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Speaker 1: Ron and Anien. If everybody that's driving an internal combuction

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Speaker 1: I've got this twenty year old sheer I'll like you

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Speaker 1: wait for it, wait for just broken in to head brothers.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the radio home of Ron and Anian the

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Speaker 1: Car Doctor. Since this is where car owners the world

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Speaker 1: overturned to for their definitive opinion on automotive repair. If

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Speaker 1: your mechanics giving you a busy signal, pick up the

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Speaker 1: phone and call in the garage to orders are open,

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Speaker 1: but I am here to take your call at eight

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Speaker 1: five and now he running. I don't think there's a

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Speaker 1: So stick around. That's what I do. Running any in

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Speaker 1: Let's get the garage doors open. Let's go to Winning

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Speaker 1: in New York City. O seven Honda Accord. When you

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Speaker 1: welcome to the car doctor, How can I help? Hi?

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Speaker 1: Thank you, You're welcome. Yes I am. I'm wondering. I'm

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Speaker 1: And I was also told that it's going to drain anyway,

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Speaker 1: going to drain the battery at all? Probably? Let me

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Speaker 1: let me because a battery will discharge slowly on its own,

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Speaker 1: just from sitting completely disconnected, depending upon its age and

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Speaker 1: and some other factors. Let me ask you this question, Whinnie,

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Speaker 1: So if you jump on Amazon, have you seen these

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Speaker 1: I've seen some really small ones. Oh no, no, I'm

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Speaker 1: thinking of something else, right, thinking of those like you

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Speaker 1: put the clip on it and you jump started. Yeah, no, no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: these are these are actually. Have you ever been on

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Speaker 1: the New Jersey Turnpike around Port Nork and you look

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Speaker 1: they've all got these little tablet like devices, suction cup

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Speaker 1: the solar chargers. That's how they keep the batteries fresh.

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Speaker 1: They've actually got they've actually got a suction cup to

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Speaker 1: the inside of the glass and then they plug that

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Speaker 1: under the debt. Now I'm doing with all this by myself.

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Speaker 1: Yeah whatever. Have you ever well, have you ever taken

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Speaker 1: so how much does this charge? Your costs about I've

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Speaker 1: seen him on Amazon anywhere from thirty bucks depending upon

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Speaker 1: talk to Jacob and Tennessee. Hey, Jacob service, sir, how

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Speaker 1: Why can't this be a electrical Um, I'm unsure. Pertaining

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Speaker 1: would believe that more than an intermittent mechanical failures, all right,

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Speaker 1: and I appreciate it. Bye bye, five five five zero zero.

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Speaker 1: whether it's a little red Corvette or you go, You've

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Speaker 1: over to Mike and New Hampshire sixty seven chavel Supersport.

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Speaker 1: Hey Mike, Welcome to the Car Doctor. Sir, how can

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Speaker 1: I help Hey, thanks for helping me. I'm prom little

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Speaker 1: I was doing a lot of work on it. So

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Speaker 1: I was using a remote start rounder the hood, its

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Speaker 1: it started spinning. The bendicks has gone pull of start

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Speaker 1: but I noticed that the gear was warm. I went

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Speaker 1: me so, okay, but what's your center back? Will put

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Speaker 1: a new gear arm. You're gonna shave eighty thou off

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Speaker 1: the base, Okay, sent it back, Send it to me,

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Speaker 1: reinstall it. Uh. About a week later, the same thing.

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Speaker 1: But it's only like the fly The ring gear is

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Speaker 1: full stroke. I think maybe that could be the case.

