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Speaker 1: Ron Anian, there's a shortage of semiconductor chips, so you know,

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Speaker 1: computer chip bottleneck might raise used car price as well.

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Speaker 1: It actually is raising used car prices. Right, brand new

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Speaker 1: car to drive the car Doctor. But this goes to

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Speaker 1: what you and a lot of our other followers have said,

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Speaker 1: not to a recent past, why kids don't really get

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Speaker 1: into cars. I was a high school kid Gonna Afford

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Speaker 1: called the fifteen grand for a beater, right, and that's

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Speaker 1: what it is. Welcome to the radio home of Ron

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: pick up the phone and calling the garage doors are open,

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Speaker 1: but I am here to take your at and now running, Tom.

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Speaker 1: Do I have a time to tell my Traverse story? Now? Yes? Good, okay, okay,

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Speaker 1: I want to tell this story. I have sixteen Chevy

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Speaker 1: Traverse in the shop. It's I think we've been talking

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Speaker 1: about this for a while, you and I and you

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Speaker 1: know you got a call. Car companies out. Every once

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Speaker 1: in a while they make a mistake. I think GM

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Speaker 1: made a mistake here all right. They were in the

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Speaker 1: power of steering line, the high pressure line over the

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Speaker 1: top of the rear of the engine, right over the

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Speaker 1: top of that portion of the wiring harness, the two

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Speaker 1: cents or connector, and a bunch of other critical components

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Speaker 1: back there. Power steering line sprung the leak forty thousand

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Speaker 1: and it's five years old, and it just you know,

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Speaker 1: it started to seep out of the power of steering hose.

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Speaker 1: So part of the repair and I believe we talked

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Speaker 1: about this last week or the week before, and I

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Speaker 1: two censor because it's saturated in power steering fluid. They

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Speaker 1: want you to change the power steering line obviously because

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Speaker 1: it's leaking. But they want you to replace the entire

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Speaker 1: engine compartment wiring harness. Wow. So you know, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: think outside the box kind of guy. It's just how

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Speaker 1: I'm built. I just I look at it and I

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Speaker 1: say a lot of people say why I go, why not?

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Speaker 1: You know, how come what for? You know, It's it's

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Speaker 1: just it doesn't make any sense. So I did the

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Speaker 1: power steering line, which is no easy task. Although I

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Speaker 1: bet if the engine was out and on the ground,

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Speaker 1: it would be easy to get to the power steering line.

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Speaker 1: Maybe that's what they were thinking, probably would have been

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Speaker 1: the harness. And I pulled the harness apart, and I

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Speaker 1: see no contamination of the of power steering fluid in

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Speaker 1: the harness. And I'm gonna on Monday, I'm going to

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Speaker 1: soder on a connector and put it together in and

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Speaker 1: see where we go. And I guess the point of

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Speaker 1: this is that I couldn't help. But notice, if this

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Speaker 1: year or two older, I bet you couldn't do what

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to do, because nothing would be easy in

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Speaker 1: terms of how it came apart. Five year old car.

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Speaker 1: Things are rusted and corroded. And this car hasn't had

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Speaker 1: a hard life, you know, it's it's it's not out

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Speaker 1: in all kinds of crazy weather. It's been well cared for.

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Speaker 1: And I'm saying to myself, is anything built to last.

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Speaker 1: My friend Jeff comes by the shop once in a while.

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Speaker 1: He's got a four or fifty five Chevy Bell Air

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Speaker 1: with factory air. Yeah, factory air in Ninett. Air conditioning

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Speaker 1: for a fifty five Chevy cost five is an option.

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Speaker 1: The car was fifteen, so air conditioning was a quarter

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Speaker 1: And it's still work. Jeff brings it by the shop

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Speaker 1: and it's ice box cold in that car. It's just amazing.

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Speaker 1: It just works like it was yesterday when it was made.

