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Speaker 1: Ron Andanian, Will it be affordable? How much will I

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Speaker 1: have to pay for an electric car? And I said, well,

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Speaker 1: thousand dollar entry level electric vehicle that works nothing? At six?

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Speaker 1: The car Doctor, the less expensive car is gonna have

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Speaker 1: five fifty air conditioning, well, the window down five inches,

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Speaker 1: driving fifty. Welcome to the radio home of Ron and

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Speaker 1: Nannian the Car Doctor, since this is where car owners

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

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

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Speaker 1: but I am here to take your call at eight

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Speaker 1: five and now he running. You know, if being at

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Speaker 1: It's just it's just part of the gig of being

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Speaker 1: how a system operates. The car is telling me something

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Speaker 1: different than what the service information tells me. And it's

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Speaker 1: a learning adventure. And sometimes it's adventures and human relations

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Speaker 1: because it's you know, and and sometimes it's you think

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Speaker 1: And it makes me think that, you know, and I

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Speaker 1: And I just don't think we can do it all

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Speaker 1: this week for an oil pressure light on. Simple enough,

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Speaker 1: And I talk to the customer and the customer said, well,

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Speaker 1: and I'll play the game. Sometimes I do that. And

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Speaker 1: oil pressure gage. Hey, I gotta diagnose it. And it

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Speaker 1: So put three quarts of oil in it. Lots of

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Um, it's been about a year, year

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Speaker 1: It had oil in it when I filled it up

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Speaker 1: And and that's a separate repair unto itself. But you

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Speaker 1: Don't go away. Need advice on how to maintaining that

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Speaker 1: get over to Danny in Mexico City. Am I reading

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Speaker 1: international talk. Danny. Welcome to the car doctor, Sir, How

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Speaker 1: can I help? Yeah, thank you, Ryan, it's a great

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Speaker 1: If you thank you very much for taking my call.

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Speaker 1: You know what kind of cars you're in your collection, Danny,

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Speaker 1: What do you have in the garage? Well, let's say, yeah,

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Speaker 1: And at some point let that happen. Um, yeah, I

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Speaker 1: you know what's interesting, Danny, you know what's really interesting?

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Speaker 1: And then I'm gonna go I'm sorry, is and I

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Speaker 1: really appreciate your call. You're very eloquent and you speak well.

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Speaker 1: I I think you make some excellent points. What's really

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Speaker 1: What will their value be? How does it affect the industry? Danny,

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Speaker 1: I really appreciate your call. And uh, God bless and

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Speaker 1: be safe my friend. You you call us back anytime

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Speaker 1: I'm running any in the car doctor, I'll be back

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Speaker 1: right after this. Don't go away. Welcome back. We're on

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Speaker 1: I want to say thank you to Danny. Great call

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Speaker 1: go over to Jimmy in May nine. Suburban and some

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Speaker 1: During the summer months, my suburban runs good. I didn't

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Speaker 1: The first thing you want to look at is fuel pressure,

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Speaker 1: If it's Danny, I'm sorry, Jimmy, if it's if it's

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Speaker 1: if it's fifty nine pounds, it won't start. It's that critical,

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Speaker 1: The magnet cracks from age, and what that will do

426
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Speaker 1: is that will interrupt the signal to the pickup coil.

427
00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:23,840
Speaker 1: Not so much temperature effective. I've seen it where it

428
00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:26,719
Speaker 1: can be, but it will cause du rest. And if

429
00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:29,720
Speaker 1: that ignition system isn't it can do a lot of

430
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Speaker 1: funny things. So you want to that's something that you're

431
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Speaker 1: never gonna find in any textbooks. That's something to be

432
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Speaker 1: aware of as well. All Right, Okay, thank you very much.

433
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Speaker 1: You're very welcome, Jimmy, you'll be well. Um, Yeah, just

434
00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:44,960
Speaker 1: just stuff to think about and look at, you know,

435
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Speaker 1: real quick. I want to just talk about this for

436
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Speaker 1: a second before we take the pause right to repair um.

437
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Speaker 1: Recent article came out talking about and Kevin O'Reilly wrote

438
00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:57,080
Speaker 1: about it, it shouldn't cost the form to fix a tractor.

439
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Speaker 1: In um the Wall Street Journal talk king about the

440
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Speaker 1: right to repair policy and people are saying that it's

441
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Speaker 1: unfair as a matter of fact. Uh. There's a comment

442
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Speaker 1: in the recent article by Dennis Slater where he talks

443
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Speaker 1: about that the right to repair is forcing manufacturers to

444
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Speaker 1: release the proprietary information to the public. And he's further

445
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:17,760
Speaker 1: goes on to say, a modern day tractor wigs over

446
00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:20,080
Speaker 1: her fifty pounds on average, and if criminal's tampa with

447
00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:23,399
Speaker 1: the equipment's back end code, it poses dangerous safety and

448
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Speaker 1: emission threats to the public. You know, Dennis, I don't

449
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Speaker 1: know that anybody's gonna take a tractor and commit an

