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Speaker 1: Ron An aian.

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Speaker 2: I know we all sit there and say in these times,

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Speaker 2: We've been saying it for years.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 2: People are rude, people are discourteous. You know, you scratch

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Speaker 2: your head, you bang your head against the wall, Like,

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Speaker 2: what's wrong with people? There is a lot wrong with people.

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Speaker 2: Imagine what Kee the car Doctor. So thirty miles an

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Speaker 2: hour going down the road, don't step on the brake

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Speaker 2: gently ge n t l y apply the parking brake

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Speaker 2: to slogan. If you apply the brake too quick, like

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Speaker 2: normal transition time, it'll spend the back end around. That's

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Speaker 2: how they make a one eighty degree turn.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the radio home of ron Anian the Car Doctor.

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Speaker 1: Since nineteen ninety one, this is where car owners the

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Speaker 1: world overturned to for their definitive opinion on automotive repair.

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Speaker 1: If your mechanics giving you a busy signal, pick up

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Speaker 1: the phone and call in.

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Speaker 2: The doors are opening, but I am here to take

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Speaker 2: your calls at eight five, five, five, six, nine hundred

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Speaker 2: and now.

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Speaker 1: Running.

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Speaker 2: I don't know is it worth it to fix that car?

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Speaker 2: Is it worth it to put two thousand, three thousand,

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Speaker 2: four thousand dollars in it? I don't know I think so,

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Speaker 2: and I'll give you the I'll give you the information

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Speaker 2: that you need, I'll give you the critical thinking skills.

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Speaker 2: I hope to let you make a valid decision because

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Speaker 2: everybody's situation is different, and that's the truth, right. Everybody's

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Speaker 2: got a different pocketbook, everybody's got a different budget, everybody's

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Speaker 2: got different needs, and that's what makes trying to fix

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Speaker 2: cars to match everybody's economics so difficult at times. Trevor

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Speaker 2: was in this week. Trevor a good guy, long term customers.

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Speaker 2: He's he's he's more on the friend level at this stage.

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Speaker 2: I've known him for so long and he's he actually

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Speaker 2: works for the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles.

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Speaker 2: He had some commentary about Tom's dilemma transferring title for

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Speaker 2: his daughter's car that I haven't time yet, so I

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Speaker 2: have to tell him after the show today. But you know,

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Speaker 2: Trevor was in the shop this week and we were

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Speaker 2: talking about he was he was, you know, spending a

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Speaker 2: had just well, his new used Honda that he was purchasing.

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Speaker 2: We were talking, you know, is it worth it? You know,

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Speaker 2: we were talking also specifically in that he had a

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Speaker 2: that he put a good bit of money in. But

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Speaker 2: I said, you know, you've got to look at replacement costs,

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Speaker 2: because I think that's really what it is. What also

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Speaker 2: triggered the conversation was Trevor had a two thousand I

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Speaker 2: want to say, a two thousand and eight or a

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Speaker 2: twenty ten. I forget what the model year was Ford Explore,

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Speaker 2: and I think it was an eight. And it needed

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Speaker 2: a computer. It needed a PCM that was having an

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Speaker 2: accelerator pedal position censor fault if I remember right at

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Speaker 2: PCM which didn't exist. He needed a wiring hornets which

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Speaker 2: twelve ten, twelve years later, because this problem has been

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Speaker 2: happening for quite a while. No more parts. So they said,

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Speaker 2: that's a classic example of what goes wrong in this business.

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Speaker 2: The car companies don't get it. They want to keep

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Speaker 2: their cars going for a while, and he said, I

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Speaker 2: to put money in the four Honda. I said, yeah,

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Speaker 2: you know, Honda tends to keep parts around longer, which

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Speaker 2: they do. This new mindset that the industry is falling into, though,

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Speaker 2: makes me question all of it, but I will. I

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Speaker 2: will give kudos where kudos are due. Toyota and Honda

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Speaker 2: both tend to keep parts around the longest. For the record,

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Speaker 2: the companies that I see keeping parts around the least

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Speaker 2: the owners they've had in the last fifteen years. But

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Speaker 2: what car companies don't see is that when people can't

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Speaker 2: I was standing there in the shop, I said, Trevor,

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Speaker 2: We figured it out that to go out and buy

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Speaker 2: So you know, back in the day, you know, when

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Speaker 2: was I don't know, fifteen thousand dollars, twenty thousand dollars,

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Speaker 2: Is it any different? You know that forty thousand dollars,

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Speaker 2: I think it also has to come down to, you know,

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Speaker 2: getting out at the right time, because you've got to

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Speaker 2: understand why you're putting money in that car. You know,

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Speaker 2: if you're putting four thousand dollars into a twenty year

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Speaker 2: hang on to that car at least for three years.

