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Speaker 1: since this is where car owners the world overturned to

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Speaker 1: Thanks for having me on. You're welcome. So it's like

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Speaker 1: it's P zero one nine three fuel tank real fuel

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Speaker 1: real pressure sensor circuit issure high. Yeah, so the pressure

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Speaker 1: too high. So I studied up on this because I

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Speaker 1: which is mounted behind the passenger seats back. Ye, a

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Speaker 1: it was a bad starter. So that shop looked at

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Speaker 1: And I told her not to do that part, and

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Speaker 1: So I want your opinion because I don't understand how

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Speaker 1: a fuel pump can put pressure too high. The censor

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Speaker 1: how much, how high it allows pressure to build and maintain. Okay,

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Speaker 1: that's how I understood. I'm trying to make sure. So

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Speaker 1: if you go to the fuel rail pressure sensor which

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Speaker 1: and you go across the white and the yellow wire

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Speaker 1: and if you could do this with a fuel pressure

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Speaker 1: Let's say you'll see about two and a half vaults

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Speaker 1: seven vaults and the max is supposed to be five,

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Speaker 1: then and the fuel pump pressure is saying eight, you

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Speaker 1: know that that's not right. You know that the sensor

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Speaker 1: is out of whack. It's a bad sensor. See this

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Speaker 1: could be a bad sensor. Nothing more and nothing less.

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Speaker 1: But we can do a couple of tests. We can

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Speaker 1: look at the correlation between actual fuel pressure and with

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Speaker 1: the fuel pressure sensor is reading voltage wise, and you

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Speaker 1: can do that across the white and yellow with a vaultmeter.

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Speaker 1: The other the other thing to look at is um

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Speaker 1: If you look at that fuel rail pressure sensor, there

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Speaker 1: should be a gray and a red wire at the sensor.

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Speaker 1: That's ground. If that's a bad ground. If we have

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Speaker 1: a look at that. Alright, the key will be trying

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Speaker 1: the problem. Yeah, I have a scanner on it today

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Speaker 1: and it's running party pounds based on the scanner, you know,

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Speaker 1: which is normal, right, so good. So while it showed

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Speaker 1: it showed that it reached as high as eight. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so so while it's working, do this, you know you

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Speaker 1: know that it's you know, put it. Do you have

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Speaker 1: a fuel pressure gauge? Okay, put a fuel pressure gauge

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Speaker 1: not broken. Right, write all your numbers down, hope, the

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Speaker 1: fuel pressure gage up reads fort You go to the sensor,

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Speaker 1: it reads whatever in your car it reads two point five,

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Speaker 1: two point six, two point seven, whatever it is. That's

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Speaker 1: the way your car is. So forty is two point seven.

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Speaker 1: Let's say all right, now you know now the car

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Speaker 1: if you can come up with a way to maybe

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Speaker 1: put a voltmeter on there and keep it on their

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Speaker 1: her how to put the voltmeter and record mode. Big deal.

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Speaker 1: You wear out of nine volt battery, you can you

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Speaker 1: can afford the three dollars, right, and you know it

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Speaker 1: will glitch if it glitches. And that's the other thing.

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Speaker 1: be nice with the scope. But you probably you know,

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Speaker 1: it would be it would be nice if you could,

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Speaker 1: you know, record it if you momentarily see a glitch

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Speaker 1: up to a d p S. I. Yeah, it's kind

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Speaker 1: of hard. For a few Usually a fuel pump fails

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Speaker 1: by now it would have failed, all right, It wouldn't

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Speaker 1: be logical. Now I will say this in all fairness.

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Speaker 1: Is that the original pump we bought it used but

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Speaker 1: to my knowledge as okay pumps twenty years old. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Do you have an O'Riley otoparts by you? Yep? Go

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Speaker 1: visit them and ask him, ask him what's ask him

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Speaker 1: I don't believe Motorcraft or Ford is going to make

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Speaker 1: but ask I would trust whatever O'Riley Otto Parts says

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Speaker 1: they sell them they have no issues with because they're

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Speaker 1: they're good people. But I would I would start lining

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Speaker 1: almost twenty year old vehicle now. So my my theory

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Speaker 1: now it's reaching a d p s. I my guy,

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Speaker 1: there's no way if forty five is my normal range,

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Speaker 1: don't don't confuse command. Command is what the sensor says.

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Speaker 1: The sensor says, I've got eighty pounds or I need

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Speaker 1: I'm curious to be well. Take good care, Jim, Thank

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Speaker 1: you very much. I'm running Name of the Car Doctor.

