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Speaker 1: Ronanian, there's gonna be that moment when you're working on

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Speaker 1: because you know people's lives are in your hands. The

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Speaker 1: car Doctor, how many tons of batteries does this thing take? Well?

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Speaker 1: And excellent? Excellent, No, it's an excellent point, Peter. And

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Speaker 1: you have to think how much bigger does the battery

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Speaker 1: it harder to put out? If it catches fire? Although

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Speaker 1: run out of start. Welcome to the radio home of

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

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Speaker 1: at eight five six and now running the emergency hour.

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Speaker 1: You know that that moment of panic or or joy

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Speaker 1: know you have to carve it out in the course

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Speaker 1: when you don't really have it because you're just so busy.

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Speaker 1: And an awful lot of repair shops have gone through

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Speaker 1: And I say that judging by the fact, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's a little bit of a task. So I think

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Speaker 1: repair shops have learned. The better ones have learned how

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Speaker 1: You've always got that hour in your back pocket, or

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Speaker 1: so I thought. I had a phone call this week

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Speaker 1: I talked to her every once in a while. She

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Speaker 1: I you know, listen, I I get it. You know what,

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Speaker 1: it's a ride. She's clearly got her hands full. She's

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Speaker 1: taking care of her elderly mom. She's taking care of

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Speaker 1: a tire pressure warning light came on, you know, service

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Speaker 1: And you know, she's a single woman out on the

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Speaker 1: keep us safe. That's what it's supposed to do. You know,

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Speaker 1: You know, the light came on and it's it's doing

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Speaker 1: But I just I want to show you something. And

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Speaker 1: How great is that? So after a while she started

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Speaker 1: because you give five minutes to a customer, and you

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Speaker 1: I've never done it that way. She had an extended warranty,

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Speaker 1: and I read the warranty, and the warranty stated that,

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Speaker 1: even if they haven't been to see you in a while.

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Speaker 1: They were there during the long haul, they were there

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Speaker 1: were there to solve problem. Himes, I did it again

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Speaker 1: this week. Ed walked in. I haven't seen it in

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Speaker 1: See you do that. You know you've built a relationship.

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Speaker 1: You've built a rapport with these people, and you know,

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately he got the same robotic answer from the same

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Speaker 1: try and put themselves in their shoes. I said, let

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Speaker 1: I've never met Jimmy, and as I tell him every

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Speaker 1: He's trying to make the dealership a good, safe, quality

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Speaker 1: at it. I told him the whole story. I said, Jimmy,

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Speaker 1: guys use and what you think of something that just

426
00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:09,199
Speaker 1: like ego balls is just don't want to go up

427
00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:12,679
Speaker 1: or something. We don't use the ball style tester. We

428
00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:15,480
Speaker 1: actually use it. We actually use something we refer to

429
00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:18,560
Speaker 1: it as dip strips, uh you know which is which

430
00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:22,600
Speaker 1: is a chemically treated um piece of paper. It's got

431
00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:25,520
Speaker 1: these little tabs on it and you know it will

432
00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:28,520
Speaker 1: show us freeze point protection. They actually change color based

433
00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:32,520
Speaker 1: on quantity or quality of coolant and the other reason

434
00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:35,159
Speaker 1: we don't use the ball style tester is that just

435
00:20:35,359 --> 00:20:39,080
Speaker 1: will show you freeze point protection, all right, That will

436
00:20:39,119 --> 00:20:42,320
Speaker 1: not show that will not show you level of acidity

437
00:20:42,359 --> 00:20:45,720
Speaker 1: of the cooling, because all coolant goes bad coolant. I

438
00:20:45,760 --> 00:20:48,800
Speaker 1: always explain it. It's it's kind of like apple cider vinegar, right,

439
00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:52,119
Speaker 1: everything turned sour after a while, and coolant is no different.

440
00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:55,479
Speaker 1: As it starts to break down, it will go well.

441
00:20:55,520 --> 00:20:57,960
Speaker 1: For sake of our conversation here, it's it's it's it's

442
00:20:58,040 --> 00:20:59,879
Speaker 1: it's an exaggeration, but it will go to a n

443
00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:02,359
Speaker 1: group base where it gets it gets a little sharper

444
00:21:02,359 --> 00:21:05,240
Speaker 1: and a little more acidic, and it will start to

445
00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:09,000
Speaker 1: rot the cooling system components, which is everything water pump,

446
00:21:09,080 --> 00:21:11,879
Speaker 1: inside of the cylinder heads, the block, the gaskets and

447
00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:14,120
Speaker 1: so on. It will rot them from the inside out.

