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Speaker 1: Ron An Aian.

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Speaker 2: If you are going to spend serious money on that vehicle,

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Speaker 2: you know, five hundred one thousand, two thousand, whatever serious

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Speaker 2: to you, You need to ask the right question.

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Speaker 1: The car Doctor.

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Speaker 3: One thing I questioned. It says the transfluid does not

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Speaker 3: have to be changed to one hundred and fifty thousand,

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Speaker 3: and that's ems too long.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I just wanted to take on Now, you never

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Speaker 2: need to change it. You just change it when you

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Speaker 2: change the car, and you get a whole other you get,

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Speaker 2: you know, you get.

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Speaker 1: To Welcome to the radio home of ron Anian, the

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Speaker 1: Car Doctor. Since nineteen ninety one, this is where car

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

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Speaker 1: automotive repair. If your mechanics giving you a busy signal,

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

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Speaker 2: Are open, but I am here to take your call

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Speaker 2: at eight five five five six ninety nine hundred naw.

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Speaker 1: Running.

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Speaker 2: I was thinking of Garrett, new customer at the shop

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Speaker 2: this week, just before I came on air, and I

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Speaker 2: was thinking about the comments he had made to me.

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Speaker 2: We were talking about when I repaired his infinity, and we

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Speaker 2: were talking about, you know, partly why he chose to

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Speaker 2: try and work on it. And he said, you know,

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Speaker 2: I like tinkering. I like working with my hands. And

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Speaker 2: I don't know what he does. I think, you know,

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Speaker 2: he's an office worker, you know, an accountant, lawyer or something,

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Speaker 2: you know, white collar per se. And I said, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I said, you know, listen, I get it. I you know,

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Speaker 2: we've we've kind of taught everybody that this is not

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Speaker 2: a profession to go into, so nobody knows how to

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Speaker 2: do it anymore. He said, yeah. When I was in

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Speaker 2: high school, and I would venture to guess Garrett's mid

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Speaker 2: thirties in terms of age, maybe a little older. And

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Speaker 2: I'm bad with age guessing, so don't hold me to it.

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Speaker 2: But he said, you know, in my high school, we

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Speaker 2: didn't have autoshop, wood shop, metal shop and so. And

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Speaker 2: I think that's a crime, I really do. I think

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Speaker 2: to not give a kid the option. You know, so

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Speaker 2: what is it. You're either going to be an athlete

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Speaker 2: or a white collar worker. Where's the blue collar guy?

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Speaker 2: Where's the guy who's getting his hands dirty or her

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Speaker 2: who's getting their hands dirty every day?

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Speaker 4: When I was in high school, you used to be

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Speaker 4: able to bring your own car in and pay them

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Speaker 4: to work on it. You didn't pay the people who

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Speaker 4: worked on it. You bought the parts and they worked

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Speaker 4: on the car. And he did ever had to take

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Speaker 4: it anywhere else in town, and you learned how to

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Speaker 4: do something, you know bad. This is that self reliance thing.

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Speaker 4: And Garrett made an interesting point. He said, you know, Ron,

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Speaker 4: that's part of why I like to work on my car.

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Speaker 4: Says I'd much rather bring it to somebody and let

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Speaker 4: them fix it if I knew they could fix it

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Speaker 4: and I could trust them. But you know, he said,

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Speaker 4: I really like working on a car. It's just and

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Speaker 4: I've been thinking about that a couple of days now,

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Speaker 4: because this happened midweek at the shop, and I'm thinking

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Speaker 4: about the generation of mechanics and wood shop and skilled

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Speaker 4: blue collar workers that we've lost, the ones who just

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Speaker 4: you know, are twenty years down the road into their career,

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Speaker 4: and where we've lost that generation. You know, I've always

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Speaker 4: thought for years that there is talent, mechanical talent, woodworking talent,

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Speaker 4: skilled like welding, you know, fabricators. That talent is there

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Speaker 4: in every generation.