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Speaker 1: I'll be back right after this. Welcome back Running of

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Speaker 1: the Car Doctor with you want to only open imitated

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Speaker 1: and never duplicated Thomas Ray. We we have way too

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Speaker 1: much fun on this radio show. We really do. You know.

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Speaker 1: Somebody said to me last week. You know, I like

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Speaker 1: listening to you guys, because especially when you guys talk together,

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Speaker 1: and boy, if they can only see what happens behind

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Speaker 1: we could probably sell that. You know. It's uh, it's

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Speaker 1: a It's a phone call in the middle of the

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Speaker 1: and Tom's like, hey, what's going on? I'm like, where

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Speaker 1: Let's say, where are we going to Let's go over

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Speaker 1: to Matton, Pennsylvania for Alexis Matthew. Welcome to the car doctor, sir.

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Speaker 1: How can I help? What's on your mind? Hey, Ron,

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Speaker 1: thanks for taking my call. I have an opportunity to

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Speaker 1: buy a two thousand, four g X for seventy Alexis.

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Speaker 1: And I heard you talking about, you know, having trouble

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Speaker 1: getting replaced some parts for twenty year old vehicles. Do

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Speaker 1: you think I should think twice about that? I think

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Speaker 1: if you're okay with manufacturer parts as long as you

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Speaker 1: can get them, I think Toyota does a better job

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Speaker 1: in some cases than Ford. Quite honestly, I like four

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Speaker 1: I have FOURD products in the family. But my experience

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Speaker 1: has been I'll see Toyota, Alexis make parts a lot

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Speaker 1: longer and more available, you know, pre pandemic. I haven't

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Speaker 1: GM seems to be having their issues with parts. So no,

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Speaker 1: I think if you like the vehicle and you're prepared to,

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Speaker 1: I'm playing what if? Yeah, I'd probably not to be

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Speaker 1: quite frank with you. Okay, how many what are you

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Speaker 1: paying for the vehicle? I mean about so so now

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Speaker 1: take now, take twenty grand and go see what you

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Speaker 1: can buy for twenty Yeah, okay, all right. And when

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Speaker 1: the Lexus for twelve and roll the dice twelves cheap

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Speaker 1: man twelves. Not a lot of money anymore, really, isn't so.

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Speaker 1: Second question, okay, another question. My wife had a two

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Speaker 1: What could have made that go bad? Do you think

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Speaker 1: her just one of those things they have bad tour converters.

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Speaker 1: the last six or seven years. They've had issues with converters.

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Speaker 1: They've had issues with the trans is. I'm friends with

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Speaker 1: But then again, listen my old four suburban, my old

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Speaker 1: I looked at that the trans, the GM Reman Trans

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Speaker 1: I'm still driving into this day. I think the new

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Speaker 1: dealer doing it, Jim, Yeah, it's about right, g M

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Speaker 1: and answer, Ask him what the warranty is on that? Okay?

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Speaker 1: I did have an extended warrant you it was just

426
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Speaker 1: over We're a hundred fifteen thousand miles and were covered

427
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Speaker 1: up to a hundred thousand ntil. We missed it. Probably

428
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Speaker 1: nothing else we can fall back on, right, No, they

429
00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:15,159
Speaker 1: they you gotta fall on your sword on this one, brother.

430
00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:17,840
Speaker 1: But it's cheaper. It's cheaper than it's cheaper than another car.

431
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Speaker 1: The question is, and the the key element here, and

432
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Speaker 1: I can't stress this enough, is you want a GM

433
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Speaker 1: certified trends, you want a factory unit. You don't want

434
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Speaker 1: anything after market. You don't want anything from uh you know,

435
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Speaker 1: a salvage yard. You want. You want a fresh GM

436
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Speaker 1: trends right from the manufacturer. And that should give you,

437
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Speaker 1: I believe. Don't quote me on this, you'd have to

438
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Speaker 1: look it up, but I believe that gives you a

439
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Speaker 1: three year minimum fifty thousand mile warranty, maybe a hundred

440
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Speaker 1: thousand mile warranty. Okay, I'll check that I had my mechanics,

441
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Speaker 1: I had my mechanic candle all that, that's exactly what

442
00:23:56,920 --> 00:23:59,359
Speaker 1: he ordered for. So but that's and that's what you want.

443
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Speaker 1: And then just just remind him. I'm sure he'll know.

