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Speaker 2: A noise, a smell of vibration, a dashboard light blinking

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Speaker 2: say that. As we head into summer, you give me

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Speaker 2: a call, we'll talk about it. You know, I was

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Speaker 2: standing at the gas pump this week and I caught

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Speaker 2: myself to yeah, because I do that. I still get

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Speaker 2: out of the car and pump my own gas. And

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Speaker 2: I know you can't do that in Jersey. Don't tell

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Speaker 2: anybody you know what it's at. Bad habit I got

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Speaker 2: watching the numbers, not the gallons, the dollars. And you

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Speaker 2: guys know what I mean. Right, you're all there, We're

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Speaker 2: all there. I was at the deli today and listening

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Speaker 2: to the stories, and you know it's hard. You go

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Speaker 2: to the supermarket, everything is ten bucks. You go to

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Speaker 2: the gas station, gas is five six bucks a gallon.

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Speaker 2: That little display on the gas pump spins upward faster

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Speaker 2: than your brain can process at fifty bucks, sixty bucks,

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Speaker 2: seventy five bucks, and you're still not full. It's one

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Speaker 2: the suburb. I you know, I don't drive it a lot,

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Speaker 2: and thank God, but Holy smokes, and I realized Memorial

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Speaker 2: Days right around the corner, right, some are driving seasons

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Speaker 2: about to come upon us, and you know what, here

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Speaker 2: we go again. And that's what I started thinking about it.

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Speaker 2: Fuel prices are quietly becoming a story again here in America.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's not screaming in the headlines yet. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you hear about it gases up and you know we're

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Speaker 2: not panic buying toilet paper yet, but enough where everybody's noticing.

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Speaker 2: And honestly, you can always tellhen fuel prices rise because

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Speaker 2: suddenly everybody becomes a fuel economy expert, which I've experienced,

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Speaker 2: which I kind of love because I sort of stay

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Speaker 2: everybody else how they can save gas. You know, the

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Speaker 2: And you know, you listen to the neighbors. They're talking

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Speaker 2: I'm thinking, it's April. How bad do you need the

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Speaker 2: air conditioning? Anyway. You know, somebody online tells you to

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Speaker 2: drive with one sneaker off because it reduces vehicle weight.

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Speaker 2: Then there's the old timer who says put a closed

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Speaker 2: pin on the fuel line. I'll come back to that later.

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you that answered later. Here's the thing. People

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Speaker 2: this is key on fuel waste. The repair shop sees

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Speaker 2: something every week. Most drivers don't notice cars slowly become inefficient.

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Speaker 2: There's a reason we as a repair shop, we road

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Speaker 2: test every oil change. I don't know a lot of

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Speaker 2: shops that do that. You know, the cars aren't broken,

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Speaker 2: we told you the story about the twenty twenty Don

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Speaker 2: And honestly, that sensation of how the vehicle feels is

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Speaker 2: caliper got so bad that the truck started to pull

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Speaker 2: regular driving fifteen to eighteen thousand miles a year, he

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Speaker 2: And you see, that's the scary part. And that's what

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Speaker 2: you don't know. You don't know what you don't know.

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Speaker 2: Steve ethid Gevopus always says fuel economy drops slowly, you

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Speaker 2: don't notice it overnight. It's like gaining weight. You ever

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Speaker 2: notice how you take your jacket off in the spring

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Speaker 2: and you put it back on in the fall, and

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Speaker 2: somehow it shrunk in the closet. You know, how does

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Speaker 2: that occur? Well, listen, there's no magic pill in the closet.

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Speaker 2: I used to blame my wife. I'd say, what are

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Speaker 2: it's too much pasta. Yeah, it's like gaining weight. You

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Speaker 2: know what. You don't wake up on Tuesday morning and go, wow,

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Speaker 2: where did thirty pounds come from? Cars work the same way.

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Speaker 2: Half a mile per gallon here, one mile per gallon there,

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Speaker 2: a little less rolling resistance, a little bit of brake drag,

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Speaker 2: the vehicles drinking fuel like it owns the oil company.

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Speaker 2: Modern cars as good as they are are really sensitive

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Speaker 2: to maintenance. Years ago, I think cars tolerated neglect a

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Speaker 2: little bit better, sparkplugs a little warned, still ran tires, low,

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Speaker 2: Everything is related to the computer, fuel terms, air flow,

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Speaker 2: battery charging management, start stop systems. These vehicles today are

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Speaker 2: trying to squeeze every possible drop of fuel efficiency out

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Speaker 2: of every mile traveled, which means maintenance slips, fuel economy suffers.