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Speaker 2: Figuring twelve hundred dollars a year for average monthly cost

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Speaker 2: to think about, you know, it's funny. I read an

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Speaker 2: because there's a downturn in the auto industry in that

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Speaker 2: And there's also a downturn because of the transition, as

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Speaker 2: the Wall Street Journal put it, to the very expensive

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Speaker 2: unfortunately the electric vehicle market hasn't caught on, and they're

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Speaker 2: everybody's sales have slumped, but yet the price of cars

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Speaker 2: explaining to me how they have an overabundance of stock

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Speaker 2: I said, how much is a base Wrangler now? You know,

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Speaker 2: I mean a four wheel drive Jeep, right, you know,

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Speaker 2: at one time the most basic vehicle on the planet. Well,

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Speaker 2: it is still a basic vehicle. Basically, it's going to

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Speaker 2: because that's that's entry level pricing, So sixty grand for

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Speaker 2: a Jeep. And we want to know what's wrong with

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Speaker 2: the automobile industry again, bring back the horse, right. You know,

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Speaker 2: you can't be surprised when the car you're driving costs

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Speaker 2: you a lot of money to repair and you haven't

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Speaker 2: think it's unrealistic. You know, You've got to look at

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Speaker 2: it as it's the house, right. You're always working on

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Speaker 2: the house. The house always needs something. You're always you know,

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Speaker 2: repairing something, you know, replacing something. Appliance is plumbing, heating,

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Speaker 2: electrical something, something's always breaking. Cars are the same way. Now.

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Speaker 2: You don't move because the house needs twenty thousand dollars

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Speaker 2: worth of renovation or maybe one hundred thousand dollars add on.

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Speaker 2: But you make it. You make a determination what's in

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Speaker 2: this hour. So we can talk about that if you want.

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Speaker 2: I'm here at eight five five five six zero nine

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Speaker 2: any of your other car problems. Next week's show, by

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Speaker 2: the way, is going to be tape. I can tell

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Speaker 2: you that right up front. We've already put it together.

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Speaker 2: We did a live show Wednesday night. We had a

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Speaker 2: couple of people stop by the studio. We did Wednesday

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Speaker 2: night with the Car Doctor. And it's actually a very

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Speaker 2: good show. You're going to enjoy it. We've got some

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Speaker 2: great interviews in there. We've got some great questions and

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Speaker 2: it's it's a fresh show, so you can look forward

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Speaker 2: to just another You know, you'll miss me for the week.

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Speaker 2: Tom won't miss me I know that, but he hasn't

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Speaker 2: missed me with any shots so far. But there's a

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Speaker 2: but in any event, Hey, when I come back, I

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Speaker 2: want to talk about the main main The state of

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Speaker 2: Maine is doing right to repair, the work being done

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Speaker 2: up there. The fight for right to repair is continuing

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Speaker 2: in Maine. In Massachusetts are putting it on the books,

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Speaker 2: you know, and basically, in case you didn't know, right

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Speaker 2: to repair helps ensure that you can work on and

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Speaker 2: repair your own vehicle, but also other things from laptops

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Speaker 2: to you know, washing machines. That there's going to be

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Speaker 2: no proprietary information because a lot of the manufacturers are

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Speaker 2: claiming that, So we'll do that on the flip side.

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Speaker 3: Doctor.

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Speaker 2: I'll be back right after this.

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Speaker 3: For the best in car advice, give run a call

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Speaker 3: five five six zero nine nine zero zero. Now back

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Speaker 3: to Ron.

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Speaker 2: Hey, there the state of Massachusetts in Maine, both of them,

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Speaker 2: they're very busy with right to repair the article I'm

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Speaker 2: talking about in Ratchet and Wrench this month. You know,

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Speaker 2: they're one of the few states that have right to

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Speaker 2: repair legislation, the two of them. The law passed will

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Speaker 2: require the creation of an oversight committee to help ensure

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Speaker 2: automakers are providing data to repairs. But before that can happen,

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Speaker 2: the article points out, Mains bill has laid out phases

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Speaker 2: of implemation implementation, the first of which being the formation

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Speaker 2: of a working group to determine how this committee will operate.

