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Speaker 1: of ron Andanian the Car Doctor. Since this is where

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

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

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Speaker 1: before I start my my diet tribe, somebody is missing

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Speaker 1: Um train problem again. Yes, the lovely people in New

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Speaker 1: So we're talking about you know, mass transportation, the wave

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Speaker 1: go ahead. Yeah. Well it's you know, it's it's typical waste,

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Speaker 1: They really are, and we take it so much for granted.

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Speaker 1: You know, we I knew that there was no circulation.

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Speaker 1: Eight zero run any of the car. Doctor, We're coming

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Speaker 1: don't want to. The song's not over yet right now? Okay,

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Speaker 1: years ago when dirt was invented and I was a kid,

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Speaker 1: when we would when we would rebuild engines in the

429
00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:54,919
Speaker 1: in in the gas station, we would, you know, we

430
00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:58,880
Speaker 1: would pull pistons and we would home blocks using Dingleberry hones.

431
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Speaker 1: And I'm really dating myself and everybody. Some of the

432
00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:03,080
Speaker 1: older guys are going and we you know, we would

433
00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:06,040
Speaker 1: we we put rings, but we washed the cylinder walls.

434
00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:08,959
Speaker 1: We would take a rag, dip it in some trans fluid,

435
00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:11,359
Speaker 1: scrub the wall to the rag would come out black,

436
00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:13,040
Speaker 1: and then we would wash the block with soap and

437
00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:14,800
Speaker 1: water and put the engine together and would run another

438
00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:16,680
Speaker 1: thirty thousand miles before you did it again or whatever

439
00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:19,760
Speaker 1: it was. Um trans fluid is a very high detergent fluid,

440
00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:22,520
Speaker 1: so it tends to scrub away at the varnish and

441
00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:24,199
Speaker 1: the crud that builds up on the inside of the

442
00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:29,160
Speaker 1: of the transmission and transmissions work on you know, tiny passageways.

443
00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:33,840
Speaker 1: There's little orifices and check vowels and gates, and you know,

444
00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:35,879
Speaker 1: you start knocking all this debris off the walls of

445
00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:38,119
Speaker 1: the trans and if the filter doesn't catch it, something

446
00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:39,480
Speaker 1: else will and that's when you end up with a

447
00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:44,080
Speaker 1: trans problem. So you know, you do it gradually, all right,

448
00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:47,000
Speaker 1: You do it gradually, and you'd be prepared for the failure.

449
00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:51,040
Speaker 1: Here's and here's why. All right, do you want to

450
00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:54,280
Speaker 1: drive this car for the next seven years wondering if

451
00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:56,960
Speaker 1: the trans is gonna fail or do you want to

452
00:23:56,960 --> 00:23:58,800
Speaker 1: put do you want to put clean fluid in it?

453
00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:00,920
Speaker 1: And if you put clean fluid and over the course

454
00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:03,760
Speaker 1: of the next year, you've rotated out the old and

455
00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:05,919
Speaker 1: put in fresh and you put clean fluid, and then

456
00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:09,160
Speaker 1: at least the odds are in your favor. All right, Look,

457
00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:13,240
Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's what eleven years old, now, anything,

458
00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:16,960
Speaker 1: anything could go bad, right, that's what I'm thinking, you know,

459
00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:19,199
Speaker 1: But maintenance health put the edge in your corner, and

460
00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:23,120
Speaker 1: that's the point. That's what maintenance is about. And and

461
00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:26,280
Speaker 1: you so you're recommending like a draining it. Yeah, I'm

462
00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:29,440
Speaker 1: recommending a draining it and doing it gradually, all right,

463
00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:31,360
Speaker 1: But but I'm also going to tell you should look

464
00:24:31,359 --> 00:24:34,440
Speaker 1: at the rest of the car. You know, is everything original?

