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Speaker 1: all right, sir, thank you for thank you for helping.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations on you. Thank you, Bill. I appreciate it, and

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Speaker 1: Let's go and talk to Don, Lake Placid, Florida and

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Speaker 1: How are you doing? Run? I'm an old retired mechanic

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Speaker 1: Ronny and the Car Doctor here. Eight zero zero zero.

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Speaker 1: scan tool do that. And I'm sure, I'm sure Triple

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Speaker 1: A and the other roadside services out there can provide that,

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Speaker 1: and I'm sure they've accounted for that. But my point is,

431
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Speaker 1: if you're doing the due diligence and using quality parts,

432
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Speaker 1: if you're doing a battery replacement power frame grid technology,

433
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Speaker 1: we don't have to talk about that um any more

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Speaker 1: than we already have. We've we've always and we've pointed

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Speaker 1: out multiple times as a matter of fact, out on Facebook,

436
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Speaker 1: there's a conversation. There's a couple of videos on the

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Speaker 1: card or Facebook page about power Frame grid technology batteries

438
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Speaker 1: and how they're made better, and we encourage you to

439
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Speaker 1: get out there and take a look. And as a

440
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Speaker 1: matter of fact, um, where's my piece of paper here? Um,

441
00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:12,959
Speaker 1: I think it's still ongoing right now through the end

442
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Speaker 1: of February. You can save ten bucks with the purchase

443
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Speaker 1: of an Autocraft Gold or Autocraft Premium a GM battery

444
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Speaker 1: if you get out, if you get out to power

445
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Speaker 1: frame dot com, there's a there's a coup on there,

446
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Speaker 1: and go over to the website over Advanced in car

447
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Speaker 1: Quest Auto Parts. But my point is, if you're doing

448
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Speaker 1: due diligence on battery maintenance, in theory, the majority of

449
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Speaker 1: you should not need a battery for five years. That

450
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Speaker 1: batteries rated five years, it should go five years. And

451
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Speaker 1: my point is, I don't know that you want to

452
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Speaker 1: do a battery on the side of the road. I

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Speaker 1: don't know that you want to have that effort because

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Speaker 1: I don't know that I would count on it simply

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Speaker 1: because of the electronics and the possibility of things becoming

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Speaker 1: a problem So that being said, instead of talking about, hey,

457
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Speaker 1: we can put a battery in a car anywhere, I

458
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Speaker 1: want to talk to you about proper maintenance and the

459
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Speaker 1: need for regular scheduled maintenance and what that actually saves

460
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Speaker 1: you and how important that is to you in terms

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Speaker 1: of being safe on the road, and in these days

462
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Speaker 1: day and age, being safe on the road is really

463
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Speaker 1: what it's all about. So just something to think about

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Speaker 1: and uh be mindful of. So let's let's do it

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Speaker 1: like that. Huh. Let's uh, let's try and stay out

466
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Speaker 1: of the Uh. We gotta put a battery and on

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Speaker 1: the side of the road and take everything out of

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Speaker 1: the car in order to do it. Batteries are not

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Speaker 1: straightforward under the hood of a car anymore. It's not

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Speaker 1: that simple. Zero zero, I ran a little long, Jeff

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Speaker 1: and Appleton, Wisconsin. Hang on. The car doctor is coming

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Speaker 1: back right after this and we'll talk to you about

473
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Speaker 1: your question. I'm Mornandi and the car doctor. Don't go away.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back. Doctor zero is the phone number. Phone number,

475
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Speaker 1: by the way, check us out on Facebook. Run any

476
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Speaker 1: in the car doctor. Let's get over. He's been waiting

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Speaker 1: there very patiently. Jeff, I appreciate your patients, sir, a

478
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Speaker 1: little bit of maintenance. We had to do this hour.

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Speaker 1: Jeff and Appleton, Wisconsin. How can I help you, sir?

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Speaker 1: Runing any in the car? Doctor? Right? Your service? Yes, right.

