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Speaker 1: Ron An Aian.

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Speaker 2: The one question that I get asked the most is

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Speaker 2: when will it be ready? I don't know. I have

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Speaker 2: to look at it, you know. I have to find

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Speaker 2: out what's really wrong with it. I have to see

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Speaker 2: what's wrong with the other seven cards we're working on

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Speaker 2: this day. I have to see where am I going

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Speaker 2: to get parts from. I have to see, you know,

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Speaker 2: what's going to cooperate the most, and you wind.

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Speaker 3: Things up, the Car Doctor.

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Speaker 2: So the aftermarket version that you got, can you go

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Speaker 2: to the aftermarket supplier and get it direct from them?

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Speaker 4: I guess I'm gonna have to go that route.

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Speaker 5: I'll be just wonder what your.

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Speaker 1: Thoughts were on this.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to the radio home of ron Anian, the Car Doctor.

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Speaker 2: Since nineteen ninety one.

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Speaker 3: This is where car owners the world overturned to for

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Speaker 3: their definitive opinion on automotive repair. If your mechanics giving

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Speaker 3: you a busy signal, pick up the phone and call in.

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Speaker 2: The garage doors are open, but I am here to

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Speaker 2: take your calls at eight five five five six ninety nine.

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Speaker 6: Hundred and now pee.

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Speaker 1: Ronnie.

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Speaker 2: I want to start this hour, and thanks for being

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Speaker 2: here to join me. I appreciate you guys, I want

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Speaker 2: to start this hour with an email. This comes to

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Speaker 2: us from Russell in North Carolina. Hey, Ron, can you

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Speaker 2: comment on this? I recently had a problem with my

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Speaker 2: jeep that the engine was overheating and it wasn't running properly.

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Speaker 2: And the shop took me around the corner and up

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Speaker 2: and down the hills, and they finally figured out that

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Speaker 2: after doing many expensive parts, that it was simply a thermostat.

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Speaker 2: Wouldn't it have made sense for them to do a

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Speaker 2: thermostat first as a best guess, rather than just try

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Speaker 2: and pull me up and spend a lot of money. Russ?

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Speaker 2: You know, Russ, It's funny your email comes a timely.

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Speaker 2: It's timely, all right. We had a jeep this week.

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Speaker 2: We had a twenty sixteen Wrangler this week that was

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Speaker 2: doing something similar. And this is a low mile I

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Speaker 2: think it had like sixty thousand miles on it. It was

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Speaker 2: when you were driving down the road the temperature gauge

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Speaker 2: would go up to about three quarter scale. Now, we

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Speaker 2: never experienced it. We never saw it in the shop,

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Speaker 2: Danny or I and we went through our usual due

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Speaker 2: diligence and diagnostic. We verified by scan tool and you

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Speaker 2: know what we'll do is we'll look at a scan

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Speaker 2: tool and see if the scan tool says two hundred

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Speaker 2: and ten degrees, where's the gauge. The gauge was about halfway.

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Speaker 2: Was the fan on? No, because the fan doesn't come

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Speaker 2: on till two twenty three? All right, We waited till

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Speaker 2: two twenty three. The gauge went a little bit over

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Speaker 2: half bang, a little over half fans on two twenty three,

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Speaker 2: That was right. Scan tool called for a fan, and

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Speaker 2: then we would take a thermal imager and we will

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Speaker 2: look at the engine and start, you know, taking various

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Speaker 2: temp points verifying that the two twenty three we see

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Speaker 2: makes sense. And we got down to the point where

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Speaker 2: here's a low mileage, well maintained vehicle that you know, gee,

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Speaker 2: if the engine is really running hot, as the customer said,

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Speaker 2: and I trust the customer, it's you know, it's it's listening.

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Speaker 2: He's a police officer there. You know what, if anything,

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Speaker 2: they're very observational. You kind of liked talking to the cops,

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Speaker 2: right what was wrong with the car? Well, at two

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Speaker 2: fourteen pm the car ran over and it got a

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Speaker 2: little bit too hot to the left side of the road.

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Speaker 2: The birds were up in the air. You know, they

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Speaker 2: give you this detailed analysis of everything but what they

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Speaker 2: had for lunch that day, and you know, it just

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Speaker 2: it worked. We got to the conclusion where this is

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Speaker 2: just couldn't believe that. That seemed like extreme. Couldn't have an

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Speaker 2: Do we have a radiator that's starting to get restricted

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Speaker 2: causing a temp overload? And then we looked up and

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Speaker 2: we saw in history we had done a thermostat in

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Speaker 2: this vehicle about a year and a half ago, using

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Speaker 2: with their thermostats. We're not sure what's going on, but

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Speaker 2: you know, even the dealers aren't using in a lot

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Speaker 2: sourcing from other places. Some of them can't get Chrysler stats.

