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Speaker 1: What a time period, right, Bill to look back at

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

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

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Speaker 1: at eight five five five six and now running. Hey,

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Speaker 1: welcome aboard Ron An Indian at your service. Slipped some

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Speaker 1: You know what, there's a lot of calls this hour.

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Speaker 1: Let's jump right out there to Dwayne in Iowa and

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Speaker 1: Welcome upwards, sir? How can I help? Thank you? Ron?

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Speaker 1: Welcome um a Chevy DURHAMAX Diesel that we purchased brand new,

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Speaker 1: like being Sherlock Holmes. I say, Watson, come here. Let's uh.

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Speaker 1: Dr Watson? To be continued when the car Doctor returns,

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Speaker 1: I'm Ronanny, and don't go away. We're back right after this.

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Speaker 1: Ronny in the car Doctor five five five zero nine

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Speaker 1: All right? Because those those the tools are pretty infallible

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00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:54,640
Speaker 1: if they if they're used correctly, unless something was forced.

424
00:23:55,560 --> 00:23:58,080
Speaker 1: So the issue here is, you know, do you put

425
00:23:58,080 --> 00:24:02,560
Speaker 1: two grand into an OH six Mercury fourteen fifteen years old? Yeah?

426
00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:04,200
Speaker 1: I think you do if the rest of the trucks

427
00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:07,160
Speaker 1: in good shape, because, as I've pointed out, vehicles used

428
00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:11,639
Speaker 1: vehicles right now are very very expensive, and uh, you know,

429
00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:16,040
Speaker 1: to try and resolve this by other means. The only

430
00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:18,719
Speaker 1: thing you could try you might want to do, is

431
00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:21,760
Speaker 1: could you talk to the manufacturer of the tool, explain

432
00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:23,800
Speaker 1: it to them, Do they have any suggestions? You know,

433
00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:26,399
Speaker 1: the issue isn't The issue isn't getting it out of

434
00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:30,240
Speaker 1: the head. The issue, in my opinion, will be what

435
00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:33,160
Speaker 1: damage has it done? Because if it's in there stuck,

436
00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:37,399
Speaker 1: what did it chew up? What did it damage? What

437
00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:40,200
Speaker 1: did it change? Did it elongate? Did it reshape the

438
00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:43,760
Speaker 1: spark plug hole? Is the whole you know, so badly

439
00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:46,920
Speaker 1: gouged up that you couldn't re threat it on the vehicle. Um,

440
00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:48,840
Speaker 1: And I'm sure it's one of the back plugs, because

441
00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:50,960
Speaker 1: it's always the back cylinder head plugs, the ones you

442
00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:53,800
Speaker 1: don't have direct access to that gets stuck or screwed up,

443
00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:56,160
Speaker 1: the ones that are the hardest to get to. So UM,

444
00:24:56,680 --> 00:25:00,320
Speaker 1: I say, talked to the tool manufacturer. First, talk to

445
00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:03,080
Speaker 1: your mechanics. Second, there's gonna be a failsafe point where

446
00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:07,560
Speaker 1: we try everything lest ditch attempt and then pull the head,

447
00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:09,399
Speaker 1: pull ahead and send the head out and get the

448
00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:11,840
Speaker 1: head fixed if the rest of the truck warrants it.

449
00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:14,960
Speaker 1: But look very carefully. Rushed on the brake lines, rushed

450
00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:18,879
Speaker 1: around the fuel filter area, rusted on the exhaust system.