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Speaker 2: So it's good to know that Right to Repair is

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Speaker 2: alive and well and working hard, and you know, it's

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Speaker 2: something we all need to be aware of because you

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Speaker 2: need information in order to repair your vehicle. So you

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Speaker 2: can go Google search right to repair. You can find

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Speaker 2: the National or the federal level committee that's in charge

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Speaker 2: of it and trying to help them, and you know,

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Speaker 2: lend your voice, get a hold of your elected officials

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Speaker 2: and make them aware that you are where you stand

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Speaker 2: on right to repair. So just some good stuff to

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Speaker 2: later on this hour. Let's go and talk to Bill

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Speaker 2: in Virginia, Oh for Ford Crown, VIC and some questions

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Speaker 3: Bill.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the car doctor, sir, How can I help?

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Speaker 3: Hi? Yeah, I haven't physically touched the car yet. I'm

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Speaker 3: just gonna help my neighbor. Okay, but it's like known

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Speaker 3: quirks about it. How should I check it? My heavy

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Speaker 3: truck mechanic? Can we all get right? Totally different?

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Speaker 2: Do you have to put air in attire? Yeah, you're qualified.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you know that's that's that's kind of it. Brother.

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Speaker 2: It's just it's just it's just two balloons, one under

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Speaker 2: each corner. So what is this It doesn't work anymore

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Speaker 2: or the car sinks or well nah he.

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Speaker 3: Had someone else put airbags in it or whatever their

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Speaker 3: right is and it drifts down, okay, you know, sitting.

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Speaker 3: So so then you're going to check the usual leveling valves.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well something like that. So here's here's going to

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Speaker 2: be the catch. All right, here's the things you got

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Speaker 2: to think about. This should be a this should be

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Speaker 2: a coil spring front and an air spring under each

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Speaker 2: then there'll be then there'll be a traditional shock absorber.

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Speaker 2: All right. The air the air spring will be fed

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Speaker 2: by a clear plastic or nylon line. However you want

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Speaker 2: to look at it with a you know, a quick

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Speaker 2: pull apart connector. All right, there'll be an air solinoid.

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Speaker 2: There'll be an air solenoid on each spring. So this

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Speaker 2: is this is nothing more than you know, bring the

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Speaker 2: under there, and just start spraying with a soapy you know,

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Speaker 2: soapy water. You're you're looking for a leak?

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Speaker 3: Yeah you know?

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Speaker 1: Now?

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Speaker 3: Okay, now basically, yeah, go ahead. Well I've done a

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Speaker 3: lot of them. I used to. I was a heavy

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Speaker 3: so I'm looking for it's soapy water, bubbly leak. Ah.

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Speaker 3: Trouble is, it's a very low car, right, can I

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Speaker 3: set the axle on jack stands and do it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, you know you may you know if

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Speaker 2: you if you have to, you know, put it up

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Speaker 2: on Jackson's. Disconnect the battery so the system won't run.

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Speaker 2: Let it sit it, Let it sit at trim height. Right,

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Speaker 2: put it up on jack stands. The system is going

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Speaker 2: to be pressurized. Rights. As long as the tire has

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Speaker 2: air and it it should show you the leak. Correct. Correct,

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Speaker 2: So you know, my one concern and question would be,

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Speaker 2: did some sort of air system suspension work.

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Speaker 3: Well, he said, they put on air springs bags. What

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Speaker 3: is under there? I haven't been you know, I haven't

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Speaker 3: physically touched vehicle. It looked okay. I just he's my neighbors,

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Speaker 3: so I told my help. Yeah, all the neighborhood cottage yep.

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Speaker 2: Probably very probably was a very expensive repair the air springs.

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Speaker 2: The last time I looked a couple of three months ago,

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Speaker 2: we had a similar vehicle. We had an O four Crown,

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Speaker 2: not a Crown like a Grand Grand Marquis. Same car

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Speaker 2: and the air springs from Ford were obsolete and the

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Speaker 2: the aftermarket version of air springs was somewhere in the

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Speaker 2: say it was. It was, yeah, it was crazy money

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Speaker 2: on it. My concern was, what's going to break next? Right? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: So I went to I've been using a company called

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Speaker 2: and they will sell you a complete kit. It'll have

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Speaker 2: it'll have two coil springs, a set of shocks, and

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Speaker 2: it will have the instructions on how to disable the

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Speaker 2: I think the kit was I want to say three

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Speaker 2: It was like, yeah, it was like it was like

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Speaker 2: the price of one one one air bag. And you

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Speaker 2: know the beauty is the car would ride okay, it

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Speaker 2: You put one thousand dollars worth of air springs in it.