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Speaker 1: But why would that happen? I mean this thing many

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Speaker 1: old school GM starter. Correct, No, no, no, no, whose

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Speaker 1: brand the starter is it? Let's pick on somebody. Oh jeez,

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Speaker 1: it's it's called the company is called all Start. It's

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Speaker 1: So it doesn't look like it doesn't even look but

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Speaker 1: Pete Babcox, John Babcox, You tell him, The car Doctor says, hell,

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Speaker 1: Car Doctor, sir. How can I help hi? Ron, Thanks

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Speaker 1: I think, um, I think you're onto something there. You

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00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:52,600
Speaker 1: should have written a repair manual for that wouldn't have

426
00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:56,120
Speaker 1: money with it. Well that was before that was before

427
00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:58,480
Speaker 1: the internet. I could have shared on internet. But you know,

428
00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:01,000
Speaker 1: but it's not about making money. It's just about having fun,

429
00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:03,280
Speaker 1: isn't it. I mean that's what working on cars and stuff. Yeah,

430
00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:05,760
Speaker 1: that's you know what your alpha what your alpha was? It?

431
00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:09,639
Speaker 1: It was I had a whole series of alpha's and um,

432
00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:12,960
Speaker 1: you were the probably a seventy three or seventy four spider.

433
00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:16,200
Speaker 1: I drove alpha's for hundreds of thousands of miles in

434
00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:20,440
Speaker 1: the seventies and never got stranded. A million years ago

435
00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:23,240
Speaker 1: in another lifetime. It's funny I was just thinking about

436
00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:26,399
Speaker 1: this last night. It's got to be twenty years now.

437
00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:30,040
Speaker 1: I did a TV show for classic car restoration for

438
00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:34,000
Speaker 1: Scripts Network's d I Y channel, and we restored a

439
00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:36,720
Speaker 1: sixty nine was at a sixty nine I think it

440
00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:42,600
Speaker 1: was a sixty nine Alpha Romeo Spider, and I recall

441
00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:45,680
Speaker 1: we we took a little bit of criticism because nobody

442
00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:48,840
Speaker 1: wanted to see an Alpha Romeo restored because it was

443
00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:51,560
Speaker 1: it was, and I was like, why not, it's I

444
00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:53,359
Speaker 1: didn't really have a saying that. The producers and the

445
00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:55,760
Speaker 1: director said hey, this is what we're gonna restore. Personally,

446
00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:58,240
Speaker 1: I think it was the vice president of Scripts Production

447
00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:00,200
Speaker 1: at the time had this old car and as go roge,

448
00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:01,640
Speaker 1: and we ended up having to put it back together

449
00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:03,919
Speaker 1: for him. I think that's what it became. Um they

450
00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:05,800
Speaker 1: were it was a neat little car. I remember driving

451
00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:09,200
Speaker 1: and it was tooling around Knoxville, Tennessee, and uh, you know,

452
00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:12,879
Speaker 1: remember remember reading an article in Car Driver. I think

453
00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:17,479
Speaker 1: it was where um, a fella took a crassling engineer

454
00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:20,000
Speaker 1: out in an Alpha that was a serious one oh

455
00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:23,200
Speaker 1: five chassis and let the guy drive it. And the

456
00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:26,320
Speaker 1: guy could swore it had the independent rear suspension, did

457
00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:30,119
Speaker 1: not had a very well located rear axle, but not

458
00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:33,280
Speaker 1: not an independent. They handled great, Yeah, they were. They

459
00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:36,040
Speaker 1: were fun little cars. But the problem I think with

460
00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:39,359
Speaker 1: Alpha with Fiat back in the day of that generation,

461
00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:42,879
Speaker 1: with with everything, it was just parts. It was getting information,

462
00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:46,520
Speaker 1: it was you know, it wasn't it wasn't the distribution

463
00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:48,560
Speaker 1: chain that it is today. So it became, you know,

464
00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:50,920
Speaker 1: sort of like a black art in terms of trying

465
00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:53,200
Speaker 1: to uh, you know, get what you need to fix

466
00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:55,320
Speaker 1: the car and keep it on the road. And you know,

467
00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:59,080
Speaker 1: so much horse nowadays. And that's why I wanted to

468
00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:02,800
Speaker 1: get another sort of all weather um sports car again.