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Speaker 2: Bigger problems happen, fuel economy really suffers. And here's where

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Speaker 2: you guys need to rethink how you look at maintenance,

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Speaker 2: because the cheapest repair isn't always doing nothing. Sometimes doing

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Speaker 2: nothing is the most expensive. And I say this all

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Speaker 2: the time. You've got to think about this, right. A

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Speaker 2: car is a system. Everything affects everything else. Low tire

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Speaker 2: pressure changes rolling resistance, dragging breaks changes transmission behavior. Let's

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Speaker 2: think about that a minute. If the brakes are dragging

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Speaker 2: and we're making the vehicle work harder, doesn't it take

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Speaker 2: more oumphat of the engine? An rpm point, a shift point,

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Speaker 2: trans shifts. A weak battery affects charging strategy. Charging strategy

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Speaker 2: effects fuel economy. A dirty throttle body affects airflow calculation.

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Speaker 2: A lazy eye exygen sensor can make little changes to

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Speaker 2: fuel trim right fuel trim fault codes. To get technical

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Speaker 2: that constant ongoing adjustment to fuel injection to compensate for

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Speaker 2: varying loads on the engine. That constant change of fuel trimp.

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Speaker 2: If zero to twenty five percent doesn't set a fault code,

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Speaker 2: but thirty percent does, and your vehicle is always running

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Speaker 2: at twenty nine percent. No check engine light, but boy,

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Speaker 2: it's sure is working harder, and fuel trimp sure is cockie.

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Speaker 2: And before you guys all say, hey, Ron, you're trying

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Speaker 2: to sell me maintenance. No, I'm not trying to sell

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Speaker 2: you maintenance. I'm really not. I'm trying to save you money.

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to get you to think outside the box.

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Speaker 2: Because if fuel prices stay worthy, think they're gonna stay

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Speaker 2: this summer, fuel economy becomes real money again, that's lost

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Speaker 2: money you're throwing out the window. You gotta do the math.

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Speaker 2: If you drive, I don't know, fifteen thousand miles a

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Speaker 2: year and your vehicle drops from twenty five miles per

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Speaker 2: gallon to twenty, you're buying about one hundred and fifty

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Speaker 2: extra gallons of fuel every year at four fifty a gallon,

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Speaker 2: that's seven hundred bucks. Seven hundred bucks because the vehicle

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Speaker 2: wasn't operating efficiently. And that's not politics, that's not opinion.

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Speaker 2: That's math. And what they say in that movie Hidden Figures, right,

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Speaker 2: math never lies. I think one of the biggest mistakes

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Speaker 2: everybody makes is waiting for the check engine light to

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Speaker 2: come on before you pay attention. Cars whisper, then they scream.

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Speaker 2: That's why I scan cars with no warning light. It's

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Speaker 2: part of a physical Tell me what's good. I'll tell

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Speaker 2: you what's bad. I'll leave it here. Okay, own, And

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Speaker 2: by the way, no, you know what I'm gonna make

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Speaker 2: you come back. I'm gonna leave it here. Take the pause.

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Speaker 2: When I come back, I'll tell you why they used

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Speaker 2: to put clothes lines on fuel clothes pins on fuel lines. Actually,

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Speaker 2: I should make at the question this hour if anybody

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Speaker 2: knows the answer to that. Tom scratching his head and

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Speaker 2: that takes a lot, so I'll be back right after this.

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Speaker 2: I'm ronning Anie in the car. Doctor, don't go anywhere. Hey,

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Speaker 2: let's go to John Wisconsin. Open up the phone lines

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Speaker 2: at eight five five five six zero nine nine zero

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Speaker 2: zero John. How can I help ron Annie in at

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Speaker 2: your service?

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Speaker 3: I'm looking at getting a newer suburban. Not quite sure

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Speaker 3: what I want, what motor I want the five three

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Speaker 3: six two. I have looked at a Durham Ax already,

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Speaker 3: so kind of come to the conclusion that twenty three

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Speaker 3: twenty four with the Durhamax, it seems like a pretty

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Speaker 3: solid buy. Just wondering what your opinion is, what's kind.

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Speaker 2: What's what's what's my budget? Hundred grand?