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Speaker 2: We ended up getting a motorad for this particular jeep

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Speaker 2: that conclusion. Well, we must have guessed right, because here

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Speaker 2: be fixed. And I guess the point Russell is, it

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Speaker 2: depends on how they approached it. Going back to russ

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Speaker 2: in his email about you know that they put an

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Speaker 2: engine in the in the vehicle still had the problem,

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Speaker 2: and then they put a thermostat in it and it fixed it.

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Speaker 2: You know, it depends on how they approached it. What

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Speaker 2: did they do first? What was the diagnostic steps? You know,

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Speaker 2: you've got to keep in mind too, what do you authorize?

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Speaker 2: And Russell doesn't talk anything about did he sign a

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Speaker 2: repair order? Did he authorize them to fix anything? When

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Speaker 2: you bring your car to a repair shop, you you

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Speaker 2: know you need to sign a repair order because that

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Speaker 2: protects you and it protects the shop. It keeps everybody

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Speaker 2: on the you know, even Stephen. All right, we had

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Speaker 2: a customer this week that the I miss Hyundai engine issue.

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Speaker 2: We had a thirteen hun day Santa Fe It had

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Speaker 2: going to become an engine. It had to go back

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Speaker 2: to Hyundai for the engine. Recall. I don't understand how

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Speaker 2: Honday's stile in business. Some days they're doing so many engines.

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Speaker 2: They took it into the dealer. The dealer's telling them up,

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Speaker 2: it's going to get an engine. They'll see the car

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Speaker 2: sometime the end of September. Imagine losing your vehicle for

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Speaker 2: Kind of gives you a confidence in the company, right,

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Speaker 2: You hope the company's around that you get the vehicle back.

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Speaker 2: But you know, he had a sign all kinds of paperwork,

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Speaker 2: Pat did, and he's telling me about it, and I said, yeah, Pat,

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Speaker 2: that's for your protection, that's for your protection, that's for

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Speaker 2: their protection. We had another customer and Russell, if you're listening,

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Speaker 2: we had another customer with a twenty twenty one jeep Cherokee. Wait,

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Speaker 2: do you hear this story? And then I'm gonna get

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Speaker 2: to the phones. Twenty twenty one jeep Cherokee, that it

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Speaker 2: exhibited signs of no crank, no start, that machine gun sound,

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Speaker 2: do it. The battery's week right, the weak battery sound,

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Speaker 2: we'll call it. He had it brought to his local

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Speaker 2: got a phone call from Doug, and Doug's new to

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Speaker 2: the shop, and you know, this was his employee. He

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Speaker 7: And the cheap.

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Speaker 2: Dealer made him sign all the paperwork and right off

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Speaker 2: the bat it was a five hundred dollars diagnostic charge

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Speaker 2: just to look at the vehicle. Well, the five hundred

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Speaker 2: an AGM battery, which it is. It was seven eight

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Speaker 2: hundred dollars for the battery. It was a two thousand

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Speaker 2: dollars total estimate to repair the vehicle because it needed

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Speaker 2: Doug talked to me. He decided he was going to

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Speaker 2: the five hundred dollars, brought it to me. I got

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Speaker 2: to tell you within about twenty minutes, I could tell

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Speaker 2: you know, I get wanted to get paid diagnostic time,

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Speaker 2: and you want to get paid for your talent. But

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Speaker 2: that's no way to win customers. Charging them four times

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Speaker 2: with the vehicle is what the repair calls for in

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Speaker 2: order to tell them, hey, it needs a battery. The

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Speaker 2: weird thing is I couldn't even Danny and I said.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes Danny and I, you know, we're weird like this, right.

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Speaker 2: We sat there and we said, could we make this

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Speaker 2: a two thousand dollars repair. Let's see, how did the

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Speaker 2: dealer get the two thousand dollars for a battery and

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Speaker 2: four spark plugs and a diagnosis? The battery is not

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Speaker 2: under the seat. We originally thought this was a grand

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Speaker 2: chero key where the battery was under the passenger seat.

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Speaker 2: It's not. It's a cherokee. The batteries up front, where

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Speaker 2: God intended batteries to be right under the hood. You

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Speaker 2: could get to it easy pasy, all right, So we

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Speaker 2: couldn't see where the battery was going to be an issue.

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Speaker 2: It's a four cylinder, not a six. You didn't have

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Speaker 2: to take off the intake plan to do the spark plugs.

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Speaker 2: You took off the engine cover, which took I don't know,

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Speaker 2: three minutes. And if that on a bad day and

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Speaker 2: you were staring right at the coils and the plugs,

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Speaker 2: you know. I think it pays to have a relationship

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Speaker 2: with a mechanic. I really do, Russell, you know, for

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Speaker 2: you to answer your question, I think knowing what to expect,

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Speaker 2: knowing what you're gonna get, you don't tell me if

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Speaker 2: But for your benefit maybe the next time, and for

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Speaker 2: anybody else out there that's looking for that mechanic. You know,

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Speaker 2: that relationship you have really comes back to help you

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Speaker 2: that if you don't have it and you walk in cold,

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Speaker 2: you know you're gonna get what you're gonna get. I

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Speaker 2: went to the dinery yesterday for lunch, and Danny and

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Speaker 2: I we took the afternoon off. We had to go

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Speaker 2: attend something. A friend of ours graduated at the Police Academy.