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Speaker 2: It just has to be nurtured, you know, when you

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Speaker 2: look back at the second World War right, and it's

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Speaker 2: an interesting time period. What prepared us for the Second

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Speaker 2: World War of being self reliant and responsible and resilient

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Speaker 2: and intelligent and resourceful the Great Depression. And I've had

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Speaker 2: this argument with people, you know, when you think about it,

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Speaker 2: to some degree, the Great Depression helped us win the

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Speaker 2: Second World War because we knew what it was to

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Speaker 2: do without. Uncle Steve would tell me stories about how

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Speaker 2: there was one bike in the neighborhood and it got

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Speaker 2: it got passed around from kid to kid on a

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Speaker 2: and everybody respected it. And if it broke, you went

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Speaker 2: learned how to work with your hands before you gave

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Speaker 2: ride the bike. Right, where's the bike today? Where? Where?

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Speaker 2: Where's that? And I think that's what's lost? I really do.

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Speaker 2: And I feel bad because, you know, I keep thinking

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Speaker 2: car doctor daycamp thing, you know, send your send your

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Speaker 2: send your wife or husband to the car doctor for

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Speaker 2: a week of learning how to fix cars. And uh,

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Speaker 2: you know what would what would the volume be of

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Speaker 2: people that no, I'm not doing this because I can't.

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Speaker 2: Tom's chomping at the bit to sign people up. But

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Speaker 2: you know it's and Tom's been in the shop. Tom's

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Speaker 2: seen what we go through. I sent Tom pictures this

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Speaker 2: week twenty eleven Honda Odyssey with a bad bank two

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Speaker 2: catalytic converter, the one that's in the front. And you

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Speaker 2: start to read the procedure because you're supposed to read

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Speaker 2: the procedure, and the first step is remove front bumper.

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Speaker 2: And you're going, what, I'm working on the exhaust system.

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Speaker 2: Why am I taking the front bumper off? And then

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Speaker 2: you read, you know, six seven steps down the line,

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Speaker 2: it's take the bumper off, move the radiator braces, disconnect

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Speaker 2: the upper hose. You have to tilt the radiator forward

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Speaker 2: and sneak the catalytic converter out between the underframe brace

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Speaker 2: and the radiator, being careful not to damage the radiator.

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Speaker 2: They actually tell you in the instructions lay a piece

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Speaker 2: don't you don't damage or mush the fins. And I'm thinking,

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Speaker 2: who designed this? And it comes back to somebody that

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Speaker 2: never has to work on cars. Why is that because

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Speaker 2: they're all you know, all the engineers are a white collar.

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Speaker 2: They don't know what it is to work with their hands,

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Speaker 2: and they don't ever think that anybody's gonna have to

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Speaker 2: work at it. And in all honesty, all somebody had

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Speaker 2: the upper radiator support and make it so it unbolts

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Speaker 2: and lifts away and we're done. How crazy was that picture? Tom?

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Speaker 2: Did you hit the button?

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Speaker 4: We go? No that I was looking at that going

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Speaker 4: what And and don't forget, I've actually worked in your

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Speaker 4: shop with Danny on my carr replacing the blower motor.

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Speaker 4: It's like, oh my god, how much fun was that? Oh,

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Speaker 4: let me tell you six hours it was like, holy cow.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Danny was knee deep in it. This week we

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Speaker 2: did a twenty seventeen jeep Wrangler and we're getting the

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Speaker 2: and they really haven't done a lot to the car there.

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Speaker 2: We've seen the car three times prior over the last

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Speaker 2: two years, and it's it's been breaks or something else

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Speaker 2: that we triage the car back together. They've been doing

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Speaker 2: the royal changes at a quick glube and all of

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Speaker 2: a sudden, now the car's got one hundred and five

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Speaker 2: gone through. They needed to be gone through sooner. But okay,

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Speaker 2: we'll we'll get at the car and shape at this

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Speaker 2: point and just the things that we had to go

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Speaker 2: through and do. Upper intake manifold had to come off

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Speaker 2: to put six spark plugs in it. To get to

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Speaker 2: get to the spark plugs, you got to take part

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Speaker 2: of the intake menifold apart, which in of itself, and

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Speaker 2: then the right side where the intake plant wasn't in

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Speaker 2: the way, you had to take the heater hoses, the

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Speaker 2: heater tube assembly and the wiring harness has to be

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Speaker 2: moved out of the way to get the plugs out. Now,

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Speaker 2: you know, we talk about proximity of repair if we're

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Speaker 2: taking the spark plugs out on something of this, you know, caliber,

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Speaker 2: let's do ignition coils and we did. We did all.