448
00:21:14,840 --> 00:21:17,720
Speaker 1: So you know, we change, we change coolant on a

449
00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:21,360
Speaker 1: regular basis. Whatever cooling we're talking about, two year, five year,

450
00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:23,960
Speaker 1: ten year, et cetera. Although I don't think there really

451
00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:25,879
Speaker 1: is a ten year cooling. That's a whole another story,

452
00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:29,520
Speaker 1: not just for you know, taking care of freeze point protection,

453
00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:32,399
Speaker 1: but we're more concerned because of a city in if

454
00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:34,200
Speaker 1: you don't use it what I call a dip strip,

455
00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:37,040
Speaker 1: you won't catch that. You'll just know, hey, it's good

456
00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:40,119
Speaker 1: to thirty five below, but it's got it's got a

457
00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:42,879
Speaker 1: high acidic rate, and it's starting throughout the cooling system.

458
00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:45,040
Speaker 1: And that's what you're missing by not doing it that way.

459
00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:48,800
Speaker 1: I'll have to check in and getting some of those.

460
00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:53,040
Speaker 1: And yeah, available in the auto parts store. So okay.

461
00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:56,320
Speaker 1: And then another question, Actually, I had a couple on

462
00:21:56,440 --> 00:22:01,400
Speaker 1: synthetic oils. So a new vehicle I've heard and I've

463
00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:03,960
Speaker 1: never researched it that I've heard, Well, you don't want

464
00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:06,399
Speaker 1: to use a synthetic wall in the new engine because

465
00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:09,800
Speaker 1: it's lubricates too well. And that'sn't really let a break

466
00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:13,280
Speaker 1: in that that question I had. And then I had

467
00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:16,399
Speaker 1: a question too. Once you start using synthetic oils, you

468
00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:20,040
Speaker 1: shouldn't drop back and go backwards to a straight petroleum

469
00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:23,120
Speaker 1: grade oil. And I just was kind of curious, Yeah,

470
00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:26,560
Speaker 1: we're you hearing these stories from Joe. I don't know,

471
00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:30,600
Speaker 1: I've just heard it from people, you know. Um, I

472
00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:33,040
Speaker 1: mean it's been years I've kind of heard I've kind

473
00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:35,920
Speaker 1: of heard this years ago, and I just thinking of

474
00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:38,240
Speaker 1: something to ask you, and I was curious about you

475
00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:40,680
Speaker 1: know what you have to say about that. So years

476
00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:43,760
Speaker 1: and years now, we're talking probably thirty five years ago

477
00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:47,359
Speaker 1: when synthetics first gained popularity. Because synthetics have been around

478
00:22:47,359 --> 00:22:50,480
Speaker 1: a very long time, all right, you know, there was

479
00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:55,160
Speaker 1: conversation that, yeah, you couldn't convert from a conventional oil

480
00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:57,399
Speaker 1: to a synthetic oil. The engine oil would leak, the

481
00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:01,600
Speaker 1: engine would burn oil, and all sorts of commuting statements. Um.

482
00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:04,560
Speaker 1: Yet certain cases, in certain cases, some of the older

483
00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:07,280
Speaker 1: engines had cork valve cover gaskets. Cork didn't hold up

484
00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:09,360
Speaker 1: well with the synthetic. It didn't work well. That's why

485
00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:11,080
Speaker 1: you see, you know, when you look back at the

486
00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:13,920
Speaker 1: history of certain engines and certain manufacturers, you'll see they

487
00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:17,000
Speaker 1: changed the style of sealing material. They went from cork

488
00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:19,720
Speaker 1: to a different style rubber, to some of the other

489
00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:22,919
Speaker 1: components that they've got sealing the engines now. But in

490
00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:25,840
Speaker 1: no way shape, in no way, shape or form, oil leaks,

491
00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:29,240
Speaker 1: you know, b b barred, all right, in no way

492
00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:32,480
Speaker 1: shape or former. You're gonna hurt a conventional oil engine

493
00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:35,760
Speaker 1: running it on synthetic. I've never seen it, all right,

494
00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:39,360
Speaker 1: I've never seen substantiative proof. I've heard the same rumors too.

