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Speaker 1: Ron an Aian, how are you going to use this

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Speaker 1: scan tool? Are you going to use it to actually

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Speaker 1: work on a vehicle and diagnose problems to what level?

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Speaker 1: All right? This is a twenty twenty four vehicle. This

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Speaker 1: is a rocket ship, all right? This is space age technology.

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Speaker 2: On the rank and what on the desk.

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Speaker 1: The car Doctor.

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Speaker 3: But I had multiple vacuum lines that were just literally degrading.

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Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, it's twenty five years old, right, sure? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean if you you know, not in relation to

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Speaker 1: this fault, but you can tell a lot if you

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Speaker 1: just look at fuel trump.

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Speaker 4: Welcome to the radio home of ron Ananian, the Car Doctor.

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Speaker 4: Since nineteen ninety one. This is where car owners the

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Speaker 4: world overturned to for their definitive opinion on automotive repair.

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Speaker 4: If your mechanics giving you a busy signal, pick out

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Speaker 4: the phone and call in the garage to others are opening, But.

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Speaker 1: I am here to take your calls at eight five

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Speaker 1: five five six ninety nine hundred and now pee.

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Speaker 1: Isn't it great being here? I mean, isn't it right?

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Speaker 1: We get to talk about cars, you and I every

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Speaker 1: week as we get to do this. You have a

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Speaker 1: favorite sporting event you like to watch. I gotta tell

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Speaker 1: you this story because it was just I had a

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Speaker 1: great week in the shop, and it's just the only

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Speaker 1: way I can relate to it, you know, because these

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Speaker 1: you just can't not recognize them. You ever noticed, like

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Speaker 1: you're watching a sporting event, a baseball game, and it's

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Speaker 1: kind of boring at times, right, Not every second of

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Speaker 1: like ooh, right on the edge of your seat, like

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Speaker 1: it just works right. Well, it's kind of like that.

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Speaker 1: In a repair shop. You know, you're you're you're doing

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Speaker 1: you're doing everyday tasks a lot of the time, oil changes,

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Speaker 1: it becomes repetitive and you know it's not so much

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Speaker 1: of a challenge as it. Yeah, there's times it's boring.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's status quo. It's the same thing day

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Speaker 1: but you take it and you do it because that's

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Speaker 1: what you do, and it just works. We had a

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Speaker 1: two thousand and eight Jeep Grand Cherokee, so where we

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Speaker 1: it's just you just know, anything you do to this

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Speaker 1: but that's okay. And we had to do trans cooler lines.

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Speaker 1: The trans cooler lines were starting to separate up front

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Speaker 1: and Danny and I were working on it together. Danny

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Speaker 1: cooler in front of the radiator with threaded nuts, right

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Speaker 1: And we together, I mean, we worked the better part

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Speaker 1: And I'm still thinking about why it wouldn't go backwards.

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Speaker 1: But it wouldn't. Just it didn't want to cooperate. I

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Speaker 1: But it just didn't want to got the cooler line out.

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Speaker 1: He looked at me and he said, what happened? I said,

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Speaker 1: It was that moment. It was that moment where you're

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Speaker 1: when you least expect it. That's the kind of week

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Speaker 1: I had at the shop this week. It was just

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Speaker 1: every day, one day after another, one job after the next.

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Speaker 1: You know, this was the week that you just want

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Speaker 1: I wish that upon you. I hope you have that.

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Speaker 1: I hope you had that kind of week. I hope

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Speaker 1: because that's it's really important, you know, to to be

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Speaker 1: we had more than our fair share of cars this week.

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Speaker 1: But it was crazy. It just corkscrewed right in. I couldn't,

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Speaker 1: I couldn't, I couldn't understand. I just I almost wanted

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Speaker 1: don't do that. I said, no, let's take it out again.

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Speaker 1: it up, Oh look, this is it, and then why

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Speaker 1: that way. But we didn't. We didn't. It's done, it's fixed.

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Speaker 1: Moving on next now Monday, we'll finish the rest of it.

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Speaker 1: I did not get to the exhaust to put it

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Speaker 1: we ran out of time and the front head pipe,

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Speaker 1: you get into an older vehicle, the front exhaust pipe.

