,200
Speaker 1: mos to three. That's carpenter Bobby. He's been working on

620
00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:52,800
Speaker 1: the van in his spare time and we kind of

621
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:55,200
Speaker 1: helped him and put it back together. So as two thousand,

622
00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:57,880
Speaker 1: Chevy Astro is about to hit the road again. But

623
00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:01,640
Speaker 1: you know, it needed an intake, manifold, gasket and tires

624
00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:03,280
Speaker 1: and it needed a bunch of work. So we got

625
00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:04,680
Speaker 1: him back on the road. We got him on straight

626
00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:06,760
Speaker 1: and narrow, and then he was concerned that it had

627
00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:08,960
Speaker 1: rusted or it's rusting, and he wants to keep it forever.

628
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:10,840
Speaker 1: And I know Bob, Bob's a forever kind of guy.

629
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:16,560
Speaker 1: So we broke out back in Black from Nhou, Okay.

630
00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:20,320
Speaker 1: And the first time we've sprayed back in black neat stuff.

631
00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:23,000
Speaker 1: You know, it's one of the things when you hear

632
00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:26,040
Speaker 1: NH oil undercoating dot com you think it's like engine oil.

633
00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:30,320
Speaker 1: It's not. It's it's oily. Yes, it's a petroleum based product,

634
00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:33,800
Speaker 1: but it's got a great cling factor to it, and

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Speaker 1: need a moment of silence for brother John. Brother John's

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Speaker 1: my two thousand and four Ford Explore. It's almost twenty

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Speaker 1: years old, with one hundred and sixty thousand miles on it.

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Speaker 1: It's been generally reliable, although it has a four OV

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Speaker 1: five R fifty five s trans My wife wants a

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Speaker 1: newer car. John. This is where I would stop the

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Speaker 1: conversation because you know my wife wants a newer car.

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Speaker 1: Why are we talking about this? All right? This was

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Speaker 1: class is seventy two. She now wants something a little

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Speaker 1: why are we talking about this? Happy wife, happy life.

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Speaker 1: I've been putting off that forty five thousand dollars expense

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Speaker 1: until I got a call from her. No reverse in

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Speaker 1: the Explorer. She was on a bit of a slant

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Speaker 1: at the store and I had her back it up

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Speaker 1: the engine at the higher rpm. I took it to

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Speaker 1: my trans guy, the same guy who's been retaining the

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Speaker 1: car's trans since new. He said he would pull the

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Speaker 1: pan and look it needed a trans four thousand dollars.

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Speaker 1: I told him to go ahead. What could I do?

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Speaker 1: The wife was all over me, but I reasoned that, John,

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Speaker 1: you know, we got to stop thinking my husbands here

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Speaker 1: because I reasoned this too when I get in this

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Speaker 1: trouble with my wife. I bought this car new. I've

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Speaker 1: religiously done maintenance on it, like frequent oil changes. I've

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Speaker 1: never junked the car before and could not do that

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Speaker 1: to this rust free, always garage shiny explorer. I'm hoping

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Speaker 1: to get her the better car she wants to gussied

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Speaker 1: up Audie or a Porsche before the timing chains go yes,

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Speaker 1: this is a lifestyle. I own a three fifty six

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Speaker 1: she would do Porsche events with me. I am currently

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Speaker 1: a single status car enthusiast at all the other venues

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Speaker 1: that I attend that I do the car and myself right.

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Speaker 1: You did the car right. I'm not sure. I think

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Speaker 1: you're in a bit of a hole here, John. I

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Speaker 1: think you're in trouble. So what I would consider doing

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Speaker 1: is selling the car. You'll always get four grand for it,

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Speaker 1: and probably worth six or eight if it's in that

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Speaker 1: kind of shape, so you'll make money on it. You'll

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Speaker 1: get back the money on your transmission and then some.

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Speaker 1: And then go make mama happy. Go buy Mama the Porsche.

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Speaker 1: Go buy Mama the Audie, happy wife, happy life. Take

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Speaker 1: her to the Porsche events. Take her buy her an Audie,

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Speaker 1: and she'll just watch you at the Porsche events. And

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Speaker 1: in all seriousness, brother, you know, I get it. You

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Speaker 1: want to keep it going forever. But remember it's twenty

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Speaker 1: years old. The parts are disappearing at a very fast rate,

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Speaker 1: and you might have just put yourself in a little

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Speaker 1: bit of a hole. Sell it now while you can

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Speaker 1: before the timing chains. Go make Mama happy. I hope

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Speaker 1: that did it for you. Well, that about does it

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Speaker 1: for me, till the next time I'm run any in

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