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Speaker 1: Ronanian, and you own a Honda product, you're gonna want

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Speaker 1: to listen to this story because you probably have this

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Speaker 1: to get a fixed up till now. The car doctors

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Speaker 1: got to fix Doctor the Car Doctor. Five minutes after

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Speaker 1: I thought the car, it got hot right at the

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Speaker 1: And so I'm really confused of what's causing us to

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Speaker 1: get hot five minutes after I stopped it. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: am too, to be honest with you. Welcome to the

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Speaker 1: radio home of Ron and Nian the Car Doctor. Since

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Speaker 1: this is where car owners the world overturned to for

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Speaker 1: their definitive opinion on automotive repair. If your mechanics giving

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Speaker 1: you a busy signal, pick up the phone and call in.

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Speaker 1: The garage doors are open, but I am here to

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Speaker 1: take your calls at eight five five six and now running.

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Speaker 1: Did I tell you I've been practicing Chi kung lately? Um? Well,

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Speaker 1: it's it's it's more of a story than that. See. Um,

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Speaker 1: this is one of those life imitates arts art kind

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Speaker 1: of stories. And you know, if you're a long time

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Speaker 1: regular listener to this show, you know, I just mentioned

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Speaker 1: the shop in passing. I don't like to talk about

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Speaker 1: the shop too much. All of a sudden, everybody wants

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Speaker 1: to come visit me, and I've got enough to do.

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Speaker 1: But that's beside the point. That isn't what this story

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Speaker 1: is about. I've been seeing an acupuncturist. I've got I've

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Speaker 1: But you know, my my right hand gets pins and

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Speaker 1: getting fixed. I'm getting taken care of, and you know

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Speaker 1: It's amazing stuff what it what it does, because it's

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Speaker 1: it's kind of like spending a weekend with relatives. But

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Speaker 1: and you know, while I'm there, because he's a he's

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Speaker 1: a he's a UM Western medicine doctor. UM. He's teaching

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Speaker 1: me methods of relaxation in the ways to deflect and

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Speaker 1: defend yourself and take care of your spirit and all

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Speaker 1: those things that we all think about in the wee

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Speaker 1: And one of the things he's teaching me is chee

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Speaker 1: how you internalize, it's how you keep your body safe,

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Speaker 1: Elsa came in two thousand, a Toyota camera and it

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Speaker 1: the way it works. So ever since, ever since you

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Speaker 1: You know, you just you knew it had a coolant

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Speaker 1: Else you know, you need a water pump. The water

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Speaker 1: We had to order parts. The car came in on Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: I just I saw a cheek hung in my head. Man,

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Speaker 1: the thirty or forty five minutes I spent looking, talking, poking, prodding,

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Speaker 1: about you know, a little Western medicine, a little Chinese culture,

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Speaker 1: zero zero Rnini and at your service, I'll be back.

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Speaker 1: Car Doctor, sir. How can hello Ron? Let's enjoy your show. Um,

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Speaker 1: vandalism and milistiaf mischief and things beyond your control. It's basically,

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Speaker 1: on Bill's mind. Bill, Welcome to the car doctor, Sir.

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Speaker 1: of months. I understand that my battery. You know what, Bill,

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Speaker 1: I haven't overlooked hybridge, it's just that they don't seem

425
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Speaker 1: to come up. I think hybrid is the future. I'll

426
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Speaker 1: state it here again, and I've said it before. I

427
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Speaker 1: think hybrid is the future. I think hybrid is a

428
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Speaker 1: good thought. I think hybrid is a good balance of

429
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Speaker 1: the two. But for some reason, we're plunging headlong into

430
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Speaker 1: this electric without a lot of questions getting answered. Uh.

431
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Speaker 1: You know, I don't know where you are in Florida.