495
00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:41,440
Speaker 1: You know, you'll sit there and you talk to people

496
00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:45,880
Speaker 1: who have no no technical basis for their conversation, and

497
00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:49,199
Speaker 1: you know it's wrong. All right, No, you can you

498
00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:52,040
Speaker 1: can take something. You know, we're talking about what an

499
00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:54,600
Speaker 1: engine built in the last ten years, Joe, for the

500
00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:57,320
Speaker 1: take of this conversation, for fifteen years? You know, are

501
00:23:57,320 --> 00:24:00,119
Speaker 1: we talking about four? You know? What do we are

502
00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:02,960
Speaker 1: we trying to put oil in for the sake of

503
00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:06,960
Speaker 1: this conversation. I got an old Leading nine vehicle, which

504
00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:11,520
Speaker 1: is my old one, oldest one, and I think I

505
00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:14,080
Speaker 1: got a patroleum grade in it. Now, I mean, I'm sorry,

506
00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:17,040
Speaker 1: it's it's synthetic. But I was thinking I got I

507
00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:21,640
Speaker 1: got several jugs of just patrollingum grade oil left over. Right, Well,

508
00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:22,919
Speaker 1: what am I going to do with this stuff? You

509
00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:29,439
Speaker 1: know how running synthetics? How old is the oil? Um? Well,

510
00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:32,240
Speaker 1: it's probably a few years old. What's what's a few

511
00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:36,680
Speaker 1: years to three? Oh? I bet it's five. Bet I

512
00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:39,960
Speaker 1: went down it's four or five years old, recycle it,

513
00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:43,639
Speaker 1: get rid of it. And yeah, if we're gonna we're

514
00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:46,760
Speaker 1: gonna have this conversation. Let's keep it real. They'll tell you,

515
00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:48,600
Speaker 1: and if you talk to any of the oil companies,

516
00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:52,119
Speaker 1: they'll tell you that oil falls out of suspension. Particulate

517
00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:55,360
Speaker 1: and additive packages fall out of suspension as fluid sit

518
00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:58,399
Speaker 1: on a shelf. They tell us in various publications that

519
00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:01,960
Speaker 1: oil has a shelf life of eighteen months to two years.

520
00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:05,720
Speaker 1: So five year old oil, you know, the last time

521
00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:08,800
Speaker 1: I looked. And it makes sense if you think about it, right,

522
00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:11,440
Speaker 1: you know, things fall out of things fall out of suspension,

523
00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:13,080
Speaker 1: Things fall I could you take them to a paint

524
00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:15,440
Speaker 1: store and mix them up again? I don't know is

525
00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:17,240
Speaker 1: it worth the risk? You know? What are we what

526
00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:20,640
Speaker 1: are we trying to accomplish? Uh? You know, I've I've

527
00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:23,680
Speaker 1: had I've had formal meetings with a lot of oil

528
00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:26,399
Speaker 1: companies where I sit with the engineers and I listened

529
00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:28,880
Speaker 1: to the content, and I've you know, we've gone out

530
00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:33,119
Speaker 1: for lunch or dinner and had very informal back room conversations.

531
00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:36,840
Speaker 1: And the consistency has always been there that as as

532
00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:41,680
Speaker 1: any oil sits on a shelf, the way it's construed,

533
00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:45,040
Speaker 1: the way it's constructed, the editives and so forth tend

534
00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:51,119
Speaker 1: to separate and they're not as effective. So you know it,

535
00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:54,800
Speaker 1: it begs the question. Uh you know, that's why I'll buy.