469
00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:05,320
Speaker 1: And I'm a Morgan. There's just not all weather. So

470
00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:09,240
Speaker 1: I decided I had friends who had both Morgan and portions,

471
00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:11,399
Speaker 1: and so I went into the Porser world for an

472
00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:13,800
Speaker 1: all weather car. Of course, you can get parts of

473
00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:16,840
Speaker 1: those at Yeah, I'm much happier for doing that. But

474
00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:18,280
Speaker 1: but you know what the problem is with all the

475
00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:21,120
Speaker 1: with the newer stuff, with the electronics, is I still

476
00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:23,960
Speaker 1: wonder ten years from now, twelve years from now, fifteen

477
00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:26,359
Speaker 1: years from now, and so on, Oh, you need this

478
00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:33,040
Speaker 1: computer module to keep the car going we I'm with you,

479
00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:36,760
Speaker 1: and that's why I bought an analog portion. There you go.

480
00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:39,960
Speaker 1: Uh does anything fall off of that that you have

481
00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:45,400
Speaker 1: to glue back on together? There's no glue in there.

482
00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:48,840
Speaker 1: It's there's no glue in that. Yeah, and that was listen.

483
00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:50,480
Speaker 1: I gotta go. We could talk all day, but they're

484
00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:51,879
Speaker 1: yelling at me. I have to get off and move

485
00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:54,840
Speaker 1: on to my understand So, but I appreciate. I appreciate

486
00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:57,080
Speaker 1: the call. You'll be well, I'm running aming the car doctor.

487
00:25:57,160 --> 00:25:58,640
Speaker 1: Let's pull over and take a pause. We'll be back

488
00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:06,760
Speaker 1: right after this. Welcome back, any of the car doctor.

489
00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:12,480
Speaker 1: Eight by five zero zero zero, A kindler gentler on this. No,

490
00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:15,440
Speaker 1: I'm only kidding. Never Mike and Delaware. Another mirror call.

491
00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:18,520
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's funny. How are you doing? It's funny, brother,

492
00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:21,440
Speaker 1: the things that generate phone calls. You know. We start

493
00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:23,920
Speaker 1: talking about rear view mirrors and we get flooded with

494
00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:28,720
Speaker 1: this go ahead, what's you got? Hey? It sounds like

495
00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:31,520
Speaker 1: everybody's jumped on the BANDWI can hear? I was listening

496
00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:34,800
Speaker 1: to you with that dear older woman there she Uh.

497
00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:36,760
Speaker 1: I had the same thing with the ninety nine jeep

498
00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:40,080
Speaker 1: chaircade that set outside winter summer, and I would you know,

499
00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:41,600
Speaker 1: us the most of them going out on the beach

500
00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:45,879
Speaker 1: fishing Aaron, Delaware and the beach and I I found it.

501
00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:47,520
Speaker 1: It kept falling off, and I would go and I

502
00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:51,520
Speaker 1: buy different brand, high cheap, middle grade, and it would

503
00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:53,720
Speaker 1: last about a year. Come to find out, I had

504
00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:57,680
Speaker 1: a screen on the inside of the windshield that's just

505
00:26:57,960 --> 00:26:59,760
Speaker 1: sort of kind of pushed up on it a little

506
00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:02,639
Speaker 1: a little bit put pressure on it. And once I

507
00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:05,120
Speaker 1: have you know, survey the situation, what the heck could

508
00:27:05,119 --> 00:27:06,879
Speaker 1: be going on, I took and cut that out so

509
00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:09,199
Speaker 1: there was no pressure at all pushing on that thing,

510
00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:11,440
Speaker 1: and it never fell off again, fell off again, and

511
00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:17,359
Speaker 1: um yeah, yeah. And you know, attaching mirrors is a

512
00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:21,240
Speaker 1: problem for the manufacturers because you know, glass changes, glass

513
00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:24,000
Speaker 1: is changed in composition over the years, and you know

514
00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:26,040
Speaker 1: they have to consider the composition of the glass and

515
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:28,160
Speaker 1: the material it's in it to make the right glue,

516
00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:31,840
Speaker 1: to make the right adhesion. So and you look at

517
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:33,560
Speaker 1: a newer car, can you imagine hanging a mirror on

518
00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:35,680
Speaker 1: a newer car ninety nine? Is that what you said?

