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Speaker 1: Ronan the Car Doctor. It's five unition to explore strange

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Speaker 1: new worlds, to seek out new life, new civilizations too,

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Speaker 1: when no one has gotten before. Ronanian, did you ever

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Speaker 1: notice that sometimes your work week just flows really well.

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Speaker 1: It's you know, Monday to Tuesday to Wednesday, and Thursday

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Speaker 1: the next, and it's very predictable and very smooth, and

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Speaker 1: just right out the door. He's got the Car Doctor.

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Speaker 1: And now they're telling me that they can't get oil

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Speaker 1: I don't know what to do. Boy, that's weird. The

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Speaker 1: recall correctly. Welcome to the radio ham of ron and

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Speaker 1: an Ian 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 call in the garage orders

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Speaker 1: are open, but I am here to take your calls

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Speaker 1: at eight five five six and now running. I think

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Speaker 1: there's a disconnect between this younger generation in cars. I

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Speaker 1: really do. And I don't say no disrespect, not in

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Speaker 1: a negative way, just I don't know if kids today

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Speaker 1: people today, you know, make that connection that maintenance equals

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Speaker 1: a longer, safer, more reliable running vehicle. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if that's they're like it once was in my generation

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Speaker 1: War Two? Right, we learned how to do maintenance and

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Speaker 1: things last, use it up, wear it out, don't and

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Speaker 1: learned maintenance right, maintenance repair, keep it going eight years,

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Speaker 1: the road today is longer. Okay, you know, I think

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Speaker 1: I look at the younger general ration. They're all driving

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Speaker 1: but you know a lot of that generation is driving

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Speaker 1: much much nicer cars, right, you know, fastest cell phone,

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Speaker 1: we've got to have a newer vehicle. There's no gradual generation.

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Speaker 1: There's no you know, you don't go from a Chevrolet

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Speaker 1: We've we've trained people that, you know, quick maintenance, little maintenance,

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Speaker 1: remember Harry Nadler. Harry Nadler's long gone. He was my

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Speaker 1: coming from. It's coming from somebody's tax budget. But again,

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Speaker 1: And you know, his one comment to me, and this

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Speaker 1: a fossil fuel vehicle. In some cases it's nuclear, great,

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Speaker 1: there's a good alternative, But everything else, it's fossil fuel

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Speaker 1: is what's generating the electricity that comes out of the walls.

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Speaker 1: And I know somebody's gonna write me an email and go, no, Ron,

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Speaker 1: I'm on solar. Good you're the two. Okay, congratulations. You know,

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Speaker 1: at Car Doctor show dot com. Be warrant fair game.

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Speaker 1: because I'm just here to report the news and the events.

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Speaker 1: and talk to John and Connecticut. Who's got a tractor question? Sure?

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Speaker 1: can I help you? Um? Well, I have a newer

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Speaker 1: Do you see any damage from the mice. Did they

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Speaker 1: It's it's sure, it's sure, couldn't hurt engine kick well whatever, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Good luck to you, John, I appreciate the call. I'm

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Speaker 1: How to finish the car? Um? Of course it's Friday.

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Speaker 1: It kind of gets me crazed. I actually met someone

426
00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:24,479
Speaker 1: the other day and she was telling me she was

427
00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:27,920
Speaker 1: on food stamps and welfare with her three kids, struggling

428
00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:30,119
Speaker 1: to get by. And we talked a little bit. We

429
00:22:30,119 --> 00:22:32,639
Speaker 1: were inside the mall, and and then I watched her

430
00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:35,199
Speaker 1: leave and she climbed into a brand new Mercedes and

431
00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:37,919
Speaker 1: I kind of scratched. I scratched my head, like, what

432
00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:41,960
Speaker 1: am I missing? Uh, Well, it's because they've never learned

433
00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:45,200
Speaker 1: to let they never learned the lessons of the depression,

434
00:22:45,359 --> 00:22:50,440
Speaker 1: or from their grandmother or grandfather, or they've forgotten them. Right. Yeah,

435
00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:55,520
Speaker 1: they've forgotten. Um, I don't know. I I think it

436
00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:58,200
Speaker 1: is a mark on society that we're all just kind

437
00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:01,360
Speaker 1: of missing that, you know, things go by. I think

438
00:23:01,359 --> 00:23:03,639
Speaker 1: the other thing that we're that that leaves me in

439
00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:07,000
Speaker 1: amazement at the younger generation. I don't say younger generation

440
00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:09,720
Speaker 1: in a bad way. It's just it's they're younger than me.