465
00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:38,920
Speaker 1: Just about the V six? You ever do change the

466
00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:42,240
Speaker 1: water pump? Of course, the brakes, I think the struts

467
00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:47,120
Speaker 1: were changed. You've done a timing belt. No, And I've

468
00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:49,800
Speaker 1: read different things about timing belt leave it alone, and

469
00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:53,920
Speaker 1: it talks about timing chain guides rather than changing. Well

470
00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:58,880
Speaker 1: this is this, this is a V six, right, So

471
00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:02,080
Speaker 1: when you change the timing belt, I'm sorry, the water

472
00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:06,040
Speaker 1: pump you left the old timing belt. Then, I don't know.

473
00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:08,840
Speaker 1: I don't know if they did or they did not,

474
00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:12,920
Speaker 1: because I didn't. I don't recall how big was how

475
00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:16,720
Speaker 1: big was the repair bill? Was it seven? Eight? Yeah? Um,

476
00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:20,320
Speaker 1: can you go find the bill? I don't have access

477
00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:22,560
Speaker 1: to it at this moment. You know, I would be

478
00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:24,800
Speaker 1: surprised if they did the belt or if they did

479
00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:26,480
Speaker 1: the pump without the belt. And then how long ago

480
00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:28,119
Speaker 1: did they do the pump? Was it more than six

481
00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:32,679
Speaker 1: years ago? No? Uh? Okay, so four years ago? I

482
00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:35,399
Speaker 1: will check on that, Yeah, because you know, timing belts

483
00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:38,520
Speaker 1: also go bad by age, and you know, rubber does

484
00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:41,679
Speaker 1: deteriorate and rubber does fall apart, so you know you

485
00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:44,160
Speaker 1: want to stop and consider that as well. And then

486
00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:45,480
Speaker 1: you know, the only of the thing I could think

487
00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:47,800
Speaker 1: of to be concerned about is especially out you know

488
00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:50,399
Speaker 1: in an environment is why where it's you know, heavy

489
00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:52,639
Speaker 1: salt concentration in the ocean. What does the front of

490
00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:55,560
Speaker 1: the radiator look like? And the radiators eleven years old?

491
00:25:56,240 --> 00:25:58,280
Speaker 1: And you know, is it time to put a radiator

492
00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:01,680
Speaker 1: in this car? And you know, and and you know

493
00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:03,000
Speaker 1: there's a time to put a radio in this car

494
00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:04,840
Speaker 1: where you can still get a decent brand, not to

495
00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:06,640
Speaker 1: not to you know, we're gonna work on the car,

496
00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:08,760
Speaker 1: but let's let's start thinking about it. Here's what I

497
00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:11,000
Speaker 1: like about doing radiators early. I like putting the time

498
00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:14,840
Speaker 1: limit on radiators because when do you change the radiator bill?

499
00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:19,560
Speaker 1: When when it leaks? Right? So you know it's it's

500
00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:21,600
Speaker 1: Do you think a radiator gets up one morning and

501
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:23,760
Speaker 1: go okay, today's the day I go bed? I don't.

502
00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:26,679
Speaker 1: I don't think so it's it's a corrosive problem. It

503
00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:29,119
Speaker 1: starts to rot from the inside. It starts to build up,

504
00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:31,720
Speaker 1: you know, deposits calcium or whatever it is in the

505
00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:33,520
Speaker 1: in the water and whatever part of the country your

506
00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:35,760
Speaker 1: car is in, and it's it starts to you know,

507
00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:38,119
Speaker 1: restrict flow. The engine runs a little hotter, the engine

508
00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:40,360
Speaker 1: works a little harder. You know what. Put a time

509
00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:42,760
Speaker 1: limit on it. My plow truck's got thirty two thou

510
00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:44,680
Speaker 1: miles on it. I've had it out in ten years

511
00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:47,600
Speaker 1: of North Jersey snow and winter and ice. And you know,

512
00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:49,840
Speaker 1: the front of the radiator looks terrible. It looks like

513
00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:51,920
Speaker 1: a building from a rack for crying out loud after

514
00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:54,160
Speaker 1: the Marines went through it. Um, it's time. It's time

515
00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:55,840
Speaker 1: to put It's time to put a radiator in it.