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Speaker 3: I'd like No, I'd like to spend about sixty.

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Speaker 2: Okay, can you buy? Can you buy a twenty four

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Speaker 2: suburban with a Dourmax in it for sixty.

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Speaker 3: I can buy one that's got a branded title with

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Speaker 3: seventeen thousand miles on. I'm just that one kind of

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Speaker 3: scares me and it's not quite sure.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, because that seems cheap, doesn't it?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I like it.

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Speaker 2: Well, But before we fall in love with cheap. Let's

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Speaker 2: let's let's let's kick this around. You know, can you

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Speaker 2: find another twenty four suburban with a Duramax for sixty

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Speaker 2: thousand if everything else is eighty? Why is that one

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Speaker 2: so cheap? That would bother me?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? I have seen them around sixty five thousand and

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Speaker 3: sixty eight thousand.

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Speaker 2: With that mile with that lower mileage.

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Speaker 3: Oh, with a lot more miles right right, six miles.

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Speaker 2: So when we're when we're having this conversation, John, if

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Speaker 2: we're sitting at if we're sitting at the counter and

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Speaker 2: just having a few adult beverages and kind of kicking

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Speaker 2: it around, I always say apples to apples, not apples

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Speaker 2: to oranges. Right, So, you know, I think the five three, Well,

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Speaker 2: No, you know, I mean I've got an Z four

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Speaker 2: I don't know if it ever will, you know, I

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Speaker 2: with some modification. I'd have to just you know, change

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Speaker 2: But it's a direct swap as far as block size.

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Speaker 3: I have? Is I o one my own right now?

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Speaker 2: Right? Is it a rust bucket?

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Speaker 3: I kind of went through it all at one point.

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Speaker 3: It's getting a little russ on it again.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so you know, because then the other option is

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Speaker 2: If you ask me what else would I want to buy?

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Speaker 2: I would There probably isn't a lot. There's not a

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Speaker 2: Hold the you know, the size of the family, seven

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Speaker 2: about Uh. They tend to do everything. I've driven the

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Speaker 2: Ford what was it, the Ford Expedition, Eh, I thought, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: so they're all they're all rust buckets and gone too.

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Speaker 6: You know.

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Speaker 2: I always played with the idea of if I could

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Speaker 2: But you know, I never got that opportunity. I'm a tinkerer,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because as long as you're versed in diesel, and

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Speaker 3: It's a branded vehicle. So a comeback on the Lemon

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Speaker 3: I'm not quite sure what that was, but it went

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Speaker 2: So it's a Lemon Law vehicle. Yeah, so you have

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Speaker 2: no idea what's really wrong with her? Even if it's fixed.

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Speaker 3: Well, no, it's it came back from you know, the Chevy.

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Speaker 3: However they do with their plan to whoever fixed it

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Speaker 3: fixed it, So then that should be good to go.

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Speaker 2: Now, Okay, Well, if they're going to give you a guarantee.

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Speaker 3: It'd be it'd be warranteed till thirty six thousands, another

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Speaker 2: And if it's if it's three repairs and it's not.

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Speaker 2: Is it covered again under Lemon law.

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Speaker 3: No Lemon lag or one time deal.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a big risk, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's scary, all right.

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Speaker 2: I think that's a big risk. You know how many

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Speaker 3: Around? I give this team some like fifty to seventy thousand.

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Speaker 2: Right, you know, I'd rather buy the fifty thousand mile

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Speaker 2: get a general feeling of proof that it was done. Right.

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Speaker 2: I mean, listen, it sounds like you're happy with the

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Speaker 2: Dormax diesel, and I don't argue that, all right, So

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Speaker 2: don't misunderstanding my hesitancy is are you buying are you

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Speaker 2: when the factory was supposed to fix it right in

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Speaker 2: the first place. I'd be curious to see after the

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Speaker 2: or whatever the mileage is. Now I forgot what you said,

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Speaker 2: fifteen thousand miles, And you know, does it does it

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Speaker 2: have sixteen thousand miles on it? Now that they drive

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Speaker 2: it to prove that the repair fixed it or is

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Speaker 2: there more wrong with it? Because my concern is and

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Speaker 2: I'm cynical obviously, because this is what I do for

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Speaker 2: There was four repairs of some degree done to this

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Speaker 2: vehicle in the last twenty thousand miles. Right, yeah, you know, Hey,