432
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Speaker 1: I've told this story before on there. We were at

433
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Speaker 1: Marcos Island last summer. As I was driving around Marcos Island,

434
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Speaker 1: I couldn't help but think, where will all the electricity

435
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Speaker 1: come from? Uh? There's there's rural parts of Florida that

436
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Speaker 1: we visited that I said, where will they get all

437
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Speaker 1: the electricity from? They're gonna cables across the the the

438
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Speaker 1: natural beauty of Florida, the the the interior, the wetlands,

439
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Speaker 1: the places where the crocodiles and the alligators. Your term problem,

440
00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:14,280
Speaker 1: that's the long term problem. Well, if they would simply uh,

441
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Speaker 1: if they would simply uh. Because I I plugged my

442
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Speaker 1: car and not a one tin bolt, and as I say,

443
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Speaker 1: I can't even tell any difference on my electric bill.

444
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Speaker 1: And so if you had your own car and plugged

445
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Speaker 1: it in overnight at home, that's the only Uh. But

446
00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:31,760
Speaker 1: you're right, evidently there's some reason why they don't make these.

447
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Speaker 1: They may be too expensive to make, or maybe maybe

448
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Speaker 1: the mechanics zone. I don't know how to repair an

449
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Speaker 1: internal combustion generator. It's it that much difference, and then

450
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Speaker 1: the regular internal combustion engine. Listen, I think that when

451
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Speaker 1: somebody has trained properly and educated properly, anybody can fix anything.

452
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Speaker 1: So I don't think there's I don't think there's that

453
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Speaker 1: much difference. I think, and again I come back to

454
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Speaker 1: my original statement. I think we're rushing headlong into something

455
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Speaker 1: that hasn't been fully researched and thought out. And you know,

456
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Speaker 1: to your point about it's a long term problem, I

457
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Speaker 1: don't know. You know, Bill, they're talking in seven years

458
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Speaker 1: and the clock keeps ticking full. You know, no more

459
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Speaker 1: internal combustion engines from a lot of manufacturers. And as

460
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Speaker 1: we've talked about repeatedly here and as if listeners have

461
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Speaker 1: brought up, you know where all the electricity come from,

462
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Speaker 1: and all the reasons why it just doesn't seem like

463
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Speaker 1: it's very practical. But you know what, it's okay because

464
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Speaker 1: one thing I guarantee you, as as time evolves on,

465
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Speaker 1: everything will just sort of come to straighten itself out

466
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Speaker 1: on its own. You know. It's UM, it's we're gonna

467
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Speaker 1: be forced into a three or four down. Years down

468
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Speaker 1: the road, I believe there will be an eye opening

469
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Speaker 1: and we will go more towards hybrid engines with internal

470
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Speaker 1: combustion engines until we're ready to go to a full

471
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Speaker 1: battery engine. But I can't understand how you can use

472
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Speaker 1: full battery cars at this point in time. I would

473
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Speaker 1: never have one. I stand by my original statement again,

474
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Speaker 1: you know, because you know, listen, I'm the guy with

475
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Speaker 1: the microphone, and I have to I have to be consistent.

476
00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:02,960
Speaker 1: I can't be emotional. I have to practice my chi

477
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Speaker 1: kong and uh, you know, and keep myself centered. UM.

478
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Speaker 1: I don't understand why the edict hasn't been handed down. Amazon, Ups, FedEx,

479
00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:18,720
Speaker 1: all the major delivery systems, the postal service. Why they're

480
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Speaker 1: not all electric. It seems to me like the perfect choice.

481
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Speaker 1: They're all root vehicles. We know where they're gonna be,

482
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Speaker 1: when they're gonna be there, how long they're gonna be there,

483
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Speaker 1: and when they come back to the factory or the

484
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Speaker 1: delivery center or whatever it is at night, when they

485
00:24:31,359 --> 00:24:34,439
Speaker 1: come back to the hub, they plug in. UM. You

486
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Speaker 1: know why we need a transition plan. And evidently the government,

487
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Speaker 1: the powers that aren't using coming out with the plan.