444
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Speaker 1: Make sure he flushes the trans cooler because there's gonna

445
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Speaker 1: be contaminant up in there. You know. When the trans

446
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Speaker 1: failed it, uh, it usually puts fluid up through the cooler,

447
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Speaker 1: and I'll put contaminant through the cooler. And by the

448
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Speaker 1: same token, it's an eighteen, it's now going on five

449
00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:19,359
Speaker 1: years old, it's got a hundred fifteen thousand miles on it.

450
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Speaker 1: If the trans cooler is built into the radiator, maybe

451
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Speaker 1: now is the time they put a radiator in it.

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Speaker 1: Just just throwing it out there, you know, I look

453
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Speaker 1: at that. I look at things as systems. You know, um,

454
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Speaker 1: heat is critical. Heat makes things wear out. And again,

455
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Speaker 1: I would strive for a good quality radiator while I

456
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Speaker 1: can still get one. We're gonna be hanging onto our

457
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Speaker 1: cars a lot longer, you know, Matt. It's it's just

458
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Speaker 1: so obvious to me that you know, there's just no

459
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Speaker 1: I heard a story the other day, UM along the

460
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Speaker 1: lines of how hard it is defined cars. A gentleman

461
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Speaker 1: drove seven hours to Alexis dealership, walked in the door.

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Speaker 1: The dealership new he was coming. The gentleman walked in

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Speaker 1: the door, looked in the corner. There was an ls

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Speaker 1: L S six. I think it is UM. He he

465
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Speaker 1: was coming specifically for that car was advertised on their website.

466
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Speaker 1: He walked in the door and looked to the right.

467
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Speaker 1: So the car, I'll take. It didn't sit in, it

468
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Speaker 1: didn't drive, it didn't start it. Took out his checkbook.

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Speaker 1: The dealership said, it's number of dollars plus a thirty

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Speaker 1: thousand dollar market incentive. The guy said, who do I

471
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Speaker 1: make the checkout to think about that one? Wow? Staggering, right, staggering.

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Speaker 1: I'm seeing anywhere from five to thirty thou dollar market

473
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Speaker 1: incentive cars out of dealerships now, just because there's such

474
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Speaker 1: a shortage and it's going to get worse. I don't

475
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Speaker 1: want to be doom and gloom, but I'm telling you

476
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Speaker 1: it's going to get worse. You've been driving a couple

477
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Speaker 1: of years, right, how many this this this time of year?

478
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Speaker 1: Don't you usually see deals for closeouts on twenty two model?

479
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Speaker 1: You would see the previous model, your close out, right,

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Speaker 1: twenty Two's where's all the deals? There's no cars drive

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Speaker 1: by car dealerships. Look carefully at how the car dealership

482
00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:08,760
Speaker 1: has the vehicles lined up. They're usually parked at an

483
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Speaker 1: angle and there's one and a half spaces between each

484
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Speaker 1: vehicle to give the illusion that they have cars. The

485
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Speaker 1: majority of them are running short on cars. Not their fault.

486
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Speaker 1: It's the manufacturers who can't get it because there's no chips.

487
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Speaker 1: The American automobile industry is three and a half percent

488
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Speaker 1: of the domestic gross product in this country. You're gonna

489
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Speaker 1: see major economic impact if they don't get this thing

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Speaker 1: straightened out soon. It's gonna be really interesting. But in

491
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Speaker 1: the meantime, we all have to drive, we all need cars,

492
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Speaker 1: So fix it. I wouldn't be asking a mechanic what's

493
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Speaker 1: the least you could do. I would ask them to

494
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Speaker 1: go over the truck and make sure you get another

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Speaker 1: hundred thousand miles out of it. Alright, sir, you'll be well.

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Speaker 1: You're very welcome. You're very welcome. You'd be well. Take

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Speaker 1: good care. Zero the car Doctors cruising back right after this.

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Speaker 1: We've got to get our act together. We're gonna be

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Speaker 1: on vacation. There's gonna be a weekend in August, but

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Speaker 1: we're gonna give you guys two fresh shows. So we're

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Speaker 1: got the ability to call in during the week at night.

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Speaker 1: We don't know what night of the week we're gonna

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Speaker 1: do this by all means call eight five five five

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Speaker 1: get you in the broadcast for the vacation show, as

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Speaker 1: we call it, and be fresh shows, good questions, good answers,

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Speaker 1: just you know, just we just want to keep you

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Speaker 1: guys up to date. That's what we're looking to do.