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Speaker 2: your vehicles fixed. Hey, your vehicles fixed. Hey, your vehicles fixed,

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Speaker 2: you know, And and I gave everybody. Everybody's got their

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Speaker 2: Did anybody drive it? I would be concerned about that,

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Speaker 2: you know, if they wanted to sell it to you

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Speaker 2: off for aggravation and potential. All right, maybe for fifty

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Speaker 2: I'll think about it, because it can be fixed. It's

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Speaker 2: just to what degrees the problem. But I'd rather buy

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Speaker 2: then I know what's there works, and you can catch

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Speaker 2: up on whatever maintenance. But you've got to see that

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Speaker 2: maintenance was done. I hope I helped John. I hope

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Speaker 2: I didn't confuse you. But yes, Chevy suburban great vehicle diesel. Fine,

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Speaker 2: just make sure you're buying a good one. That's my concern. Hey,

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Speaker 2: five five, five, six nine nine zero zero, run an

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Speaker 2: any of the car doctor coming back right after.

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Speaker 5: This from the city street to the urban rule tonight.

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Speaker 5: If you Ronny head help, Ronald will keep you all right. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: he's a car doctor.

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Speaker 2: Car advisdor. Hey, let's get over to Greg and Wisconsin. Greg,

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Speaker 2: how can I help?

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Speaker 7: Hi?

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Speaker 2: Ron Us kicking my call very well.

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Speaker 6: Afternoon. I called uh back in Valentine's Day and we

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Speaker 6: talked about my son in law Zo nine Morano and

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Speaker 6: I had a zero three oh six which morphed into

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Speaker 6: a P zero three hundred, and you gave me some

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Speaker 6: You had suggested to take into a pressure test cooling

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Speaker 6: one three and five on the six cylinder was we're misfiring,

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Speaker 6: and so did that and kind of the interesting thing

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Speaker 6: but one three and five were like immaculately clean. You

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Speaker 6: And then two four and six that we're working, we're

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Speaker 6: you suggested check vacuum. Vacuum was low at about twelve.

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Speaker 6: And also we did a fuel press sure test, uh

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Speaker 6: And we actually pulled the fuel rail and the injectors

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Speaker 6: of them, and that was all good. So then the

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Speaker 6: last thing you had suggested was because we had my

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Speaker 6: that the cats were said that there were bad cats,

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Speaker 6: and so you'd suggest to just just because they were

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Speaker 6: just put on, take them off and see how see

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Speaker 6: if we have something plug. So he did that and

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Speaker 6: that came up negative. So we still had the misfire.

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Speaker 6: And then when I went to uh check the check

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Speaker 6: the missfires quite accidentally, I think it was a good thing.

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Speaker 6: We put the one three and five coils and two

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Speaker 6: So they said, well, let's let's switch them back one

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Speaker 6: switched the coils back one three and five for two,

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Speaker 6: four and six, and they followed back over to one

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Speaker 6: we're good to go. It's just amazing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah that is because I've I've got to tell you,

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Speaker 2: I've never seen three on the same bank go bad.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah it was. It was me, but thankfully for

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Speaker 6: your advice and all the you know, tell me what's good,

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Speaker 6: and I'll tell you what's that and diagnosed, diagnosed, diagnose.

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Speaker 2: We got to the bottom of it right well, because

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Speaker 2: it didn't make sense that the chain had jumped. I've

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Speaker 2: never seen one of those jump a chain and just

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Speaker 2: affect one side. If it jumps the chain, it's usually both. Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 2: And and at that point, yeah, it could have been

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Speaker 2: something was affecting vacuum on both banks, so you know,

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Speaker 2: but the fact that both all I'm sorry that all

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Speaker 2: three coils went bad. Yeah, brother, that is a sign

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Speaker 2: that's that's unique. So and I've got to ask, I'm

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Speaker 2: sure you replaced all six coils? Were they were? They

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Speaker 2: all original?

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Speaker 6: They're all they're all original. And no, because he actually

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Speaker 6: God actually went We went to a we went to

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Speaker 6: a salvage yard. They had one. They had one car

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Speaker 6: there that we could pull from put them twitched. And

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Speaker 6: they only had three end Uh. Of course the easy

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Speaker 6: and like I think three days later he called me

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Speaker 2: So good, I'm glad. I'm where I worked out. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: tell me what's good. I'll tell you what's bad. To

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Speaker 7: You know.