451
00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:22,240
Speaker 1: You know what sort of problems, um, could this vehicle

452
00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:24,800
Speaker 1: potentially have in the next four to six months. You

453
00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:26,399
Speaker 1: know how many miles are on it? You failed to

454
00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:28,800
Speaker 1: say that in your email, Robin, Um, but you know

455
00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:31,720
Speaker 1: if it's if it's got higher mileage on it, you

456
00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:33,240
Speaker 1: know you've always got to play the same game I

457
00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:36,719
Speaker 1: give everybody. If the vehicle you're working on, you know,

458
00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:41,320
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, six months from now, if the transmission failed,

459
00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:43,679
Speaker 1: would you put a trans in the car? You know,

460
00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:46,080
Speaker 1: if the answer to that is no, look at the

461
00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:48,439
Speaker 1: trans fluid. If the trans fluid is black and beat up,

462
00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:52,000
Speaker 1: if there's other problems with the vehicle, you're about to

463
00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:55,480
Speaker 1: get married. Um, you know you may not want to

464
00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:57,520
Speaker 1: do that. So just just my two cents. I wish

465
00:25:57,560 --> 00:26:01,000
Speaker 1: I had a better answer for you. But yeah, that's

466
00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:02,720
Speaker 1: a tough that's a tough hole to climb out of.

467
00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:05,760
Speaker 1: A five five zero nine zero running the end of

468
00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:18,240
Speaker 1: the car doctor, We're back right after this. Whantn't need

469
00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:20,280
Speaker 1: the car doctor at your service? Eight five five five

470
00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:24,159
Speaker 1: zero zero. I was listening to the spots during the

471
00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:27,639
Speaker 1: break and I the PB blaster spot you know, it

472
00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:30,240
Speaker 1: kind of made me. Remember, you know, I don't talk

473
00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:34,680
Speaker 1: about it enough, but I had to take the differential

474
00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:39,400
Speaker 1: out of a team four to escape this week. And

475
00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:43,560
Speaker 1: it's amazing how in just seven short years how rusty

476
00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:47,840
Speaker 1: everything can get, especially the vehicle came from Pittsburgh where

477
00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:51,080
Speaker 1: you know, high soult content, lots of snow um, traveling

478
00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:53,840
Speaker 1: seventy eight and Route eighties. Uh, you know, in all

479
00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:56,960
Speaker 1: kinds of weather, and and I couldn't help but think,

480
00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:58,680
Speaker 1: and I said, I've got to talk about this a

481
00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:00,560
Speaker 1: little bit because I don't know if everybody he gets it.

482
00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:06,520
Speaker 1: But P B. Blaster redesigned their cans so that there

483
00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 1: is they call it a pro strow, so the straw

484
00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:12,400
Speaker 1: is always attached to the can. But then there's a

485
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:15,600
Speaker 1: flow valve so you can there's a little tab in

486
00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:19,439
Speaker 1: the back that you slide side to side, and it

487
00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:23,560
Speaker 1: controls the flow so you're not spraying wildly. You don't

488
00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:26,159
Speaker 1: come out with your glasses all covered. Um. You know

489
00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:29,000
Speaker 1: with P P Blaster um, you know, you you spray

490
00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:32,080
Speaker 1: some drops on there, you can actually control it. It

491
00:27:32,119 --> 00:27:34,960
Speaker 1: works very well. I mean, the product itself is unbelievable,

492
00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:38,560
Speaker 1: but the flow control valve just makes it work. Oh

493
00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:41,840
Speaker 1: my gosh, it's just it's phenomenal. And um, you just

494
00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:44,440
Speaker 1: gotta take a look at it. If you haven't yet, UM,

495
00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:46,479
Speaker 1: you just you just have to take a look at

496
00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:49,000
Speaker 1: It's an absolute must. Um. I want to do this

497
00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:51,679
Speaker 1: real fix from Mitchell real quick because I thought this

498
00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:53,760
Speaker 1: kind of hit the point home. UM. By the way,

499
00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:57,679
Speaker 1: more information at um uh on their website at Blaster

500
00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:00,760
Speaker 1: Corp dot com, so you can read about P B.