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Speaker 1: And this is a company that sixty five years later,

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Speaker 1: they can't make a wiring harness or they can't make

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Speaker 1: a power of steering hose last more than five years,

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Speaker 1: and when it does fail, it's out of warranty and

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Speaker 1: now it's the customer's obligation. And that you know, listen,

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Speaker 1: same thing. They all do it. You know what, We've

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Speaker 1: got to demand more from our car companies, we really do,

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Speaker 1: the copper braid of the wire, that will eventually it

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Speaker 1: will seep into the harness. Well, because I got such

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Speaker 1: a long loop on the on the replacement connector, I'm

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Speaker 1: it up so the power of steering fluid would have

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Speaker 1: And I think, I think Isaac Newton's gonna take over

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Speaker 1: the vehicle. But you know, the bigger problem isn't if

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Speaker 1: you've got one of these cars to have your power

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Speaker 1: also applies to the GMC A Katie is you know

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Speaker 1: you wonder you take that whole nose apart, the engine apart,

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Speaker 1: every wiring harness, every connector. You know, there are some

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Speaker 1: And you say to yourself, you disturb every connector. You

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Speaker 1: gotta hope they all go back. You gotta hope they

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Speaker 1: all make good contact, and you hope you don't break

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Speaker 1: any of the high quality plastic parts on the way out.

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Speaker 1: You just say to yourself, you know, I really think

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Speaker 1: in the event of a front end accident anything older

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Speaker 1: if not two thirds of these cars are gonna be

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Speaker 1: Although yeah, like everybody says, what could break? I can't imagine.

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Speaker 1: Let's get on over to Uh, I made Tom laugh.

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Speaker 1: Let's get over to Josh in Rochester, New York thirteen

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Speaker 1: tick Josh. Welcome to the car doctor, sir, how can

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Speaker 1: I help? Thank you, Ron, I appreciate taking my call.

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Speaker 1: You're welcome che four by four sixth lid with on it.

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Speaker 1: Um took it to a national franchise. Oil change my

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Speaker 1: first mistake. Uh, and uh they did do all change.

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Speaker 1: About later on my way home, I was about a

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Speaker 1: Oil pressure drops to about ten pounds, and I go,

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Speaker 1: what they do to my truck? So I make the

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Speaker 1: phone call and over the phone, the manager goes, well,

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Speaker 1: it sounds like one of our defective oil filters slipped

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Speaker 1: for probably about a good month and a half. Now.

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Speaker 1: Um the regional manager from this national chain that starts

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Speaker 1: Came out, If I guess what do I win? Is

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Speaker 1: it val? Is it valveal? I didn't know if we

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Speaker 1: were allowed to say name. We're an equal opportunity offender here.

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Speaker 1: We don't you know what if you make a mistake,

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Speaker 1: we hold your feet to the fire. You gotta you

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Speaker 1: gotta make it right. Um so so, so they put

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Speaker 1: they put another oil filter on it. An oil pressure

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Speaker 1: is what high or low? Oil pressure is low? Still

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Speaker 1: between eight to fifteen pounds. They manager of this franchise

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Speaker 1: come out and said, if you can prove oil filter failure,

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Speaker 1: we'll pay for your motor. But prove it. I go,

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Speaker 1: I can't prove it. You took my oil filter. Is

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Speaker 1: there a way that you can tell oil filter failure

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Speaker 1: from a oil analysis? No, you'd have to have you know,

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Speaker 1: if they did oil analysis, they would see metal in

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Speaker 1: the oil. But you know what's there is you could

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Speaker 1: visually see metal in all. Okay, so you know your

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Speaker 1: argument is you know you'd have to this is take

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Speaker 1: and talk to somebody about consumer protection. You know. The

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Speaker 1: but the first mistake was that you let them take

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Speaker 1: and they're gonna be honorable, and you know they're gonna

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Speaker 1: do what they need to do. You know. Yeah, we

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Speaker 1: make sure we put a mechanical gauge on it. Any

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Speaker 1: any noise out of the engine. Uh. Well, so got

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Speaker 1: it back I don't know, a week ago, and I

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Speaker 1: At that point, motors already smoked. I'm ei're gonna be

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Speaker 1: installed isn't a bad deal for a Jasper replacement? No,

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Speaker 1: it probably isn't. I I think you know, I think

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Speaker 1: you have a case for an attorney, I would at

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Speaker 1: least call the New York State Attorney General's office and

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Speaker 1: I think the argument here is, I'm gonna put the

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Speaker 1: scenario in my shop. All right, if this was my shop,

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Speaker 1: I think my obligation is I'm gonna turn it over

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Speaker 1: to my insurance and let my oil filter people. You know,

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Speaker 1: the oil filter has a warranty on it. Here's why

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Speaker 1: you don't let customers bring parts to your shop, all right,

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Speaker 1: And you didn't, I'm not saying you did, but you know,

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Speaker 1: do their job. You know, the question is the shop honorable?