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Speaker 2: We throw, we throw tons and tons of parts of cars.

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Speaker 2: But what fixes it? So well, good, I'm glad it

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Speaker 2: worked out for you, Greg, good job.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, so thank you very much.

432
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Speaker 2: Very welcome, sir. Listen, you have a great rest of

433
00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:45,159
Speaker 2: the day. All right, thank you you too. You're very welcome.

434
00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:48,760
Speaker 2: Thank you. Bye bye. Let's go to Michael and Virginia. Michael,

435
00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:49,920
Speaker 2: what's going on? How can I help?

436
00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:53,280
Speaker 7: Well, thank you so much for taking the cause. I

437
00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:55,560
Speaker 7: loved your show over the years, and thanks to you,

438
00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:59,520
Speaker 7: I have a four Escape twenty ten with a three.

439
00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:00,639
Speaker 2: Leader square body.

440
00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:04,320
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah great, yeah, love the cars.

441
00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:04,600
Speaker 2: Yeah.

442
00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:05,720
Speaker 6: How many?

443
00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:07,440
Speaker 2: How many miles did you get on yours?

444
00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:10,560
Speaker 7: Well, it's two hundred and thirty five right now, my

445
00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:11,680
Speaker 7: wife's daily driver.

446
00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:12,480
Speaker 6: Yep. Yeah.

447
00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:15,080
Speaker 2: Listen, Tom tom Ray would tell you that's just that's

448
00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:17,879
Speaker 2: just Novice territory. Tom put four hundred thousand miles. I

449
00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:20,520
Speaker 2: think on one of those it was just yeah, they

450
00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:24,520
Speaker 2: just go forever. So so what's what's the question? Is

451
00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:27,080
Speaker 2: the time to replace it with something else? It is?

452
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Speaker 7: And I've listened to your show, and I get more

453
00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:33,480
Speaker 7: confused every year about what maybe to think about, you know,

454
00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:37,560
Speaker 7: something similar in size and uh, with good acceleration. That's

455
00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:38,960
Speaker 7: that's sort of the criteria.

456
00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:40,920
Speaker 2: But my wife, why do we go buy Why don't

457
00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:42,119
Speaker 2: we go buy another escape?

458
00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:47,600
Speaker 7: I don't think they sit his high, now do they?

459
00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:50,640
Speaker 7: She's well, she likes to sit up, hie.

460
00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:55,320
Speaker 2: She loves you know, before we assume and negotiate with ourselves.

461
00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:59,520
Speaker 2: Let's go, let's go sit in a few all right, right,

462
00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:03,440
Speaker 2: I tell her to do that. Yeah, so yeah, I understand.

463
00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:04,520
Speaker 7: I get it.

464
00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:09,520
Speaker 2: But you know what it's it's you know, because I'm

465
00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:11,639
Speaker 2: gonna tell you it's it's going to be an escape.

466
00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:13,320
Speaker 2: It's going to be if she wants something that side,

467
00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:14,800
Speaker 2: it's going to be an escape. It's going to be

468
00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:18,080
Speaker 2: a REP four. It's going to be a Honda Pilot,

469
00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:21,639
Speaker 2: I believe is the model. You know, some of the

470
00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:26,560
Speaker 2: Mazdas are nice, really, yes, I'd consider some of the Masas.

471
00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:28,960
Speaker 2: There's a lot of Ford influence at Mazda. You see

472
00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:31,760
Speaker 2: The thing is, she's coming out of a twenty ten

473
00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:35,560
Speaker 2: going into a newer vehicle. And even if you tell

474
00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:37,200
Speaker 2: me she's going to go into a CPO, are you

475
00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:38,720
Speaker 2: going to go into like a two three year old

476
00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:39,840
Speaker 2: car or brandy new car?

477
00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:44,280
Speaker 7: Michael, probably something within less than two years, right.

478
00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:50,000
Speaker 2: So it's a it's a fifteen year change in technology, sure, right.