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Speaker 2: What if the air solenoid goes bad. There's a solenoid

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Speaker 2: so that can fail. Then the compressor can go bad,

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Speaker 2: the lines could rupture. I mean, you know, there's just

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Speaker 2: there's just additional expensive parts on a twenty year old vehicle.

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Speaker 2: Here's that opening conversation I just had with you guys

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Speaker 2: right about you know, how do you make the repair?

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Speaker 2: I think it's a balancing act. I think it's like

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Speaker 2: here's here's here's a car that's a cannon they for Hey,

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Speaker 2: let's you know your neighbor needs a car. You know,

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Speaker 2: he's probably older, I'm guessing, and you know he bought

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Speaker 2: he just needs wheels, right, you know, sometimes making it simpler,

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Speaker 2: you know, the case for the simpler horse is a

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Speaker 3: So so I'll just go in there. And now the solenoids,

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, they will they will let they will let

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Speaker 2: there's a master on off switch. And I just thought

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Speaker 2: of this. There's a master on off switch in the trunk.

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Speaker 2: There should be on the left side. You won't have

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Speaker 2: you won't have to disconnect the battery. Actually, just turn

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Speaker 2: the system. So if you want, yeah and work your

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Speaker 3: Work my way down the line. Just connect the line.

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Speaker 3: See if the compressor's got a check leak or something

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Speaker 2: Well, first thing I probably do, bill, just because I

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Speaker 2: don't trust anybody else's work. I'd probably look at the

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Speaker 2: install I just i'd verified did they really put new

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Speaker 2: airsprings in it? Did they push the you know what

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Speaker 2: I mean when I say Chinese handcuff. You know it's

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Speaker 2: kind of like the line that pushes in and you

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Speaker 2: can't pull it out against itself. Yeah, push locks. We

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Speaker 2: used to call them Chinese handcuffs, right. You know we

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Speaker 2: just you know, I would check my fittings. I would

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Speaker 2: check my fittings for leaks. I would check my new

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Speaker 3: Get a presser from there, bottle of soap, go to town,

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Speaker 3: go to town. That's what I used to do on

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Speaker 2: Yah, you're just saying listen, you're just Bill. You're just

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Speaker 2: working on a smaller version of that ambulance. So you know,

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Speaker 2: that's what it's all about. If you need me, I'm here, kiddo,

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Speaker 2: And thank you for helping your neighbor out and thank

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Speaker 2: you for being kind to one another. It's very important

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Speaker 2: today in this day and age. I'm running Indie in

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Speaker 2: the car. Doctor. I'll be back right after this. And

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Speaker 2: did you see the article in the news today out

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Speaker 2: of Milwaukee. Electric vehicle owners will soon have to pay

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Speaker 2: a tax when charging their cars in the Wisconsin Department

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Speaker 2: for electric vehicles. The tax aims to create a more

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Speaker 2: equitable system where all drivers contribute contribute to road repair

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Speaker 2: costs of the Department Secretary David Casey said in a news release.

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Speaker 2: So things are changing in the ED world as well.

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Speaker 2: Things are just moving right along, no pun intended. Let's

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Speaker 2: Run an Indian at your service, Stewart. How can I help?

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Speaker 4: Hey? How you doing? I never thought I'd be calling

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Speaker 4: into a car repair show, but I do listen to

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Speaker 4: you from time to time, and I'm always interested.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 4: You were making a comment. I'm sorry.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I was gonna say. I just said, thank you.

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Speaker 2: Go ahead, sirr. I don't mean to interrupt.

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Speaker 4: Ahead, No, no, you're good. When he opened the show,

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Speaker 4: I think it was a Ford Explorer and he ended

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Speaker 4: were you were weighing the you're hedging whether to get

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Speaker 4: a new car, and you know, the thirty five thousand

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Speaker 4: for a camera or something like that. You know what

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Speaker 4: came to my mind was I would look for a Toyota.

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Speaker 4: Say it a Corolla that has fifty sixty seventy thousand miles,

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Speaker 4: you want something, you know, five six years old whatever,

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Speaker 4: and if you can get it from a dealer and

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Speaker 4: they put a guarantee on a fine, but if you

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Speaker 4: a little loan. You know. Uh, the only car I

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Speaker 4: would buy yous would be a Toyota, without question. I

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Speaker 2: Let me let me ask let me ask you questions, Stuart.

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Speaker 2: What do you so you drive Toyotas? Now, what did

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Speaker 4: In your centrists? Okay, I got the first I'm sorry, I.