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Speaker 2: customer into let's do six. They're cheap enough. They're sixty

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Speaker 2: seventy bucks whatever they were at piece, and they have

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Speaker 2: such a high failure rate. But you look at you know,

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Speaker 2: he was three days on this vehicle between plug and

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Speaker 2: fluids and everything else that was going on with it.

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Speaker 2: The vehicles today are much more difficult to repair than

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Speaker 2: they were yesterday, just in the way they're assembled and

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Speaker 2: the proximity of things and how their things are hidden

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Speaker 2: the front on the front half of the exhaust to

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Speaker 2: the center section of the exhaust, Chrysler puts exhaust studs.

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Speaker 2: They put a style of exhaust stud bolt in and

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Speaker 2: it's the nut is swedged into the pipe that it

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Speaker 2: the back well. It seems to be a very common

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Speaker 2: problem with a lot of these. The bolt actually rusts

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Speaker 2: and splinters. It just starts to fragment and fall apart,

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Speaker 2: like you would think it's been sprayed with a high

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Speaker 2: corrosive acid and all's been doing. It's just subjective to

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Speaker 2: six years of winter here in North Jersey. You know,

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Speaker 2: cut through it with the saws, all heat the stud

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Speaker 2: and pop the nut out that way, or you know,

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Speaker 2: heat the nut and the pipe and pop the nut

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Speaker 2: out and break the swedge but my point becomes that

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Speaker 2: sometimes I think that the reason cars are designed the

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Speaker 2: way they're designed, some of it's an accounting call, but

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Speaker 2: it's because of comments like what Garrett said, going back

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Speaker 2: to the beginning of this conversation, he never had the

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Speaker 2: option of autoshop in high school. He never had the

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Speaker 2: option of metal shopper, working with his hands, or shop class.

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Speaker 2: All the shop classes were gone. They've been gone now

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Speaker 2: for twenty five years from the schools. And you know,

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Speaker 2: he became he became what he became because he had

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Speaker 2: no other choice. There was no other career path for him.

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Speaker 2: And you know, you wonder how many mechanics, how many

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Speaker 2: I think I would make it mandatory if you're going

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Speaker 2: to be an engineer in design cars, I think you've

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Speaker 2: got to work on cars first. And it's not just

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Speaker 2: about the math. It's not just about the accounting. It's

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Speaker 2: not just about you know, making sure it fits together.

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Speaker 2: It's about how does it come apart. And I think

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Speaker 2: that's a huge piece of the puzzle that's missing, because

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Speaker 2: the person that suffers in the end is not just

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Speaker 2: the mechanic, but you the vehicle owner. You know, some

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Speaker 2: of the repair bills that you're getting are so excessive

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Speaker 2: now because of the way the car is designed. And

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Speaker 2: that's because guys like Garrett didn't get to take shop

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Speaker 2: class and that's a crime unto itself. Eight five five

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Speaker 2: five six zero nine nine zero zero running any of

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Speaker 2: the Car Doctor at your service, I'll be back right

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Speaker 2: after this. Don't go away, little.

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Speaker 6: You need advice on how to maintain that classic gt O.

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Speaker 6: Ron is the guy. Eight five five five six zero

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Speaker 6: nine nine zero zero. Here's Ron.

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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back.

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Speaker 5: Let's go.

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Speaker 2: Let's go over to Louisiana. Talk to Richard. Richard, you're

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Speaker 2: with the Car Doctor. What's going on? Yes, sir?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, how y'all doing today?

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Speaker 2: Good? What's going on?

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Speaker 3: So? I was just going to add to your comment

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Speaker 3: about how crazy vehicles are made these days. I have

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Speaker 3: a two thousand and nine Ford F one fifty and

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Speaker 3: my heater core was leaking. And you have to remove

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Speaker 3: the entire dashboard to get to that that heater core

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Speaker 3: because the way they made the housing around the heater

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So why do we design something that when it's now,

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Speaker 2: You know, I don't understand what's wrong with people. If

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Speaker 3: Right, that's probably what they want us to do.

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Speaker 3: We're going, you know's not well. And and so like

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Speaker 2: So you're telling me, Wait a minute, you're telling you're

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Speaker 2: That's that's just absolutely crazy. Oh that's absolutely crazy, Richard.

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Speaker 2: I enjoyed having you, sir again. Thank you for your service.