479
00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:52,600
Speaker 2: So so how high or low she sits in the

480
00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:57,360
Speaker 2: car maybe the last thing on the list, right that, Yeah,

481
00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:00,560
Speaker 2: it's it's because the amount of technology. Good lord, what

482
00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:03,679
Speaker 2: did I drive the other day? Somebody brought in somebody

483
00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:08,399
Speaker 2: brought in a late model something, oh, a twenty twenty

484
00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:13,640
Speaker 2: three Lincoln whatever. It was big, you know, heads up display,

485
00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:16,720
Speaker 2: you know, spentometer, oil temperature, everything displayed out over the

486
00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:18,960
Speaker 2: front of the hood. There were so many knobs and

487
00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:23,160
Speaker 2: whistles and buttons in this car. I felt like strapping

488
00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:24,680
Speaker 2: on a helmet and I was going to get lunch

489
00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:27,640
Speaker 2: from the deck of an aircraft carrier. You know. It's

490
00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:30,680
Speaker 2: it's yeah, it can be a little overwhelming. So she's

491
00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:31,879
Speaker 2: got to go in that thing and take it for

492
00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:34,840
Speaker 2: a ride, and you know, and she's got to drive

493
00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:36,399
Speaker 2: it at night time, and she's got it. When she

494
00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:38,280
Speaker 2: gets like one, I like, okay, then she's got to

495
00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:40,520
Speaker 2: go back and drive it in the dark too. Cars

496
00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:43,960
Speaker 2: change personality in the dark, they really do. It's a

497
00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:46,320
Speaker 2: different animal. Can you find all the controls and buttons

498
00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:48,240
Speaker 2: and handles and levers and everything you want to get

499
00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:50,639
Speaker 2: to just as well in the dark as you can

500
00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:51,280
Speaker 2: in the daylight.

501
00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:55,520
Speaker 7: So you know, some hold up on reliability you feel.

502
00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:58,040
Speaker 2: I think some of the Ford product that the ten

503
00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:01,639
Speaker 2: speed truck trans is eh. I think they've gotten the

504
00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:03,760
Speaker 2: hang of it now. I don't know that I would

505
00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:05,920
Speaker 2: buy an older one for the moment, but I think

506
00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:08,960
Speaker 2: they're coming around the bend as far as quality. But

507
00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:11,560
Speaker 2: I think a lot of the car companies have their issues. Listen,

508
00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:15,520
Speaker 2: I don't think and they're good, but I think Honda, Toyota, GM,

509
00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:18,920
Speaker 2: and FOURD are real close on all counts. They all

510
00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:22,000
Speaker 2: have their issues, you know. I still think it takes

511
00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:23,840
Speaker 2: common sense to take care of them. And I think

512
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:26,400
Speaker 2: that's the biggest factor. I see a lot of people

513
00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:31,040
Speaker 2: just playing flat out abusing cars. It's interesting to go

514
00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:33,479
Speaker 2: for a ride with people. They want to rotest their

515
00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:35,760
Speaker 2: car and show me what's wrong with it. And I've

516
00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:38,960
Speaker 2: seen people just drive cars like if it was a horse,

517
00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:42,480
Speaker 2: that would have thrown them off the saddle. So you know,

518
00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:46,160
Speaker 2: how you treat it affects how long it lasts. All right, kiddo,

519
00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:48,000
Speaker 2: I gotta go them up against the clock. Thanks for

520
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:49,920
Speaker 2: the call, Michael. You're very welcome. Good luck to you.

521
00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:52,200
Speaker 2: When your wife buys something, let us know what she gets.

522
00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:54,320
Speaker 2: And like I said, I would go look at one

523
00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:56,159
Speaker 2: of those three or four vehicles to pick from, but

524
00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:58,560
Speaker 2: I think an escape, she's probably gonna like I'm running

525
00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:15,040
Speaker 2: ady in the car doctor, I'm back right after this. Hey,

526
00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:17,080
Speaker 2: welcome back. We're on the car doctor. Let's go to

527
00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:20,760
Speaker 2: Ron and Iowa. Ron has some ideas on the clothes pin. Ron,

528
00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:25,560
Speaker 2: what's going on? Yeah, yes, sir, yes, sir.

529
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Speaker 4: I think you're going back to the back to the

530
00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:34,560
Speaker 4: forties early fifties on Forge with their flatthead vights because

531
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:36,800
Speaker 4: the steel pump was up on the back end of

532
00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:41,200
Speaker 4: the engine driven by a little push rod, and between

533
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:44,840
Speaker 4: that steel pump and the carburetor that seemed to develop

534
00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:48,480
Speaker 4: vapor lock on the v eights. So they'd put post

535
00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:52,480
Speaker 4: bends on there to help steady the temperature of that

536
00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:56,560
Speaker 4: gas line. I think to get rid of those air

537
00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:59,600
Speaker 4: bubbles vapor lock, that would cost to not run right.