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Speaker 1: Will they will they stand behind it? But you know,

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Speaker 1: this manager has so many resources at his fingertips in

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Speaker 1: he could reach out to his garage keeper's insurance, he

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Speaker 1: could reach out the corporate and yet he chooses not to,

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Speaker 1: we've been back and forth, but he only verbally told

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Speaker 1: That's been one must have slipped through the cracks, this

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Speaker 1: must be one. And verbally, I mean I have no documentation, like,

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Speaker 1: f one fifty. So a new F one fifty starts

426
00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:22,840
Speaker 1: at sixty grand. I know, that's sixty six zero. And

427
00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:25,800
Speaker 1: that's a base truck. That's not even you know, it's

428
00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:27,880
Speaker 1: it's like a work truck level kind of thing. It's

429
00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:31,600
Speaker 1: got rubber floor mats, and you know, so sixty grand

430
00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:34,520
Speaker 1: a couple of thousand bucks, you know what, I'd make

431
00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:36,280
Speaker 1: a budget of two thousand dollars a year on a

432
00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:38,240
Speaker 1: truck that's the sold, just to put parts in it

433
00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:40,879
Speaker 1: while I can still get them from reliable sources and

434
00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:45,080
Speaker 1: keep it going. It doesn't. It's it's you know what

435
00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:51,400
Speaker 1: if new cars didn't break, dealers wouldn't need service departments. True,

436
00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:54,840
Speaker 1: you know, listen my wife's Explorer. I gotta tell you

437
00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:56,320
Speaker 1: the story about then I'm gonna let you go because

438
00:23:56,320 --> 00:24:00,119
Speaker 1: Tom's gonna yell at me. Um, My wife's Explorer has

439
00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:01,960
Speaker 1: been back to the Ford deal or four times now

440
00:24:02,119 --> 00:24:04,560
Speaker 1: three times or four times. She just picked it up.

441
00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:06,919
Speaker 1: She just picked it up Thursday because her dash, the

442
00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:12,160
Speaker 1: radio navigation controls lock up. This is she's They've now

443
00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:15,359
Speaker 1: put to a pim S Accessory Protocol Interface modules and

444
00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:17,160
Speaker 1: it's spread it over the last year and a half.

445
00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:21,200
Speaker 1: We I get home yesterday, I left work a little early.

446
00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:23,080
Speaker 1: We're gonna take it right down to the Jersey Shore,

447
00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:26,280
Speaker 1: have dinner, I take a shower. I'm all nice and relaxed.

448
00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:27,919
Speaker 1: I get in the car. We're gonna go. It's a

449
00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:31,760
Speaker 1: hundred miles away. I plug in for navigation and the

450
00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:35,959
Speaker 1: screen is locked up. Happy Friday. And she looked at

451
00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:40,360
Speaker 1: me and went, and I went. You know, it's new

452
00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:42,560
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that it's right. New doesn't mean it's not

453
00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:46,840
Speaker 1: gonna break. New doesn't mean anything more than it's new. Alright.

454
00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:48,840
Speaker 1: I'm not saying not to buy new cars. I'm just

455
00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:51,119
Speaker 1: saying you don't buy new to solve a problem. Sometimes

456
00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:52,800
Speaker 1: it pays to maintain it. There's got to be that

457
00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:57,119
Speaker 1: delicate balance in common sense. So um, just something to

458
00:24:57,119 --> 00:25:02,000
Speaker 1: think about, all right, sir. I thanks, You're very welcome. Jim.

459
00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:04,600
Speaker 1: You know, I wonder and Tom, I was just thinking

460
00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:06,840
Speaker 1: about this. I've got the answer. I know what the

461
00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:09,840
Speaker 1: problem is with a Prius and electric vehicles, and I

462
00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:13,879
Speaker 1: defy everybody to do this, Okay. Is I want a

463
00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:17,200
Speaker 1: Prius owner to go out there, roll the window down,

464
00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:21,880
Speaker 1: put beach boys on the radio, okay, kind of sit back,

465
00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:23,840
Speaker 1: if they've got a white T shirt, white T shirt,

466
00:25:24,359 --> 00:25:26,680
Speaker 1: pack of Marl Burrows, roll them up in their left sleeve,

467
00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:29,359
Speaker 1: and kind of let that cigarette thangle out of their

468
00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:32,040
Speaker 1: mouth and just cruise down the main boulevard in a Prius.