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Speaker 1: It's basically a white pipe style configuration with for with

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Speaker 1: catalytic converters in it. And the pipe is now sprung.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if it's aimless steel, but it appears

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Speaker 1: It's not so it's got some metal in it, but

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Speaker 1: not one hundred percent. But the exhaust. If you imagine

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Speaker 1: They're a little bit in or out. That's what happened

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Speaker 1: So now the pipe is sprung and twisted a little bit,

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Speaker 1: rough Monday for Labor Day. But you know, just just

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what it was great. It was a

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Speaker 1: great week, and uh, you know, just just all kinds

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Speaker 1: to take a pause. When I come back, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: open up the phones, which are already busy. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: go right to Eric and Louisiana. We'll do that as

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Speaker 1: soon as we return. I'm ronnin Any and the Car Doctor.

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Speaker 6: Don't go away.

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Speaker 5: When you get keep Ron's number handy eight five five

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Speaker 5: five six zero nine nine zero zero for when you

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Speaker 5: really need advice on your car. Here's Rob.

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Speaker 1: Hey, we're back. Let's let me point out too, you know,

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Speaker 1: let's go okay, let's do this. Let's go over to

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Speaker 1: Eric and Louisiana. Like I said, let's see what's going

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Speaker 1: on here. Eric, Welcome to the Car Doctor, sir. How

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Speaker 1: can I help?

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Speaker 3: Thank you, sir. A couple of used vehicles I'm thinking

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Speaker 3: are buying. I want to ask you about them. Sure,

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Speaker 3: twenty ten GMC fifteen hundred pickup with a V eight. Okay,

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Speaker 3: it's got fifty three thousand miles on it. I was

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Speaker 3: wondering any good things of bad things you could recommend

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Speaker 3: on it.

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Speaker 1: No, the only you know my concerns would be it's

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Speaker 2: Don't go away, I don't know. You want better and

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Speaker 1: Hey, welcome back, run in the Card Doctor. See, that's

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Speaker 5: I think that would be great because very bluntly, most

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Speaker 1: For example, four O nine was was It was an

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Speaker 5: You know, people people from this generation, and this is

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Speaker 1: Correct, they don't right what it is because they don't

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Speaker 1: we realize we're saying it. It just it just comes

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Speaker 1: out of us. It's just like normal occurrence. And I

429
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Speaker 1: only learned about it because of you know, you get

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Speaker 1: home at the end of the day and you know,

431
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Speaker 1: honey says, hey, how is your day? And you start

432
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Speaker 1: talking things and she's looking at you like, you know,

433
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Speaker 1: you're talking some foreign language and what was that?

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Speaker 2: You did?

435
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Speaker 1: What Milliam? Draw? Scope drop, vaultage drop against what you know?

436
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Speaker 1: And so I've learned that. So I just, you know,

437
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Speaker 1: suggest that to the radio station of your choice and

438
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Speaker 1: bring the car doctor on board to help with the music.

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Speaker 1: Let's get over here and let's seef we can help

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00:20:40,359 --> 00:20:43,359
Speaker 1: Sandy out Wisconsin with some battery questions in her eighteene

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Speaker 1: Chevy Sparks. Sandy, Welcome to the car Doctor. How can

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Speaker 1: I help?

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Speaker 7: Thank you very much for taking my call. I totally

444
00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:50,920
Speaker 7: agree we should have more of those good.

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Speaker 1: Cars on absolutely so absolutely, So what's going on?

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Speaker 7: Well? I went to two different places one of them

447
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Speaker 7: was Auto Values to have my battery checked, and one

448
00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:03,679
Speaker 7: with Batteries and Bolts Plus, and they both said I

449
00:21:03,760 --> 00:21:07,280
Speaker 7: needed a battery, and I had my oil change appointment

450
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Speaker 7: and check up, and I was going to just have

451
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Speaker 7: them put the battery in there when I had my

452
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Speaker 7: check up, but I got the form back from there

453
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Speaker 7: and they said they tested the battery. It's good, check

454
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Speaker 7: over for fall and winter. And then they said checked

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Speaker 7: battery checked an o K. And then they've got a

456
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Speaker 7: footnote down here courtesy. Battery testing can provide early warning

457
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Speaker 7: of a potential battery failure. I don't know if my

458
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Speaker 7: battery is okay to drive for a while or not.