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Speaker 2: God bless you. You be safe and thanks Royer dude

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Speaker 2: to take care of us. Oh you're very welcome, sir.

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Speaker 2: You'd be well, have yourself a merry Christmas.

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Speaker 3: All right, bye bye bye.

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Speaker 2: You know that's crazy, So wait, I gotta think about

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Speaker 2: this now. You know, we could have a contest. Think

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Speaker 2: But we can change the engine in this tank fashion.

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Speaker 2: Then you can put the engine in your pickup truck.

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Speaker 2: And he's gonna look at us like we're crazy. Well

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Speaker 2: we are crazy. But I don't know plan obso lessons,

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Speaker 2: where's it all going?

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Speaker 3: So?

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Speaker 2: But it's me. I'm the lunatic. I keep having these

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Speaker 2: weird ideas. I'm not sure why. So I'm running Amy

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Speaker 2: in the card doctor. The phone numbers eight five five

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Speaker 2: five six zero nine nine zero zero, having fun as

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Speaker 2: be glad to talk to you. Give us a call.

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

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Speaker 2: Speaking Welcome back. I'm still in a little bit of

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Speaker 2: shock here. We could have like an engine swap contest

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Speaker 2: exposure and show the show the insanity.

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Speaker 6: Of all of this.

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Speaker 2: It's three hours to do it. Engine on an m

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Speaker 2: one Aghborn's tank. How does it take the change engines

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Speaker 2: So anyway, where we're going, let's go to Let's go

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Speaker 2: to Roy and Maine. Roy. Welcome to the car doctor, sir,

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Speaker 2: How can I.

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Speaker 5: Help Merry Christmas? Ron?

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Speaker 2: Thank you, sir.

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Speaker 5: Back at you, long time listener, Thank you. I'm in

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Speaker 5: the market for somewhat use automobile. I like Hondas, okay,

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Speaker 5: and all of us I can see is a CVT transmission.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you what. Honda is an interesting conversation

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Speaker 2: to have about transmissions. You know, every to me, every

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Speaker 2: I see that trans failure, it's the person that's not

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Speaker 2: The early CVT Hondas had their issues very much so

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Speaker 2: the fluids need service. You know, there's just there's nothing

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't shy away from a CVT, but I would

435
00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:29,200
Speaker 2: want something with you know, less mileage is of value

436
00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:31,040
Speaker 2: to me, you know.

437
00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:39,159
Speaker 5: Yeah, So conventional automatic transmissional transmission compared to CVT on

438
00:23:40,359 --> 00:23:46,119
Speaker 5: if I have the choice, would be the conventional automatic transmission.

439
00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:49,560
Speaker 2: Depends what engine are we talking about, because then there's that.

440
00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:52,119
Speaker 5: Two point four leader.

441
00:23:53,119 --> 00:23:57,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, a two point four with conventional automatic. To me,

442
00:23:57,160 --> 00:23:59,600
Speaker 2: that thing's a brick that's just going to run forever.

443
00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:01,199
Speaker 6: You know.

444
00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:05,840
Speaker 2: It's you know, my dad's gone. Let me think nineteen

445
00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:09,560
Speaker 2: sixty eight, when was that right? I think my dad's

446
00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:12,640
Speaker 2: gone over fifty years now, more than fifty five years,

447
00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:15,160
Speaker 2: something like that. And I still remember to this day.

448
00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:17,520
Speaker 2: And Dad was an airline mechanic. He worked on FDR's

449
00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:20,720
Speaker 2: DC three during the war. He was a mechanic. He

450
00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:23,080
Speaker 2: understood things mechanical, and he always said to me, you know,

451
00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:26,440
Speaker 2: a plain white refrigerator runs a real long time.

452
00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:28,760
Speaker 5: You know.

453
00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:30,640
Speaker 2: He says, it doesn't have to be fancy to work.

454
00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:33,480
Speaker 2: And I understand that, And that's probably dated thinking in

455
00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:37,040
Speaker 2: this technological world we're living in. But simple and clean

456
00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:40,880
Speaker 2: sure does. It Sure doesn't make sense sometimes because when

457
00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:43,199
Speaker 2: you buy the fancy car with the turbo charger and

458
00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:46,840
Speaker 2: the expensive transmission or the fancy technology, you got to

459
00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:48,840
Speaker 2: be able to afford to maintain it too, and you've

460
00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:50,879
Speaker 2: got to be able to roll with the punches and

461
00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:54,000
Speaker 2: take your bumps and bruises along the way. So that

462
00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:58,280
Speaker 2: two point four basic automatic, that thing will run forever

463
00:24:58,359 --> 00:25:01,359
Speaker 2: with care. So it really will yep, so.