488
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Speaker 1: They want to go aheadlong into something right. And the

489
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Speaker 1: answer I get is, well, I can tell you the

490
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Speaker 1: answer because the answer I get, which I I don't

491
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Speaker 1: like to use the word stupid, but I will it's

492
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Speaker 1: a stupid answer because technology is going to solve this

493
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Speaker 1: for us. Well, great, you know it's it will. I

494
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Speaker 1: just hope it happens in my life time. And I'm not.

495
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Speaker 1: I'm not I'm gonna spring chicken, but I'm no I'm

496
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Speaker 1: the old timer yet either. So uh, you know, someone

497
00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:08,760
Speaker 1: said to men, you know we're gonna have We're gonna

498
00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:13,200
Speaker 1: have transportation and warp drive you in about five hundred years. Um,

499
00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:16,399
Speaker 1: you know where will this all originate from? Ah? You

500
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Speaker 1: know what, Bill, it's it's it's it's senseless to go on.

501
00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:21,080
Speaker 1: But yeah, I agree with you, sir. I think hybrids

502
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Speaker 1: are good alternative. I think I think, uh that there's

503
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Speaker 1: a lot of things not being explored. And you know,

504
00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:31,159
Speaker 1: my short time on this planet, my short six and

505
00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:34,400
Speaker 1: a half decades, I've learned that usually when things are

506
00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:36,600
Speaker 1: so far one way or another, they usually come back

507
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Speaker 1: to center, and that's what I'm expecting. So thanks, I'm

508
00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:42,840
Speaker 1: enjoying the conversation. You're welcome, sir. You'd be well, you

509
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Speaker 1: take good care. So would you let someone charge an

510
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Speaker 1: electric vehicle at your house? As summer travel ramps up?

511
00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:50,879
Speaker 1: The article talks about you might find yourself in a

512
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Speaker 1: situation with an electric vehicle if you don't have one,

513
00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:55,000
Speaker 1: perhaps your guest does, And the article goes on to

514
00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:58,040
Speaker 1: talk about the costs. Well, it turns out that to

515
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Speaker 1: charge an electric vehicle, and I should tell this to

516
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Speaker 1: Tom because Tom's a little cheap, But don't tell him.

517
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Speaker 1: I said that that will cost seven dollars to charge

518
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Speaker 1: the average electric vehicle that comes to your house. Why

519
00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:13,600
Speaker 1: while there while your guest is visiting. Okay, so when

520
00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:15,679
Speaker 1: you met, when you when you add mark up to that,

521
00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:20,040
Speaker 1: you charge them fourteen bucks? Well, but Tom, what if

522
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Speaker 1: you're having you know, how many people when you at

523
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Speaker 1: at Christmas? How many people? You know? It's it's what

524
00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:27,879
Speaker 1: do you how many cars are in the driveway? Seven, eight,

525
00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:31,560
Speaker 1: ten around here? Uh? In addition hours too because it's

526
00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:35,200
Speaker 1: only my son and uh daughter. But you know, I've

527
00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:38,160
Speaker 1: had I've had I've had I've I've got a bigger family,

528
00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:40,320
Speaker 1: or had a bigger family at one point, and you know,

529
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Speaker 1: I'd have seven cars in the driveway, eight cars in

530
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Speaker 1: the driveway. It's gonna cost me sixty dollars to invite

531
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Speaker 1: everybody over for Christmas dinner. Well, it depends on how

532
00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:51,639
Speaker 1: much feel you have for the generator, because you probably

533
00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:54,080
Speaker 1: you need a generator rather than plug it into the house. Well,

534
00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:57,000
Speaker 1: and that brings the point up of you know, will

535
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Speaker 1: I be able to charge an additional seven cars all

536
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Speaker 1: at once? I right, so exactly, it's like, don't you

537
00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:09,960
Speaker 1: guys worry. They're gonna figure this out, Like they don't,

538
00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:12,199
Speaker 1: don't worry about it. From baby Christmas, we'll have the