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Speaker 1: What I've run into is when I take my car

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Speaker 1: in for an oil change, I have been under the

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Speaker 1: impression when they say break inspection that they're actually doing

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Speaker 1: what they're saying, a complete break inspection. What I found

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Speaker 1: is that on occasion, all they're doing is pulling off

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Speaker 1: the right front wheel or just doing a visual break inspection.

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Speaker 1: And how that came to be was I took my

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Speaker 1: car in and a week later my front break started

489
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Speaker 1: to grind. And it wasn't my normal dealer because I

490
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Speaker 1: needed to get my oil change. I had not been

491
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Speaker 1: doing my due diligence. I had not been doing my

492
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Speaker 1: normal maintenance routine, and now it was time to get

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Speaker 1: it done now because I was going to be putting

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Speaker 1: out a couple of thousand miles and didn't want my oil,

495
00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:23,720
Speaker 1: which I was running synthetic, to be over the limit.

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Speaker 1: And I can't stress enough that when they say that

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Speaker 1: they're doing a break inspection, that they're actually doing a

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Speaker 1: complete break inspection. And I don't think they are. Jeff,

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Speaker 1: And you know, here's the deal, all right again, it's

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Speaker 1: a fast food world out there. We want our auto

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Speaker 1: repairs fast. We want them now. We don't want to

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Speaker 1: have to wait. We don't want to be inconvenience. Uh.

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Speaker 1: You know, I have a friend that you know, Thursday

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Speaker 1: night we go out for our h during the non

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Speaker 1: cruising season, we get together on Thursday nights. We'll go

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Speaker 1: out to eat and we talk about cars. What else

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Speaker 1: would you talk about? And Jeff's daughter, Kitto, works at

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Speaker 1: a local big dealership here in the area, a Honda dealer,

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Speaker 1: and the conversation is about how she will get written

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Speaker 1: up on customer satisfaction surveys. She's done her job, everything

511
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Speaker 1: is perfect, but the customer coming in is annoyed that

512
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Speaker 1: the television channel isn't set to something they wanted to watch.

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Speaker 1: She loses points, she doesn't get on her survey, and

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Speaker 1: she loses money. Everything's tied to dollars in a lot

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Speaker 1: of order to repair situations. And my point is that

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Speaker 1: when they're saying they're doing a break inspection on those

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Speaker 1: quick oil changes, regardless of where they are, you know

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Speaker 1: there are quick service loubes and Honda dealers. There are

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00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:44,400
Speaker 1: quick service Loubes and Toyota dealers. There's quick service loubes

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00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:46,920
Speaker 1: out there, you know, Jiffy Loubes and so forth. They're

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Speaker 1: looking for money, they're not looking for breaks and and

522
00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:53,960
Speaker 1: and that's part of the problem. We want everything quick.

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Speaker 1: This mechanics opinion, breaks on every vehicle should be inspected

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Speaker 1: once a year. I don't care if it's got five

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Speaker 1: thousand miles on it. I don't care if it's got

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Speaker 1: fifty thousand miles on I don't care if it's got

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Speaker 1: twer and thousand miles on it. Once a year. And

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Speaker 1: it's pretty simple to do if you're if you're doing

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Speaker 1: due diligence and performing proper maintenance every six to eight

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Speaker 1: thousand miles, hopefully you're rotating tires. Combine that annual break

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Speaker 1: inspection with that tire rotation and a proper break inspection,

532
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Speaker 1: and I think this is what you're getting to when

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Speaker 1: you can tell me to shut up if it's not.

534
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Speaker 1: But I think what you're getting to is breakes have

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Speaker 1: to be looked at and measured and and the industry

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Speaker 1: has a standard. There's actually a series of gauges that

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Speaker 1: a good repair shop will have. So it's not just

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Speaker 1: something by eyesight where they say, yeah, it's thick enough.

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00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:50,440
Speaker 1: How thick is thick enough? There's a series of gauges

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Speaker 1: that starts at ten millimeters thick and their color coded

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Speaker 1: green meaning good, working their way down to yellow in

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Speaker 1: the four to six millimeter range, where working their way

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Speaker 1: down to read in the two and three millimeter range.