450
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Speaker 1: act of terrorism. I don't know that they could actually

451
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Speaker 1: do that. I'm not so worried about somebody stealing my

452
00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:36,679
Speaker 1: hundred fifty pounds tractor and doing something with it. I'm

453
00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:40,119
Speaker 1: more concerned about the American farmer having the ability to

454
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Speaker 1: repair that vehicle on safe and equal ground. One of

455
00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:47,359
Speaker 1: the things that clouds everybody's judgment in my opinion, and

456
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Speaker 1: I think I'm qualified to talk about this, is the

457
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Speaker 1: guy with a repair shop for forty five years. Is

458
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Speaker 1: the right to repair puts an undo pressure on the

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Speaker 1: consumer on where they're forced to get their vehicle service,

460
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Speaker 1: whether it's a tractor or an honoramobile. And even now

461
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Speaker 1: some of the states that have had successful right to

462
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Speaker 1: repair legislation pass Massachusetts comes to mind. You know, it's

463
00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:15,760
Speaker 1: still very expensive for independent repair shop to operate, and

464
00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:19,399
Speaker 1: those expenses get passed onto the consumers, and then the

465
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Speaker 1: consumers no choice. Either they buy a new car, they

466
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Speaker 1: go without, or they go back to the dealer, and

467
00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:27,760
Speaker 1: that's expensive. Bottom line, what do repair is expensive. There's

468
00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:30,440
Speaker 1: enough cars for everybody to go around. And if we

469
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Speaker 1: all started pulling the boat in the same direction rather

470
00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:35,639
Speaker 1: than opposite ends, I think we'd get a lot further

471
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Speaker 1: faster than what we're trying to accomplish. Just my thoughts,

472
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Speaker 1: my opinion, I value yours. You've got any comments, send

473
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Speaker 1: me an email Ron at Car Doctor Show dot com

474
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Speaker 1: and I'll be glad to talk about it up here

475
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Speaker 1: on air with you anytime. Let me pull over and

476
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Speaker 1: take a pause. We'll be back right after this. Don't

477
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Speaker 1: go away doctor here at Let's get over to Thomas

478
00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:09,560
Speaker 1: in Connecticut. Oh four jeep, Grand Cherokee. And see what's

479
00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:11,439
Speaker 1: going on here? Thomas. Welcome to the Guard doctor, sir,

480
00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:14,400
Speaker 1: how can I help? Thank you very much. Um, I've

481
00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:17,480
Speaker 1: got a well you just said it. Um, I've got

482
00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:21,720
Speaker 1: a left turn signal that's giving me nothing but a problem.

483
00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:25,520
Speaker 1: The the unit was replaced about a month ago, but

484
00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:29,439
Speaker 1: it intermittently works, and then it doesn't work, and then

485
00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:32,359
Speaker 1: starts working again. And I don't have a clue what

486
00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:34,440
Speaker 1: this could be. When you say the left is it?

487
00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:39,720
Speaker 1: Is it both bulbs on the left side from back? Well,

488
00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:42,440
Speaker 1: it's actually the I think it's the turn signal itself.

489
00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:46,119
Speaker 1: All the all the bulbs and everything are working on

490
00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:50,040
Speaker 1: the left hand side, both front and back. Okay. So

491
00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:52,760
Speaker 1: in other words, you you turn on the left turn

492
00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:56,040
Speaker 1: signal and neither one lights up at either end of

493
00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:59,760
Speaker 1: the car. Correct on on the left hand side, but

494
00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:04,639
Speaker 1: the right one does work. And the the garage in

495
00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:09,399
Speaker 1: question where we took it to had replaced the entire

496
00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:13,320
Speaker 1: unit uh in the steering column, So I'm not sure

497
00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:16,840
Speaker 1: what's going on there. Okay, So they changed they changed

498
00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:22,320
Speaker 1: the stalk mounted switch on the column correct all right,

499
00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:26,160
Speaker 1: First of all, with a new one and it's still

500
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Speaker 1: doing the same. Did they do any kind of diagnosis

501
00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:32,040
Speaker 1: or was this a seat of the pants he it's

502
00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:35,000
Speaker 1: got to be the switch thing. Uh No, I think

503
00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:40,080
Speaker 1: they did do a diagnosis and um, but then replaced

504
00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:43,840
Speaker 1: the unit. And you know, I just don't know what

505
00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:47,240
Speaker 1: what else it could be. Well, there's a directional flasher

506
00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:50,120
Speaker 1: tucked under the dash on the left side up kind

507
00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:53,320
Speaker 1: of like where your left knee would be into the dashboard.