464
00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:04,320
Speaker 5: Well I got. I got a two point four leader

465
00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:11,680
Speaker 5: ex and automatic transmission, and the things run. It run beautiful,

466
00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:14,520
Speaker 5: the onnest thing. It has one hundred and seventy seven

467
00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:17,720
Speaker 5: to miles in it right now, right, And I changed

468
00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:22,160
Speaker 5: the transmission fluid. I could stay almost once a year.

469
00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:26,840
Speaker 2: Right, And there you go, right, I'm not going to

470
00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:29,520
Speaker 2: argue with that. I am not going to argue with that.

471
00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:32,680
Speaker 2: I'm not going to say you're wrong, you know, because

472
00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:34,680
Speaker 2: the proof's in the pudding. What year is the car?

473
00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:37,440
Speaker 5: A two thousand and three, right.

474
00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:40,159
Speaker 2: So you're telling me so a twenty year old car

475
00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:43,440
Speaker 2: going on twenty one years old with one hundred and

476
00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:45,919
Speaker 2: seventy thousand miles on U's got the original transient. You've

477
00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:49,000
Speaker 2: done one hundred and fifty dollars trans fluid service every

478
00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:53,080
Speaker 2: year for the last twenty one years. Not a bad deal.

479
00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:58,359
Speaker 5: When I bought it, it had fifty five miles, and

480
00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:00,879
Speaker 5: from then on, I've been taking care avery for myself,

481
00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:04,840
Speaker 5: like changing the transmission fluid and changing all the fluid.

482
00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:06,520
Speaker 5: And I got right now, I got one hundred and

483
00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:09,160
Speaker 5: seventy seven thousand miles on it. What happened? I get

484
00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:14,160
Speaker 5: into an accident a couple of weeks ago, and I'm

485
00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:18,879
Speaker 5: it's the repairing it or getting a new one and everything.

486
00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:25,040
Speaker 5: I see CVT transmission right, and I just checked it out.

487
00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:30,840
Speaker 5: Underneath the brick line, everything underneath is this solid. It's

488
00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:33,360
Speaker 5: just that it's going to take a you know you're

489
00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:36,399
Speaker 5: gonna I'm gonna need somebody to repair the damage from

490
00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:41,040
Speaker 5: the bodywalk the frame and everything is so solid. And

491
00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:44,399
Speaker 5: like I said, the motor works perfectly. The transmission. As

492
00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:47,439
Speaker 5: a matter of fact, I just changed try fluid about

493
00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:50,639
Speaker 5: three weeks ago, right. You know.

494
00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:54,120
Speaker 2: The one thing you have to consider though, is and

495
00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:58,000
Speaker 2: you know it's it's always hanging out there. Now. Honda

496
00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:00,840
Speaker 2: is better than most in terms of parts availability and

497
00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:05,520
Speaker 2: keeping things around, but at some point the manufacturer will

498
00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:08,199
Speaker 2: beat you because of parts. They just don't They just

499
00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:10,760
Speaker 2: don't keep things on the shelf. So you know, it's

500
00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:12,520
Speaker 2: a Honda. I'm sure you could get parts for that

501
00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:15,159
Speaker 2: car for another ten years if you had to, but

502
00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:22,280
Speaker 2: at what expense and aggravation. So there are conventional Hondas

503
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:24,919
Speaker 2: that you know, there are still current day Hondas that

504
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:28,440
Speaker 2: you can get the standard or the regular conventional automatic

505
00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:30,520
Speaker 2: trans in you just got to look, you've got to

506
00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:33,879
Speaker 2: be selective. But you know, I think if we're dealing

507
00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:36,840
Speaker 2: with something that age, that's in an accident that's totaled

508
00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:40,639
Speaker 2: a how well will it get fixed at what expense?