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Speaker 1: So help the Car Doctor go on vacation call in

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Speaker 1: um so you don't have to listen to Tom talk

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Speaker 1: about cars. Can only imagine. Let's let's go to Bruce

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Speaker 1: and Virginia fifteen out and they see what's going on

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Speaker 1: here and no start Bruce. Welcome to the Car Doctor, sir,

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Speaker 1: How can I help? Good afternoon. Yeah, I have a

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Speaker 1: two thousand and fifteen Auti Q seven. It's a Diesel

525
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Speaker 1: turbo and uh, I parked the car for approximately three weeks,

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Speaker 1: and so I went out to start the car. Uh

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00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:31,160
Speaker 1: it has just just to run it and it has

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Speaker 1: a keyless entry and keyless ignition. You you know, you're

529
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Speaker 1: simply sitting the seed, put your foot on the break

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Speaker 1: and head starting. It preheats and starts everything up. So

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Speaker 1: I went to start it, and it acted like the

532
00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 1: battery was low, and and then and the starter was dragging,

533
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Speaker 1: and then it actually did not start. So I h

534
00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:59,280
Speaker 1: put a battery charger on it. And the second I'll

535
00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:02,719
Speaker 1: put the battery charger on it, the lights came on

536
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Speaker 1: and the horns started honking, and I did that for

537
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:13,640
Speaker 1: about uh three or four minutes. Then the horns stopped honking,

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00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:17,920
Speaker 1: the lights stayed on, and I left the charger on

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00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:21,480
Speaker 1: it for a period of time at two amp, just

540
00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:25,040
Speaker 1: a slow charge, and I went back out an hour

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Speaker 1: or so later and it still seemed low and it

542
00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:30,960
Speaker 1: wouldn't start. I even tried to boost it a little

543
00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:35,880
Speaker 1: bit and then it still wouldn't start, and then I

544
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:38,720
Speaker 1: had Then you can manually put the key in the ignition,

545
00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:41,320
Speaker 1: so I did. I put the key in the ignition,

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00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:47,440
Speaker 1: and then the uh the Now I can't get the

547
00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:49,840
Speaker 1: key out of the ignition. It's like it's locked in

548
00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:54,120
Speaker 1: the ignition and the dashboard lights stay on all the time.

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Speaker 1: Like get my I would? I would. My first question

550
00:29:57,160 --> 00:29:59,440
Speaker 1: would be is what kind of shape is the battery?

551
00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:02,320
Speaker 1: And at the batter revoltage is low? I've seen that

552
00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:05,160
Speaker 1: malfunction occur. Will it will actually lock up and not

553
00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:07,960
Speaker 1: let the key be released? Is it a fresh battery.

554
00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:09,920
Speaker 1: Is the battery charge to level or you don't know

555
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:14,240
Speaker 1: now because it won't crank. Well, it's when I look

556
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Speaker 1: at the charger it shows good. I did not put

557
00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:20,680
Speaker 1: a vault leader on it, but it is a new battery.

558
00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:26,200
Speaker 1: Replace the battery about I'm gonna say thirteen months ago. Okay,

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00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:28,600
Speaker 1: well we all we all know what new means. The

560
00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:34,360
Speaker 1: last time you tried cranking this, it didn't crank well? Correct, Well,

561
00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:38,440
Speaker 1: everything was fine? Uh it was, you know it was.

562
00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:40,920
Speaker 1: We were driving it daily. No, no, no, no, no.

563
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Speaker 1: The last the last time you attempted to start this

564
00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:46,920
Speaker 1: when it didn't start, you just said that it cranks.

565
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:52,320
Speaker 1: It's still cranks slow after you had charged the battery. No, no,

566
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Speaker 1: it it did not crank slow. It didn't crank at all.

567
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Speaker 1: So it's that for three weeks I tended to start it,

568
00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:03,120
Speaker 1: it dragged, it did not start. I then put the

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Speaker 1: battery charger on it for a hour or so. I

570
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:09,720
Speaker 1: felt like it would have been long enough. You know,

571
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:13,440
Speaker 1: the charger show good. I tried to start it and

572
00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:15,960
Speaker 1: it does ben even attempt to start. Okay, when you

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Speaker 1: say the charger showed good, Bruce, what what sort of

574
00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:20,920
Speaker 1: test does the charger runs and putting a load on

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Speaker 1: the battery, or it's just telling you. It's just showing

576
00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:27,520
Speaker 1: you voltage. It's just showing vaulting, right, So it's it's

577
00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:30,239
Speaker 1: just showing I can show you two dozen batteries at

578
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:32,160
Speaker 1: read twelve and a half vaults in the minute you

579
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Speaker 1: put any kind of load on them. They dropped like

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Speaker 1: a stone. So it's it's it's I don't know if

581
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:38,240
Speaker 1: that's a valid test. I wouldn't take that as a