536
00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:56,760
Speaker 1: I buy a case of oil a year for the

537
00:25:56,760 --> 00:26:00,119
Speaker 1: hot rod, and I changed the oil to begin end

538
00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:01,720
Speaker 1: of the season. I changed the oil the end of

539
00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:04,400
Speaker 1: the season. You know, I'll run a little bit over

540
00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:07,280
Speaker 1: the winter, which is really hard on the oil because

541
00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:09,200
Speaker 1: it will either sit in the garage and idle for

542
00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:11,320
Speaker 1: twenty minutes, or I'll take it out on the roads

543
00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:13,640
Speaker 1: after the salt is all gone, you know that kind

544
00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:15,160
Speaker 1: of thing, and then I change it again. But I'll

545
00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:17,520
Speaker 1: buy a case a case of twelve at a time,

546
00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:21,840
Speaker 1: and I won't stock up on it in great abundance. Uh,

547
00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:26,359
Speaker 1: you know, it's an issue. Yeah, yes, yeah, I I

548
00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:29,800
Speaker 1: never I guess I know, you know, the shelf life

549
00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:33,240
Speaker 1: would would be that short. But I understand what you're saying. Yeah,

550
00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:36,720
Speaker 1: I understand what you're saying. You know, now I've I've asked, hey,

551
00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:38,280
Speaker 1: can I take it to a paint store and shake

552
00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:39,800
Speaker 1: it up? Can I put it on a paint shaker?

553
00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:42,359
Speaker 1: You know, I kind of get that look and that

554
00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:44,920
Speaker 1: uh you know, could you get away with it? Could

555
00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:47,080
Speaker 1: you pour that five year old or older oil in

556
00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:49,720
Speaker 1: the engine, and would it last, would it work? Yeah? Probably,

557
00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:51,879
Speaker 1: Would it do any kind of damage? I don't know.

558
00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:54,119
Speaker 1: You know, if it does, if it does two percent,

559
00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:56,040
Speaker 1: if it allows two percent more damage than what it

560
00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:58,720
Speaker 1: would have done. It's not something you're gonna notice right away,

561
00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:00,240
Speaker 1: but it's sort of the beginning of the end. It's

562
00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:02,720
Speaker 1: kind of like if you're if you're dead lifting weights

563
00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:05,600
Speaker 1: at the gym and you you're deadlift pounds more than

564
00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:07,080
Speaker 1: you normally do. When you get it up and you

565
00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:09,159
Speaker 1: hold it up and you drop it, yeah you did it.

566
00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:11,119
Speaker 1: You know your shoulders are a little sore. Do that

567
00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:14,400
Speaker 1: every day, abuse your body a little bit every day.

568
00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:16,639
Speaker 1: In time, it catches up to you, and before you know,

569
00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:20,720
Speaker 1: you need shoulder surgery. So you know, you know, it's

570
00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:24,720
Speaker 1: it's everything in moderation, all right. So I would I

571
00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:28,040
Speaker 1: would call the manufacturer of whosever oil it is and say,

572
00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:30,520
Speaker 1: I've got you know, five quarts of whatever it is

573
00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:33,040
Speaker 1: sitting in my garage the past five six years. Is

574
00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:37,080
Speaker 1: it safe to use? I would ask them, See what

575
00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:41,440
Speaker 1: you say, okay, all right? Yeah, did you have another question, Joe?

576
00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:45,280
Speaker 1: If you do? If you do, do you have another question? Well,

577
00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:47,240
Speaker 1: I could ask you one more. We'll tell you what.

578
00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:49,520
Speaker 1: That's great, but just you know what, sit tight, let

579
00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:50,879
Speaker 1: me pull over and take this poise and when I

580
00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:54,880
Speaker 1: come back, we'll take care of that for you. Zero

581
00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:56,520
Speaker 1: the card offer will be back right after this. Don't

582
00:27:56,520 --> 00:28:06,359
Speaker 1: go away. You better watch out. You're better not try.

583
00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:13,800
Speaker 1: You're better not. I'm telling you what Sas is coming.

584
00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:18,520
Speaker 1: Lolcom back Ron and Indians coming to town too, and

585
00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:20,679
Speaker 1: he's here. Back to Joe and Iowa, Joe, you had

586
00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:27,480
Speaker 1: one more question. Yeah, so, um got a Siman has

587
00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:31,680
Speaker 1: a Chevy Malibu. It's got a one point five five

588
00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:35,520
Speaker 1: with a turbo UM. I see, I see that though

589
00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:39,400
Speaker 1: that engine now is taken on the oil capits is

590
00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:45,240
Speaker 1: zero twenty viscosty. So I'm I knew Ford was doing