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Speaker 2: We wanted to go spend We wanted to go spend

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Speaker 2: some time with Adam and his family, and we went

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Speaker 2: to the diner afterwards for lunch and we saw Sam,

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Speaker 2: he was telling us the story of how when he

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Speaker 2: was going home his late model I think he's driving

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Speaker 2: a jeep blew a tire and he doesn't have a spare.

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Speaker 2: They just give him an air inflator now, which is

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Speaker 2: kind of stupid too, Right, Tom and I have talked

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Speaker 2: about this where you tear up the tire on the road.

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Speaker 2: It's great if you if the tire's intact, or what

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Speaker 2: if the tire shreds like it did in Sam's jeep

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Speaker 2: and he couldn't get a tire at you know, ten

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Speaker 2: had to call uber, leave the vehicle on the side

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Speaker 2: get it and you know the whole michigas as Mom

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Speaker 2: would say. And Sam said he went to his to

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Speaker 2: a mechanic to a tire store the next day and

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Speaker 2: he got the Royal run around over a nineteen inch

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Speaker 2: tire that was going to be six hundred dollars. And

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Speaker 2: he said to me why And I said, Sam, who

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Speaker 2: works on it normally? And he says, right, well, you

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Speaker 2: haven't found anybody. I said, you know, you got to

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Speaker 2: kind of find somebody. I said, it's important, I said,

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Speaker 2: because it's not when things are going good that you're

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Speaker 2: going to realize their value, but when things are going bad,

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Speaker 2: when you need somebody in that desperate moment, when it's

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Speaker 2: You've been driving long enough, Russell, why don't you have

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Speaker 4: The little gto. You need advice on how to maintain

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Speaker 4: that classic gto? Ron is the guy eight five five

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Speaker 2: Here's Ron, by the way, on the I can't get

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Speaker 5: Yeah? Hi, thanks, Ron. Well, I got two little problems

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Speaker 5: We're going to put that splash hand back up on there,

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Speaker 5: The other thing they tell me, as well, why don't

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Speaker 2: No, now is this? Is this that that fiber board

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Speaker 2: trust me, the engineer put that there for a reason.

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Speaker 2: This is a thirteen so it's eleven years old, you know,

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Speaker 2: so it you know, it depends on what procedure, what

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Speaker 2: some clips. In order to get to the filter, you

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Speaker 2: it's it's all there for a reason, Mark, And I

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't stop driving the car over it if it

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Speaker 5: All right, okay, so okay, if there's not the factory

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Speaker 2: I've never seen that in the aftermarket, all right, I've

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 5: Okay, Second question is I just had a coolant flush

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's some. There's some air bubbles they didn't get out.

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Speaker 5: No, it's pretty level.

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Speaker 2: Okay, you know we somehow. I was smart enough when

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Speaker 2: least they should be able to tell you, Hey, Mark,

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Speaker 2: because when it comes time for heat this winter, you

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Speaker 2: call me if you need more. Mark, I appreciate the conversation.

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Speaker 2: I'm run an indy in the car doctor. I'll be

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Speaker 2: back right after this.

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Speaker 1: Constrants, welcome back.

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Speaker 2: I'm run a naming the car doctor. I think I

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Speaker 2: to give Tom the spot like, because Tom has a

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Speaker 2: story to tell us Tom, Tom, Tom, Sorry, i I'm

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Speaker 6: I'm using a slightly new system over here too on

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Speaker 2: I've just I've thrown you off your game. Tell us

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Speaker 2: a story about the PB blaster in the back wiper

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Speaker 2: arm on your escape. I want, I want everybody to

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Speaker 6: Well, I had a uh had a little problem. I

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Speaker 6: So took about a month to get the window, and

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Speaker 6: And it was actually quite funny because she starts taking

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Speaker 6: the bushing is stuck on the wiper motor arm. And

431
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Speaker 6: it's like, well, okay, uh, you know she didn't have

432
00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:21,840
Speaker 6: an arm. That's okay, and you know, we got the

433
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Speaker 6: window replaced. So I went to the Ford dealer, got

434
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Speaker 6: a got an arm, and I'm sitting there looking at

435
00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:27,960
Speaker 6: the bush and going, well, how the heck am I

436
00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:30,120
Speaker 6: going to get this off? Because it was I mean,

437
00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:32,359
Speaker 6: let's face it, it's all road corrosion from the amount

438
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Speaker 6: of driving. I do you know it's a nine year

439
00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:38,960
Speaker 6: old car. And I said, yeah, okay, I'm gonna mask

440
00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:40,679
Speaker 6: the thing. I got a whole bunch of paper towels

441
00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:44,840
Speaker 6: and masted so I didn't, you know, get gungkling into

442
00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:48,439
Speaker 6: the uh, into the into the rubber boot or anything

443
00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:49,439
Speaker 6: that goes through the window.