516
00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:59,040
Speaker 1: It still works, it's working awful hard. When's it gonna leak?

517
00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:01,280
Speaker 1: I don't know. Um, I got a radiator sit in

518
00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:02,440
Speaker 1: the shop. It's a matter of fact, I've been sitting

519
00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:03,880
Speaker 1: there for about seven months. I just had a time

520
00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:07,320
Speaker 1: to do it. But I don't drive the truck a lot. Uh,

521
00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:09,680
Speaker 1: just just something to think about. And you gotta remember,

522
00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:12,439
Speaker 1: radiators go bad from the inside out sometimes not just

523
00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:14,359
Speaker 1: from the outside and so but other than that, I

524
00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:16,359
Speaker 1: would start thinking about those things and then just driving

525
00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:19,280
Speaker 1: another ten years and uh, call me, I'll probably stop me.

526
00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:22,720
Speaker 1: You know, on a regular basis, oil and filter all

527
00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:25,679
Speaker 1: the time. So I mean, yeah, and that's good, and

528
00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:28,080
Speaker 1: that's good, but you know, think about think about cars

529
00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:30,040
Speaker 1: as a whole and think about systems as part of

530
00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:32,120
Speaker 1: the car, and that's you know, that's how you got

531
00:27:32,119 --> 00:27:34,199
Speaker 1: to maintain it. You know, I'll tell you. I'll tell

532
00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:37,080
Speaker 1: you this real quick. A customer called yesterday, new customer

533
00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:40,159
Speaker 1: and he he's getting his head gas gets done at

534
00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:41,960
Speaker 1: the Super Roue dealer and we were talking about it

535
00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:44,000
Speaker 1: and he said, you know, they're doing the head gas gets,

536
00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:45,880
Speaker 1: they're doing a water pump, they're doing a timing belt.

537
00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:48,080
Speaker 1: The cars got a hundred fifteen thousand miles. It's ten

538
00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:49,840
Speaker 1: years old. They said they're doing a radiator. He said, no,

539
00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:51,840
Speaker 1: why should They said, the cars got a hundred and

540
00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:53,600
Speaker 1: fifteen thousand miles on it. It's ten years old. When

541
00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:55,159
Speaker 1: you gonna do the radiator? When it goes bad in

542
00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:57,080
Speaker 1: thirty thousand miles and you got to do this all

543
00:27:57,119 --> 00:27:59,560
Speaker 1: over again. And yeah, you know it's like you start

544
00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:02,520
Speaker 1: thinking about systems. Man, Nothing there is young. Um, it's

545
00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:05,879
Speaker 1: getting older by the minute. All right, if you are

546
00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:07,800
Speaker 1: very welcome. If you bump into Walter, tell him he

547
00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:09,800
Speaker 1: missed this point. I'll see a bill. I'm Rondy in

548
00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:24,120
Speaker 1: the car doctor. I'll be back right after this car doctor.

549
00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:27,359
Speaker 1: We are back at zero nine zero zero. Let's go

550
00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:29,440
Speaker 1: talk to Ashley and May and Ashley, welcome to the

551
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:34,400
Speaker 1: car doctor. Hi. Um, I have a two thousand Monte

552
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:41,040
Speaker 1: Carlo Las with a twilight zone of a problem. Um.

553
00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:44,280
Speaker 1: I was put up on a short ramps by my

554
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:48,880
Speaker 1: neighbor about a week ago, and it was to read

555
00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:54,400
Speaker 1: to try to fix some redneck ingenuity of a muffler repair.