538
00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:03,680
Speaker 2: That's you know, and that's the theory that's exactly right now.

539
00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:06,280
Speaker 2: I will say this. I remember it as a kid

540
00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:08,280
Speaker 2: seeing cars pulled over on the side of the road

541
00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:11,320
Speaker 2: and they were, you know, my dad would being the mechanic,

542
00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:12,880
Speaker 2: he'd want to get out and help, and I'd walk

543
00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:14,560
Speaker 2: up to the car and I'd see clothes pins on

544
00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:18,760
Speaker 2: the fuel line. And I often thought about that in

545
00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:21,280
Speaker 2: later years, and I often wondered, because would to me,

546
00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:24,200
Speaker 2: as an insulator, would won't carry heat the way like

547
00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:26,760
Speaker 2: I would put a metal clothes line or I'm sorry,

548
00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:29,600
Speaker 2: metal clothes pin. I could see that dissipating the heat.

549
00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:31,760
Speaker 2: But to me, a would close pin, would you think

550
00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:34,600
Speaker 2: it would hold the heat in? So did the did

551
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:37,040
Speaker 2: the cars start after a while because it had just

552
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:39,120
Speaker 2: cool because they were sitting there with the hood up,

553
00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:41,560
Speaker 2: or did the clothes pin actually do the trick? I

554
00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:44,680
Speaker 2: often wondered that, and I still don't have an answer

555
00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:46,480
Speaker 2: to it. But yeah, that was the theory that it

556
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:50,760
Speaker 2: was preventing vapor lock. As far as you know, we're

557
00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:54,640
Speaker 2: dating ourselves round. Nobody remembers this nobody remembers carburetors anymore.

558
00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:56,360
Speaker 2: You know.

559
00:29:56,680 --> 00:30:00,880
Speaker 4: Well, I just celebrated my eighty eight birthday, so I

560
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:02,040
Speaker 4: go back a day or two.

561
00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:04,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, God bless you. Oh what kind of card you

562
00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:05,400
Speaker 2: learn to drive?

563
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:05,520
Speaker 7: On?

564
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:07,280
Speaker 4: Ford?

565
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:08,400
Speaker 6: What year?

566
00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:14,160
Speaker 4: It was a fifty one Ford sixth cylinder? We never

567
00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:18,320
Speaker 4: had vights. We always had our six cylinders because if

568
00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:20,960
Speaker 4: my dad never cared for the V eights, he always

569
00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:24,040
Speaker 4: liked the Ford six cylinders better than the V eights,

570
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:30,440
Speaker 4: So we always had once. That started in the wintertime too, so.

571
00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:33,360
Speaker 2: It was a big deal when V eights came out then.

572
00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:38,640
Speaker 4: Well, of course Fords had those V eights. You go

573
00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:44,320
Speaker 4: way back in the thirties to the forties. Yeah, yeah,

574
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:49,360
Speaker 4: And I worked at a Ford gridge up in Northwood, Iowa.

575
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:53,040
Speaker 4: When I first got I had a business degree. That's

576
00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:55,160
Speaker 4: how I ended up in that gridge. But I ended

577
00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:57,280
Speaker 4: up going back once in a while because we were

578
00:30:57,360 --> 00:31:02,640
Speaker 4: small gridge and helping the mechanics, and we had two

579
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:05,760
Speaker 4: old timers back there and they they went way back

580
00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:09,400
Speaker 4: and they taught me a lot on mechanics, and that's

581
00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:12,280
Speaker 4: how I ended up becoming a mechanic later on in life.

582
00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:13,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, is that what you did. Is that what you

583
00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:14,680
Speaker 2: did for your career?

584
00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:22,000
Speaker 4: I did for the most part of it. Yeah, yeah, well, well,

585
00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:25,920
Speaker 4: wes parts manager and worked in parts department for a while,

586
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:30,800
Speaker 4: but when a dealership changed hands, I agreed to disagree

587
00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:34,400
Speaker 4: and I went to work for a shop text everything

588
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:39,160
Speaker 4: from weed whackers to fire trucks and the American La

589
00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:43,440
Speaker 4: France ladder trucks and everything else. We worked on everything

590
00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:46,760
Speaker 4: but the park department stuff here in Peter Falls.

591
00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:47,320
Speaker 2: Yeah.