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Speaker 7: Then it said more extensive testing and analysis may be necessary. Well,

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Speaker 7: I had that done at those other places, and then

461
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Speaker 7: O'Reilly's checked it afterwards and they said, yeah, it's a

462
00:21:47,119 --> 00:21:50,560
Speaker 7: bad battery. So I was just wondering if they told

463
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Speaker 7: me that maybe I could drive it until it gets

464
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Speaker 7: cold and then change it. What's your recommendation.

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Speaker 1: How old's the battery, Sandy, it's.

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Speaker 7: The original battery. The car as a twenty eighteen spot.

467
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Speaker 7: I bought it in August of twenty eighteen.

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Speaker 1: All right, so without even testing it. I would tell

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Speaker 1: you to change it. Battery battery life cycles, battery life

470
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Speaker 1: cycles running the four to six year range. You're you know, do.

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Speaker 7: You have any recommendations on any particular kind or just

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Speaker 7: go any place? And well they recommend.

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Speaker 1: So you're driving a twenty eighteen cards twenty twenty four,

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Speaker 1: So you're driving a six going on seven year old vehicle.

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Speaker 1: Who's been doing the maintenance on this?

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Speaker 7: Clayson, Chevy and UH, Buick and GM.

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Speaker 1: Okay, why aren't we going there for a battery?

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Speaker 7: Wow? They have actually got all my information that I

479
00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:47,560
Speaker 7: bought it at Brannigan's Chevy dealer. Well, but Clayson also

480
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Speaker 7: does there's like a Chevy dealer there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know this is this is sort of about

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Speaker 1: how many how many general practitioner doctors do you have? Sandy,

483
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Speaker 1: And you know you probably have one. I have one.

484
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Speaker 1: I have I have some specialists, but I have one

485
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Speaker 1: that I go to on a regular basis.

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Speaker 7: Dunaman actually isn't there anymore. So I have been taking

487
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Speaker 7: my car to placement ever since I've got it.

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Speaker 1: So why fool around with what's working? Right? They have

489
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Speaker 1: all your information. It's not about price. It's auto repair

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Speaker 1: in my world, is not about price. It's about reliability, honesty,

491
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Speaker 1: and efficiency. And you've already been to three places that

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Speaker 1: give you a contradiction to the fourth. So who's right,

493
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Speaker 1: who's wrong? And if one of them guesses wrong and

494
00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:34,800
Speaker 1: you have a problem that they didn't accurately diagnose, then

495
00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:36,960
Speaker 1: how much of a response are you going to get

496
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Speaker 1: if you go back to them and say, hey, you

497
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Speaker 1: told me this and now it's that auto repair is

498
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Speaker 1: also about responsibility, right, It's about having somebody to go

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Speaker 1: back and talk to.

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Speaker 7: My question is can I just possibly just go over

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Speaker 7: to the dealer and say I'd like to have my

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Speaker 7: battery replace without having them do any extra testing or

503
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Speaker 7: are they going to be required to do all this

504
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Speaker 7: extra testing and everything first?

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Speaker 1: I think that's a question for them. If it were

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Speaker 1: my shop, I'd be putting a battery in the car.

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Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, in my shop we test batteries.

508
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Speaker 1: We have it set up in the computer so that

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Speaker 1: we will test vehicle batteries once a year after the

510
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Speaker 1: vehicle is more than two years old. And if a.

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Speaker 7: Battery, they did check my battery, right. But my point

512
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Speaker 7: is I'd like to have a new battery.

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Speaker 1: Sure, But my point becomes in response to your question.