519
00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:39,280
Speaker 1: You had a ninety nine ninety nine Cherokee. Is is

520
00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:41,800
Speaker 1: a pretty simple animal. Look at a newer car, look

521
00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:44,200
Speaker 1: at a Look at a newer vehicle, right, something with

522
00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:46,480
Speaker 1: with a DOS with the camera built into the back

523
00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:48,720
Speaker 1: of the rear view mirror and all the support mechanism

524
00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:51,320
Speaker 1: and all the weight. Yeah, yeah, it's We've got two

525
00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:55,800
Speaker 1: of the eighteen Tacoma and a seventeen Subaru and it's like,

526
00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:59,720
Speaker 1: holy crap, look at this configuration here it's it's and

527
00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:01,360
Speaker 1: then they have to worry about you know, you talked

528
00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:03,280
Speaker 1: about review mirrors, and they have to worry about review

529
00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:06,760
Speaker 1: mirrors in the event of an accident because imagine that

530
00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:11,639
Speaker 1: mirror popping off the glass. It becomes a projectile at

531
00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:15,240
Speaker 1: what speed? And nobody stops to think about that and

532
00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:18,560
Speaker 1: what that becomes. So um, you know, you know what's

533
00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:21,399
Speaker 1: crazy is is I'm almost six or two years old,

534
00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:23,480
Speaker 1: beat around shops on my life with a tool man

535
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:26,480
Speaker 1: for McCary tools like twenty years. So now listen to

536
00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:29,840
Speaker 1: you know, everybody that is a mechanic is an expert,

537
00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:33,240
Speaker 1: but man, you are so dead on like every time

538
00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:38,720
Speaker 1: I've never seen anything that you've said that was I

539
00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:43,600
Speaker 1: don't know. My relatives were calling in today US a

540
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:46,120
Speaker 1: little bit ron Listen, I appreciate it. Mike, you're you're

541
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:49,080
Speaker 1: you're matt Go tool distributor. I would I was. I

542
00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:51,520
Speaker 1: retired about ten years ago, but I was. I was

543
00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:54,360
Speaker 1: in it for twenty years. That that's a tough gig.

544
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:57,440
Speaker 1: You know. That's that's a tough gig. And it's getting

545
00:28:57,440 --> 00:29:00,920
Speaker 1: it's getting tougher every day. Uh you know, And listen,

546
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:02,480
Speaker 1: let me ask you your opinion. So I think you're

547
00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:07,720
Speaker 1: qualified to answer this. Electric cars come along the tool jobbers, right, yeah,

548
00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:09,080
Speaker 1: what are you? What are you guys gonna be able

549
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:11,640
Speaker 1: to sell them to the shops and then you guys

550
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:13,200
Speaker 1: go out of business? How big a chunk of the

551
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:16,320
Speaker 1: economy is the tool jobber? Oh? That's what I'm tony.

552
00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:18,760
Speaker 1: And you know what's crazy now that I retired or

553
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:20,680
Speaker 1: got on the tool business, I actually worked for the

554
00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:23,000
Speaker 1: state at Deller as a dark work for Dark the

555
00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:29,320
Speaker 1: UH bus transit and we have six totally electric fixed

556
00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:32,360
Speaker 1: route buses that are almost a million dollars apiece. And

557
00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:35,200
Speaker 1: it just got onto that. I don't think I can't

558
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:38,160
Speaker 1: even pronounce it, the driverless with the anatomic or something

559
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:41,720
Speaker 1: like that, autonomous autonomous. Yeah, we've got them, and it's

560
00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:44,760
Speaker 1: like we've just opened up Pandora's box with these things. Man,

561
00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:48,480
Speaker 1: it's crazy. A million dollars a piece for a bus

562
00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:52,760
Speaker 1: eight hundred like seventy five thousand or something like that.