501
00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:03,960
Speaker 1: Blaster and all their products. But the the the flow

502
00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:06,840
Speaker 1: control valve, the nozzles are just unbelievable. I want to

503
00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:09,399
Speaker 1: do this real fix from mitchell Uh real quick. And

504
00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:11,040
Speaker 1: it talks a little bit that kind of hits the

505
00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:15,199
Speaker 1: point about diagnosing against bad parts because parts are just

506
00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:19,040
Speaker 1: clearly an issue. UM. And this particular real fix sure

507
00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:20,760
Speaker 1: track Fix of the Week from the folks at Mitchell

508
00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:24,000
Speaker 1: one dot com is all about the pilot, the battery

509
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:26,280
Speaker 1: warning lights on the customers complaining that the lights coming

510
00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:29,159
Speaker 1: on and off, the alternator has been replaced once or

511
00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:31,840
Speaker 1: twice before, and they don't seem to beginning anywhere. So

512
00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:34,360
Speaker 1: the fella, the technician that worked on it, went through

513
00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:36,320
Speaker 1: a basic checklist. He went through and he looked at

514
00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:40,320
Speaker 1: system voltage. He went through and measured wiring on specific

515
00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:42,360
Speaker 1: pinouts at the connector at the back of the harness.

516
00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:45,800
Speaker 1: No understand this generation Honda has an e l D

517
00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:49,360
Speaker 1: and electrical load detection system that they actually turned the

518
00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:54,880
Speaker 1: alternator off. They stopped charging at certain conditions, usually at

519
00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:58,400
Speaker 1: IDOL or under a load node no load required condition.

520
00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:01,160
Speaker 1: You know the batteries at Capac City. There's not a

521
00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:03,480
Speaker 1: lot of electrical load on the system. They will play

522
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:06,200
Speaker 1: with turning the electrical load on and off, or I'm sorry,

523
00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:08,520
Speaker 1: turning the alternator on and off, because the electrical load

524
00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:11,680
Speaker 1: isn't as as strenuous as it as it need as

525
00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:14,320
Speaker 1: it is as it once was um at that moment.

526
00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:17,200
Speaker 1: So the alternator was replaced, but they were still getting

527
00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:22,600
Speaker 1: a light on at the dashboard and after some diagnosis,

528
00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:25,680
Speaker 1: the repair shop decided because it was a radic voltage

529
00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:28,960
Speaker 1: coming out of the alternator, that the replacement alternator was bad.

530
00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:31,360
Speaker 1: Heyy like that a bad new part? How could that happen?

531
00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:35,000
Speaker 1: They went out to their local Oreillyoto Parts. They talked

532
00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:39,240
Speaker 1: about and they purchased an alternator from O'Reilly Oto Parts,

533
00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:42,360
Speaker 1: put it on in the problem solved, and yeah, why

534
00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:44,600
Speaker 1: wouldn't it be right? We know that O'reillyoto Parts is

535
00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:47,520
Speaker 1: going to carry the good stuff. More information at orillyoto

536
00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:51,560
Speaker 1: dot com. But the point becomes that it's not just

537
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:55,080
Speaker 1: a matter of diagnosing good part, bad part, or problem

538
00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:57,440
Speaker 1: to get to the root, cause you've got to know

539
00:29:57,560 --> 00:30:01,000
Speaker 1: the part you're putting in his quality. And it's a concern.

540
00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:04,200
Speaker 1: All right. I can't stress this enough when you're out

541
00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:07,280
Speaker 1: there trying to work on your own car, that what

542
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:09,719
Speaker 1: you're putting in, You've got to have faith in the product.

543
00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:12,240
Speaker 1: You've got to know that the product works. Don't be

544
00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:16,800
Speaker 1: tempted by cheap parts. You know, you've got to ask yourself,

545
00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:19,040
Speaker 1: how do they do it so cheap? You ever been

546
00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:22,760
Speaker 1: to a restaurant and the cheeseburgers are just underpriced, and

547
00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:24,000
Speaker 1: you say, how do you how do they do it

548
00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:26,880
Speaker 1: so cheap? And it gives you indigestion? Well, there's a

549
00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:29,880
Speaker 1: reason because it's you know, it's either not cooked right,

550
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:32,640
Speaker 1: it's not good quality stuff. There's something wrong with it

551
00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:35,400
Speaker 1: if they're doing it that cheap. When it comes to

552
00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:38,520
Speaker 1: auto parts, you've got to ask yourself, is there something

553
00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:41,240
Speaker 1: wrong with it? Is there is there a reason why

554
00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:43,880
Speaker 1: it's that cheap, and that's an issue. In the case

555
00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:47,160
Speaker 1: of the Mitchell one fix, they put an alternator in it.