514
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Speaker 1: My point becomes that when a vehicle battery reaches five years,

515
00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:32,520
Speaker 1: I tend to tell somebody, listen, there's no point in

516
00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:35,159
Speaker 1: testing it. It could test fine, but the reality is

517
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Speaker 1: that you know, the battery is five years old, it's

518
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Speaker 1: reached its life cycle. Change it for reliability and safety,

519
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Speaker 1: because you don't want to be stuck somewhere with a

520
00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:45,840
Speaker 1: dead battery. I could test that five year old battery

521
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Speaker 1: today and it's good. It's five years old, it's a

522
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Speaker 1: five year life cycle. So you know, I hate to

523
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Speaker 1: play the game of how long can I get out

524
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Speaker 1: of a battery. I have people that tell me this

525
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Speaker 1: all the time. I think they're nuts. Well, I've got

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Speaker 1: eight years on my battery. Hey, great, you know when

527
00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:01,119
Speaker 1: the battery he drops that when you need it the

528
00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:02,879
Speaker 1: most and you can't get the car started, then what

529
00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:04,479
Speaker 1: are you gonna do? You know?

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Speaker 7: It's do you think it would be okay just for

531
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Speaker 7: me to call up and make an appointment, just say

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Speaker 7: I like to get a new battery.

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Speaker 1: Hey, listen, this is this is Sandy. I've got a

534
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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen spark. It's an easy conversation. All right, and

535
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Speaker 1: you're gonna see what kind of a culture this order

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Speaker 1: repair facility has. You know, I don't want to say

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Speaker 1: just dealer, because it's it's the culture of the facility.

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00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:25,720
Speaker 1: All right. Hey, listen, I'm driving a twenty eighteen Spark.

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Speaker 1: It's been a great car. I'm concerned my battery is

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Speaker 1: going on six going on seven years old. I'd like

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Speaker 1: to get it replaced, and I'd like to know what

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Speaker 1: sort of costs are involved with that. G you know,

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00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:37,840
Speaker 1: Sandy Kimani will put a battery in it, and then

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Speaker 1: after they put the new battery in it, just let

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Speaker 1: them do a charging system test, which isn't a big

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Speaker 1: expensive proposition, all right, and just.

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Speaker 7: Let them make sure the.

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Speaker 1: Charge a charging system test, all right, Okay, you know,

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Speaker 1: and just you know, in general, all right, let's look

550
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Speaker 1: the car over for winter. These are your mechanics. Leason

551
00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:00,960
Speaker 1: is your doctor, all right? You want to go in

552
00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:03,080
Speaker 1: and get looked at from stem to stern. You're driving

553
00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:05,240
Speaker 1: a six year old vehicle. You're going into the winter,

554
00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:07,639
Speaker 1: colder months, you know, being stuck on the side of

555
00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:09,280
Speaker 1: the road in July, you can break out the shrimp

556
00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:10,920
Speaker 1: and the barbecue being stuck on the side of the

557
00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:15,520
Speaker 1: road in January. Not a whole lot of fun. All right, right, yeah.

558
00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:17,640
Speaker 7: I think that's what I'll do. Then I'll give them

559
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Speaker 7: a ring as soon as they open up next week.

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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, very good Sandy.

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Speaker 7: You so much for the advice. I really appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: You're very welcome, Sandy. Always a pleasure. You'll be well.

563
00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:27,880
Speaker 1: I'm running any in the car doctor. I'll be back

564
00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:44,960
Speaker 1: right after this. Hey, let's keep it rolling. Running in

565
00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:47,240
Speaker 1: the car doctor here, let's get over to west in Delaware.

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00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:49,520
Speaker 1: Busy hour, Wes. How can I help you, sir? At

567
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Speaker 1: your service? Oh?

568
00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:56,600
Speaker 8: Yeah, I got a two thousand and eight Chrysler Town

569
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Speaker 8: and Country with the handicapped conversion, and we've taken it

570
00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:07,639
Speaker 8: to the shop once and they've replaced the tip them

571
00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:10,160
Speaker 8: and the ground wire and they couldn't figure it out.

572
00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:13,040
Speaker 8: What I was doing is uh, when you get in it,

573
00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:15,840
Speaker 8: it starts up and all that, but the lights flash,

574
00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:20,159
Speaker 8: the gauges go on and off, the wind windows and

575
00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:22,040
Speaker 8: go it offs, they don't work, the wind s will

576
00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:26,320
Speaker 8: wipers stay on, the remote doesn't work, the radio comes

577
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:29,520
Speaker 8: on and off, and as you're driving it, the AC

578
00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:31,760
Speaker 8: will actually shut off and come back on.