539
00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:16,359
Speaker 1: new electric service installed. Yeah, the four thousand amp service,

540
00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:20,080
Speaker 1: so we can charge everybody's electric vehicle. So A five

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Speaker 1: five five six zero nine nine zero zero? Good God,

542
00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:25,239
Speaker 1: what have we gotten ourselves into. I'll be back right

543
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Speaker 1: after this. Don't go away, welcome back. We're name of

544
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Speaker 1: the car doctor at five five five six zero nine

545
00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:48,720
Speaker 1: zero zero car don phone number. You can call that

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Speaker 1: number eight five five six zero zero anytime, day or night.

547
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Speaker 1: Leave a message. Executive producer Tom Ray we'll call you

548
00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:57,000
Speaker 1: back and get your Q for the next live broadcast

549
00:27:57,200 --> 00:27:59,520
Speaker 1: if you're not able to listen to us during live

550
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Speaker 1: show our Saturdays two to four pm Eastern Time. Let's

551
00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:05,720
Speaker 1: get over to Bill in Wisconsin and oh call what

552
00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 1: happened here? Bill? Actually my name is John. Oh there

553
00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:15,680
Speaker 1: you go. Tom's lion told me anyway, go ahead, John,

554
00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:17,879
Speaker 1: is this the call about? Are you in Wisconsin? Let me?

555
00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:20,760
Speaker 1: I'm sure I got the right call on the screen. Yeah,

556
00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:25,520
Speaker 1: it's about my transmission. Okay, go ahead. Tell me the story. Well,

557
00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:29,280
Speaker 1: I have a twenty sixteen buick Enclaves. It was due

558
00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:33,439
Speaker 1: for a fluid change. Um. I had heard for a

559
00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:37,520
Speaker 1: long time from different people that flushing the transmission is

560
00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:41,080
Speaker 1: actually not a good idea, and I should just have

561
00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:46,720
Speaker 1: the fluid change the filter gasket whatever. Um my mechanic disagreed.

562
00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:49,560
Speaker 1: He talked to me into getting it flushed. When I

563
00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:53,720
Speaker 1: got my car back, UM, it was shifting hard into

564
00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:56,920
Speaker 1: second gear, sometimes harder than others, and I couldn't really

565
00:28:57,200 --> 00:29:00,200
Speaker 1: decipher if it's if it was more so, and I

566
00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:05,160
Speaker 1: accelerated slowly and more aggressively. UM took it back. They

567
00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:08,680
Speaker 1: looked at it. Um just got it back a couple

568
00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:12,640
Speaker 1: of days ago, and I haven't noticed it doing it anymore.

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Speaker 1: And what they told me was they had to relearned

570
00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:20,560
Speaker 1: the transmission to the shifting, and I don't know what

571
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:22,880
Speaker 1: that means. Okay, let's let's back up a second. How

572
00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:29,400
Speaker 1: many miles around this car? About about so seventy thousand

573
00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:33,160
Speaker 1: doing a fluid service? It seems like a reasonable time, everybody.

574
00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:35,160
Speaker 1: And you know, I'm not so sure they did a flush.

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00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:38,840
Speaker 1: They probably didn't exchange. Depends on what trans is in there,

576
00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:40,400
Speaker 1: if it even has a pan, if it even has

577
00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:43,800
Speaker 1: a filter that's replaceable. Sometimes it's a drain and fill

578
00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:47,200
Speaker 1: a lot of the newer GM stuff. But regardless, you know,

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00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:50,000
Speaker 1: if and I'll say it like this, if the trans

580
00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:53,800
Speaker 1: fluid was brown and beat at seventy thousand, so bad

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Speaker 1: that it was a question of whether or not the

582
00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:58,479
Speaker 1: trans would survive. In my opinion, the trans had a problem.

583
00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:01,400
Speaker 1: Was done anyway, right, just telling it like it is,

584
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Speaker 1: the older you get, the less filters you have. So um.