444
00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:51,000
Speaker 2: And I just took pebe.

445
00:20:50,720 --> 00:20:54,000
Speaker 6: Blaster and I just blasted this thing. I mean I

446
00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:57,320
Speaker 6: I just drowned it and figured, owh okay, I'll come

447
00:20:57,359 --> 00:20:59,320
Speaker 6: back in a couple hours. I came back in a

448
00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:03,200
Speaker 6: couple hours, small chisel and just kind of interested under

449
00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:07,200
Speaker 6: the bearing or the bushing and went pop and there

450
00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:09,360
Speaker 6: it went yep, and life is good and it's now

451
00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:11,919
Speaker 6: got a wiper arm and everything's great and PEV Blaster

452
00:21:12,119 --> 00:21:14,879
Speaker 6: is just good stuff. I can tell you that right now.

453
00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:18,840
Speaker 2: You know, the interesting thing is you can actually not

454
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Speaker 2: to make that. And I didn't want this to become

455
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Speaker 2: a commercial for PB, but I wanted people to hear

456
00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:25,679
Speaker 2: how we use this in a practical basis. You know,

457
00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:28,480
Speaker 2: it's all the technique. Now if everybody takes notice, Tom

458
00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:30,280
Speaker 2: said he gave you know, using the chisel, he kind

459
00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:31,840
Speaker 2: of gave it a little bit of a nudge. You

460
00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:35,240
Speaker 2: need to give rusted components that that shock, that little

461
00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:37,960
Speaker 2: bit of a you know, wake up call. We had

462
00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:42,840
Speaker 2: a twenty ten Honda fit last week before last that

463
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Speaker 2: we had to do front exhaust on and you know,

464
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Speaker 2: this this car was, you know, this car was kind

465
00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:51,680
Speaker 2: of like the SS Restolium. I'm not really sure why

466
00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:53,720
Speaker 2: we were where we were actually fixing it. It's just

467
00:21:54,119 --> 00:21:56,120
Speaker 2: like I needed a tetanus shot looking at this thing.

468
00:21:56,600 --> 00:21:59,800
Speaker 2: And they wanted to put exhaust on it. I you know,

469
00:21:59,840 --> 00:22:03,200
Speaker 2: I would have pushed it into the dumpster. But you know, okay,

470
00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:08,760
Speaker 2: we'll fix it. So the front exhaust pipe is actually

471
00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:12,000
Speaker 2: it's it's in a terrible spot. It's over the cradle

472
00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:14,240
Speaker 2: and you you know, you can sort of see it,

473
00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:17,960
Speaker 2: but it's just it's just it's just ugly. And I

474
00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:21,760
Speaker 2: guess over the past almost fifteen years, all the updraft

475
00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:24,040
Speaker 2: from the road and salt spray has gone up and

476
00:22:24,119 --> 00:22:27,280
Speaker 2: hitting these two exhaust bolts where the front head pipe

477
00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:30,639
Speaker 2: comes into the manifold, and you know, it had taken

478
00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:34,280
Speaker 2: what was a normal you know, the bolt was normally

479
00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:38,760
Speaker 2: you know, ten millimeters wide. Well now it's you know,

480
00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:42,040
Speaker 2: now it's down next to nothing. It's just it's it's

481
00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:45,199
Speaker 2: like a fraction of that size. It's just eroded and

482
00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:47,440
Speaker 2: corroded away. So if you put any kind of load

483
00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:49,359
Speaker 2: on it and it's not loose, you're gonna snap it.

484
00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:52,080
Speaker 2: If you snap the bottom stud off in the manifold.

485
00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:54,040
Speaker 2: Now you've got to do a front manifold. And the

486
00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:57,399
Speaker 2: first the first cat the main catalytic converter, which all

487
00:22:57,400 --> 00:22:59,240
Speaker 2: of a sudden, I mean, the job's priced beyond the

488
00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:01,159
Speaker 2: value of the car anyway, but now you're you know,

489
00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:03,679
Speaker 2: you're gonna increase the national debt by two billion dollars

490
00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:09,399
Speaker 2: PB blaster. Right. I sat there and you know, I

491
00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:11,679
Speaker 2: put it up on the spare lift in the shop

492
00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:14,760
Speaker 2: and I just I just soaked it and soaked it

493
00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:17,240
Speaker 2: and soaked it, and I probably gave it the better

494
00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:20,760
Speaker 2: part of the morning. And I went back. I started

495
00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:23,720
Speaker 2: this nine o'clock ash. I went back just before lunch.