469
00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:34,560
Speaker 1: And then I wanted to go find a classic muscle

470
00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:38,280
Speaker 1: car and see the response, and then they'll understood you

471
00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:40,639
Speaker 1: really want to see that battery melt, don't you well,

472
00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:44,600
Speaker 1: I just there's just you know, you just don't feel

473
00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:48,560
Speaker 1: that's what cool is, right. You know, everybody wants, you know,

474
00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:51,480
Speaker 1: what's cool. That's the problem is that this generation doesn't

475
00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:55,479
Speaker 1: know cool. It just it just doesn't get it. You know.

476
00:25:55,600 --> 00:26:00,240
Speaker 1: It's they think it's you know, must thangs with loud exhausting. Yeah,

477
00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:03,920
Speaker 1: they're fast, but there's just I don't know, there's something

478
00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:06,959
Speaker 1: about it. The V six is anyway, Um, but anyway,

479
00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:09,080
Speaker 1: that's uh, that's my story. I'm sticking to it. But

480
00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:10,960
Speaker 1: I want everybody to go out there and try and

481
00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:13,919
Speaker 1: be cool and a preusorin electric car. And my comment

482
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:15,840
Speaker 1: before about what it's gonna sound like at the drive

483
00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:20,040
Speaker 1: and when you hear and that'll be it. Oh, here comes,

484
00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:26,920
Speaker 1: here comes Tom and his electric car. I just let

485
00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:31,000
Speaker 1: me pull over, take a pause. Zero. When we come back,

486
00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:32,800
Speaker 1: Mark and New Hampshire, you're gonna be first up. I

487
00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:35,120
Speaker 1: appreciate your patience and let you guys letting me rant

488
00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:37,080
Speaker 1: a little bit. Today, I feel so much better. It's

489
00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:39,560
Speaker 1: like therapy. I'm runing any in the car. Doctor, I'll

490
00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:51,040
Speaker 1: be right back. Welcome back. Ran had a car, doctor, Mark,

491
00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:53,640
Speaker 1: New Hampshire. Very patient man, sir, How can I help

492
00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:57,439
Speaker 1: you today? Well, I caught you show I might have

493
00:26:57,440 --> 00:26:59,720
Speaker 1: been recorded one last weekend and you were talking about

494
00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:03,200
Speaker 1: all UH sensors for cars for putting on brakes and

495
00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:06,040
Speaker 1: letting you know things around you. And I was just thinking,

496
00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:08,679
Speaker 1: if they have them on the back of vehicles, how

497
00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:10,360
Speaker 1: are you going to back up to a trailer or

498
00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:12,719
Speaker 1: if you're backing up a trailer, is it gonna stop you?

499
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:17,199
Speaker 1: Because the advanced radar systems start at the back bumper

500
00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:20,680
Speaker 1: and they shoot a beam forward and then and then

501
00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:24,760
Speaker 1: when they when they go and reverse, it will detect

502
00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:27,639
Speaker 1: in reverse and it will know you're backing up because

503
00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:30,840
Speaker 1: you've got the car in reverse, so it will take

504
00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:33,960
Speaker 1: that into consideration. It's it will it will be no

505
00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:37,280
Speaker 1: different at that speed and doing it in reverse. Do

506
00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:41,680
Speaker 1: you have a vehicle now with a backup camera? No,

507
00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:43,480
Speaker 1: I don't at this time, but I just caught you.

508
00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:46,480
Speaker 1: It'll it'll it'll sort of be like that where you're

509
00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:50,320
Speaker 1: where you're doing uh a backup with a backup camera,

510
00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:52,119
Speaker 1: it will be beep beep and and let you know.

511
00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:55,040
Speaker 1: But hey, listen, it's all going to be very different

512
00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:57,680
Speaker 1: and it's just gonna all be very complicated. So we'll

513
00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:00,760
Speaker 1: we'll wait to see what happens. Um, wait to see

514
00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:03,840
Speaker 1: what happens. I'm gonna keep my two thousand sport track.

