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Speaker 1: Ron Andanian. What I really see is the bigger picture

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Speaker 1: of the bigger problem is everything we're putting on the

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Speaker 1: at Tom Rae on the new video chat camera we

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Speaker 1: got set up. Tom's got this look of like really surprise.

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Speaker 1: makes it to next week's open Welcome to the radio

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Speaker 1: home of Ron and Anian, the Car Doctor, since this

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

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

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Speaker 1: 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 call. At eight and now he running. Oh

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Speaker 1: that Tom Ray. You never know where he's gonna stick

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Speaker 1: one of those great openings of his. As always, Tom,

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Speaker 1: a job well done, Thank you very much. Let's get

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Speaker 1: go to Tom in Texas a used vehicle for a

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Speaker 1: daughter unit. Tom. Welcome to the Car Doctor, Sir, how

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Speaker 1: can I help? Thank you great welcome, appreciate you taking

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Speaker 1: time to talk. We're looking for a car for my daughter. Uh.

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Speaker 1: We obviously would like something that's safe. Uh, low maintenance, Uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, all good comments, all good thoughts. Tom. You know,

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Speaker 1: Most important Do they fit the vehicle? Are they comfortable

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Speaker 1: And she likes it. Yeah, she's driven it, yes, and

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Speaker 1: it's her top pick basically Okay, yeah, I've got I've

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Speaker 1: other things that she was looking at? Uh, rear view camera,

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Speaker 1: what other vehicles did she drive? Oh? Yeah, I'm really

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Speaker 1: gonna what is his first year of high school? She's

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Speaker 1: our training for our counseling. You know, there's nothing like

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Speaker 1: having mass when you're on the road. A bigger vehicle,

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Speaker 1: you know, and RAP four is a great vehicle. But

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Speaker 1: me personally, I would take the bigger vehicle, provided I

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Speaker 1: She's just finishing her graduate work mid twenties, late twenties. No, okay,

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Speaker 1: Just by the next one, Now, by your next car.

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Speaker 1: You're buying a lifestyle, Tom, think of it like that.

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Speaker 1: back you know where I am. I appreciate the call,

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Speaker 1: and thanks for listening. I'm Rond in the Car Doctor,

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Speaker 1: and I'm back right after this. Don't go away, whether

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Speaker 1: to the right place to get that car fixed. Ron

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Speaker 1: Because you know, to somebody else, if this was your

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Speaker 1: run three thousand miles. Listen. And I'm not telling you

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Speaker 1: I've been there. Yeah, you know it's and you're gonna

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Speaker 1: So then I had called a windshield replacement company, asking

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Speaker 1: shield up, do you ever see moisture inside the car?

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Speaker 1: If it's if it's if it's a wind noise, you know,

426
00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:48,520
Speaker 1: if it's a if it's a wind noise leaking air,

427
00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:52,359
Speaker 1: it's got a leak water. That's number one. Uh. The

428
00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:55,440
Speaker 1: other thing that you could try is if someone has

429
00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:59,760
Speaker 1: access to a smoke machine something we used to diagnose evap,

430
00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:04,359
Speaker 1: and to lay that smoke nozzle along the base of

431
00:25:04,359 --> 00:25:09,400
Speaker 1: the windshield from the inside or the outside and look

432
00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:12,040
Speaker 1: to see there's the smoke transfer through. If the smoke

433
00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:14,320
Speaker 1: finds its way through, then it's obvious it's got a leak,

434
00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:17,679
Speaker 1: and then the windshield has to come out confirmed are

435
00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:21,440
Speaker 1: you also are you also seeing or hearing noise close

436
00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:26,359
Speaker 1: to the door seals of the passenger side no, no,

437
00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:29,000
Speaker 1: and that because that was my instinct was, well, maybe

438
00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:31,359
Speaker 1: it's just a seal, But yet when I sit on

439
00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:33,560
Speaker 1: the passenger, it's not coming from the door. It's coming

440
00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:36,119
Speaker 1: from the up front part of the dock, sort of

441
00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:38,679
Speaker 1: in the corner where that because there, I would tell

442
00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:40,800
Speaker 1: you if if you thought maybe the door seals were leaking,

443
00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:43,920
Speaker 1: you know, baby powder or talcum powder, closed the door,