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Speaker 4: It was a Plymouth Horizon I had four years.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, now I know why you switched to Nissans.

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Speaker 4: So Nissan back in the day that you know, Nissan

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Speaker 4: sell it to a fix it up mechanic. In ninety seven,

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Speaker 4: I bought a ninety four Nissan CenTra that was a

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Speaker 4: And in two thousand and seven I bought a two

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Speaker 4: started to I mean, there were repairs on that car

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Speaker 4: you know. So, you know, I had ten thousand miles

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Speaker 4: I trusted him. I believe this story. Why he was

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Speaker 4: getting another car one had ten thousand miles. Well, you

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Speaker 4: was looking for a new car, you know, I was

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00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:40,200
Speaker 4: on Social Security and I'm thinking Honda or Toyota. I

432
00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:43,560
Speaker 4: didn't know which was better. And I saw him at

433
00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:46,600
Speaker 4: church one day and he works with a NASCAR team

434
00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:50,919
Speaker 4: where he did. He's got his own auto repair entire place,

435
00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:54,280
Speaker 4: you know, and he you knows, you know, he can

436
00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:57,760
Speaker 4: do it all mechanically. And I said to him at church,

437
00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:00,159
Speaker 4: I said, I'm thinking of getting a new car. What

438
00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:03,879
Speaker 4: should I get? A Honda or Toyota. You didn't hesitate,

439
00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:10,280
Speaker 4: He said Toyota. So I bought a camera and I

440
00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:13,879
Speaker 4: liked it. I've always wanted an Avalon because of the

441
00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:15,960
Speaker 4: better ride room.

442
00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:16,240
Speaker 3: Year.

443
00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:20,560
Speaker 4: So in eighteen they were given away. It was the

444
00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:25,399
Speaker 4: last year of that particular design, and it was thirty

445
00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:29,600
Speaker 4: I got, you know, that's the basic model.

446
00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:31,000
Speaker 2: A base Avalon, sure.

447
00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:38,040
Speaker 4: Exactly, and the car listed for thirty four something. I

448
00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:42,200
Speaker 4: got it for twenty five, one hundred dollars and change.

449
00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:48,160
Speaker 4: They gave me ninety You.

450
00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:52,720
Speaker 2: Got it for twenty five thousand dollars in change.

451
00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:59,879
Speaker 4: Brand new twenty eighteen avalon and now I like, you know,

452
00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:03,240
Speaker 4: dealerships night. I don't want to hold out on the trade.

453
00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:07,880
Speaker 4: And you know he I could have got another two

454
00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:09,960
Speaker 4: thousand on the trade, and I really fought it. But

455
00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:12,840
Speaker 4: you know, you know, these people got to make a

456
00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:14,200
Speaker 4: living too, right, you know what I mean?

457
00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:16,240
Speaker 2: So let me ask let me, let me ask you

458
00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:18,479
Speaker 2: a question, Stuart. Let me ask you a question. How

459
00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:23,440
Speaker 2: long you been driving? How many years?

460
00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:31,840
Speaker 4: Forty thirty, fifty fifty eight years? Okay, I'm seventy two.

461
00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:33,640
Speaker 2: Would you ever go back to a domestic car? Would

462
00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:35,320
Speaker 2: you ever go back to a four GM or Chrysler?

463
00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:41,080
Speaker 4: Absolutely not, absolutely not. You know, what you go through

464
00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:45,960
Speaker 4: a private car lot, you might see one Toyoda there.

465
00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:49,360
Speaker 2: Right, and.

466
00:25:50,800 --> 00:26:02,400
Speaker 4: What you see is key is Volkswagon forwards Hondas, uh.

467
00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:04,080
Speaker 3: You know.

468
00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:09,359
Speaker 4: And you know like if I see a Toyota camera

469
00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:12,760
Speaker 4: or something on there, uh, and I was going to

470
00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:15,359
Speaker 4: buy it. I wonder what was wrong with it, whether

471
00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:16,680
Speaker 4: we flooded out or what.

472
00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:21,280
Speaker 2: You know, Stuart, I'll tell you what. Sit tight a minute, babe.

473
00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:22,639
Speaker 2: I got a question for you. When we come back.

474
00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:24,240
Speaker 2: I want to get your opinion about something. I think

475
00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:26,600
Speaker 2: everybody will want to hear it from you. So don't

476
00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:28,960
Speaker 2: don't go anywhere, please, I'm running Indie in the car Doctor.