591
00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:47,080
Speaker 1: it for some time. I really haven't kept up with

592
00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:49,000
Speaker 1: a new a lot of the new vehicles, but I

593
00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:52,000
Speaker 1: was really surprised when I've seen that zero twenty you know,

594
00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:56,520
Speaker 1: viscosty on that on that oil. I mean, I'm thinking,

595
00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:58,440
Speaker 1: how I mean I know that, you know I've heard

596
00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:01,000
Speaker 1: in the past while they're making the engines, Tyler Tolerances

597
00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:04,400
Speaker 1: and so forth. But I think there's there's got to

598
00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:06,840
Speaker 1: be the few. The only thing I can figure out

599
00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:10,760
Speaker 1: they're doing it too for a fuel economy, whether they

600
00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:13,680
Speaker 1: can only make the engine so tight before they start

601
00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:16,280
Speaker 1: season up. Well, I'll make it. I'll make it one

602
00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:17,960
Speaker 1: better on you. Have you opened the cap? Have you

603
00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:20,680
Speaker 1: opened the hood of a late model Toyota and look

604
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:22,280
Speaker 1: at the oil fill cap on one of those? What

605
00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:25,440
Speaker 1: do you see zero sixteen as an oil of viscosity requirement?

606
00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:29,880
Speaker 1: What do you what you heard that? Yeah? And that

607
00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:32,840
Speaker 1: just sound real. I just it just sound real. I

608
00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:34,880
Speaker 1: just I don't quite get it. I mean, they're just

609
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:37,600
Speaker 1: making a finner and thinner and thinner that you know,

610
00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:40,600
Speaker 1: they're running these engines on, right, But what they're also

611
00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:44,520
Speaker 1: doing is they're also changing around the additive packages. You know,

612
00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:47,800
Speaker 1: they'll they'll you know, and keep this in mind, all right.

613
00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:52,120
Speaker 1: You know, lubrication is probably number three or four on

614
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:55,760
Speaker 1: the level of importance or product requirement or description of

615
00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:58,800
Speaker 1: what oil actually does nowadays. All right, it says so

616
00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:03,240
Speaker 1: much more with very valve timing, with start stop technology,

617
00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:05,360
Speaker 1: with the other stresses and loads that are placed on

618
00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:08,560
Speaker 1: engines today. Lubrication it's there, it's it's part of it.

619
00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:11,880
Speaker 1: But that zero twenty is a is a pretty close

620
00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:15,880
Speaker 1: calculation based on what they believe, uh, the the operating

621
00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:19,200
Speaker 1: conditions that that engine is gonna work under. So, you know,

622
00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:22,960
Speaker 1: if you're thinking of changing or modifying it, I've seen

623
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:24,680
Speaker 1: a lot of cases were so had I don't want

624
00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:27,200
Speaker 1: to run zero twenty. My dad never ran zero twenty.

625
00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:29,640
Speaker 1: Don't be one of those. Don't be one of those

626
00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:32,000
Speaker 1: by any by any stretch, Joe. You know what, except

627
00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:35,240
Speaker 1: except the technology, uh, you know, look at it from

628
00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:37,479
Speaker 1: they they know something that designed it to meet a

629
00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:41,920
Speaker 1: certain spec you know, it's it's not that we see

630
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:45,440
Speaker 1: or hear of engines failing on a widespread basis. Think

631
00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:47,840
Speaker 1: of how many millions of cars are out there right

632
00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:52,160
Speaker 1: now running zero twenty oil and and how many engines

633
00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:56,479
Speaker 1: do you hear they're failing? None? Not for that, not

634
00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:59,840
Speaker 1: because you know, the viscosity was too thin, all right.

635
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:03,520
Speaker 1: So they designed, they designed the modern day engine to

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Speaker 1: meet specific requirements. And whether it's the manager, the you know,

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Speaker 1: the service tech or whoever it is, it's it's driving

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Speaker 1: it or working on it. Um, everybody's got to kind

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Speaker 1: of follow the rules and and and pay attention to that.

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Speaker 1: So you know it's it's it's in your best interest.