509
00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:44,040
Speaker 2: And then how much longer will parts be available? And

510
00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:47,159
Speaker 2: that's that's all got to come into it too. But

511
00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:48,920
Speaker 2: you know what I get it. You sound like it's

512
00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:51,600
Speaker 2: it's a bit of a challenge, and you know you

513
00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:55,600
Speaker 2: want to take that challenge, en boy, I understand. I understand, sir. Listen,

514
00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:58,320
Speaker 2: I got to run a pleasure speaking with you. Merry Christmas,

515
00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:00,520
Speaker 2: good holidays, and the thanks for being part of the

516
00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:03,440
Speaker 2: Car Doctor family. Good luck and whatever HONDI end up driving,

517
00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:06,119
Speaker 2: and stay safe. I'm ron An eighty in the Car Doctor.

518
00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:17,080
Speaker 2: We'll be back right after this. Don't go away. It's

519
00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:24,680
Speaker 2: the most wonderful time. The welcome back Ronnie and the

520
00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:26,480
Speaker 2: Card Doctor here at eight five five five six zero

521
00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:29,520
Speaker 2: nine nine zero zero eight five five five six zero

522
00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:31,480
Speaker 2: nine nine zero zero the Car Doctor's twenty four to

523
00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:34,480
Speaker 2: seven phone number. And we just updated the message because

524
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:36,679
Speaker 2: we understand there was a glitch in the system and

525
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:38,880
Speaker 2: it does now say that you can leave a message

526
00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:41,479
Speaker 2: if you were confused before, and Tom will get back

527
00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:42,560
Speaker 2: to you and put you in the queue for the

528
00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:44,960
Speaker 2: next live broadcast and then we can talk kind of

529
00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:47,040
Speaker 2: talk that way. So eight five five five six zero

530
00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:49,600
Speaker 2: nine nine zero zero is the number if you miss

531
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Speaker 2: us during the live show hours Saturdays two to four

532
00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:54,680
Speaker 2: pm East Coast time. Herb Cooper writes, and I, you know,

533
00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:57,520
Speaker 2: I love her. He's funny, he's got some insightful stuff.

534
00:28:57,640 --> 00:28:59,920
Speaker 2: He's a customer at the shop full disclosure, and he

535
00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:02,000
Speaker 2: a follower of this radio show. He says, I'm currently

536
00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:04,800
Speaker 2: driving a Hyundai rental. It has a push button shifter.

537
00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:09,560
Speaker 2: What genius thought that one? I've Herb, You know, I

538
00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:12,080
Speaker 2: think about that myself. I drove a Honda the other

539
00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:15,560
Speaker 2: day with a push button shifter, and I don't get it.

540
00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:17,920
Speaker 2: It's you know, you have to look down, you know,

541
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:19,600
Speaker 2: if you're new to that car, you have to look down.

542
00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:23,080
Speaker 2: Where's reverse, Where's park? Where's drive? You know, it's not

543
00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:26,400
Speaker 2: it's not a comfortable feeling. The one I don't like,

544
00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:29,360
Speaker 2: the one I like less than a push button shifter

545
00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:32,400
Speaker 2: is the rotary knob. You know, where you turn the

546
00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:35,840
Speaker 2: knob park, reverse, neutral, drive, and all that I you

547
00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:39,200
Speaker 2: know whatever happened to traditional but I guarantee it's because

548
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:41,600
Speaker 2: they can make it cheaper and they're saving money, and

549
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:43,760
Speaker 2: that's that's what it's all about. But I think it's

550
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:46,640
Speaker 2: all leading towards what I'm going to call distracted driving.

551
00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:50,760
Speaker 2: And I defy anybody to you know, one of the

552
00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:53,360
Speaker 2: biggest complaints I hear, and I defy anybody to give

553
00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:55,680
Speaker 2: me a valid reason is a lot of people are

554
00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:59,400
Speaker 2: complaining to me now that the newer cars there's no

555
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:02,320
Speaker 2: tac time I'll touch, there's no feel. You can't you

556
00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:05,240
Speaker 2: can't find something without you know, looking at it because

557
00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:08,080
Speaker 2: it's part of an integrated screen. It's a touch screen

558
00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:10,600
Speaker 2: that you have to you know, touch screens and automobiles

559
00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:12,600
Speaker 2: don't go along because it's distracted.

560
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:13,400
Speaker 3: You know.