508
00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:57,600
Speaker 1: Basically you crawled under the dashboard. Another one, another head

509
00:28:57,640 --> 00:28:59,880
Speaker 1: turner like the suburban ground if you if you turn

510
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:01,280
Speaker 1: your head in such a way that you have to

511
00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:03,480
Speaker 1: go to the chiropractor afterwards because it's in such a

512
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:07,240
Speaker 1: painful spot. You'll see it. There's a cluster of relays

513
00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:11,000
Speaker 1: in the underdash junction box and it's the tallest of

514
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:14,040
Speaker 1: the of the cluster as long as it hasn't been replaced,

515
00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:19,360
Speaker 1: if it's still the original Chrysler flasher and that has

516
00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:22,960
Speaker 1: a separate signal sense for left and a separate signal

517
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:27,760
Speaker 1: sense for right. And I've seen quite a few cases

518
00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:31,720
Speaker 1: where switches are changed erroneously if they're not diagnosed in

519
00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:33,880
Speaker 1: that it's a problem with the flash or not a

520
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:36,440
Speaker 1: problem with the switch. I've also seen where it's both.

521
00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:39,320
Speaker 1: But you know, that flasher is there and that is

522
00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:42,000
Speaker 1: part of the circuit and a common component to fail.

523
00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:44,880
Speaker 1: And I will tell you this, my experience has been

524
00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:48,840
Speaker 1: because it's an electronic flasher, that if you can still

525
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:51,640
Speaker 1: get one out of Chrysler, that's your better choice, because

526
00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:54,120
Speaker 1: that's going to be a better part. At this point

527
00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:56,800
Speaker 1: in the game, electronics, you're just getting tougher and tougher

528
00:29:56,880 --> 00:30:00,120
Speaker 1: to deal with. I know, I understand, thank you. You know,

529
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:03,120
Speaker 1: as they as they get older, Um, there's there's less

530
00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:06,360
Speaker 1: and less components available, uh, you know, but I would

531
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:08,440
Speaker 1: I would clearly take a look at that. The other

532
00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:10,680
Speaker 1: thing I'd be curious to see. I don't know if

533
00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:12,320
Speaker 1: it would be there in a four, but just for

534
00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:14,920
Speaker 1: the point of conversation, I'd love to hook a scan

535
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:17,160
Speaker 1: tool into it and go into the body module or

536
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:19,520
Speaker 1: the front front end cluster is priced there, calls it

537
00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:23,160
Speaker 1: sometimes and look to see does it have output signal

538
00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:25,960
Speaker 1: or any input request from the switch or an output

539
00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 1: signal coming from the flash or you know, you could

540
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:31,640
Speaker 1: turn the you know, uh, Thomas, you can check some

541
00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:33,720
Speaker 1: of the weirdest things on a scan tool that you know,

542
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:36,320
Speaker 1: everybody thinks it's just for a check engine light, and

543
00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:40,720
Speaker 1: it's it's coming down to where you look at everything. Um.

544
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:43,520
Speaker 1: In my opening comments today, I was talking about the

545
00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:46,320
Speaker 1: O six jeep commander. I was looking at the oil

546
00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:50,479
Speaker 1: pressure switch circuit on a scan tool, looking at inputs. Uh,

547
00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:53,760
Speaker 1: you know it's there, so it's it's always a good

548
00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:56,840
Speaker 1: place to start. But I bet they're gonna find if

549
00:30:56,920 --> 00:30:59,600
Speaker 1: they haven't looked at it, that it's got a flash

550
00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:02,400
Speaker 1: or is you if it has an aftermarket flasher. I

551
00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:04,160
Speaker 1: don't want to condemn it, but I would tell you

552
00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:08,520
Speaker 1: to test that circuit and either power it up individually.

553
00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:10,320
Speaker 1: Does it feed out that they get a signal from

554
00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:13,320
Speaker 1: the turn signal switch. If they do, then that flash

555
00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:16,680
Speaker 1: is not working, whether it's new, used, after market, or otherwise.

556
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:18,880
Speaker 1: But UM, flashes are very common and they are on

557
00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:21,560
Speaker 1: that vehicle. A lot of people forget that. All right, sir,

558
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:24,480
Speaker 1: thank you very much, You're very welcome. Good luck, and

559
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:25,800
Speaker 1: if you need more, you know where to find me

560
00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:29,120
Speaker 1: and uh let me know what happens. Yeah, um listen,

561
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:31,520
Speaker 1: uh you know, give me a broken car, we'll fix it.

562
00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:33,000
Speaker 1: That's the name of that that should be the name

563
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:34,440
Speaker 1: of the next show. Give me a broken car, We'll

564
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:36,080
Speaker 1: figure out what's wrong with it. Well, that's probably too

565
00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:38,760
Speaker 1: long to fit in the subtitles, so but um, that

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Speaker 1: really is the crux of it. I don't care what

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00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:44,560
Speaker 1: it is. It can be fixed zero zero run any

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Speaker 1: of the Car Doctor coming back right after this, Welcome

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Speaker 1: back right on any of the Car Doctor. But has

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Speaker 1: a quick hour right UM. Just a reminder, eight five

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Speaker 1: I couldn't agree more, but I will tell you this.

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Speaker 1: If it's got wheels in an engine. Sooner or later

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Speaker 1: it's gonna break, and then you know what it needs.

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Speaker 1: Like I always tell you, I'm Londinani in the car doctor,

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