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Speaker 1: Is that Malibu a start stop vehicle? It is? So

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Speaker 1: think about think about this all right. They've figured out

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Speaker 1: a way to make that oil thin enough so that

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Speaker 1: in all kinds of operating environments, whether it be hot

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Speaker 1: in July or cold in January, so that when it

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Speaker 1: shuts off, you take your foot off the break at

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Speaker 1: the stoplight before your foot hits the gas bang that

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Speaker 1: car is running. Think of how thin that oil has

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Speaker 1: to be to allow for proper rpm. You know how

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Speaker 1: fast it spends. If a normal engine cranks at three pm.

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Speaker 1: My understanding is that the the stop start via goals

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Speaker 1: crank over anywhere from eleven tom because it's bang, it's

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Speaker 1: got to be that fast. It's just instant acceleration. Uh

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Speaker 1: you put you put too thick of an oil in there,

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Speaker 1: and you could create a problem where the engine may

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Speaker 1: not start is fast and start to set trouble cults

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Speaker 1: for various conditions that it has going on. So, UM,

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Speaker 1: I wonder how fast those when you start that engine

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Speaker 1: from a cold start with rpm, would that thing start at? Uh?

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Speaker 1: Fair point? But you know what, they've got it figured out,

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Speaker 1: and that's why I say, don't over analyze what the

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Speaker 1: engineers have done. You know, they've they've figured out that

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Speaker 1: the oil needs to be this, and it's working, and

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Speaker 1: it's just that important one thing I will say, because

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Speaker 1: it is turbocharged, you want to make sure you change

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Speaker 1: it on a regular basis. If you want to read

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Speaker 1: more about oil synthetics, you know how they're designed and

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Speaker 1: what what makes them unique and special, get out to

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Speaker 1: Royal Purple dot com. Royal Purple dot com does a

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Speaker 1: great job. They're a Texas based company. They are they

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Speaker 1: have been around a very long time, and they design

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Speaker 1: some very great specific oils as well as conventional everyday oils.

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Speaker 1: And it's a very good read Royal Purple dot com.

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Speaker 1: I think you'll find some great information there. I'm runing

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Speaker 1: any in the car doctor, I'll be back right after this.

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Speaker 1: Look at Frosty, go rost Welcome back in the car doctor.

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Speaker 1: You know Tom, it's it's I can tell we're a

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Speaker 1: week out from Christmas. It's uh, it's these Christmas carols.

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Speaker 1: They're killing me. We have to but it's good. It's right.

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Speaker 1: Holiday music. They should kill you. You You need to get

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Speaker 1: in the spirit. Right. Well, I'm just I am in

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Speaker 1: the spirit Tom. I'm just I'm tired. You only do

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Speaker 1: his fixed cars, and now I have to go or

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Speaker 1: I can't tell you. I can't tell you where I'm going. Um,

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Speaker 1: by the way, I know where you're going. No, I can't.

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Speaker 1: Listeners don't know, but I know I can't tell you

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Speaker 1: where I'm going. By the I have to stop at

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Speaker 1: the supermarket on the way out of studio today because

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Speaker 1: I've got Yeah, I gotta get some more hot chocolate,

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Speaker 1: and we need some s'mores and uh, I need some marshmallows.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure why I get candy canes every time

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Speaker 1: I take this trip. They're always asking for candy canes.

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Speaker 1: I don't get it. Um, It's it's like they're just

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Speaker 1: kids that they just want this sugar. So did you

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Speaker 1: see the recent story where hurts claim that it's rental

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Speaker 1: Tesla models will stop working at nine per charge? So

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Speaker 1: a YouTuber went out. Uh. The story goes on to say,

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Speaker 1: it's this is from inside evs um and they actually

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Speaker 1: test drove a Tesla down to the five percent mark,

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Speaker 1: parked it during the night, and the next day he

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Speaker 1: set off for a supercharging station with just two percent

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Speaker 1: left in the battery and slid in to get a

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Speaker 1: charge starting at a one percent state of charge. So

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Speaker 1: it actually works. It actually worked quite well. So maybe

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Speaker 1: there's hope in the future somewhere or just uh. I

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Speaker 1: want to point out a positive side of the EV market.

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Speaker 1: I wonder if anybody will give me credit for that.

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Speaker 1: I doubt it until the next time I'm running any

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Speaker 1: in the car doctor reminding you good mechanics aren't expensive,

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Speaker 1: They're priceless. See you. She