441
00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:12,840
Speaker 1: Is a lot of them do not want to drive.

442
00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:17,000
Speaker 1: They don't want to get their driver's license, and and

443
00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,359
Speaker 1: that that one leaves me scratching my head a whole

444
00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:21,800
Speaker 1: lot more. They would just climb into an Uber and

445
00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:23,800
Speaker 1: and you know, Uber has got its place. It's nice

446
00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:26,320
Speaker 1: to get rideshare. If you're fifteen, sixteen years old, you

447
00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:28,280
Speaker 1: can't get a license. You want to get to your

448
00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:30,000
Speaker 1: friend's house, you want to go hang out downtown, you

449
00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:31,800
Speaker 1: want to get out of the house Saturday. I get that,

450
00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:35,040
Speaker 1: but my god, you know, driving a car was a

451
00:23:35,119 --> 00:23:38,560
Speaker 1: rite of passage when well, that's why some of these

452
00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:42,320
Speaker 1: people who try to steal standard transmission don't know how

453
00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:44,840
Speaker 1: to drive one and they get caught. That is that

454
00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:49,199
Speaker 1: is an anti theft device? Right? Um? I bet you know,

455
00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:53,240
Speaker 1: I bet if you look, there are companies out there

456
00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:57,080
Speaker 1: and at what cost. But there are companies out there

457
00:23:57,880 --> 00:24:01,080
Speaker 1: that would sell an electronic a trophit kit to put

458
00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:05,000
Speaker 1: electronic fuel injection on that older vehicle. What they it

459
00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:07,119
Speaker 1: sounds like what Vermont wants is they want an O

460
00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:10,440
Speaker 1: B D two diagnostic port. But I bet you there's

461
00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:12,800
Speaker 1: there's got to be something that clarifies that. There's got

462
00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:16,200
Speaker 1: to be an exemption. Doesn't Vermont allow you to register

463
00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:22,040
Speaker 1: classic or older vehicles? I was trying to do that,

464
00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:26,080
Speaker 1: but at the point I was at I was on

465
00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:29,960
Speaker 1: food stamps and medicaid. I had gone blind with cataracts,

466
00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:33,360
Speaker 1: so I couldn't drive her for a while and had

467
00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:35,840
Speaker 1: to have cataracts surgery before I could drive her, And

468
00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:38,800
Speaker 1: by then I didn't have enough money to fix her

469
00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:41,440
Speaker 1: up or even to find out. You know, it was

470
00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:43,400
Speaker 1: getting to the point where I couldn't even get her

471
00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:49,240
Speaker 1: inspected because she needed work. And if you don't, if

472
00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:51,600
Speaker 1: you met meddled with an old car like that and

473
00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:55,680
Speaker 1: converting it to electric, it won't sell because they want original.

474
00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:59,600
Speaker 1: The collectors want original, and when she's over forty five

475
00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:02,680
Speaker 1: years old, you're not going to sell her as original

476
00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:05,919
Speaker 1: if you've retrofitted or to electric, of course if if

477
00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:08,159
Speaker 1: you can get buy and continue to inspect it in Vermont,

478
00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:12,159
Speaker 1: then you'll never sell it. Oh, by the way, the

479
00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:14,920
Speaker 1: the guy with the tractor, Yeah, I grew up on

480
00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:18,800
Speaker 1: a farm. You take it to a dealer. I won't

481
00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:21,720
Speaker 1: name the name, but you know they they have Green

482
00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:28,399
Speaker 1: we call him Green Cadillacs. And they usually not only

483
00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:34,640
Speaker 1: notes there, uh materials and and and stuff, but they

484
00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:39,040
Speaker 1: will usually have somebody who fix something that's not a

485
00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:45,800
Speaker 1: John j d Yeah. Yeah, it's okay, you can say

486
00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:50,400
Speaker 1: John Dear. You know I'm not bashful. Um my brother

487
00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:53,080
Speaker 1: used to fix tractors for them. Let me ask you

488
00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:56,440
Speaker 1: a question. Actually, with toffee, let me ask you a question. Okay,

489
00:25:56,680 --> 00:26:00,360
Speaker 1: not the interruption, but I'm gonna real quick. I can,