592
00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:48,760
Speaker 4: Yeah.

593
00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:51,080
Speaker 2: Do you think cars have changed a little bit?

594
00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:57,719
Speaker 4: Oh? I know they have. I've got a twenty seventeen

595
00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:03,960
Speaker 4: transit that's just been a dynamite piece of machinery for me,

596
00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:08,240
Speaker 4: and it's and I take care of it like you say,

597
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:11,440
Speaker 4: you don't, You don't go these ten thousand mile oil changes.

598
00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:17,239
Speaker 4: I do them sooner than that. And I actually, uh uh,

599
00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:21,640
Speaker 4: it holds seven courts of oil, and I actually have

600
00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:25,760
Speaker 4: been adding for the last quart of quart of transmission

601
00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:30,120
Speaker 4: fluid to clean it out to help help keep the

602
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:30,880
Speaker 4: oil cleaner.

603
00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:34,040
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, sir, Yeah, that's another old school trick.

604
00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:37,080
Speaker 6: Yep, yep, yeah.

605
00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:41,080
Speaker 4: Back when when the fifty eight boards came out with

606
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:46,280
Speaker 4: the three fifties or three uh three fifty two's and

607
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 4: three thirties, three thirties.

608
00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:50,960
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, those are the things that we did back then. Yep,

609
00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:53,160
Speaker 2: you're right, Ron, Ron listen. I'm sorry, babe, I'm up

610
00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:54,720
Speaker 2: against the clock. I got to cut you short. I

611
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:58,240
Speaker 2: appreciate your calling in and God bless you. Happy birthday

612
00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:00,360
Speaker 2: once again, and they were happy to have you. I'm

613
00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:17,960
Speaker 2: running any in the car. Doctor. We're back right after this. Hey,

614
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:20,760
Speaker 2: let's wind it up this hour. You know, we started

615
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:24,000
Speaker 2: this hour talking about fuel economy, right, and I want

616
00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:27,360
Speaker 2: to finish that thought. You know, I'm not saying that

617
00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:30,280
Speaker 2: you've all got to rush out and spend thousands on maintenance.

618
00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:33,200
Speaker 2: I'm just trying to get you to think, when have

619
00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:35,120
Speaker 2: you done some of the things that we discussed in

620
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:37,520
Speaker 2: that open this hour, And when was the last time

621
00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:39,520
Speaker 2: you checked tire pressure? When was the last time you

622
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:43,880
Speaker 2: used a fuel system cleaning kit like the CRCGDI kit

623
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:45,760
Speaker 2: you can get at your local Advanced Total Parts. We

624
00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:47,480
Speaker 2: talk about it all the time, and those are things

625
00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:50,760
Speaker 2: you can do yourself that's empowering. You can fix your car,

626
00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:53,640
Speaker 2: you can set your car up to get better fuel economy.

627
00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:57,200
Speaker 2: There's a thing going on in the industry now where

628
00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:01,600
Speaker 2: they're talking about you've heard about InHand flooded batteries. They're

629
00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:06,000
Speaker 2: a better upgrade of flooded battery versus a standard flooded

630
00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:09,480
Speaker 2: battery which most cars have today. And there's talk of

631
00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:12,720
Speaker 2: using enhanced flooded batteries in place of an AGM battery

632
00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:14,480
Speaker 2: right and you can read about a GM batteries at

633
00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:17,360
Speaker 2: auto batteries dot com from the folks over at clarios.

634
00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:22,120
Speaker 2: You know the idea of putting taking an AGM out

635
00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:25,160
Speaker 2: and replacing it with something else that enhance flooded battery.

636
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:29,040
Speaker 2: That'll affect fuel economy because that will alter how the

637
00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:32,400
Speaker 2: battery management system works. So there are things you can

638
00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 2: do to help. There are things you can do to hurt.

639
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:36,680
Speaker 2: I'm just trying to get you to think about all

640
00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:38,680
Speaker 2: of it put together. And by the way, if the

641
00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:42,319
Speaker 2: closedline did fix the fuel systems, then mechanics everywhere would

642
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:44,800
Speaker 2: have opened laundromats instead of repair shops on Ron and

643
00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:46,759
Speaker 2: Andy and the card doctor until the next time. Good

644
00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:53,480
Speaker 2: mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. See Yu doctor curR advice.

645
00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:54,360
Speaker 2: Don't write

646
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Speaker 7: And