477
00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:43,640
Speaker 2: We'll be back right after this. Hey, there we are

478
00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:46,119
Speaker 2: talking with Stuart in Pennsylvania running any of the car

479
00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:49,120
Speaker 2: Doctor at your service, Stuart, let me ask you something.

480
00:26:49,359 --> 00:26:51,600
Speaker 2: What did you do for a career. I mean it

481
00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:53,879
Speaker 2: sounds like you're either retired or close to it. What

482
00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:55,200
Speaker 2: what was your occupation in life?

483
00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:55,400
Speaker 3: Sir?

484
00:26:57,680 --> 00:27:01,080
Speaker 4: Well, I started out I want to drafting school and

485
00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:06,920
Speaker 4: became the chemical drafter. That ended in the late eighties.

486
00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:13,159
Speaker 4: Then I was doing some retail and I was fortunate

487
00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:17,120
Speaker 4: enough in two thousand and four to get a job

488
00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:25,399
Speaker 4: with a inside you know, work in a pest control company. Okay,

489
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:29,760
Speaker 4: that is family owned, the wonderful people. I've been there

490
00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:32,360
Speaker 4: ever since. I'm probably going to work part time till

491
00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:33,800
Speaker 4: I can't work right need too.

492
00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:36,880
Speaker 2: So you've seen retail, You've seen education, you've you've kind

493
00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:38,760
Speaker 2: of done a little bit of everything. So to me,

494
00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:41,920
Speaker 2: that makes you more than qualified to answer this question.

495
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:44,320
Speaker 2: And that's my point. This is my point. You know,

496
00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:48,560
Speaker 2: if you could speak directly to the CEO of four

497
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:51,520
Speaker 2: GM or Chrysler. What would you tell them was wrong

498
00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:54,280
Speaker 2: with their companies? Where did they lose the potential to

499
00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:55,440
Speaker 2: have you as a customer.

500
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:03,119
Speaker 4: Well, well, you touched on it earlier. You know you

501
00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:08,760
Speaker 4: can't get parts for these cars. I don't know. I

502
00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:13,679
Speaker 4: mean they're I think they're trying to build these cars

503
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:17,000
Speaker 4: at the cheapest price. I don't think the quality parts.

504
00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:19,960
Speaker 4: It's been that way for a long time with the

505
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:24,320
Speaker 4: American car companies. I know, back when I was a kid,

506
00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:28,320
Speaker 4: my father would buy Chevrolet and I was considered one

507
00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:30,640
Speaker 4: of the best cars in the road in Palla three

508
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:36,840
Speaker 4: twenty seven. All bits lots changed. And the Japanese cars

509
00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:41,760
Speaker 4: when they hit the market back in late seventies, I

510
00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:42,240
Speaker 4: guess it was.

511
00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:43,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, late seventies, early eighties.

512
00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:49,760
Speaker 4: You know, you could buy a car and you could

513
00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:52,680
Speaker 4: maintenance it, oh last year, long time. Except back then

514
00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:58,160
Speaker 4: they didn't. They didn't have the right rustproofing, galvanized the

515
00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:01,080
Speaker 4: whole bit, you know in the cars we rush that

516
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:04,040
Speaker 4: like my center did. I could have diven that car.

517
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:07,200
Speaker 4: Another had one hundred and fifty thousand miles, never added

518
00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:09,640
Speaker 4: a drop of oil to it. I changed it every

519
00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:14,400
Speaker 4: three months if before the synthetics, and I only I

520
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:15,920
Speaker 4: don't put a lot of miles on it, but I

521
00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:17,640
Speaker 4: know the oil is the light blood of a car.

522
00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:22,719
Speaker 4: Think the fresh engine will last forever. Same with transmission fluids,

523
00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:23,560
Speaker 4: same with coolant.

524
00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:27,200
Speaker 2: So what would you tell you? What would you ask

525
00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:29,680
Speaker 2: the CEO Stewart just to drag it back to the original.

526
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:32,240
Speaker 2: And I appreciate your comments, I do, But is it

527
00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:34,800
Speaker 2: is it? Is it that you feel like the quality

528
00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:36,320
Speaker 2: isn't there in the domestic product?

529
00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:41,040
Speaker 4: The quality control is quality parts. They don't have good

530
00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:49,520
Speaker 4: parts and the quality control is not good. And I

531
00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:51,760
Speaker 4: don't I mean, they deserve to go out of business

532
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:54,280
Speaker 4: if they do, not that I want the workers or

533
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:57,280
Speaker 4: lose their jobs. You put a crappy product out there.