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00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:40,200
Speaker 1: valid test. In the shop, I wouldn't consider it a

583
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:43,840
Speaker 1: valid test. So let's let's let's let's cut to the

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Speaker 1: chase before the clock takes me the fact that the

585
00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:50,320
Speaker 1: battery ran down. There's a possibility that under slow cranking

586
00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:53,680
Speaker 1: and darrest you've now set some false codes in the

587
00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:58,400
Speaker 1: vehicle that's keeping it from starting. So a, you've got

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00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:01,520
Speaker 1: to get the battery charge up to level be that

589
00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:04,800
Speaker 1: should release the key. If it doesn't, you've got to

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Speaker 1: get it somewhere that they can scan it to see

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Speaker 1: what fault codes are in there. Because I think the

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Speaker 1: first part of the problem is the from the sounds

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Speaker 1: of your description, what you're describing the battery was low

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Speaker 1: on charge, low on charge, will will in some cases

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Speaker 1: set false codes, lock the key and prevent the vehicle

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Speaker 1: from starting. Once you get a good battery in it,

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00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:24,920
Speaker 1: or a battery up to level the key outs that

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Speaker 1: things start to function normally again, then we can decide

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Speaker 1: is there an additional problem. I don't think there will be.

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Speaker 1: I think I think from your what you're describing, this

601
00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:36,520
Speaker 1: is a battery problem. Um, as long as the fuel

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00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:39,880
Speaker 1: in the tank is correct and there was no animal

603
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 1: intrusion or critter involvement while the vehicle sat. I wish

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00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:45,640
Speaker 1: I had a better answer for you, bro Um, but

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00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:47,760
Speaker 1: you know that's basically where I think you're going. Those

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00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:49,680
Speaker 1: are the things you've got to do in order to

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Speaker 1: get this car back on the road. Do that call

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Speaker 1: me back next week. Zero. Let's pull over and take

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Speaker 1: a pause for the cause. I'll be back right after

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Speaker 1: this Welcome back running of the car Doctor Median article.

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Speaker 1: Tom said, No. This came from research Kathy about the

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Speaker 1: city of Pasadena. The city of Pasadena is adding more

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Speaker 1: vehicle charging stations. They've got forty four direct charging stations

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Speaker 1: at a municipal parking garage, and they're adding now thinking

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Speaker 1: about adding level two charging. They have got level three

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Speaker 1: possible sorry DCF for Level three charges and make it

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Speaker 1: possible for electric vehicle drivers to charge up in a

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Speaker 1: up to one miles in less than thirty minutes. Charging

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Speaker 1: from a level too will be completed overnight. Um, they're

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Speaker 1: talking about adding fourteen level two charges. They've got fourteen

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Speaker 1: level two chargers. They're talking about adding more at various

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Speaker 1: fire stations around town. And the point of the article

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Speaker 1: was that they're now charging people to actually charge their

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Speaker 1: electric vehicles at these charging stations, which kind of makes sense.

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Speaker 1: I disagree with one point in the article because it says, um,

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Speaker 1: they talk about that people are buying more electric vehicles

627
00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:58,720
Speaker 1: over gas power to reduce pollution and conserve energy and

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Speaker 1: save money. I don't know how we're conserving energy. If

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Speaker 1: the electricity for EV vehicles what was the number Mark

630
00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:08,040
Speaker 1: mills tall? This ten percent comes from solar and renewable

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Speaker 1: and the rest comes from coal, natural gas, and nuclear.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how that's saving energy. UM. I'm still

633
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Speaker 1: trying to get over the comment we had last week

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Speaker 1: about if if five people show up at your house

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Speaker 1: with different cars and everybody needs to charge their car

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Speaker 1: at once, how will they do it based on the

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Speaker 1: amount of electricity you have in the electrical service you

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Speaker 1: have in your house. It just, uh, it doesn't make

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Speaker 1: any sense to me. So, but that's going on out

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Speaker 1: in Pasadena. Uh, they're going to uh charge you for

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Speaker 1: electric energy. Um, I didn't read the article that I

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Speaker 1: wanted to about. In Texas. Uh. Texas municipalities have as

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Speaker 1: people not to charge their electric vehicles because they're having

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Speaker 1: a power shortage this summer. And they're saying that they're

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Speaker 1: afraid that they're gonna bring down the grid, which is fragile,

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Speaker 1: and they shouldn't they shouldn't charge their electric vehicles at all. Um.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure how they're gonna get around. The insanity

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Speaker 1: continues until the next time I'm run on any of

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Speaker 1: the car doctor reminding each and every one of you,

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Speaker 1: mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. See you