515
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:05,920
Speaker 1: I love it. Yeah, I listen. You know what, it's

516
00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:08,480
Speaker 1: start buying parts now because you can probably get another

517
00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:10,080
Speaker 1: ten fifteen years out of as long as you get

518
00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:12,400
Speaker 1: parts for it. It's it's it's gonna be cheaper than

519
00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:15,119
Speaker 1: the new stuff. And I think, uh, the trial and

520
00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:17,480
Speaker 1: error won't be there like some of the new cars

521
00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:20,480
Speaker 1: will or some of the you know, the newer vehicles will. It's. Um.

522
00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:22,879
Speaker 1: One thing I always say about older cars is we

523
00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:25,159
Speaker 1: know where and how they're going to fail. We know

524
00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:27,600
Speaker 1: the technology. We don't know the new stuff yet coming

525
00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:30,360
Speaker 1: down the road. And uh, the experimentation in the price

526
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:32,840
Speaker 1: of a guinea pig, well it has its price, so

527
00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:36,720
Speaker 1: um absolutely all right, take good care, Mark, Let's get

528
00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:40,320
Speaker 1: over to let's go to Bubba in Louisiana. Bubba. Oh

529
00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:43,840
Speaker 1: one GMC, how can I help you today? Brother? All right, man,

530
00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:45,840
Speaker 1: I'm having a couple of issues. Maybe you can help

531
00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:48,720
Speaker 1: me all with number one, the tortion bar issue and

532
00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:50,880
Speaker 1: reading that one. Number one is I'm in a junkyard

533
00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:55,720
Speaker 1: right now and I need the car. Okay, uh um,

534
00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:59,640
Speaker 1: My truck was doing some excessive uh like sagging and

535
00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:02,680
Speaker 1: like tracking on when you drive it. It was kind

536
00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:07,719
Speaker 1: of like crazy after the front blew out, um, and

537
00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:09,720
Speaker 1: I couldn't I didn't understand it. I kind of looked

538
00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:10,840
Speaker 1: at it looked like the front of the truck was

539
00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:13,560
Speaker 1: sagging on the driver's side. So adjusted the tortion keys,

540
00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:15,880
Speaker 1: but they wouldn't adjust on the driver's side at all,

541
00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:21,479
Speaker 1: so they the nut. The bolt wouldn't move. It wouldn't

542
00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:25,640
Speaker 1: move the Canada, but it didn't adjust the height or

543
00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:29,920
Speaker 1: anything at all. So is the torsion bar cracked? No,

544
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:32,480
Speaker 1: but I assume it's bad. Well, yeah, it sounds like

545
00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:34,960
Speaker 1: it's either I mean, listen, if you if you tighten

546
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:37,400
Speaker 1: the torstion bar and there's no change in right height,

547
00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:41,080
Speaker 1: it's either the bar is cracked or broken, or the

548
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:43,840
Speaker 1: keys cracked, or where it goes into the frame somehow

549
00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:46,920
Speaker 1: is stripped out. Something's not you know, you're winding it tighter,

550
00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:49,960
Speaker 1: it's got to come up. So now now you've got

551
00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:52,800
Speaker 1: to find a pair of replacement torstion bars. And yeah,

552
00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:57,000
Speaker 1: I'm sure finding something new is probably obsolete at this point,

553
00:29:57,040 --> 00:30:00,320
Speaker 1: so now you've got to find something really expend you know,

554
00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:05,080
Speaker 1: the pieces all these yeah, probably worth, probably worth to try,

555
00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:07,480
Speaker 1: you know, but I would I would get I would

556
00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:10,680
Speaker 1: do both of them. Uh, you know, I would. I

557
00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:13,880
Speaker 1: would definitely do both of them. Well, even though they're used.

558
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:15,280
Speaker 1: You know, if you're taking them out of the same

559
00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:20,120
Speaker 1: vehicle at least this way, if that replacement pair is

560
00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:23,400
Speaker 1: a different spring rate, you've got a match set of springs.