563
00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:55,920
Speaker 1: And what are the conventional diesel powered is a diesel

564
00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:59,280
Speaker 1: or guess they're diesel diesel? What are the diesel powered

565
00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:03,080
Speaker 1: bus cost? And idea five thous and that the most

566
00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:05,480
Speaker 1: most of them are like between three and four hundred

567
00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:08,360
Speaker 1: thousand after a thirty or forty quarter And if they're

568
00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:11,280
Speaker 1: a you know, like an m C I or something,

569
00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:13,520
Speaker 1: you know, don't go go over half a million. But

570
00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:16,360
Speaker 1: they're not even closer. But ay, it's federal money and

571
00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:19,280
Speaker 1: it makes everybody happy. All the tree huggers are jumping

572
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:23,080
Speaker 1: up and down. How long does it take to recharge

573
00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:26,200
Speaker 1: an electric bus? Well, there's supposed to be like a

574
00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:29,160
Speaker 1: quick charger like fifteen minutes, but then it has to

575
00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:32,520
Speaker 1: set overnight. Gets you know, gets like the slower, deeper

576
00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:35,000
Speaker 1: trickle charge sort of kind of thing. They've had more

577
00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:37,440
Speaker 1: issues and you can shake a stick out. It's just nuts.

578
00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:40,200
Speaker 1: Do they have any higher maintenance? I mean, is the

579
00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:42,440
Speaker 1: maintenance any different other than the electric part? I mean,

580
00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:45,320
Speaker 1: is the electric been reliable? They just haven't been out

581
00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:48,600
Speaker 1: there long enough. Well, they're under warranty right now. But

582
00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:52,320
Speaker 1: there there's a there's a tech guy from Greenville, South

583
00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:54,720
Speaker 1: Carolina that he seems like he's in there at least

584
00:30:55,360 --> 00:31:00,400
Speaker 1: every week for the camps now doing troubleshooting things that

585
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:02,640
Speaker 1: our guys, you know, I mean, it is crazy, you'd

586
00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:05,840
Speaker 1: have to have an electrical uh you know, engineering degree,

587
00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:08,640
Speaker 1: I think. And how many of these busses does this

588
00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:11,640
Speaker 1: this is the state of Maryland, state of Delaware, this

589
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:13,920
Speaker 1: state of Delaware. And how many busses are in the fleet?

590
00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:17,040
Speaker 1: Do you think we we We've got uh six right now,

591
00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:21,000
Speaker 1: but I think there's something like total something total total

592
00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:25,440
Speaker 1: total combined, how many you know, diesel and electrical total combined.

593
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:30,440
Speaker 1: We probably have um, probably close to three d fixed

594
00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:34,240
Speaker 1: route buses. So and we've we've just got six of

595
00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:36,160
Speaker 1: these now, but I think there's like eight more common.

596
00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:41,360
Speaker 1: Where's the logic in in replacing as an experiment six

597
00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:43,600
Speaker 1: buses six million dollars? If we had to change the

598
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:48,120
Speaker 1: whole fleet, that's that's fifty million bucks. Yeah, it's well,

599
00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:52,280
Speaker 1: you know, you're well, you're dealing with lital grants and

600
00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:55,120
Speaker 1: prepending your money and my money recklessly that that. But

601
00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:57,800
Speaker 1: it looks good going down the road that this vehicle

602
00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:01,160
Speaker 1: is totally electric. Meantime to Matto tool dealers out of business,

603
00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:03,520
Speaker 1: and the and the sandwich shop and you know all

604
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:07,360
Speaker 1: the shops and yeah, yeah yeah. And here's another thing

605
00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:09,520
Speaker 1: of getting into with all this electric stuff. You know,

606
00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:13,360
Speaker 1: we were always attacking on gas tax to support the roads.

607
00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:16,400
Speaker 1: Now they're starting to scratch their head. Well, golly day.

608
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:18,400
Speaker 1: You know they're not buying any fuels, right, they're not

609
00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:21,320
Speaker 1: buying any fuel, So how do they tax that? Now?