496
00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:26,200
Speaker 2: I gave it another hit, all right, I couldn't get

497
00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:28,679
Speaker 2: the bolts to move. I gave it another soaking. I

498
00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:31,840
Speaker 2: came back at one o'clock and here was the technique, right,

499
00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:33,679
Speaker 2: Because there's always a technique. I always tell you this

500
00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:37,800
Speaker 2: is a technique to getting bolts loose. I didn't loosen

501
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Speaker 2: the bolts. I tried tightening the bolt. I tried going

502
00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:44,960
Speaker 2: you know, like I was tightening it. And what that

503
00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:48,800
Speaker 2: does is that breaks the contact Because it's it's funny

504
00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:51,160
Speaker 2: how that works. A lot of times you will break

505
00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:53,560
Speaker 2: the contact point or the rust point of how the

506
00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:56,800
Speaker 2: bolt has adhered as the metal has gouged into the

507
00:23:56,840 --> 00:23:59,680
Speaker 2: existing metal. So you're you're taking it and putting it

508
00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:03,000
Speaker 2: this way. That breaks the rust contact and those bolts

509
00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:06,000
Speaker 2: spun out like they were put on by hand ten

510
00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:08,560
Speaker 2: minutes ago. And I have to attribute that to P

511
00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:10,560
Speaker 2: B Blaster. I didn't break the bolts, I didn't break

512
00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:13,639
Speaker 2: the studs. Everything came apart like like it was opposed to.

513
00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:16,280
Speaker 2: And I thought of Tom because I knew about this

514
00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:20,000
Speaker 2: wiper arm story that Tom was just telling us, you know,

515
00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:22,639
Speaker 2: and how that succeeded and worked for him. So, you know,

516
00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:25,600
Speaker 2: I think it's technique, is our point that you know,

517
00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:28,120
Speaker 2: Tom knew to take the chisel and kind of wake

518
00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:29,959
Speaker 2: it up a little bit, and I knew to tighten

519
00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:33,159
Speaker 2: the bolts as I was loosening it. And you know,

520
00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:35,520
Speaker 2: it's just it's it's there's always a way to get

521
00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:37,639
Speaker 2: things apart. But P B Blaster and I will tell

522
00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:39,560
Speaker 2: you this too, I think I think the formulation of

523
00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:43,120
Speaker 2: P B Blaster, you know, is very consistent over the years.

524
00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:45,000
Speaker 2: You can see it. It still does the same thing

525
00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:48,600
Speaker 2: in that you can watch it attack the rust and

526
00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:51,840
Speaker 2: it kind of bubbles a little bit and it starts

527
00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:55,480
Speaker 2: to it looks like grapes that are fermenting, and you know,

528
00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:58,000
Speaker 2: it's got that little bit of a bubbling action going

529
00:24:58,040 --> 00:24:59,840
Speaker 2: on there, so you know that it's beaten the rust,

530
00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:03,720
Speaker 2: so just just good, good stuff. So thank God for that. Anyway,

531
00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:05,879
Speaker 2: let's pull over, take a pause. Eight five five five six,

532
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Speaker 2: soho nine one hundred. Oh you know what, before we go,

533
00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:13,240
Speaker 2: I should point out congratulations are in order for a

534
00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:15,800
Speaker 2: short term. Here we have our We are now over

535
00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:19,480
Speaker 2: one thousand subscribers on our YouTube channel. So the videos

536
00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:21,320
Speaker 2: are working. You guys are liking them. I wanted to

537
00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:22,760
Speaker 2: say thank you for that. I don't mean to make

538
00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:25,800
Speaker 2: it as a standalone thing, but we now have over

539
00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:29,440
Speaker 2: one thousand subscribers to our YouTube channel and more videos coming.

540
00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:32,000
Speaker 2: If you haven't seen it yet, by all means, get

541
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Speaker 2: out there. We just put up the two part video

542
00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:37,320
Speaker 2: of the tour of the sixty six Cadillac El Dorado.

543
00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:41,000
Speaker 2: It takes a while because it's a big car, you know,

544
00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:43,119
Speaker 2: just to walk here around it. But that car is

545
00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:47,560
Speaker 2: that car is huge and you know, just just neat stuff,

546
00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:50,520
Speaker 2: travel back in time. So but the sixty six Cadillac

547
00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:53,200
Speaker 2: Eldorado video is up on YouTube, along with a bunch

548
00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:55,440
Speaker 2: of other stuff. So anyway, let's pull over, take a pause.

549
00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:57,280
Speaker 2: I'm ronning Andy and the car Doctor I'll be back

550
00:25:57,359 --> 00:25:57,840
Speaker 2: right after this.

551
00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:12,959
Speaker 7: Don't go away.

552
00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:17,360
Speaker 2: Hey, Ronnie the Car Doctor here. Eight five five five

553
00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:19,920
Speaker 2: six O nine nine zero Zero's the phone number, and

554
00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:22,119
Speaker 2: by all means keep us in mind you've got a

555
00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:23,879
Speaker 2: car question or a problem. When the show's not on

556
00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:26,440
Speaker 2: the air. We're here live Saturdays two to four pm

557
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:29,720
Speaker 2: on the network East Coast time. And you know, the

558
00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:31,880
Speaker 2: eight five five five six O nine nine zero zero

559
00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:33,600
Speaker 2: phone number is there for you twenty four to seven.