490
00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:02,760
Speaker 1: I can. It's always interesting to ask someone of your

491
00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:05,240
Speaker 1: caliber this question. What kind of card? You learned to

492
00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:11,240
Speaker 1: drive on a Ford Galaxy five hundred and it drove

493
00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:15,600
Speaker 1: like a boat. Year What year was it? Well? I

494
00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:20,600
Speaker 1: think my father got it because it was a demonstration

495
00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:25,439
Speaker 1: at the dealership. It had no cigarette light or no radio,

496
00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:30,760
Speaker 1: and it was seventy It was either a model from

497
00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:37,800
Speaker 1: seventy one or seventy two. Because I started driving in two. Okay, um, yeah,

498
00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:42,320
Speaker 1: it's interesting. Everybody always kind of remembers their first car. So, well,

499
00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:44,199
Speaker 1: it wasn't my car, it was my father's. Well, so

500
00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:46,359
Speaker 1: it was always it was always it was always a

501
00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:51,200
Speaker 1: father's car. Yeah, exactly. Was it a stick or an automatic? Automatic? Well,

502
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:53,959
Speaker 1: actually it was an automatic because that was what they

503
00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:58,320
Speaker 1: were pushing. Then can you drive stick? Oh? Yeah, that's

504
00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:02,000
Speaker 1: what my that's what my jeepla Yeah, okay. Jeep Cherokee

505
00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:05,560
Speaker 1: was nothing. This was like the first Jeep Cherokee. We

506
00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 1: had had nothing power except the steering. And even if

507
00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:12,920
Speaker 1: the steering lost power, I could still drive it enough

508
00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:15,439
Speaker 1: to get at home because I was strong enough to

509
00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:19,200
Speaker 1: turn the wheel. These young people today aren't strong enough.

510
00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:21,320
Speaker 1: Can you do me a favor? Can you do a

511
00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:23,040
Speaker 1: little research for us and we'll talk about it up

512
00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:25,159
Speaker 1: here on air, because I'm fascinated by this that Vermont

513
00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:28,040
Speaker 1: is doing this. If you find anything that a link

514
00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:30,639
Speaker 1: that talks about the lawn Vermont as far as inspection

515
00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:32,960
Speaker 1: that describes the details, would you email it to me

516
00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:37,520
Speaker 1: Ron at card Doctor Show dot com. I don't have Internet.

517
00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:40,639
Speaker 1: If you want to look that up. To go to

518
00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:46,320
Speaker 1: the State of Vermont's website, and from there you should

519
00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:48,840
Speaker 1: be able to find your way to whoever is in

520
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:52,639
Speaker 1: the depart d mv okay. So it's it's plain and simple.

521
00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:56,719
Speaker 1: It's up on the website. Everything's on the website. Because

522
00:27:56,760 --> 00:28:00,920
Speaker 1: this is a tourist state, they want everybody have access

523
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:03,879
Speaker 1: by internet, and that makes it it's very difficult when

524
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:06,960
Speaker 1: you don't have internet because you can't afford it because

525
00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:11,320
Speaker 1: you're on so security. Gotcha, gotcha, Toffee, You're I appreciate

526
00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:14,480
Speaker 1: the call you you you brought some very interesting points

527
00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:17,560
Speaker 1: up today, so you'd be well and stay safe, take

528
00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:21,280
Speaker 1: good care. Zero zero. You can be up next with

529
00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:22,760
Speaker 1: the car doctor. I'm Ron and any and I'll be

530
00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:38,200
Speaker 1: back right after this. Welcome back where I'm nating the

531
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:39,760
Speaker 1: car doctor. I got a lot of comments to make

532
00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:42,000
Speaker 1: about the things Coffee and I were talking about. But

533
00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:44,200
Speaker 1: right now, let's go over to Bob in Wisconsin fifteen

534
00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:46,520
Speaker 1: equinox and see what's going on here. Bob. Welcome to

535
00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:49,480
Speaker 1: the car Doctor, sir. How can I help Well, I

536
00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:52,160
Speaker 1: called the left my name and you clad I believe

537
00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:54,640
Speaker 1: you called me back and I was not available at

538
00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:57,160
Speaker 1: the time to take the call. But I have a

539
00:28:57,240 --> 00:29:01,040
Speaker 1: fifteen equal Ox. I had the oil change, and when

540
00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:04,760
Speaker 1: I got my car back from the dealership, the compass

541
00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:10,760
Speaker 1: now is not working anymore. And uh, I followed all

542
00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:15,360
Speaker 1: the instructions that they've said to do. I've even gone

543
00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:18,440
Speaker 1: out and done figure it's in parking lots, that's the truck.