556
00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:50,239
Speaker 1: They got it from their local Oreillyoto parts, put an

557
00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:53,720
Speaker 1: alternator in it, and the vehicle was fixed. And it's

558
00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:58,480
Speaker 1: sometimes it's just that simple. I can't I can't talk

559
00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:02,840
Speaker 1: about that enough. That's just that's just two gushed aren't important? Um?

560
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:05,160
Speaker 1: One last comment and then I'll and then I'll pull

561
00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:07,280
Speaker 1: over and take the pause. Tom Um, I want to

562
00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:09,560
Speaker 1: talk about scan tools real quick, because I keep getting

563
00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:12,760
Speaker 1: this question. The holidays are coming, everybody's looking for a

564
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:15,280
Speaker 1: scan tool. I've got more than a few emails on

565
00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:17,960
Speaker 1: my studio desk talking about you know, I want I

566
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,280
Speaker 1: want to buy this scan tool that works with my laptop.

567
00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:22,320
Speaker 1: I want to buy this scan tool handheld. I want

568
00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:24,640
Speaker 1: to buy this scan tool that works with my Android

569
00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:28,880
Speaker 1: or my iPhone, et cetera. Scan tool. I knew that

570
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:32,520
Speaker 1: was coming, you know what. Let me pull over and

571
00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:35,000
Speaker 1: take the pause. Now, Tom's got me off my game. UM.

572
00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:36,760
Speaker 1: Besides that, if I if I, if I come back

573
00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:38,520
Speaker 1: from what we'll hear from Tony again who we haven't

574
00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:41,080
Speaker 1: heard from whatever happened. Don't even tell me what happened, Tony,

575
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:42,680
Speaker 1: I don't want to know. I'm ring any in the

576
00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:53,160
Speaker 1: car Doctor. I'll be back right after this. Welcome back.

577
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:56,480
Speaker 1: We're on any of the car doctor scan tools. Stop it, Tom,

578
00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:59,840
Speaker 1: don't touch the button. Okay, al right, here it comes,

579
00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:07,840
Speaker 1: I know, is it there? Yeah? Okay, that's his other buddy.

580
00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:10,840
Speaker 1: He's got over there. Behave yourself. I'm trying to finish

581
00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:13,479
Speaker 1: talking about scan tools. You know you're gonna spend two

582
00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:18,640
Speaker 1: three just for giggles. I went out to eBay, all right,

583
00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:24,200
Speaker 1: type in Autel scan tool, all right at eBay, and

584
00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:27,480
Speaker 1: I came up with and there's an authorize. He claims

585
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:30,280
Speaker 1: to be an authorized Autell distributor. So I would check

586
00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:31,800
Speaker 1: that out and make sure he is, and make sure

587
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:33,280
Speaker 1: it's the real thing. And I have every reason to

588
00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:35,760
Speaker 1: believe it is. Everything I read about it seemed. But

589
00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:38,080
Speaker 1: he's selling a brand new MK eight oh eight, which

590
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:41,520
Speaker 1: is current O b D two diagnostic vehicle. You make

591
00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:44,520
Speaker 1: model specific. It does key programming, it does or a

592
00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:48,080
Speaker 1: key fop programming. It does a bunch of functions, a

593
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:52,800
Speaker 1: bunch of functionality under five bucks. So you know you're

594
00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:54,640
Speaker 1: gonna spend two hundred dollars for this thing that goes

595
00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:57,400
Speaker 1: to your little laptop, or you know, three for this

596
00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:00,000
Speaker 1: to make your phone a scan tool, or a hundred buck,

597
00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:03,440
Speaker 1: and you're gonna come up short. You know, if you're

598
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:07,280
Speaker 1: gonna fix cars, you can't fix cars with an empty toolbox,

599
00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:09,720
Speaker 1: all right, Like the fuller brushman said, you can't sell

600
00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:12,440
Speaker 1: phone empty truck, you can't fix cars from an empty box.