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Speaker 1: When brake pads are two millimeters thick, it's time. When

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Speaker 1: brake pads are eight millimeters thick, they're good, and and

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Speaker 1: and and that's a proper break inspection. But you're right.

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Speaker 1: What I've noticed is because we're into hey, I want

548
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Speaker 1: it fast, I want it now, we're teaching people that, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we look at the right front. Why that's the only

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Speaker 1: wheel that's that's making the brakes work. And you know

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Speaker 1: it's it's it's a four wheel brake system on every

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Speaker 1: car I've ever seen. And if it's got four wheels,

553
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Speaker 1: it's gonna have four breaks. All four should be looked at.

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Speaker 1: Did you question it at the facility when you when

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Speaker 1: they did the break inspection? What was their answer? Okay,

556
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Speaker 1: there were there were a couple of actual um oil

557
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Speaker 1: changes because I owned several vehicles. I called them back

558
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Speaker 1: up on the last one because it was one week

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Speaker 1: from when I had taken the vehicle in, and they said,

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Speaker 1: we don't do break inspection. So I went back and

561
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Speaker 1: I looked at the particular sheet and sure enough, nowhere

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Speaker 1: on there did it say break inspection at all. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So this was I want to say quick, but not quick.

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Speaker 1: It was. It was a sixty synthetics oil change, and

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Speaker 1: I got a print out of what they found, and

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Speaker 1: they actually found nothing other than it was about a

567
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Speaker 1: half a quart low when I brought it in. And

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Speaker 1: I was amazed because in the past, at this particular

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Speaker 1: big box store, they always did a break inspection or

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Speaker 1: whether it was visual or not. Okay, what what prompted

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Speaker 1: the call was a couple of weeks ago, you had

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Speaker 1: another caller had called in about breaks, and I was

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Speaker 1: referring to when I had taken a different vehicle in

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Speaker 1: that it also needed breaks. And when I went back

575
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Speaker 1: to question him, he said, well, all we do is

576
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Speaker 1: either visually look at the front calip or we look

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Speaker 1: at the right front tire. And that's when I I

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Speaker 1: was just shocked that when I see the word brak

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Speaker 1: inspection I'm thinking in the old days, they pull the

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Speaker 1: wheels off well and you know what, and to do

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Speaker 1: it properly. That is how it's supposed to be done.

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Speaker 1: But you know it's it's we're we're living in a

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Speaker 1: day and age where so many people either don't understand

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Speaker 1: order repair and proper maintenance or they claim that they do,

585
00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:27,960
Speaker 1: which I think they're even more dangerous, and just looking

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Speaker 1: at the right front wheel or the left rear somehow

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Speaker 1: satisfies them. And it really, like I said, comes back

588
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Speaker 1: to once a year. All the brakes, all the wheels

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Speaker 1: should be pulled, brakes should be inspected, even if it's

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Speaker 1: a four wheel disccar. Can do the calipers move? Do

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00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:46,440
Speaker 1: they rock? Are the slides free? Are there any signs

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Speaker 1: of rust on the pads where they're resting in the

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00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:51,960
Speaker 1: brackets showing that they're starting to season bind? But annual

594
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:54,680
Speaker 1: maintenance has really become a thing of the past where

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Speaker 1: people are putting it off more and more and just

596
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Speaker 1: driving that car until it actually has a problem and

597
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:03,440
Speaker 1: then maybe they decided to replace the car. Ryan, you

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Speaker 1: hit the nail on the head. It needs to be

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Speaker 1: annual maintenance on those brakes and if people aren't doing it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they need to pay attention. And this couldn't

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Speaker 1: be more appropriate for today's show. So thank you. You're

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00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:17,640
Speaker 1: very welcome. Jeff, thank you very much, and uh you

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Speaker 1: have a great, great new year out there in Appleton, Wisconsin.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate you being a listener amongst so many. I'm

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Speaker 1: running any in the Car Doctor. I'm back right after this.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back on any of the Car Doctor here at

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Speaker 1: eight five five five six zero nine nine zero zeros.