534
00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:00,840
Speaker 4: I'll tell you what I noticed. I'm saying more brand

535
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:05,560
Speaker 4: new Toyota pickup trucks and F one fifties. That's been

536
00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:08,560
Speaker 4: that way for the last five six years. I'm amazed

537
00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:14,560
Speaker 4: how many more people are buying pickup trucks from Toyota now.

538
00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:17,040
Speaker 4: It's amazing, Well, you know it's.

539
00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:20,560
Speaker 2: It's it's interesting. Did you read the recent recall earlier

540
00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:22,160
Speaker 2: in the year for the I think it was like

541
00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:25,720
Speaker 2: the V six twin turbos with engine failures.

542
00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:32,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, why did they try something different? You know,

543
00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:35,520
Speaker 4: and then you don't even know over time, you know,

544
00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:38,120
Speaker 4: a couple of years, what's going to happen. I was

545
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:40,959
Speaker 4: surprised that Toyota even bothered with that. I didn't make

546
00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:43,640
Speaker 4: any sense. Yeah, when I heard what they were doing,

547
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:45,120
Speaker 4: don't making any sense to me.

548
00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:48,080
Speaker 2: But it's it's funny, you know, the car companies do

549
00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:50,440
Speaker 2: different things like that, and then before they know it,

550
00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:54,200
Speaker 2: they're they're up the creek without a paddle, so to speak.

551
00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:57,480
Speaker 2: As we always like to say, you know, I will

552
00:30:57,560 --> 00:30:59,800
Speaker 2: leave it here, all right, I understand what you're saying.

553
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:02,640
Speaker 2: Toyota and Honda. I could probably fill an hour just

554
00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:04,480
Speaker 2: telling you the problems I see with either one of

555
00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:08,560
Speaker 2: those companies. I think the domestics make some decent vehicles,

556
00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:12,440
Speaker 2: it depends which ones. I think the Toyotas Hondas makes

557
00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:15,640
Speaker 2: some decent vehicles, it depends which ones. I think they

558
00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:18,280
Speaker 2: all have their problems. I think there's more parody than

559
00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:22,760
Speaker 2: we realize. I do say right now. For example, I

560
00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:26,680
Speaker 2: know from my friends working in dealerships, GM has a

561
00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:29,480
Speaker 2: real serious problem with their six point two liter V

562
00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:34,040
Speaker 2: eights in the SUVs and the trucks with Crankscheff's breaking

563
00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:37,320
Speaker 2: before the car gets out of the showroom. I've heard

564
00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:41,000
Speaker 2: some story. I've heard some stories about the Jeep V six's.

565
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:44,360
Speaker 2: I most recently heard one this week. Somebody was telling

566
00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:47,400
Speaker 2: me he works in a dealer. Two brand new Wranglers

567
00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:51,640
Speaker 2: or not the Wranglers, the full sized Grand wagoneer that's

568
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:57,320
Speaker 2: one hundred thousand dollars vehicle. The engines engine failed to Yeah.

569
00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:01,520
Speaker 4: Before we part, I do have I thought of something

570
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:04,120
Speaker 4: going to break. I have two questions to ask about me.

571
00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:06,080
Speaker 2: I might tell you, we'll tell you what. Let me

572
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:07,480
Speaker 2: pull over and take the pause, and but let me

573
00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:09,240
Speaker 2: just finish the comment. When we come back, we'll finish

574
00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:11,880
Speaker 2: with you. But these two jeeps, one's got fifty four

575
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:15,560
Speaker 2: miles on it, fifty four miles, engines destroyed. The other

576
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:18,520
Speaker 2: one's got three hundred some odd miles on it, engines destroyed.

577
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,840
Speaker 2: So it seems like they all have their problems. But boy,

578
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:23,440
Speaker 2: it just doesn't make any sense when you look at

579
00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:25,640
Speaker 2: what a car costs. I'm ronning Ady and the car Doctor.

580
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:27,400
Speaker 2: We'll be back to finish it up. With Stuart right

581
00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:43,760
Speaker 2: after this. Okay, let's see if we can finish up here.

582
00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:47,920
Speaker 2: Stuart Pennsylvania, you're still there, sir. You know, look at that,

583
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:50,040
Speaker 2: your first time calling into an audit repair show and

584
00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:51,680
Speaker 2: you almost had a whole half hour with me. Look

585
00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:51,840
Speaker 2: at that.

586
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:56,120
Speaker 4: Huh Yeah, I hope I wasn't block and the other caller.