544
00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:22,080
Speaker 1: That's what they want you to do. Um And I've

545
00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:26,040
Speaker 1: done everything, and I've got approximately six miles on the car,

546
00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:31,480
Speaker 1: and I still says, calibrate on it? Did they Did

547
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:35,160
Speaker 1: you talk to the dealership that did the oil change? Yes?

548
00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:38,840
Speaker 1: I did. And what they say they says, well, you

549
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:41,320
Speaker 1: can give us a hundred and twenty and we'll do

550
00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:46,400
Speaker 1: a diagnostic on it. Has this been your Has this

551
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:50,040
Speaker 1: been your dealership or even going all this time, Bob, Yes,

552
00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:55,320
Speaker 1: OK So I know of no reason why doing an

553
00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:58,560
Speaker 1: oil change would affect compass calibration. I have seen them

554
00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:03,760
Speaker 1: lose their calibration, all right, And you know then it's

555
00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:06,520
Speaker 1: then it's I only think that they and I can't

556
00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:09,160
Speaker 1: say that I've I can't say that I've ever seen

557
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:12,080
Speaker 1: one lost as a result of an oil change. I've

558
00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:14,240
Speaker 1: seen them roll out the door of the shop and

559
00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:18,040
Speaker 1: it'll say compass not calibrated. And before I get to

560
00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:20,200
Speaker 1: the corner and make the right, it's already picked it

561
00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:22,600
Speaker 1: back up, like it lost signal, it lost its moment

562
00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:26,160
Speaker 1: and it had a hiccup, you know. And then at

563
00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 1: the worst, I'll drive down to the parking lot by

564
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:30,640
Speaker 1: the town pool and do the figure eights and it

565
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:33,840
Speaker 1: comes right back. Uh. You know, I've never seen when

566
00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:39,760
Speaker 1: actually failed to the point like you're describing. So you know, unfortunately,

567
00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:42,120
Speaker 1: you're sort of at their mercy that until you know

568
00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:44,520
Speaker 1: what acts, what actually failed, you can't even argue the

569
00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:47,360
Speaker 1: point that it was working prior to the oil change

570
00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:51,280
Speaker 1: and now it doesn't. I that's that's the point I

571
00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:57,160
Speaker 1: went in with, and they as much as said, it's

572
00:30:57,200 --> 00:30:59,360
Speaker 1: not our problem. Here, give me a hundred and twenty

573
00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:02,600
Speaker 1: fives and I'll do a diagnostic for you. So you

574
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 1: know what they're telling you, right, You know what they're

575
00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:10,760
Speaker 1: telling They don't want to be your repair They don't

576
00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:12,360
Speaker 1: want to they don't want to be your repair shop.

577
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:16,520
Speaker 1: You know, My father and I tell this story from

578
00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:20,240
Speaker 1: time to time on air. I remember in nineteen sixty five,

579
00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:22,200
Speaker 1: sitting at the kitchen table. I was a little kid,

580
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:24,760
Speaker 1: I must have been ten. My father was telling my

581
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:27,280
Speaker 1: mom that it would be home late the next couple

582
00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:29,000
Speaker 1: of nights because he had to go out to the

583
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:31,960
Speaker 1: I want to say the Hackley School for Boys here

584
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:35,840
Speaker 1: in northwest New Jersey, or is in Westchester. I don't

585
00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:37,920
Speaker 1: remember which it's it's been a while now, my memory

586
00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:41,200
Speaker 1: gets foggy. But he had to relay the carpeting that

587
00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:45,000
Speaker 1: he had done five years prior, and my mother said

588
00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:47,320
Speaker 1: to him, I'll never forget this. My mother said to him,

589
00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:50,320
Speaker 1: but why Harry? He was a Harry. Also, why Harry,

590
00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:53,240
Speaker 1: you know you did that job five years ago. What

591
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:54,880
Speaker 1: what difference does it make? And he said, because you

592
00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:58,160
Speaker 1: only get one chance to annoy a customer, and there's

593
00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:00,440
Speaker 1: still my customer and they still call me for service.