561
00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:16,600
Speaker 2: I listen, I committed the faux pas the other day

562
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:19,240
Speaker 2: where I was driving and my phone rang and I

563
00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:21,640
Speaker 2: glanced down to see who it was, and when I

564
00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:23,280
Speaker 2: looked up, there was a deer in the middle of

565
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:25,320
Speaker 2: the road at four point thirty in the morning. And

566
00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:29,000
Speaker 2: you know that's because you know, mentally, your mind is,

567
00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:31,160
Speaker 2: oh gosh, the phone rang, let me go. Look, you've

568
00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:33,360
Speaker 2: got to get away from that so distracted driving is

569
00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:36,840
Speaker 2: a real problem without reaching for something. And now imagine

570
00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:39,440
Speaker 2: you're looking down trying to adjust or turn or tweak

571
00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:43,360
Speaker 2: or do something to make that and it's a headache.

572
00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:46,640
Speaker 2: It's it's unsafe, so or I don't know who designed it,

573
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:49,360
Speaker 2: but yeah, I agree with you. What a genius. Real

574
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:52,440
Speaker 2: quick before I pull over for this pause, found a

575
00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:55,600
Speaker 2: real good use the other day for PB blaster, and

576
00:30:56,680 --> 00:30:58,840
Speaker 2: I just want to pass it along because I learned

577
00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:01,560
Speaker 2: this one and I kind of got excited. We were

578
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:04,040
Speaker 2: doing the catalytic converter on that eleven Honda Odyssey I

579
00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:08,000
Speaker 2: was telling you about, and Hondas have this their exhaust systems.

580
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:12,720
Speaker 2: The gasket between the pipes, it's a round metal O

581
00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:15,960
Speaker 2: ring that sits in a groove in the pipe on

582
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:18,520
Speaker 2: one side or the other. In the case of this Odyssey,

583
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:22,400
Speaker 2: it sat in the pipe that was still in the car,

584
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:25,640
Speaker 2: and you know, you can try to reach down and

585
00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:27,959
Speaker 2: pick at it with a scratch tool or a small

586
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:31,640
Speaker 2: thin straight blade screwdriver, you know, maybe kick up a

587
00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:33,239
Speaker 2: piece of metal, and then it starts to come up

588
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:35,000
Speaker 2: in pieces. And I looked at it, and I said,

589
00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:36,960
Speaker 2: there's got to be an easier way to do this,

590
00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:41,360
Speaker 2: I took a drop of PB blaster, and I've got

591
00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:43,320
Speaker 2: to give credit where credit is due. That the pro

592
00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:46,160
Speaker 2: straw where you can angle it, and the volume adjuster

593
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:48,520
Speaker 2: where you can just limit the spray. Just put a

594
00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:51,400
Speaker 2: couple of drops around the metal gasket. I was so

595
00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:53,680
Speaker 2: enthralled by this, actually shot a video. I'm not sure

596
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:56,080
Speaker 2: where it is. It'll be out eventually. We sent it

597
00:31:56,120 --> 00:32:00,760
Speaker 2: through production and engineering and you know, the normal procedure.

598
00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:03,000
Speaker 2: It's but it's going to come up on Facebook somewhere.

599
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:05,560
Speaker 2: It's going to come up on social media somewhere, showing

600
00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:09,400
Speaker 2: that after just a couple of minutes of sitting, I

601
00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:11,560
Speaker 2: took a pair of pliers. I grabbed the edge of

602
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:13,600
Speaker 2: the piece of metal of the ring that was sticking

603
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:16,680
Speaker 2: up and popped it right out. That used to be

604
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:18,440
Speaker 2: the biggest headache in the world when you get to

605
00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:20,360
Speaker 2: that part of the job. And PEB Blaster, I got

606
00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:23,080
Speaker 2: to give them credit. Just just made it easier. So

607
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:25,320
Speaker 2: you know what, when I use something in the shop

608
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:27,640
Speaker 2: and I find a way to make it easier, I

609
00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:29,520
Speaker 2: want you guys to be aware of it. So the

610
00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:31,440
Speaker 2: next time you're doing that, think about it. It really

611
00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:34,320
Speaker 2: does it breaks down the rust barrier between the metal

612
00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:36,360
Speaker 2: and the piece that you're trying to take it away from.

613
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:39,320
Speaker 2: So pebe Blaster gets kudos from the car doctor for that.

614
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:42,080
Speaker 2: One eight five five five six zero nine nine zero zero.