579
00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:36,119
Speaker 1: Okay? Can it be duplicated? Can it? If it will it,

580
00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:40,200
Speaker 1: will it happen on a consistent basis every time?

581
00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:41,440
Speaker 8: Okay?

582
00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:43,639
Speaker 1: So first thing I'm gonna want to do this is

583
00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:45,760
Speaker 1: an O eight. There's a data bus in this vehicle,

584
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:48,040
Speaker 1: you know. I want to scan tool plugged in and

585
00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:50,320
Speaker 1: I want to go in and look at topography. I

586
00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:52,400
Speaker 1: want to go in and look to see what computers

587
00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:56,479
Speaker 1: are online, who's talking to who? What dropped out? Okay?

588
00:27:56,760 --> 00:27:59,760
Speaker 1: And then what what? What makes it start to work again?

589
00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:02,959
Speaker 1: Or it just does it on its own?

590
00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:03,400
Speaker 3: Work?

591
00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:03,680
Speaker 2: Yeah?

592
00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:05,320
Speaker 1: In other words, does it do you have to cycle

593
00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:06,960
Speaker 1: the key? Or if you just sit there and wait

594
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:11,360
Speaker 1: long enough, it comes back to life on its own.

595
00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:14,560
Speaker 8: Well it it's just when you put the key on

596
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:18,200
Speaker 8: it, it starts doing all this stuff and it keeps doing it,

597
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:18,639
Speaker 8: you know.

598
00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:21,439
Speaker 1: Okay, So it stays, it stays, it stays broken in

599
00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:24,520
Speaker 1: that's it stays broken in that moment. But yeah, does

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00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:26,000
Speaker 1: it will it go on? Will it go on for

601
00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:28,280
Speaker 1: five minutes, ten minutes, twenty minutes? Or is it? Does

602
00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:31,200
Speaker 1: it time out and eventually reset?

603
00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:34,920
Speaker 8: It's progressively got worse when we first started having the trouble.

604
00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:36,800
Speaker 8: It would it would do it and then you know,

605
00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:38,880
Speaker 8: you drive it down the road and stop doing it.

606
00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:42,200
Speaker 1: Well, right, so that's back up. That's my point. So

607
00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:44,880
Speaker 1: how you know is this is this ten minutes going

608
00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:47,240
Speaker 1: down the road? Is this five minutes going down the road?

609
00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:51,400
Speaker 8: Well, now it does it all the time? Okay, boy,

610
00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:53,880
Speaker 8: it would it would just get close, you know, start

611
00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:55,440
Speaker 8: doing it more and more and more, and then ale,

612
00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:56,880
Speaker 8: it's doing it all the time, all right.

613
00:28:56,960 --> 00:29:01,600
Speaker 1: So so so right now it's broken all the all

614
00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:02,040
Speaker 1: the time?

615
00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:03,680
Speaker 8: Yep?

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00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:06,800
Speaker 1: Okay, easy. I mean we've got to take in consideration

617
00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:10,840
Speaker 1: about the conversion van, and you know, is is anything

618
00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:14,720
Speaker 1: of the conversion you know, could be possible be affecting this.

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Speaker 8: We took it to the conversion shop that works on

620
00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:23,400
Speaker 8: conversion vans, and they're the ones that replaced the tip

621
00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:26,880
Speaker 8: them and a ground wire, and they got to the

622
00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:29,120
Speaker 8: point where, you know, they just couldn't figure it out,

623
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:31,280
Speaker 8: all right. They took it to I guess to the

624
00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:35,840
Speaker 8: Dodge dealer to have the tip them programmed, and they

625
00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:38,720
Speaker 8: did that and brought it back and then that didn't work.

626
00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:42,680
Speaker 8: And then they then they replaced the ground wire and

627
00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:46,400
Speaker 8: that didn't work and replaced the battery. Well, also the battery.

628
00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:49,600
Speaker 8: It's got a constant draw on it. It kills the battery.

629
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Speaker 1: Okay, so how many phones? How many phones do you have?

630
00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:54,080
Speaker 1: You have many landline phones in your house?

631
00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 2: West?

632
00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:56,840
Speaker 3: Uh?