444
00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:46,560
Speaker 1: open the door, does it disrupt the powder all the

445
00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:48,359
Speaker 1: way around her? Is there a spot where it looks

446
00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:51,800
Speaker 1: like the seals not hitting and you know that could

447
00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:54,479
Speaker 1: help you as well. But as as far as the

448
00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:57,840
Speaker 1: I might try that too. I know sometimes find your

449
00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:02,280
Speaker 1: ears can play tricks on you, thinking absolutely absolutely. Have

450
00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:07,000
Speaker 1: you taken the car through a car wash? Yeah, yeah, yeah,

451
00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:10,000
Speaker 1: I've taken it a few times and I've never noticed

452
00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:14,320
Speaker 1: any moisture or any water getting inside that area. Because

453
00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:16,200
Speaker 1: you know, it may be that it's not a leak

454
00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:18,880
Speaker 1: at the windshield or the door seals. It may be

455
00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:23,320
Speaker 1: something in how the resarch door is ceiling from the

456
00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:26,760
Speaker 1: inside out. It may be something in the h v

457
00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:28,840
Speaker 1: A C as well, But you'd have to eliminate the

458
00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:33,720
Speaker 1: possibilities before you jump to that conclusion. Okay, all right,

459
00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:37,320
Speaker 1: so listen. I'm glad I could save your marriage. I'm

460
00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:39,120
Speaker 1: glad I could help you with your car. You seem

461
00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:42,719
Speaker 1: like a nice guy. Yeah, it's a younger marriage. It's

462
00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:45,240
Speaker 1: only seven years. Yeah. So we want to you know,

463
00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:46,879
Speaker 1: we want to get you to be like me. I'm

464
00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:50,600
Speaker 1: a battle veteran, a forty year or so. Um. Uh.

465
00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:53,040
Speaker 1: You know she's not listening today, tom Ish, I don't

466
00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:58,280
Speaker 1: think so, Isaac. I gotta go with my wife's coming. Um. Um.

467
00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:03,200
Speaker 1: But anyway, Isaac, you'd be well. Alright, kiddo, take good care.

468
00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:05,320
Speaker 1: I'm running any of the Car Doctor. We are back

469
00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:21,920
Speaker 1: one way or another. Oh duck, right after this, Welcome back,

470
00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:23,880
Speaker 1: Ronny of the Car Doctor. Let's get over to Dave

471
00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:27,720
Speaker 1: in Ohio. Night one, Lexus and some maybe some break problems. Dave.

472
00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:34,120
Speaker 1: What's going on? Oh yeah, hi, ron So right now,

473
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:42,080
Speaker 1: I have a leak between the break booster and where

474
00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:47,919
Speaker 1: the master cylinder connects. Uh. And I put on a

475
00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:52,960
Speaker 1: new master cylinder. Um. It was the cheapest one I

476
00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:59,600
Speaker 1: could find off of Rock Auto. Um. And it's the

477
00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:05,639
Speaker 1: it's the same, it's the same symptom. Um. I you know,

478
00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:09,120
Speaker 1: I bled all the brakes and all that. Um when

479
00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:10,920
Speaker 1: you say, when you say a leak, Dave, what do

480
00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:18,680
Speaker 1: you you're you're losing break fluid? Uh? Yeah? Yeah. So um.

481
00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:27,359
Speaker 1: As I depressed the the brake pedal, I hear, I

482
00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:31,960
Speaker 1: hear like a little squirt uh coming from the mass

483
00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:34,800
Speaker 1: Hill area. And then I go to inspect that area

484
00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:38,880
Speaker 1: and it's and it's directly under like I see the

485
00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:46,280
Speaker 1: fluid um uh right under where it connects uh to

486
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:49,280
Speaker 1: the brake booster. So why can't you have a bad

487
00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:56,960
Speaker 1: new part? Well, yeah, that's that's I was thinking the

488
00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:59,680
Speaker 1: same thing. I mean, there's there's nothing else there, right,

489
00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:02,880
Speaker 1: there's a there's a remote reservoir. Is this a master

490
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:05,880
Speaker 1: body and then you plug in the rubber hose to

491
00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:10,160
Speaker 1: a remote reservoir or is this a reservoir that sits