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Speaker 1: We kind of wind things down this hour. Keep in

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Speaker 1: mind that is the Car Doctor seven number eight five

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Speaker 1: five zero zero zero. Leave a message if we're not

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Speaker 1: on the air, and fast Terror executive producer will call

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Speaker 1: you back and put you in the lineup for the

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Speaker 1: following week. By the way, I want to point out

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Speaker 1: for Jeff and Appleton and I didn't I didn't mention

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Speaker 1: it when he was on air for any of the

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Speaker 1: other listeners. If you get out to my website, are

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Speaker 1: a auto dot com six letters are a auto dot Com.

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Speaker 1: Scroll over to the services tab. There's a checklist there

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Speaker 1: that we use in the shop and it's just a

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Speaker 1: real simple it's an informational thing. Feel free to copy it.

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Speaker 1: Do whatever you want with it, but it's just some

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00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:30,280
Speaker 1: suggested maintenance to do at various intervals and in terms

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Speaker 1: of you know, annual break inspection, maintenance, how often to

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Speaker 1: do things like that, and what to do with certain mileage.

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Speaker 1: And it's a little all to have an updated and

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Speaker 1: open GS forever. But it's still applicable, and I was

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Speaker 1: looking at it recently and I've got some changes I

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Speaker 1: want to make, but the majority of it, I would

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Speaker 1: say it is still spot on and feel free to

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Speaker 1: use that as a guideline for what to do to

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Speaker 1: your car and when real quick piece of email. Ron

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Speaker 1: my ninety eight Ranger four oh automatic trans hundred fifty

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Speaker 1: six thousand miles has developed a rough idol at cold

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Speaker 1: startup after sitting overnight. It idols rough for few between

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Speaker 1: the twenty two and then one's fine. It's got new

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Speaker 1: air and fuel filters. I drive this truck back and

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Speaker 1: forth to work hundred fifty miles a week, mostly on interstate.

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Speaker 1: No hesitation, misfire, stalling or check engine lights. I'm thinking

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Speaker 1: if I don't address the issue now, it will eventually

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Speaker 1: get worse, especially in the fall and winter. As I

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00:35:13,719 --> 00:35:15,840
Speaker 1: live in the northern part of Virginia. I've done some

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Speaker 1: research online and people are talking about dirty or bad

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Speaker 1: massterilflow sensors or the same with idal air control that

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Speaker 1: appreciate your thoughts on what could be the problem, Jim, Um, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot to talk about here, Jim. One of

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Speaker 1: the things to keep in mind is simple stuff with

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Speaker 1: a scan tool. When you go to start it up cold,

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Speaker 1: before you turn the engine to crank, just turn the

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Speaker 1: key on. Using a scan tool, look at intake air

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Speaker 1: temp and look at coolant temp. If the vehicle has

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Speaker 1: been sitting for an eight hour eight hours soaked, both

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Speaker 1: of those should match. They should be If not the same,

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Speaker 1: they should be within ten degrees of each other. Anything

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Speaker 1: more than that, we're gonna start to question the validity

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Speaker 1: of those sensors. Could they be out of skew. Second,

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Speaker 1: if you want pull one spark plug before you go started,

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Speaker 1: is that plug fuel failed? Could we possibly have fuel

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Speaker 1: dripping out of the injectors causing it to run rough

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Speaker 1: like it is? Second? Or Third? Is it consuming any oil?

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Speaker 1: Could we have an oil consumption issue? Could we have

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Speaker 1: oil dripping down pasts, stems and seals out of the

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Speaker 1: valves and causing that particular problem. So before we just

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Speaker 1: jump on what the internet says, let's do a little

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Speaker 1: diagnosis and we can kind of take it from there.

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Speaker 1: I'm runing any in the car doctor, reminding you the

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Speaker 1: mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. See you,