561
00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:25,160
Speaker 1: Think of it as you put the coil springs in,

562
00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:27,960
Speaker 1: right would you put what would you put one used

563
00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:32,440
Speaker 1: coil spring in? You probably put both, so you know,

564
00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:34,600
Speaker 1: just just to have that and the fact that for

565
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:37,440
Speaker 1: twenty five bucks. Listen, if you don't use it in

566
00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:38,920
Speaker 1: the truck, you use it as a pride bar to

567
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:41,920
Speaker 1: fix something. Uh, you know it's uh, it's it's a

568
00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:46,240
Speaker 1: good quality piece of steel. So you know before yeah,

569
00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:50,680
Speaker 1: uh said feel pump question. Uh, if I get in

570
00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:53,480
Speaker 1: my truck, um and let the see let the feel

571
00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:55,360
Speaker 1: put the key on, but don't start it. I can

572
00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:59,479
Speaker 1: hear the feel if I do that. If I do

573
00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:02,040
Speaker 1: that three four times, the truck will start on a down.

574
00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:05,680
Speaker 1: If I don't do that you'll have to start stop

575
00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:07,480
Speaker 1: three or four times to get it to start. The

576
00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:10,080
Speaker 1: fuel pumps going out right sounds like it's the pump.

577
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:12,240
Speaker 1: What I'd like to do is put a fuel pressure

578
00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:15,920
Speaker 1: gauge on it and when when you turn the key,

579
00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:19,280
Speaker 1: you'll see fuel pressure come up when you turn the

580
00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:23,320
Speaker 1: key off. Does it hold fuel pressure? Does it maintain?

581
00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:26,640
Speaker 1: Is there is there what we call residual pressure? If it?

582
00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:30,680
Speaker 1: If it's, yeah, pressure if it. If it doesn't, If

583
00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:35,080
Speaker 1: it doesn't maintain, it's either that you've got an injector

584
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:40,120
Speaker 1: stuck open and p and fuel okay, bleeding off, or

585
00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:44,280
Speaker 1: the check valve in the pump isn't holding residual pressure

586
00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:46,720
Speaker 1: and that's why it's just it's just burping itself down.

587
00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:53,320
Speaker 1: If go ahead, Uh, my fuel gauge is messed up?

588
00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:55,280
Speaker 1: Is that in the fuel pump also, because that would

589
00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:58,960
Speaker 1: another son, Yeah, that that should be if the gauge

590
00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:02,160
Speaker 1: isn't working. Correct, The cinder and the fuel pumps should

591
00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:05,840
Speaker 1: all be part and parcel of the same module. So

592
00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:08,040
Speaker 1: you know what, if you're at the point where you

593
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:11,040
Speaker 1: found a truck that matches yours in the scrap yard,

594
00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:14,280
Speaker 1: and you know you can listen I'd buy the tank

595
00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:17,280
Speaker 1: to pump the whole nine yards because uh, you know,

596
00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:19,680
Speaker 1: it can't hurt to have spare parts around. Spare parts.

597
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:22,360
Speaker 1: You can't fix a vehicle from an empty an empty

598
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:25,440
Speaker 1: parts shelf, if you know what I'm saying. Think about that.

599
00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:29,400
Speaker 1: You can just take the u Oh actually no, it

600
00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:31,080
Speaker 1: looks like over here, I don't know about it. This

601
00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:33,720
Speaker 1: part yard, there's a whole drill straight through every gas

602
00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:36,360
Speaker 1: thing I could see. Oh yeah, maybe they did that.

603
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:38,760
Speaker 1: Maybe they did that because they wanted it's a shame.

604
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:40,640
Speaker 1: They probably did that because they didn't want to store

605
00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:43,520
Speaker 1: fuel in the tanks sitting out in the sun. Or

606
00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:45,960
Speaker 1: maybe they had, maybe they had, maybe they had to

607
00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:49,160
Speaker 1: drain the tanks to store them for safety's sake. So

608
00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:52,480
Speaker 1: but they probably don't sell because you can see the

609
00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:56,400
Speaker 1: car next to being the next one over there. So

610
00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:58,120
Speaker 1: so what I would what I would do, bub is

611
00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:01,240
Speaker 1: I would clearly, uh you know, take that pump out

612
00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:03,240
Speaker 1: of the tank before you buy it. Just look at it.