633
00:29:57,040 --> 00:29:57,520
Speaker 8: Not anymore?

634
00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:01,280
Speaker 1: No, but you used to, right, Yeah, okay. You know

635
00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:03,040
Speaker 1: you ever have a house with like three or four

636
00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:07,720
Speaker 1: landline phones in it, and and you know, and the

637
00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:11,920
Speaker 1: phones would stop working and you'd walk around and find

638
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:13,640
Speaker 1: out somebody lift one of the phones off the hook,

639
00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:15,960
Speaker 1: or worse, you had a bad phone and it was

640
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:20,280
Speaker 1: pulling the whole network of phones down. Yeah, same thing,

641
00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:23,280
Speaker 1: except except your network of phones is the network of

642
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:25,360
Speaker 1: computers and it's got four tires attached to it. And

643
00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:29,800
Speaker 1: that's your old wait Chrysler. So you know, the first thing,

644
00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:31,880
Speaker 1: the first thing I want to do is I want

645
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Speaker 1: to go in and look is the network up? And

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Speaker 1: in doing so, I think what you're going to find

647
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Speaker 1: is if if all the phones are there, if all

648
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Speaker 1: the computer modules are there, and you can talk to

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Speaker 1: all of them via scan tool, then I'm going to

650
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:50,600
Speaker 1: start to look towards more towards the handicap conversion side

651
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Speaker 1: of this. Where do they where do they splice wiring

652
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Speaker 1: in right, Yeah, all right.

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Speaker 8: Supposedly the handicap people said it was in the vand

654
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:03,160
Speaker 8: trouble was in the van. That it's a bm I

655
00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 8: six intelligent control module is all checked out and that's

656
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Speaker 8: all good.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, well it isn't. It isn't right because it's

658
00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:15,080
Speaker 1: still broken and you won't have the final answer until

659
00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:16,880
Speaker 1: you see it now. I've also in the back of

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Speaker 1: my mind when I approach a vehicle like this, it's

661
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Speaker 1: fifteen years old. You're in Delaware. Are you near the ocean? Yeah,

662
00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:28,320
Speaker 1: so I think about saltwater corrosion, and I start looking

663
00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:30,600
Speaker 1: at you know, you get a vehicle like this that

664
00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:34,400
Speaker 1: seems haunted. I'll go through and clean every ground on

665
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:37,240
Speaker 1: that vehicle as part of my diagnosis. I'm not saying

666
00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:40,560
Speaker 1: to do this automatically, but I start going through each

667
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:42,680
Speaker 1: ground and believe me, there's more than a few on

668
00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:47,520
Speaker 1: every vehicle today, years included. So but for my money,

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Speaker 1: you know, the first thing I'm gonna do is take

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00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:52,520
Speaker 1: it to a repair shop. Whoever your regular mechanic is,

671
00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:56,560
Speaker 1: plug in a good scan tool. And if there's forty

672
00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:59,520
Speaker 1: two modules on this vehicle, can I talk to all

673
00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:02,640
Speaker 1: forty two and which two can't I talk to or

674
00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:05,160
Speaker 1: which one can I talk to? And then from that

675
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:07,719
Speaker 1: point that's gonna help take me in a direction from

676
00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:10,920
Speaker 1: my diagnosis. All right, do that? Call me back next week, Wes.

677
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:13,680
Speaker 1: I'll be here if you have any additional information. All right, kiddle,

678
00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:16,400
Speaker 1: But it's very fixable. It's just we just need a

679
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:18,920
Speaker 1: better diagnostic approach. I'm ron Anny in the card Doctor.

680
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:37,600
Speaker 1: I'll be back right after this. By the way, welcome back.

681
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:39,520
Speaker 1: I'm run a Nannie in the card doctor. Wind them

682
00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:41,959
Speaker 1: down this hour. Eight five five five six zero nine

683
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:44,280
Speaker 1: nine zero zero is the phone number, and the phone

684
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:46,160
Speaker 1: number is twenty four to seven. Keep that in mind.

