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Speaker 1: Stinking welcome back. What don't they need in the cardock?

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Speaker 1: If you're here for you at eight five five five

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Speaker 1: in prout to serve. Let's go over and talk to

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Speaker 1: Bob and Maine with some questions about what kind of

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Speaker 1: car to buy. Everybody's out car shopping this week. Bob,

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Speaker 1: welcome to the car doctor. How can I help you?

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Speaker 2: Thanks?

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Speaker 3: Ron. First, I'm going to preface by I listened to

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Speaker 3: you all the time and over the last no I'll

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Speaker 3: say the last month you talked about, Uh, these are

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Speaker 3: the things that were concerned me. On a BMW. It

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Speaker 3: was that I think you said there was eight computers

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Speaker 3: in the and obviously you have to diagnose all eight.

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Speaker 3: And then the other thing was on the audie you said,

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Speaker 3: well they don't have any dipsticks and you got to

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Speaker 3: go through and I thought, oh my god. So I said,

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Speaker 3: I got to talk to Ron and decide what to buy.

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Speaker 1: Well, let me let me let me make a correction

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Speaker 1: to myself there. Either that or it didn't come out right.

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Speaker 1: BMW on average has one hundred and eighteen computers, depending

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Speaker 1: depending upon what model we're buying. When you go to

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Speaker 1: flash a BMW as part of the repair process. Then

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Speaker 1: it can become a twenty four hour event. Let me

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Speaker 1: say it like this, all right, And sometimes you know

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Speaker 1: when we're when we have a quiet moment at the shop,

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Speaker 1: it's funny. I One of the things I love about

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Speaker 1: Audo repair is it's a very tight knit community and

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Speaker 1: you get to know different guys, and a lot of

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Speaker 1: the guys obviously know me, and they'll call me and say, hey, Ron,

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Speaker 1: what's going on? And I talk to guys at dealerships

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Speaker 1: all over the place, from Toyota to BMW to Honda

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Speaker 1: and Nissan and Audi and so on, and you know,

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Speaker 1: you kind of kid it's it's it's it's like a

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Speaker 1: little old ladies convention about what's going on. And the

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Speaker 1: BMW guys tell me that, you know, in the last

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Speaker 1: couple of years, they've all gotten two service base and

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Speaker 1: I'll be like why and they say, well, one is

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Speaker 1: to repair cars and one to flash cars. And I'm like,

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Speaker 1: why why do you need beta flash a car? Because

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Speaker 1: it has to stay inside so long and hooked up

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Speaker 1: to a battery charger with the key on. Sometimes we

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Speaker 1: go home overnight and we're still flashing the car when

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Speaker 1: we come back in the next morning, and I'm thinking,

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Speaker 1: holy smokes, like you talk about a recipe for a

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Speaker 1: disaster that could happen, and they said to me Ron,

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Speaker 1: everybody says, thank God for warranty. So you know, everything

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Speaker 1: you're looking at, Bob has some unique characteristics to it.

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Speaker 1: And the most important question is who's going to work

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Speaker 1: on it. Is it gonna be a dealer repaired car,

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Speaker 1: is it going to be an independent repair shop? And

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Speaker 1: are you ready to deal with the nuances that either

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Speaker 1: one of those scenarios represent.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I would probably go with a dealer because I'm

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Speaker 3: not comfortable. Well, I've been most of my cars that

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Speaker 3: especially now that they have the synthetic oils and all

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Speaker 3: the electronics. I'd rather have it done at the dealership.

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Speaker 3: You may pay a buck more, but you're getting the

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Speaker 3: warranty in the back of the dealership and general motors, right,

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Speaker 3: So that's why.

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Speaker 4: I do that.

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Speaker 1: And you know, well and for that and just to

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Speaker 1: counter that you can get you know, if the independent

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Speaker 1: repair shop is doing the job, right, You're getting the

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Speaker 1: same warranty there, But it also depends on what's available

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Speaker 3: Sure, and that's part of the problem, right. You know,

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Speaker 3: there's a lot of little quick repair shops, but I'm

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Speaker 3: sure they don't have all the test gauges and all that.

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Speaker 1: You know, to have that commitment to order repairs is

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Speaker 3: And that's why I've been following When I came across

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Speaker 3: you about five years ago, I listened to you every week.

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Speaker 3: I'm just going to tell you the vehicles that I

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Speaker 3: Then the Mercedes Benz. I saw a SLK three twenty

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Speaker 1: How long are you going to keep these cars, Bud?