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00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:11,560
Speaker 1: Having said that, okay, I think what they probably did

586
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Speaker 1: was a fluid exchanged. In my mind, flushing the notes pressure.

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00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:18,400
Speaker 1: You know, I don't like I don't like doing pressure

588
00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:21,040
Speaker 1: or anything. I don't like doing a coolant We call

589
00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:23,920
Speaker 1: it a cooling flush, but it's really an exchange. It's

590
00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:25,760
Speaker 1: just the one for one. When we do the machine

591
00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:28,200
Speaker 1: at the shop, we use a moleculant exchange. It will

592
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Speaker 1: put a quarter of coolant in, take a quarter of

593
00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:32,520
Speaker 1: coolant out, quart of coolingt in and so forth. It's

594
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Speaker 1: just a nice even exchange, you know, under minimal pressure,

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00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:37,640
Speaker 1: nothing more than what the system would normally see. The

596
00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:40,880
Speaker 1: same thing with the transmission machines. They they they should

597
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Speaker 1: be doing the same thing as an exchange. The old flushers,

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Speaker 1: there was a series or a time when the industry

599
00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:50,360
Speaker 1: went through a trans flush mentality and it was under

600
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Speaker 1: pressure and we were gonna blast all the contaminant out

601
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Speaker 1: and YadA YadA yan. The issue was that flushing tended

602
00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:02,480
Speaker 1: to move heavily varnish transmissions. If there was fluid varnished

603
00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:05,280
Speaker 1: on the walls of the inside of the case varnish um,

604
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:08,239
Speaker 1: it formed into a like a shellac like substance that

605
00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:12,160
Speaker 1: becomes particulate, little gritty, you know, the fluid doesn't feel clean.

606
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:14,440
Speaker 1: You could strain it through a pain strainer and you'd

607
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:17,440
Speaker 1: see particulated in there at some level, all those little

608
00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:21,480
Speaker 1: grainy particulates go somewhere in a transmission. They will clog

609
00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:24,160
Speaker 1: hydrauling passages and create problems. So we kind of went

610
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:26,360
Speaker 1: into the conversation of now we're doing a fluid exchange.

611
00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:28,880
Speaker 1: I like fluid exchanges gets all the old out, gets

612
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Speaker 1: all the fresh in. So I think what your mechanic

613
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:35,680
Speaker 1: did was correct, because understand if doing a fluid exchange,

614
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Speaker 1: in my mind the way I think, if if doing

615
00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:42,360
Speaker 1: a fluid exchange cause the trans to have a problem,

616
00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:46,000
Speaker 1: you're gonna have a problem anyway, all right, And it's

617
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:47,880
Speaker 1: it's better to find out now if you're interested in

618
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Speaker 1: keeping the car long term. Let's find out now. If

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Speaker 1: you're gonna sell the car in two weeks, now is

620
00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:57,240
Speaker 1: not the time to do a trans exchange. You're with me, okay.

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Speaker 1: So they did a fluid service some times. And the

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Speaker 1: only thing I could question here is why didn't somebody

623
00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:06,440
Speaker 1: notice this when they road tested it? But maybe they

624
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:08,600
Speaker 1: didn't road test it enough. Maybe it acted up after

625
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:11,120
Speaker 1: the fact. You know, I've I've had cases in my

626
00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:14,480
Speaker 1: own mechanical life where you know, two days later something

627
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:16,760
Speaker 1: crops up, or twelve hours later, the day after the

628
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:19,520
Speaker 1: car leaves, something crops up and it creates an issue.