560
00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:36,159
Speaker 2: You know, feel free call, leave a message and we'll

561
00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:37,199
Speaker 2: get back to you. It'll put you in the Q

562
00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:39,679
Speaker 2: for the next live broadcast and you never know. You

563
00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:41,880
Speaker 2: can also go out to You can also go out

564
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Speaker 2: to card Doctorshow dot com or a website spell it

565
00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:48,240
Speaker 2: out cardoctorshow dot com and there is a contact form

566
00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:50,760
Speaker 2: and you know, if you need to be contacted at

567
00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:53,040
Speaker 2: an odd hour. We're trying to do it Wednesday evenings,

568
00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:55,240
Speaker 2: although I haven't been so successful at that yet. I'm

569
00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:58,520
Speaker 2: trying to figure out how to schedule that I can't.

570
00:26:58,640 --> 00:26:59,879
Speaker 2: I can't do all the things I need to do,

571
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:04,240
Speaker 2: running out of time, and you know, we're pre recording

572
00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:06,600
Speaker 2: some questions for vacation shows and things like that. So

573
00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:08,800
Speaker 2: because we want to give you guys fresh shows, it's

574
00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:11,040
Speaker 2: important to us. I was at the Car Doctor. I

575
00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:12,679
Speaker 2: was at the car Doctor. I was at the chiropractor.

576
00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:14,800
Speaker 2: I was somewhere. I knew I was somewhere. Say I'm

577
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:16,879
Speaker 2: so fast, I get there before I'm even there. I

578
00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:19,560
Speaker 2: was at the chiropractor this morning and I was getting

579
00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:24,639
Speaker 2: adjusted like I usually do. And Jackie, the receptionist for today,

580
00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:26,760
Speaker 2: was there, and she can I ask you a question?

581
00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:29,560
Speaker 2: And you know, it's funny, right, you want to see

582
00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:35,840
Speaker 2: social situations change, and you know, the the harshness, or

583
00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:39,639
Speaker 2: not the harshness, but the tightness, the tenseness of the

584
00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:43,119
Speaker 2: mood change. Have somebody ask somebody a car question. Now,

585
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:45,600
Speaker 2: imagine asking me a car question. Well, you know, and

586
00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:47,040
Speaker 2: she did it while I was standing at the counter

587
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:49,560
Speaker 2: waiting to pay. So it became it became six minutes

588
00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:51,600
Speaker 2: of the Car Doctor radio show, live and in person,

589
00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:54,040
Speaker 2: and I explained to her. She was embarrassed to say

590
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:56,800
Speaker 2: that her new Hyundai hadn't had an oil change yet.

591
00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:58,480
Speaker 2: I'm sorry she has a Kia. I think honey and

592
00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:00,200
Speaker 2: Kia's are the same thing. They're all going to break

593
00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:04,400
Speaker 2: the same way. And you know, she she, well, they

594
00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:08,119
Speaker 2: will give it time. How long could that engine really list?

595
00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:11,639
Speaker 2: And she wanted to know it had six thousand miles

596
00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:13,240
Speaker 2: on and she's been driving it a little over a

597
00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:15,040
Speaker 2: year and she hasn't taken it in for service yet.

598
00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:17,480
Speaker 2: And she was embarrassed to ask me that question. Hey,

599
00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:20,160
Speaker 2: you know what, there's no there's no embarrassing question. There's

600
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:22,000
Speaker 2: no question you should be afraid to ask, but you

601
00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:26,240
Speaker 2: may not like the answer. And you know, she explained

602
00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:29,400
Speaker 2: to me how growing up as a kid, her dad

603
00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:32,560
Speaker 2: had his guy in town, right, everybody had a guy.

604
00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:34,919
Speaker 2: You know, they took it to the local garage, and

605
00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:36,560
Speaker 2: you know, they took care of the car, and she

606
00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:39,320
Speaker 2: didn't have that. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and

607
00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:41,720
Speaker 2: she drives out to New Jersey to work at this

608
00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:44,880
Speaker 2: chiropractor's office. And there's no real there's no key of

609
00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:47,240
Speaker 2: dealers in Brooklyn, which I kind of find strange. I

610
00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:50,560
Speaker 2: guess there isn't. And you know, where would she go

611
00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:53,920
Speaker 2: and what should she do? I listened to her all

612
00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:55,880
Speaker 2: of her concerns, and I told her, listen, first of all,

613
00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:58,040
Speaker 2: I said, the first thing to do is get over

614
00:28:58,080 --> 00:28:59,880
Speaker 2: the fact that you haven't been anywhere for a while,

615
00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:01,920
Speaker 2: because at least you're trying to do something about it.