685
00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:48,760
Speaker 1: I'll do it again. Eight five five five six zero

686
00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:51,240
Speaker 1: nine nine zero zero. Here to answer your calls and questions,

687
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:53,360
Speaker 1: whatever you've got going on, and keep in mind that's

688
00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:55,840
Speaker 1: twenty four to seven. You can call, leave a message

689
00:32:56,120 --> 00:32:57,800
Speaker 1: and we'll do our best to get back to you

690
00:32:57,840 --> 00:32:59,640
Speaker 1: and get you on the next live broadcast. Because we're

691
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:02,280
Speaker 1: here Saturdays two to four pm East Coast time, and

692
00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:04,600
Speaker 1: by all means, you can get out the cardoctorshow dot

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00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:08,600
Speaker 1: com and do a there's a request tab there where

694
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:10,560
Speaker 1: you can fill out your information. And you know, we

695
00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:12,960
Speaker 1: do record from time to time during the week as

696
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:16,520
Speaker 1: we put together you know, shows for vacation shows and

697
00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:18,240
Speaker 1: vacation weeks and things like that, we'll talk to you

698
00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:21,000
Speaker 1: about your car problem. And we're strange, we actually care.

699
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:23,800
Speaker 1: Imagine that what a concept. That's the way this radio

700
00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:25,600
Speaker 1: show works. So I want to talk a little bit

701
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:27,800
Speaker 1: about a pet peeve of mine. It's it's I think

702
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:30,080
Speaker 1: car companies do dumb things. But we all know that, right.

703
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:33,480
Speaker 1: Wouldn't it be great if they listed, you know, certain

704
00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:35,760
Speaker 1: things under the hood, certain pieces of information. We had

705
00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:39,600
Speaker 1: an two Chevrolet pickup truck, a Diesel Duramax this week

706
00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 1: and we needed a simple repair. We needed to put

707
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:46,000
Speaker 1: a serpentine belt and tensioner on it. And it was

708
00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:49,680
Speaker 1: such a challenge because there was multiple questions about multiple

709
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:51,800
Speaker 1: options about what did it has. Let me take you

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00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:53,680
Speaker 1: in the shop courtesy of Aotozone and show you what

711
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:56,479
Speaker 1: it's like to fix a vehicle. So we looked up

712
00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:59,920
Speaker 1: the belt and the tensioner and it was right by vin.

713
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:01,440
Speaker 1: We looked it up by then, we looked it up

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00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:03,560
Speaker 1: by application, we looked it up by OURPO code. It

715
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:07,040
Speaker 1: was right. Unfortunately, somewhere along the way, General Motors changed

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00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:10,799
Speaker 1: something in their production run, and because this was a

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00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:15,840
Speaker 1: mid year introduction, the belt listing was incorrect and we

718
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:17,759
Speaker 1: had to take a second guess. Well, thank god for

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Speaker 1: AutoZone because they were able to provide us with both belts.

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00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:21,600
Speaker 1: We got both at the same time, and we knew

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00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:23,960
Speaker 1: that looking it up on their website, and we were

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00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:25,759
Speaker 1: able to ask for both belts to be sent to us,

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Speaker 1: and then obviously they took the wrong one back. And

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00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:29,839
Speaker 1: that's all part of the business, right, that's all part

725
00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:32,960
Speaker 1: of the relationship that you know that there's going to

726
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:34,560
Speaker 1: be points where you have to stretch a little bit

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00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:36,839
Speaker 1: like a rubber band to make things fit. No pun

728
00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:40,479
Speaker 1: intended regarding a belt. And because of that, we didn't

729
00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:43,279
Speaker 1: have one hundred and five amp Altinator with a vacuum pump.

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00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:45,360
Speaker 1: We had one hundred and thirty five Ampultenator without a

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Speaker 1: vacuum pump. And well, you know, sometimes it's really difficult

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00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:50,680
Speaker 1: in the account on your part supplier for a lot,

733
00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:53,319
Speaker 1: and that's what AutoZone does for us. Anyway, that's about

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Speaker 1: it this hour. We did get that truck fixed till

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00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:57,520
Speaker 1: the next time I'm on an Andy and the car

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Speaker 1: Doctor and reminding each and every one of you good

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00:34:59,719 --> 00:35:03,120
Speaker 1: mccare and aren't expensive. They're priceless. See you

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Speaker 2: Sh