629
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Speaker 1: So what they had to do was they had to

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00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:28,480
Speaker 1: relearn the transmissions um adaptive shift points. All right. When

631
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Speaker 1: you when you learn to walk as a child, right

632
00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:34,200
Speaker 1: left foot, right foot, left foot, right foot, you learn

633
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Speaker 1: that it's a learned process, and then as time went on,

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Speaker 1: you graduated from toddling to walking to running. Right. Well,

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Speaker 1: as a transmission operates, it has the ability to pick

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00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:49,400
Speaker 1: up characteristics and adaptives and the shift points, and it

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00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:52,520
Speaker 1: learns how that particular trans wants to run the second

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00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:55,040
Speaker 1: the third gear shift, and the third to fourth gear shift,

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Speaker 1: and and so on. Um, what they did was they

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Speaker 1: relearned those operational characteristics. That's all they did. And as

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00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:07,240
Speaker 1: long as it's shifting, okay, now you're fine. And I

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00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:09,520
Speaker 1: commend them because they actually went about it the right way.

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00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:11,040
Speaker 1: They did the right thing, They did what they were

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00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:13,959
Speaker 1: supposed to do, and they got it done. So as

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Speaker 1: long as it's operating, okay, you're good. And it sounds

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Speaker 1: like you've got a good repair shop and a good

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Speaker 1: relationship with them. All right, take good care, John, and

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Speaker 1: we'll talk to you on the next time. Around zero

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00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:36,520
Speaker 1: the car doctors coming back right after this, don't go away.

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Speaker 1: Every shop has those moments run any of the car doccured,

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00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:43,280
Speaker 1: by the way, welcome back. Every shop has those moments

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Speaker 1: of the ever since, and it happens. It's real world,

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00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:49,320
Speaker 1: it's it's and there's usually a mechanical reason. There's usually

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00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:53,120
Speaker 1: a good answer for it's not just it's not just PM,

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Speaker 1: it's not just pure magic. We had Subaru this past

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Speaker 1: week and as cars, a classic exam PLoP. It came

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Speaker 1: in for an oil change, actually came in for an

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00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:04,720
Speaker 1: oil change the week before, and one of the complaints

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Speaker 1: beside the oil change was that the wipers had a

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00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:09,080
Speaker 1: squealing noise every time you turn them on. I looked

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00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:12,560
Speaker 1: at it. The wiper transmission was frozen, solid, good quality

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00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:16,000
Speaker 1: Subaru metal, and um, you know what happens. The car

663
00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:18,360
Speaker 1: gets older. It's just stuff that goes wrong. And we

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Speaker 1: couldn't get a wiper transmission until this week, so we

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00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:22,160
Speaker 1: you know, put it on the side. It came in.

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Speaker 1: I did a wiper transmission, did a wiper transmission. Factory

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00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:29,360
Speaker 1: parts simple unplugged one connector, plug, one connector in assembl

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00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:32,960
Speaker 1: at Cowel clips wiper blades were done phone rings the

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Speaker 1: next day. Ron The wipers are absolutely perfect. They're stone quiet.

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Speaker 1: But the radio doesn't work from the dash display. You

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00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:41,840
Speaker 1: can work it from the steering wheel knobs, it doesn't

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Speaker 1: work from the radio head itself. Bring it down now

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Speaker 1: on subar us. If it's a smart radio, as I

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00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:51,560
Speaker 1: call it, with the interactive touch screen, it will sometimes

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00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:53,760
Speaker 1: lock up, or you have to actually hold the volume,

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00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:56,399
Speaker 1: the tuner and the CD buttons all at the same

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00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:59,879
Speaker 1: time to put it into a factory reset. This card

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00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:02,640
Speaker 1: had that. This car had the the model down to

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00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:05,359
Speaker 1: the level down radio, so I said, what the heck,

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Speaker 1: I'll try it. I held the volume and the tuner

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00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:10,640
Speaker 1: buttons down for thirty seconds let go. All of a sudden,

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00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:12,600
Speaker 1: the radio lit up and it started to work. So

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Speaker 1: I don't know if I've discovered something. I got my

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Speaker 1: hands on another super bou to find out. But everything changes.

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Speaker 1: There are some ever sinces you just gotta figure them

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Speaker 1: out until the next time. I'm modern any in the

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Speaker 1: car doctor. The mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. See it