615
00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:51,240
Speaker 2: We're back right after this. Don't go away. Jingle bells,

616
00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:55,280
Speaker 2: jingle bells, jingle all the way all what tn it

617
00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:56,400
Speaker 2: is to ride in a one?

618
00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:58,920
Speaker 5: Honks open swagh jingle bells?

619
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Speaker 2: Look back the name of the car, Doctor Dodge writes

620
00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:04,880
Speaker 2: in Dodge from Delaware, Hey Ron, twenty years ago, two

621
00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:07,240
Speaker 2: friends of mine died. I'm sorry to hear that because

622
00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:09,680
Speaker 2: they remote started their car and attached garage and forgot

623
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:12,040
Speaker 2: the car was running. The car timed out when it

624
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:13,880
Speaker 2: ran out of gas. How horrible. So I guess there's

625
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:17,160
Speaker 2: another reason why they time out cars. We were talking

626
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:20,560
Speaker 2: to Micah in a different hour about a remote start,

627
00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:22,280
Speaker 2: so that's something to think about too. Why there's a

628
00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:24,720
Speaker 2: timer on there? And he also respond he said, Hey Ron,

629
00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:26,920
Speaker 2: just because the product is sold on Amazon doesn't necessarily

630
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:28,840
Speaker 2: mean it's drunk. No, I'm not saying it is. It's

631
00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:31,200
Speaker 2: just I'm leery of it. I always question it. I

632
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:33,400
Speaker 2: just want to know is it real? And you know

633
00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:36,200
Speaker 2: I can't. I can't go ask Amazon it seems where

634
00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:38,040
Speaker 2: that vendor comes from. But I can ask, sure as heck,

635
00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:40,920
Speaker 2: ask my local otoparts store where that product comes from,

636
00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:42,400
Speaker 2: and do they have any problems. And he goes on

637
00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:45,200
Speaker 2: to say, what isn't made in China is okay, and

638
00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:49,000
Speaker 2: what isn't is probably junk. Yeah, a lot of things

639
00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:51,360
Speaker 2: made in China that do work well. But you know

640
00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:54,080
Speaker 2: it's it's just it just gives you a moment or

641
00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:57,160
Speaker 2: a pause of concern. You know, we'll leave it there,

642
00:33:57,160 --> 00:33:58,720
Speaker 2: and I just want to do this quick piece of email.

643
00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:00,760
Speaker 2: This comes to us from Trevor and Maine. Hey run

644
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:03,120
Speaker 2: him a long time listener to the show. I tried calling,

645
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:04,720
Speaker 2: but no one answered, couldn't leave a message. Yet we

646
00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:07,080
Speaker 2: found out the message was cock guided. My apologies. My

647
00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:09,080
Speaker 2: question is about my all wheel drive two thousand and

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Speaker 2: seven Dodge Durrango. When I purchased it through a private sale,

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Speaker 2: it had had a low speed collision front driver's side

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Speaker 2: where it meant the tyrod and started up, and a

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Speaker 2: dashboard looks like a Christmas tree. I think just every

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Speaker 2: light is on. I replaced the tirerod new tires and

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Speaker 2: took it to have an rewinement. I picked it up

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Speaker 2: from the alignment shop, no difference. I've also replaced the

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Speaker 2: old wheel speed sensors and brake lights switch. The lights

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Speaker 2: went out for about a half a day or so

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Speaker 2: and then back on and helped be appreciated. Travis, And

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Speaker 2: I think I sent you an email for this. I'm

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Speaker 2: guessing maybe you didn't see it because I expected you

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Speaker 2: to call today. But you know, he's got to scan

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Speaker 2: it dashboard lights on what's reporting a problem and not

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Speaker 2: an obed two scan. You got to go in ear

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Speaker 2: make model and look at specific information. So you want

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Speaker 2: to do that with a good quality scan tool. And

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Speaker 2: then is it possible things such as the steering angle

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Speaker 2: sensor if it's a quip needs to be reset. There

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Speaker 2: might be some calibrations that have to be done electronically

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Speaker 2: to get some of those lights to go out. But

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Speaker 2: you won't know what those lights are for until you

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Speaker 2: get it scanned. That call me. I'm Ronningenie in the

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Speaker 2: car doctor, reminding you the mechanics aren't expensive, they're placeless.

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