587
00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:59,320
Speaker 2: No, you're fine. Listen, we we we thought you were

588
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:01,880
Speaker 2: interesting and we liked hearing your comments. So you got

589
00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:03,840
Speaker 2: two questions, you got two minutes. What are they?

590
00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:12,000
Speaker 4: Oh good? I'm a pulled on an avalon transmission fluid

591
00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:16,440
Speaker 4: and spark plugs one hundred thousand miles. I'm thinking sixty

592
00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:17,680
Speaker 4: thousand miles on both.

593
00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:20,840
Speaker 2: No, I'll tell you what car. Now, you know what

594
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:25,040
Speaker 2: transfluid in the transfluid in the fifty to sixty range,

595
00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:28,600
Speaker 2: I agree with you can let the plugs go till

596
00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:30,840
Speaker 2: the ninety to one hundred thousand mile mark. But here's

597
00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:33,080
Speaker 2: going to be the catch. This is a V six avalon.

598
00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:37,880
Speaker 2: It is Yeah, when you do when you do the plugs,

599
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:42,720
Speaker 2: you want to consider replacing the ignition coils because to

600
00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:44,360
Speaker 2: get to the back plugs, you're going to have to

601
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:49,240
Speaker 2: pull the upper intake planum. So when you do, when

602
00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:51,840
Speaker 2: you do the plugs, you're going to take the coils out.

603
00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:55,920
Speaker 2: The coils do have a high failure rate, so at

604
00:33:56,040 --> 00:34:00,400
Speaker 2: least replacing the back three that are accessible. As it's

605
00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:02,480
Speaker 2: going to add expense, now, it's going to save you

606
00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:04,560
Speaker 2: money in the long run because if you have a

607
00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:06,920
Speaker 2: coil failure, it will be one of the front three

608
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:09,880
Speaker 2: and they're easy enough to get to. You don't have

609
00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:15,080
Speaker 2: to go through that same labor. Again, Yes, I do

610
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:19,000
Speaker 2: the the other three, the ones in the front. Most

611
00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:21,600
Speaker 2: people do, but it's not mandatory.

612
00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:25,040
Speaker 4: About the about Okay, well you know all of them.

613
00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:26,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would do. I would do six and six

614
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:29,279
Speaker 2: and then you're done, you know. And then while you're

615
00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:31,160
Speaker 2: at the one hundred thousand mile mark, if you haven't

616
00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:33,440
Speaker 2: done it at sixty, I would also do a fuel

617
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:37,279
Speaker 2: system cleaning and decarbonization. Was there a second question, Stuart.

618
00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:43,160
Speaker 4: No, I combine the two questions.

619
00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:46,160
Speaker 2: Okay, good, yeah, no. You know, you talk to a

620
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:48,440
Speaker 2: Toyota dealer, most Toyota dealers, and it seems like it

621
00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:51,200
Speaker 2: depends on which ones you talk to. They will tell

622
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:55,080
Speaker 2: you that, you know, the fluid is lifetime. More often

623
00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:58,400
Speaker 2: than not, of late in the last five years. The

624
00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:01,280
Speaker 2: fluid is starting to show it's age at the seventy

625
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:03,759
Speaker 2: five eighty thousand mile mark, where it will start to cut,

626
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:07,359
Speaker 2: shutter and shake. The trans won't operate as smoothly. It's

627
00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:10,279
Speaker 2: losing its additive package. It's losing its vitamin edge as

628
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:12,759
Speaker 2: I like to think of it, and you'll see that

629
00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:17,160
Speaker 2: transmission start to misbehave. Changing the fluid restores that I

630
00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:19,800
Speaker 2: wouldn't wait till the maximum amount of time. I typically

631
00:35:20,239 --> 00:35:23,000
Speaker 2: we typically do trans fluid every sixty on the Toyota,

632
00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:25,799
Speaker 2: sometimes a little more if it's older or if it's

633
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:28,520
Speaker 2: a little bit more beat up, depending upon environment. Stewart

634
00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:31,280
Speaker 2: an absolute pleasure, sir. I appreciated your questions and comments,

635
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:33,640
Speaker 2: as I'm sure everyone else did. Have a great Thanksgiving

636
00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:35,840
Speaker 2: and for everyone else, have a great Thanksgiving till the

637
00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:37,479
Speaker 2: next time. I'm ron a Eni and the car doctor

638
00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:41,239
Speaker 2: reminding all of you good mechanics aren't expensive, They're priceless.

639
00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:41,920
Speaker 3: See you