556
00:28:54,520 --> 00:29:01,120
Speaker 1: But I was missing the muffler manifold, so there wasn't

557
00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:04,840
Speaker 1: anything he was able to do. When I came off

558
00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:08,760
Speaker 1: of the ramps, the small, little short ramps. The car

559
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:16,200
Speaker 1: did bounce a little. And four days later, five days later,

560
00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:20,160
Speaker 1: when I went to go into town for my cancer treatment,

561
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:27,120
Speaker 1: we noticed that the left blinker wasn't working. When I

562
00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:30,440
Speaker 1: got home and started messing with it, I realized the

563
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:38,000
Speaker 1: left blinker front back and inside stops completely as soon

564
00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:44,120
Speaker 1: as I hit the brake starts. Uh huh, say that again,

565
00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:52,240
Speaker 1: the left blinker only when I hit the break. It

566
00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:58,480
Speaker 1: seems the blinker just shuts off. The front back blinker

567
00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:04,400
Speaker 1: and inside. Oh okay, um are both are both blinkers

568
00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:08,120
Speaker 1: working normally until you hit the brake. Um. The right

569
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:11,520
Speaker 1: blinker doesn't seem to have the problem. It just seems

570
00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:15,800
Speaker 1: to be the left blinker. But my automatic lights are

571
00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:19,640
Speaker 1: also not working since this problem started. I have to

572
00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:24,480
Speaker 1: turn them on manually and turn them off now. Okay, so,

573
00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:26,760
Speaker 1: but but if you just use if you just use

574
00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:30,720
Speaker 1: the left blinker by itself, does the left blinker blink

575
00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:38,000
Speaker 1: at the same rate as the right blinker? I think so? Well,

576
00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:42,200
Speaker 1: it's that's an important that's an important question, all right.

577
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:44,560
Speaker 1: If if if, and you gotta look at it, are

578
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:48,160
Speaker 1: both are are all the blinkers. Are there any bulbs

579
00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:52,320
Speaker 1: out in the car? And no? Okay? And then are

580
00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:55,520
Speaker 1: all the bulbs working properly? Because what you're describing to

581
00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:59,000
Speaker 1: me is a typical scenario where there's a wrong bulb

582
00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:01,520
Speaker 1: and in this case, somewhere on the left side of

583
00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:04,800
Speaker 1: the car, left front or back, there's a wrong bulb

584
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:09,080
Speaker 1: back feeding, creating and causing the circuit to see ground

585
00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:12,000
Speaker 1: and it's it's basically it's it's putting voltage and ground

586
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:14,760
Speaker 1: in the wrong place and it's turning the bulb off.

587
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 1: I didn't place a few months ago, a um a

588
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:26,880
Speaker 1: brake bulb okay? And the system worked normal? Yes, until

589
00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:30,240
Speaker 1: um I was put up on the ramps and came

590
00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:33,880
Speaker 1: off that the first time I had any issues with

591
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:40,960
Speaker 1: the blinkers. And let's let's back up a second. Um

592
00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:46,800
Speaker 1: ash Um, you said that it's missing an exhaust manifold. Yes.

593
00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:53,320
Speaker 1: Is the car really loud? Yes? Okay? Um how loud? Unbearable?

594
00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:57,280
Speaker 1: It's got to be unbearable just about. But as a

595
00:31:57,360 --> 00:32:00,600
Speaker 1: cancer patient, I can't afford to fix it right And

596
00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:03,959
Speaker 1: I get you, um, I'm wondering if part of the

597
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:07,120
Speaker 1: part of the wiring harness depending upon it's it's probably

598
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:10,000
Speaker 1: not that the manifold is missing, it's probably cracked. Did

599
00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 1: somebody maybe say cracked, No, they said the manifold with

600
00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:17,959
Speaker 1: too um, I get the words for it. But the

601
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:23,240
Speaker 1: manifold has two pin things, two exhaust studs, Yeah, and

602
00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:27,600
Speaker 1: those are missing. The studs are the manifold, the manifold,

603
00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:30,960
Speaker 1: the whole thing. There was a big gap in between,

604
00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:34,400
Speaker 1: and that all the guy was able to do was

605
00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:41,000
Speaker 1: just like her, uh, using coat hanger wires to keep

606
00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:43,920
Speaker 1: the exhaust up. I got a feeling what he's saying

607
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:47,440
Speaker 1: is the manifold has rotted away. And when he's saying

608
00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:50,160
Speaker 1: it's missing, there's no way to attach the exhaust system

609
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:54,880
Speaker 1: to the manifold, and it's creating the noise um. Unfortunately,

610
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:57,200
Speaker 1: it's kind of hard to see from my seat here.