594
00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:03,320
Speaker 1: And that's what the dealership is missing. I get it

595
00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:05,040
Speaker 1: that a tech has to be paid to walk out

596
00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:07,160
Speaker 1: there and plug in a scan tool, but I think

597
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:08,800
Speaker 1: if they plugged in a scan tool and did a

598
00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:11,160
Speaker 1: quick diagnostic, and they probably already got an idea of

599
00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:13,480
Speaker 1: what's wrong with that car, they would win you over

600
00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:16,960
Speaker 1: as a customer versus annoy you the way they are.

601
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:23,560
Speaker 1: Fair point, that's just I just had a turn signal

602
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:27,040
Speaker 1: light go out and I saw the information as to

603
00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:31,000
Speaker 1: how General Motors wants them to fix that, to take

604
00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:34,960
Speaker 1: the front right. Yep, yep, I'll tell you what pop.

605
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:37,160
Speaker 1: Hold on, hold on, hold on one second. I don't

606
00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:38,760
Speaker 1: want to rush this. Let me pull over, take the pause.

607
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:40,600
Speaker 1: We'll finish when we come back. I'm run on any

608
00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:42,120
Speaker 1: of the car doctor. We'll be back right after this.

609
00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:53,000
Speaker 1: Don't go away, welcome back. Let's go over and talk

610
00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 1: to Bob. You're still here, sir. You got a comment

611
00:32:56,680 --> 00:33:00,280
Speaker 1: about parking light bulbs on your fifteen equal knocks? Yeah? Uh.

612
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:03,720
Speaker 1: And I took it back to the guy that the

613
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:07,720
Speaker 1: gentleman that I usually does all my work, and he

614
00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:13,080
Speaker 1: fixed it for thirty three dollars. He could. He reached

615
00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:18,560
Speaker 1: underneath the fender and he disconnected the socket and pulled

616
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:20,680
Speaker 1: it out and put the blue ball in and put

617
00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:23,000
Speaker 1: it back in. But I was just looking at what

618
00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:25,840
Speaker 1: it would have possibly have cost me if I would

619
00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:29,760
Speaker 1: have taken it to the dealer and they done. So.

620
00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:32,240
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this, has the dealer been doing

621
00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:34,400
Speaker 1: all your service work or has this other guy been

622
00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:37,440
Speaker 1: doing all your service work? The dealer the dealer where

623
00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:40,200
Speaker 1: I bought it from. So you've been you've been a

624
00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:43,840
Speaker 1: customer of this dealership for six years. I bought the car.

625
00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:48,360
Speaker 1: There they've been doing okay, well, it's a fifteen, it's

626
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:50,360
Speaker 1: twenty one, it's got to be five or six years, right,

627
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:54,000
Speaker 1: And and they've been doing all your service and repairs

628
00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:55,480
Speaker 1: up to this point. How many miles does the car

629
00:33:55,520 --> 00:34:01,000
Speaker 1: have on it? So? Have you done breaks on it yet?

630
00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:06,160
Speaker 1: Have you done tires on it yet? So let me

631
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:08,359
Speaker 1: show you the stupidity of some of some people in

632
00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:11,440
Speaker 1: this business. You are about to enter what I call

633
00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:14,040
Speaker 1: the fat spot. All right, You're about to enter the

634
00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:16,640
Speaker 1: point where this vehicle will need breaks, where this vehicle

635
00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:18,840
Speaker 1: will be coming due for tires in the next two years,

636
00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:22,440
Speaker 1: and they're about to turn you away, not to even

637
00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:25,440
Speaker 1: look and consider could it have been something they brushed

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Speaker 1: up against? I mean, listen, this could just be a fluke.

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Speaker 1: It could really have a bad part that just went bad,

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Speaker 1: having nothing to do with the oil change. But aren't

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Speaker 1: they obligated to look? Aren't they obligated to take a peek?

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Speaker 1: You know, we had a customer this week. We had

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Speaker 1: balanced and rotated four tires in her Honda Civic a

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Speaker 1: week ago, two weeks ago, she called me up and says, hey,

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Speaker 1: I've got this vibration in the front end the left

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Speaker 1: front tire A half bounce weight took more. It took

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Speaker 1: a half bounce more weight per fault. A pothole. I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I fixed it, no charge. She looked at

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Speaker 1: me like she was stunned. You got to give the

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Speaker 1: customer the benefit of the doubt. I'm not a ady

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

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Speaker 1: they're priceless. See you