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Speaker 3: I don't know how long, because it's gonna it's not

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Speaker 3: Park it and drive it in sunny days or in

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Speaker 1: Right because up in Maine, if you drove this thing

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Speaker 3: So this is strictly basically a summer car or a

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Speaker 1: Okay, So you know the speech I give for this

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Speaker 1: And if you're in the position to buy any one

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Speaker 1: have a ball, just just have some fun the least

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Speaker 1: amount of aggravation. Now we're going to start to nitpick,

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Speaker 1: all right, any one of those cars maintained by a

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Speaker 1: proper level, qualified certified repair shop, not necessarily a dealer,

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Speaker 1: but a qualified certified repair shop should give you lots

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Speaker 1: All right, Okay, So that being said, what.

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Speaker 1: I'll go right to the top of the class. I'd

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Speaker 1: buy the Mercedes. If the Mercedes is in your budget,

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Speaker 3: Well, now, when I'm talking about any of these cars,

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Speaker 1: Okay, how old have a used car?

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Speaker 1: Okay, then If that's the case, I'd probably still I'd stay.

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Speaker 1: broken cars. Yeah, then how come you have dealerships that

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Speaker 1: You know, what do you need all that for? It's

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Speaker 1: they have this attitude. You know, it's almost like, I

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Speaker 1: going on, you know, But that's how I would approach it. Now,

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Speaker 1: going to work on it?

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Speaker 1: All right? Now you've got to go look at all

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Speaker 1: the electronics. Every one of these things is a rolling computer.

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Speaker 1: Every one of these things is going to give you

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Speaker 1: I you know, I, for one, I couldn't own an

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Speaker 1: the owner's manual reads like the one I read, and

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Speaker 1: I've read more than a few lately, where it tells

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Speaker 3: Well that's that's what you said a couple of weeks ago,

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Speaker 1: You know what, Go out to the Facebook page. It

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Speaker 1: should still be there. But you go out to the

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Speaker 1: of that AUDI display up there. Remember what AUDI stands for, Bob,

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Speaker 1: And I'll leave you with this all right, you're ready, right,

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Speaker 1: you realize this after you own it. Another underpowered demonic invention, Bob,

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Speaker 1: I enjoyed the phone call. You have yourself a good

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Speaker 1: and the car Doctor. We're back right after this. She's

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Speaker 1: real fine, my formal nice, she's real. Find my phone,

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Speaker 1: my phone? Well, hey, hey, hey, welcome back in the

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Speaker 1: car doctor here. Let's get over and talk to Mark

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Speaker 1: from Mountville, West Virginia. Mark, Welcome to the card Doctor, sir.

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Speaker 1: How can I help Mark? Are you there?

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Speaker 4: My problem is that I have a vehicle we'll here

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Speaker 4: And I got to the point where I think I'm

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Speaker 4: going to need to buy a scan tool. And I

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Speaker 4: did considerable research on the internet and talk to the

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Speaker 4: local auto places to sell them. And my gracious, I

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Speaker 4: can spend thirty dollars, or I can spend three thousand dollars,

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Speaker 1: Can spend ten thousand dollars. Isn't this exciting?

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Speaker 4: I have people saying, well, you you got to get

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Speaker 4: with abs and air bags. You got to get one

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Speaker 4: that you can see real time on your laptop with. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: and I'm thinking I might spend two hundred plus dollars

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Speaker 4: and what's out there that I need?

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, and it all depends on what your

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Speaker 1: perspective is is how far do you want to go?

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Speaker 1: You know, having a scan tool that gives you all

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Speaker 1: because you know it can tell you, hey, XYZ is wrong.

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Speaker 1: But if you don't have the tools to remove the

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Speaker 1: from Launch, all right. You hear me talk about it

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Speaker 1: Some days you're as you're going through the pile and

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Speaker 4: The brands I was looking at was a company called

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Speaker 1: Actron is a good scan tool, all right. If Actron

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Speaker 1: Actron is a good scan tool. I don't know what

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Speaker 1: Support in the tool is important. Support for the tool

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it certainly does.

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Speaker 2: And that was fall Sam.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back, any of the card Doctor. We got to

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Speaker 1: be quick Mark Mountville, West Virginia. You're still there, sir, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: a quick quick question.

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Speaker 5: Go ahead.

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Speaker 4: My quick question is on a sport escape with the

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Speaker 1: What do you mean one side's called one sid's high.

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Speaker 4: Well, it'll run and barely run. But obviously I'm not

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Speaker 1: welcome to the car doctor, sir, what do you.

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Speaker 5: Got ninety dollars coda? I got? I had it running.

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Speaker 5: If you didn't check it checked the fuel pressure, but

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Speaker 5: I did dumb gas right down on the carburetor, okay,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no, no, I want to know fuel pressure.

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Speaker 1: you probably put a new distributor in this. Yes, was

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Speaker 1: I'm running. End of the car. Doctor. The mechanics aren't expensive,

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Speaker 1: they're priceless. See it.