616
00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:04,400
Speaker 2: Now that's really important, right, And don't just keep driving

617
00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:06,479
Speaker 2: it thinking it's going to get better on its own,

618
00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:09,520
Speaker 2: because it's not. It's going to get worse. And I said,

619
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Speaker 2: you know, you can do it. It's an oil change,

620
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:14,280
Speaker 2: it's six thousand miles maybe an oil change in a

621
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Speaker 2: tire rotation. You know, because are we talking, as I

622
00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:20,240
Speaker 2: said to Jackie, and this is for your benefit as well,

623
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Speaker 2: for you out there listening. You know, are we talking

624
00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:25,400
Speaker 2: how does the manufacture or perceive it? What do they

625
00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:27,720
Speaker 2: want to do or are they talking about it? Ron's world?

626
00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:32,000
Speaker 2: Right WWRD five six thousand miles that first oil change

627
00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:35,640
Speaker 2: or two three thousand miles that first oil change. We're

628
00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:38,239
Speaker 2: going to look at things where you know if and

629
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Speaker 2: I asked her this question too, you know, because I

630
00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:42,200
Speaker 2: started to think about how we would do it, to

631
00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:44,880
Speaker 2: look at things or bolts tight or is anything leaking?

632
00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:47,680
Speaker 2: Do you own this or lease it? She says? She said,

633
00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:50,920
Speaker 2: I lease it? Well, leasing change the dynamic?

634
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:51,240
Speaker 5: Right?

635
00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:53,880
Speaker 2: Do you plan on buying the vehicle? Absolutely not. I'm

636
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:55,080
Speaker 2: going to drive it for the two and a half

637
00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:57,560
Speaker 2: years and get rid of it. You know what, I

638
00:29:57,560 --> 00:29:59,720
Speaker 2: would just see what the as I told her, I

639
00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:02,560
Speaker 2: would see what the confines of the lease agreements say,

640
00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:07,200
Speaker 2: what is your requirement and obligation? And that's important to

641
00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:11,840
Speaker 2: know because Jackie had no idea, all right, she had

642
00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:16,480
Speaker 2: no idea of what her obligation was. Because keep in mind,

643
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Speaker 2: when you go into a repair shop, dealership, independent tire store,

644
00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:27,040
Speaker 2: chaine store, whatever, they may not follow only manufacturers recommendations.

645
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:30,560
Speaker 2: They may be recommending more. Perhaps you're in a dusty,

646
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:34,640
Speaker 2: dirty environment where putting in filters on a more frequent

647
00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:38,160
Speaker 2: basis may help the life of the vehicle. But is

648
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:41,400
Speaker 2: that your obligation? Are you obligated to change air filters

649
00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:43,959
Speaker 2: more often? Because somebody that's going to own the car

650
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:46,000
Speaker 2: at eighty thousand miles is going to see the benefit,

651
00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:48,800
Speaker 2: but not you, because in the three years or two

652
00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:50,400
Speaker 2: and a half three years that you're leasing it, you're

653
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:54,080
Speaker 2: only going to have thirty thousand miles on it. So

654
00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:56,960
Speaker 2: you've got to think of how you're driving it, what

655
00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:59,560
Speaker 2: the legal obligation is. What does it say in the lease?

656
00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:00,640
Speaker 2: Does it say anything?

657
00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:01,480
Speaker 5: Now?

658
00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:04,120
Speaker 2: What was really interesting was somebody that was sitting there

659
00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:06,600
Speaker 2: explained to us because she had to get involved in

660
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:09,800
Speaker 2: the conversation, which was okay, and she said, you know,

661
00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:12,239
Speaker 2: my mom leases cars and she doesn't do anything. She

662
00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:14,560
Speaker 2: never changes the oil. She drives them for three years

663
00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:19,000
Speaker 2: and just turns them in. See, now that's wrong, all right,

664
00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:23,520
Speaker 2: that's just clearly wrong because not only are you not

665
00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:26,760
Speaker 2: taking proper care of it, because I've got to think

666
00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:29,480
Speaker 2: the lease agreement that finds that you have to do something,

667
00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:33,600
Speaker 2: but you're also risking you breaking down. And trust me,

668
00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:38,600
Speaker 2: the manufacturers have gotten increasingly more stringent. You bring a

669
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:41,120
Speaker 2: vehicle to them that they can't find a service record

670
00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:43,600
Speaker 2: for an oil change over two and a half three years,

671
00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:46,400
Speaker 2: and the engine is locked up because of the lack

672
00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:49,200
Speaker 2: of result of no oil. Guess who's on the hook

673
00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:53,080
Speaker 2: you that I know is in every lease agreement. So

674
00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:56,280
Speaker 2: the point of this is, as I said to Jackie,

675
00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:58,560
Speaker 2: it's never too late. You know, you want to take

676
00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:01,120
Speaker 2: it in and wait for that oil change, call the dealer,

677
00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:03,520
Speaker 2: call wherever you got it. So if you're out there wondering,

678
00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:06,480
Speaker 2: just call wherever you got it from. Hey, I'm due

679
00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:09,920
Speaker 2: for this service. What's it going to cost? What's involved?