610
00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:23,000
Speaker 1: They're trying to convince us and you need to put

611
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:25,960
Speaker 1: something on your vehicle that shows how many miles you traveling.

612
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:29,520
Speaker 1: And you know we get taxed individually. It's George orwell

613
00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:33,880
Speaker 1: all over again. Brother, I gotta Michael, Michael, I gotta go, brother.

614
00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:36,640
Speaker 1: But do you call anytime? You're a fun call. All right,

615
00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:39,240
Speaker 1: you take good care and thanks for thanks for tuning

616
00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:44,240
Speaker 1: in today. That's all I can say. Five zero zero zero.

617
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:50,400
Speaker 1: I'm still here and I'll be back right after this. Hey,

618
00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:52,800
Speaker 1: welcome back. Run any of the car. Dr Brian in Maryland.

619
00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:55,640
Speaker 1: I've got three minutes, Brian, what's going on? Hey? How

620
00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:58,840
Speaker 1: you doing? I love your show, listen to you every Saturday.

621
00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:03,680
Speaker 1: Thank you. I appreciate down appreciate that. It's really not

622
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,200
Speaker 1: a question on how to fix something that I was

623
00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:09,040
Speaker 1: playing something to your attention that I was wondering if

624
00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:12,680
Speaker 1: you had heard about it. My daughter has a two thousand,

625
00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:19,320
Speaker 1: nineteen Honda Pilot Um. She noticed about four weeks or

626
00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:23,760
Speaker 1: four months ago that the speakers started popping. And now

627
00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:29,920
Speaker 1: she's driving along GPS entertainment system, rear camera goes out.

628
00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:34,480
Speaker 1: Now she's taking it to the dealer. This is a

629
00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:38,600
Speaker 1: strange part. She's saying it to the dealer. They are

630
00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:41,440
Speaker 1: aware of the problem. Her husband is you know, I'm

631
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:44,680
Speaker 1: not a computer savvy. He's looked it up on the

632
00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:51,840
Speaker 1: Honda's World Notification system or whatever they have, and they're

633
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:55,720
Speaker 1: aware of a problem. They have no fix. Sure, I

634
00:33:55,840 --> 00:34:00,160
Speaker 1: believe that they don't know what She's take it in

635
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:04,120
Speaker 1: there three times. Now, Oh we rerouted a wire. We've

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Speaker 1: done that, and then fine, go down the road. You know,

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Speaker 1: two days later, the same thing happens. Have they have

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Speaker 1: they have they seen the problem? Brian? Have they seen

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Speaker 1: what it does? Yes? And they're well, they're well aware

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Speaker 1: of it, but Honda has not made a recall yet

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Speaker 1: because they don't have a fix, because they have no fit.

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Speaker 1: And it gets back to the same. It gets back

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Speaker 1: to what, you know, the thing that I worry about.

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Speaker 1: As long as the thing keeps running, it doesn't cut

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Speaker 1: the car off going down the highway one day. I mean,

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Speaker 1: this is like something that needs to be really taken

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Speaker 1: care of that It doesn't seem like they want, you know,

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Speaker 1: they have any idea, because I would think just being

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm not the sharpest pencil in the box,

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Speaker 1: but you know, you give me an old truck like

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Speaker 1: a call or claw into the bood and change the plug. Well,

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Speaker 1: you know, Brian, think of it like this. Okay. The

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Speaker 1: reason they can't fix it is because it's above their level.

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Speaker 1: What you're talking about is a problem that Honda has

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Speaker 1: engineered into the car that is now going to require

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Speaker 1: an engineer to resolve it. They've got to duplicate it

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Speaker 1: and figure out the fault, whether it's in software or

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Speaker 1: a true mechanical bug. Remember this, there's more software code

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Speaker 1: in the modern car than there is in the average

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Speaker 1: airplane today. I'm running any in the car doctor, reminding

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Speaker 1: you mechanics aren't expensive. They're place listening to see you