492
00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:15,280
Speaker 1: right on the body of the Master The the reservoir

493
00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:19,640
Speaker 1: sits right on top of the of the m Okay,

494
00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:22,680
Speaker 1: and it's it's it's it's it's clipped in nice, it's

495
00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:26,520
Speaker 1: the seals are seated correctly. Right, there's no question. Did

496
00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:29,640
Speaker 1: you get this master as an assembly reservoir and master

497
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:35,560
Speaker 1: cylinder assembly is one piece? Yeah? Okay, And you're telling

498
00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:37,640
Speaker 1: me that so you've got the brake lines are tight,

499
00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:43,800
Speaker 1: and you you've bled it and you've got it bolted

500
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:47,200
Speaker 1: to the booster. The booster feels good. You've got good

501
00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:54,720
Speaker 1: power break, it's got good assist. Yeah yeah. And have

502
00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:57,280
Speaker 1: you driven this card? Does it have a good brake pedal?

503
00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:04,320
Speaker 1: I have I have not driven it yet. Um it's

504
00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:09,800
Speaker 1: still on all four jacks right now, all the brakes alright,

505
00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:11,840
Speaker 1: So do you have a good pedal or not? Is

506
00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:14,720
Speaker 1: the first question I got. Well, that might be a

507
00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:20,840
Speaker 1: second question. It thinks down eventually. UM, I mean it's

508
00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:25,080
Speaker 1: probably adequate. Well, no, there's no trust me, brother, there's

509
00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:29,000
Speaker 1: no adequate and brakes they either work or they don't. Um. So,

510
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:30,680
Speaker 1: so you know, and we don't want to find out

511
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:32,920
Speaker 1: the hard way, all right, I like all my listeners,

512
00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:34,800
Speaker 1: I don't want you guys to get hurt. So my

513
00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:37,920
Speaker 1: first question is if somebody else pumps the pedal, Right,

514
00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:40,320
Speaker 1: this is where you need the helper. If somebody else

515
00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:42,520
Speaker 1: pumps the pedal, you're telling me you're gonna see a

516
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:45,440
Speaker 1: squirt of fluid come out from between the Master and

517
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:53,080
Speaker 1: the booster. That's correct, Okay, Next that that that cheap

518
00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:59,040
Speaker 1: Master cylinder don't look so good right now, does it now? So?

519
00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:06,440
Speaker 1: Um huh. I'm thinking the recommendation is probably to buy

520
00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:11,040
Speaker 1: Alexis well something of quality. I will. I will tell

521
00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:15,960
Speaker 1: you this, Dave. Getting hydraulic components is a major problem.

522
00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:19,680
Speaker 1: I can't even begin to express to you how hard

523
00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:22,840
Speaker 1: it is to get will Celinder's Masters any of this

524
00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:27,640
Speaker 1: stuff today. I don't know what happened. Wagner break doesn't exist. Um.

525
00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:31,680
Speaker 1: It seems like Raybestis doesn't exist. By the break companies

526
00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:36,200
Speaker 1: do not make their own break parts anymore, or they're

527
00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:39,800
Speaker 1: subbing them out terrible, terrible. UM do this if you

528
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:42,400
Speaker 1: have an O'Reilly Ota Parts nearby, or you can jump

529
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:46,320
Speaker 1: online to aileyoto dot com, plug in the car, see

530
00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:49,640
Speaker 1: what brands they carry, and you can talk to them

531
00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:52,400
Speaker 1: direct and say, hey, what's the warranty, what's the success rate?

532
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:54,920
Speaker 1: They'll give you all the information. And I would purchase

533
00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:58,320
Speaker 1: from an O'reillyoto parts just because of the name brand.

534
00:31:58,480 --> 00:31:59,960
Speaker 1: Or if you can go back to wherever it was

535
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:02,360
Speaker 1: you were buying it and get some name brand quality

536
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:05,960
Speaker 1: components there. Breaks are not someplace I never want to

537
00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:08,440
Speaker 1: hear somebody say I got my break parts and I

538
00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:11,400
Speaker 1: got the cheapest price. I could their break parts. They

539
00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:14,800
Speaker 1: gotta work every time. Do some more research, Dave, I

540
00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:19,160
Speaker 1: think you got a bad one. Call us back zero zero.