680
00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:13,200
Speaker 2: Can I wait for it? And what's defined? What are

681
00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:16,360
Speaker 2: my requirements under the lease? And last thing, if you

682
00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:19,640
Speaker 2: leased the vehicle, make sure you didn't buy the maintenance

683
00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:22,160
Speaker 2: package without realizing it, because a lot of you have that.

684
00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:25,480
Speaker 2: You might have a lease package. A maintenance package is

685
00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:27,480
Speaker 2: part of your lease where you don't have to pay

686
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:31,640
Speaker 2: for maintenance. In doing so, you're you're overspending. So just

687
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:34,320
Speaker 2: some food for thought, things to think about. A five, five, five,

688
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:36,160
Speaker 2: six oh nine nine zero zero, Im running any of

689
00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:37,680
Speaker 2: the car. Doctor, I'll be back right after this.

690
00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:54,840
Speaker 7: Don't go away.

691
00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:57,719
Speaker 2: This one's for the college kids. They're you know what,

692
00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:00,800
Speaker 2: college is coming around again. Before you know what, they'll

693
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:02,640
Speaker 2: will be gone and they'll be taking the cars back

694
00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:05,320
Speaker 2: to school, and you'll be calling up repair shops or

695
00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:07,520
Speaker 2: the parents will be calling up repair shops and saying, hey,

696
00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:09,720
Speaker 2: we've got to send our kid back to school. We

697
00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:11,239
Speaker 2: got to get the car ready for college. And if

698
00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:13,480
Speaker 2: you haven't thought about it, now's a good time. You've

699
00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:15,320
Speaker 2: only got a couple of four or five weeks to go,

700
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:18,120
Speaker 2: or maybe less right, I think probably three weeks. Kids

701
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:21,560
Speaker 2: go back early. We had a twenty thirteen camera come

702
00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:24,000
Speaker 2: through the shop this week, regular customer, but we haven't

703
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:28,000
Speaker 2: seen the car in a while, and Emma needed to

704
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:31,440
Speaker 2: know will this car make it to Delaware from North

705
00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:34,240
Speaker 2: Jersey to ride my approximation of about three and a

706
00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:37,280
Speaker 2: half hours on a regular basis. It's older, it's the thirteen,

707
00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:38,920
Speaker 2: so it's eleven years old. It's got one hundred and

708
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:41,400
Speaker 2: thirty five thous miles on one hundred and thirty six

709
00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:43,760
Speaker 2: thousand miles on it. So we went through it. We

710
00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:47,320
Speaker 2: did our infamous checklist and came back and yeah, it

711
00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:50,040
Speaker 2: needs breaks. The brakes were due, because you know, you

712
00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:52,040
Speaker 2: have to one of the important things to think about

713
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:54,280
Speaker 2: is when you're getting that, you know, the car ready

714
00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:56,120
Speaker 2: for college, like you get the kid ready for college.

715
00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:57,960
Speaker 2: You got to think three or four months or five

716
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,320
Speaker 2: months down the road, and you've got to try and

717
00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:03,120
Speaker 2: predict the future, which is difficult. Predicting the future can

718
00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:06,360
Speaker 2: be tedious. And we came up with it needed breaks,

719
00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:10,600
Speaker 2: it needed two tires, it needed an oil change, it

720
00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:14,320
Speaker 2: was due for Aaron. Cabin filters were a little early.

721
00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:18,120
Speaker 2: The air filter you could see was you know, borderline grungy,

722
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:20,080
Speaker 2: and what would it look like in a couple of

723
00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:23,759
Speaker 2: thousand miles. So we opted for Aaron cabin filters, and

724
00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:25,879
Speaker 2: Sean and I talked about it the dad and we

725
00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:27,560
Speaker 2: you know, we kind of went over it and I said,

726
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:28,880
Speaker 2: here's what we're going to do in wy and he

727
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:31,160
Speaker 2: agreed and we did it. And I said the things

728
00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:34,439
Speaker 2: to keep on mind and I've created a little list

729
00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:37,640
Speaker 2: and it's on point now, you know, it's eleven years old.

730
00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:40,440
Speaker 2: When do you do a radiator? When do you do hoses?

731
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:44,320
Speaker 2: Although everything looked good right, when do you do rotating electrical?

732
00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:47,040
Speaker 2: There's a line somewhere And that's my point of this.

733
00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:49,640
Speaker 2: You know, you've got to have good breaks, tires, suspension,

734
00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:51,680
Speaker 2: it's got to be safe, it's got to be reliable.

735
00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:55,400
Speaker 2: You can't change everything. Make sure you've got a cell phone,

736
00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:57,880
Speaker 2: make sure it's charged, make sure you've got triple A,

737
00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:00,759
Speaker 2: and make sure you're traveling by day and not by night,

738
00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:02,440
Speaker 2: so if there is a problem, you can get it

739
00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:04,320
Speaker 2: taken care of quickly. I'm not an eating in the

740
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:06,920
Speaker 2: car doctor until the next time. The mechanics aren't expensive,

741
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:08,440
Speaker 2: they're priceless. See you