601
00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:16,280
Speaker 1: That doesn't work that way. And instead of buying multiple

602
00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:19,320
Speaker 1: tools and keep trying, just bite the bullet. Look, we

603
00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:23,280
Speaker 1: have no problem, it seems, running out and spending five

604
00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:27,120
Speaker 1: eight nine thousand dollars on laptops every couple of years.

605
00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:30,440
Speaker 1: But you know, I get these emails that give me

606
00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:34,880
Speaker 1: the sense that you people are struggling, struggling to buy

607
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:36,719
Speaker 1: a scan tool. You don't you don't seem to want

608
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:38,720
Speaker 1: to pull the trigger. And I don't know, why make

609
00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:41,360
Speaker 1: your life easier by a scantol. Buy something that gives

610
00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:43,440
Speaker 1: you information, by something that at least they'll tell you

611
00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:45,600
Speaker 1: if you're in over your head right away, and you'll

612
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:47,840
Speaker 1: know it's whether it's the car is broken and not

613
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:50,440
Speaker 1: that g whiz does my tool really work? Right? Because

614
00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:53,040
Speaker 1: a lot of these. It's pitch key tools is I

615
00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:55,280
Speaker 1: like to think of them, don't necessarily do what they

616
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:57,280
Speaker 1: need to do, and they don't. They don't, they don't

617
00:33:57,280 --> 00:34:00,400
Speaker 1: do the job. Go out to eBay, type in Autel

618
00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:03,840
Speaker 1: scan tool and um, you know, see what's up there

619
00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:05,960
Speaker 1: for sale. There's also some used things for sale up there,

620
00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:08,120
Speaker 1: and you know, get out and check them out online.

621
00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:10,759
Speaker 1: I believe it's uh, just go google Autel A U

622
00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:13,880
Speaker 1: T E L. It'll take you to their national website.

623
00:34:14,160 --> 00:34:16,879
Speaker 1: You cannot look at that. Hey, let's finish out the show. Today.

624
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:18,920
Speaker 1: We went over to the Facebook page where we're streaming

625
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:21,280
Speaker 1: the show live in case you're somewhere we're an affiliate.

626
00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 1: Doesn't carry us yet yet, because we're coming. Trust me,

627
00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:26,520
Speaker 1: we're coming, brother. And I see Helen Foley is back

628
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:29,720
Speaker 1: up on Facebook. She's uh really appreciative. And Helen, we

629
00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:32,640
Speaker 1: we we really do appreciate your comments and uh, some

630
00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:34,200
Speaker 1: of the things you said you made me laugh today,

631
00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:36,960
Speaker 1: Helen said, Ron, I've driven Hondas since nineteen eighteen. The

632
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:40,120
Speaker 1: electrical systems and every one of my Honda's have been problematic.

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Speaker 1: So there you go. There's a vote of there's a

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Speaker 1: vote of confidence on why why are not tour Why

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Speaker 1: you should buy a Honda. I also like the comment

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Speaker 1: Helen made today out on Facebook about Ron the show

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Speaker 1: is convinced me to go ahead with the paint job

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Speaker 1: on my two thousand seven Honda Civic. You know, Helen,

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Speaker 1: you're priceless, but yeah, go ahead, listen. You know what,

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Speaker 1: if you enjoy it, if you like Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: cars are cars are like partners. Sometimes it's cheaper to

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Speaker 1: keep it and uh, you know, work it out and

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Speaker 1: resolve it. And sometimes I don't know if give her

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Speaker 1: a little bit of a paint job. The car not

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Speaker 1: your partner, and uh, you know, things all all good

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Speaker 1: things just to come to those that do the right thing.

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Speaker 1: So um, I appreciate your comments and everybody else's, and

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Speaker 1: thanks to everybody for listening and being part of the

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Speaker 1: show today and until the next time I'm on an

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

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Speaker 1: they're placeless. Happy Halloween.