541
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:29,880
Speaker 1: The car doctors coming back right after this cuts. Welcome back.

542
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:33,800
Speaker 1: Name of the car doctor, John Louisiana eleven f one fifty.

543
00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:39,320
Speaker 1: How can I help, sir? Hey, Ron, thank you? How

544
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:45,560
Speaker 1: can I help? All right? I have XL T five.

545
00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:49,840
Speaker 1: I have two fifty miles on it, somewhere around a

546
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:52,880
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty thousand miles. I noticed that I had

547
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:56,440
Speaker 1: some funny shifting stuff going on. It would drop down

548
00:32:56,680 --> 00:33:00,800
Speaker 1: to another gear, lower gear that's a highways feet. So

549
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:03,560
Speaker 1: they get through the forums, I find out there was

550
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:06,680
Speaker 1: a recall where they would reflash and transmission to solve

551
00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:10,400
Speaker 1: the issue. So I did that. I procrastinated a little

552
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:12,800
Speaker 1: bit and did that and it seemed to resolve the issue.

553
00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 1: But within the year, a couple of years ago, a

554
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:19,600
Speaker 1: year ago, UM, I noticed that when I started in

555
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:22,080
Speaker 1: the morning that it wouldn't shift out of first gear,

556
00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:25,560
Speaker 1: and I'd have to turn it off, started back up again.

557
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:27,360
Speaker 1: It would be fine. And this went on for a

558
00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:30,880
Speaker 1: little while, and there uh, it wouldn't come out of

559
00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:32,840
Speaker 1: first gear at all, no matter what I did, so

560
00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:35,840
Speaker 1: I would have to distect the battery, reset the E

561
00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:38,480
Speaker 1: c M and the TCM and then it was fine

562
00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:41,440
Speaker 1: for a month or two, didn't do anything, but it

563
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:44,480
Speaker 1: progressively gets worse and it's gotten to the point where,

564
00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 1: um it does it all the time? Do you ever

565
00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:53,480
Speaker 1: ever go blank on? Yes? Trans does the check engine

566
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:57,920
Speaker 1: light come on? Get a wrench? Yes? Okay? Setting any

567
00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:03,400
Speaker 1: fault codes and phenomena quit seventh, come lights go out?

568
00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:06,640
Speaker 1: Are you setting up? Maybe you're setting a P zero

569
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:12,799
Speaker 1: seven twenty or a P zero seven twenty two. Yeah, okay,

570
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:16,319
Speaker 1: So two things you want to go read? All right?

571
00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:20,799
Speaker 1: You want to go look at bulletin sixteen triple zero eight,

572
00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:24,640
Speaker 1: and you also want to go read and this was

573
00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:27,600
Speaker 1: the dealer bulletin about the recail you missed because it

574
00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:33,120
Speaker 1: was a flash and parts replacement component replacement of the

575
00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:37,839
Speaker 1: valve body area. Okay, Well that was my question because

576
00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:39,680
Speaker 1: I was digging to the forum again and they only

577
00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:43,560
Speaker 1: offered that if you were under a certain miles, but

578
00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:46,600
Speaker 1: the dealer kind of didn't mention that to me. The

579
00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:50,800
Speaker 1: dealer number is sixteen and is in Nancy zero two.

580
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:56,279
Speaker 1: Common problem, Okay, alright, sir, do that and uh, you know,

581
00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:59,400
Speaker 1: and listen at to fifty. Maybe it's time you just

582
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:00,960
Speaker 1: got to go through the trans. As much as you

583
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:03,840
Speaker 1: don't want to hear that, but trust me, whatever that

584
00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:06,160
Speaker 1: trans is a couple of three or four thousand dollars,

585
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:08,120
Speaker 1: that's gonna be a whole lot cheaper than a new one,

586
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:10,799
Speaker 1: because a new one starts at sixty. So just some

587
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:13,560
Speaker 1: things to compare and consider. Appreciate the call, John B.

588
00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:16,880
Speaker 1: Well down Louisiana Way. I'm running any in the car doctor.

589
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:18,759
Speaker 1: I hope you had a great time this week. I

590
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:21,440
Speaker 1: did too, I really did. I'll see you next week. Remember,

591
00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:25,120
Speaker 1: good mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. See you