611
00:32:57,240 --> 00:32:59,680
Speaker 1: And my concern is, you know, do you have damage

612
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:01,800
Speaker 1: from the wiring harness as a result of the hit

613
00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:04,520
Speaker 1: when it came off the ramps, And is the exhaustly

614
00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:08,200
Speaker 1: blowing hot exhaust gas onto other parts of the wiring harness,

615
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:10,920
Speaker 1: melting and causing damage. So I think what you've got

616
00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:13,520
Speaker 1: to do is, you know, spend a half hour of

617
00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:16,920
Speaker 1: somebody's time somebody's got to look at this to verify

618
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:19,520
Speaker 1: how safe the car is before you continue to drive

619
00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:22,440
Speaker 1: it and create bigger problems. I wish you well and

620
00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:24,120
Speaker 1: I wish there was more I could do for you.

621
00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:26,080
Speaker 1: Call me back if there's something else I can help

622
00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:28,360
Speaker 1: you with. I'm Ronanading the car Doctor. We're back right

623
00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:44,360
Speaker 1: after this. She woke up, and that's all right with me. Hey,

624
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:45,720
Speaker 1: welcome back. Run in the end of the car doctor

625
00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:48,360
Speaker 1: real quick. And thanks to ed Goitis Gittis Capital. I

626
00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:50,200
Speaker 1: know that he's out there listening to us somewhere in

627
00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:53,880
Speaker 1: the hidden retreat of Pennsylvania from the bunker um. And

628
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 1: he sent me an article about we're making comments before

629
00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:58,400
Speaker 1: about it was good Year in fire, good Year in

630
00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:00,640
Speaker 1: Bridge done. I'm sorry, good Year. Bridge Stone going forces

631
00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:04,000
Speaker 1: to form US national Tire Face with consolidation among tire

632
00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:06,760
Speaker 1: dealers and distributors, Ravel's bridge Stone and good Year plan

633
00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:09,239
Speaker 1: to combine their wholesale tire distribution into a new firm

634
00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:12,000
Speaker 1: that will operate any One tire debots throughout the country.

635
00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:14,920
Speaker 1: Nashville based bridge Stone said the new venture, named Tire Hub,

636
00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:18,000
Speaker 1: all independent tire dealers continue to get tires made by

637
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:21,200
Speaker 1: the two manufacturers. UM, it's interesting, right, we're seeing consolidation

638
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:23,640
Speaker 1: and the way things are are coming together. Tire Hub

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Speaker 1: will be based in Atlanta. Bridgetone would put its current

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Speaker 1: tire wholesale warehouse business in the new venture. UM. It

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Speaker 1: then goes on and he highlighted it for me thanks

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Speaker 1: that he tire sales and independent tire deals in the

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Speaker 1: United States have dropped five percent in the last year

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Speaker 1: to a hundred three seven million tires. Meanwhile, online sales

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Speaker 1: are on pace to account for twal percent of the

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Speaker 1: tire market in five years. So is it gonna change

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Speaker 1: where and how you buy your tires from? And then

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Speaker 1: here's the other thing you've got to consider. If the

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Speaker 1: shop is taking your tires and putting them on the car,

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Speaker 1: is it gonna cost you more money because there's profit

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Speaker 1: and tires for the shop putting them on. Things to

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Speaker 1: think about and things we'll talk about in future episodes.

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Speaker 1: And until then, I'm Rondinadi in the car doctor, reminding

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