613
00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:05,200
Speaker 1: Is it is it rusty? Is it crummy? Is it

614
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:07,360
Speaker 1: is it? Is it all gummed up? And if not,

615
00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:10,240
Speaker 1: if it's cheap enough, by the pump, by the torsion bars,

616
00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:12,760
Speaker 1: take the keys. This way, you've got all the parts

617
00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:14,719
Speaker 1: and nothing like working on a vehicle and having all

618
00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:16,560
Speaker 1: the parts in front of you so you can resolve

619
00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:19,040
Speaker 1: it quickly over the course of the weekend. Bubba, I

620
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:21,600
Speaker 1: appreciate the call. You have a great weekend. I'm running

621
00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:31,920
Speaker 1: any of the Car Doctor. I'll be back right after this. Well,

622
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:33,760
Speaker 1: I'm back. We're on any of the Car Doctor. I

623
00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:35,960
Speaker 1: what story do I want to end with today? Do

624
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:37,760
Speaker 1: I want to tell you about the broken spark plugs

625
00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:39,920
Speaker 1: in the f one fifty or about the bad PCM

626
00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:43,960
Speaker 1: and the four fifty they're both just um, let me

627
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:45,680
Speaker 1: do that. I want to talk to you about spark plugs.

628
00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:50,080
Speaker 1: So and OH seven f one fifty came into the shop.

629
00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:54,680
Speaker 1: We're doing this, you know, overhaul. I guess, uh, you know,

630
00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:57,040
Speaker 1: cheaper to rebuild and repair the plow truck than it

631
00:33:57,160 --> 00:33:59,360
Speaker 1: is to uh, you know, buy a new one new

632
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:03,240
Speaker 1: one sixty put seven eight nine grand whatever. I'm betting

633
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:04,840
Speaker 1: it gets the ten grand by the time we're done.

634
00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:06,920
Speaker 1: You know, make it work, do all the maintenance, to

635
00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:10,440
Speaker 1: all the parts, et cetera. You ever putting spark plugs

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Speaker 1: in an OH seven or any of the Ford three

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Speaker 1: valve motors five four four six with three valves. It

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Speaker 1: is the most amazing display of stupidity I've ever seen

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Speaker 1: in my mechanical life. Because it's a three piece spark plug.

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Speaker 1: It's it's designed, it comes apart in pieces, and it's

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Speaker 1: it's a long shank of a bottom end of the

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Speaker 1: plug threaded hex nut porcelain, so everything is going into

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Speaker 1: the cylinder. When the plug gets some carbon deposits on it,

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Speaker 1: that long shank portion, it's like sticking your finger in

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Speaker 1: a wine bottle, all right, and you go to pull

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Speaker 1: your finger out, and the tighter you pull, it's like

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Speaker 1: it's it's it's like Chinese handcuffs. It just sort of

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00:34:56,239 --> 00:34:59,600
Speaker 1: grabs it and holds it and you can't, you know,

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Speaker 1: you can't move it out. So what you end up

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Speaker 1: doing is you leave your finger in the wine bottle

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Speaker 1: and you take your hand and you pull it away.

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Speaker 1: You leave the bottom shank of the spark plug in

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Speaker 1: the head, and you take the top part with the heck,

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00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:13,799
Speaker 1: the thread and the porcelain, and it all comes out

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Speaker 1: as one piece. And now you're looking at you've got

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Speaker 1: this metal tube in the cylinder head about three quarters

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Speaker 1: of an inch long with the ground electrode across it,

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Speaker 1: and you go, now, what do you do? And you

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Speaker 1: know there's no need for this. It's it's couldn't forward

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Speaker 1: for see that this was gonna be an issue. No, See,

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00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:35,280
Speaker 1: you get out the Lile tool. Lile makes the replacement tooling,

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Speaker 1: and you get it apart. It's it's just a lot

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Speaker 1: of work. The reason I mentioned it is, you know

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Speaker 1: we can't get spark plugs right after a hundred and

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Speaker 1: ten years. Electric cars are coming, folks, How right do

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Speaker 1: you think they're gonna be for at least a hundred

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Speaker 1: and ten years? I'm ronan Ady in the car doctor,

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Speaker 1: reminding you of this time every time. Good mechanics aren't expensive,

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Speaker 1: they're priceless. See you, She was st