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Speaker 2: You know, you know, you know, you know, you know

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Speaker 2: we're gonna kick off this, Sara. We've got a couple

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Speaker 2: of housekeeping housekeeping things to do. Last week, we had

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Speaker 2: a call from a gent with a FOURD escape and

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Speaker 2: I wanted to address this last week, but we ran

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Speaker 2: out of time. He was talking about there was a

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Speaker 2: warranty at the dealer, but the insurance company. The warranty

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Speaker 2: company wanted them to tear the engine down to prove

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Speaker 2: that there was a coolant loss, but yet it wasn't

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Speaker 2: losing anything externally. And long story short, it generated some

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Speaker 2: interesting commentary, most of them that day gentlemen by the

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Speaker 2: name of Brian Shearon Ward Shearon Enterprises in Virginia. I

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Speaker 2: wouldn't know Brian if I was standing next to him,

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Speaker 2: but I can tell you I'd trust him to rebuild

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Speaker 2: any engine I've ever had. Just by the commentary and

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Speaker 2: the emails that I get from him, you can tell

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Speaker 2: this guy's got it on the ball. He wrote me,

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Speaker 2: and he said, Ron, the fella who's Liberty Insurance told

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Speaker 2: the dealer they had to tear the engine down and

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Speaker 2: prove porosity sounds nutty to me. It sounds like a

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Speaker 2: reason to deny. And I agree with you, Brian. I

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Speaker 2: think it is a reason to deny. I think they're

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Speaker 2: looking for an excuse not to have to warrantye that engine.

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Speaker 2: I agree with you. He says, if there isn't an

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Speaker 2: external leak, he should go stand on his head outside

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Speaker 2: the insurance company and request a new engine. Can I

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Speaker 2: say that probably you know, plug reed and Borscope may

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Speaker 2: help him if one of the cylinders has a shiny,

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Speaker 2: steam cleaned piston. Tearing down an engine, let alone finding

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Speaker 2: porosity these days is likely beyond the dealer, and it

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Speaker 2: is especially and in this case it was the one

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Speaker 2: point five liter Ford, which is a known problem. Even

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Speaker 2: some of the two Leaders, some of the two Leader

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Speaker 2: Ford escapes between your model year seventeen and twenty have

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Speaker 2: have known issues porosity in the block and casting issues,

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Speaker 2: and they're known for coolant loss. If he's an engine

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Speaker 2: machine shop, Brian goes on to say in his email,

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Speaker 2: good luck finding someone. The pressure test to block and heads.

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Speaker 2: Even in areas where shops exist, pressure testing to find

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Speaker 2: porosity isn't available at a lot of shops. And I agree, right,

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Speaker 2: And I love the line about the comment if he's

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Speaker 2: in if he's in an engine machine shop desert, which

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Speaker 2: you know, that's really what's going on a lot across

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Speaker 2: the country that there are machine shop deserts, you know,

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Speaker 2: where they just don't exist anymore. It's not a practice craft,

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Speaker 2: it's not something that you see people going into. And

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Speaker 2: there's a lot of you know, opportunity there, because well

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Speaker 2: there is a lot of opportunity, but you just don't

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Speaker 2: see people doing it anymore. The point is, you know,

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Speaker 2: warranty claims have to make sense, and you know when

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Speaker 2: you're dealing with an extended warranty company. And I'm going

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Speaker 2: to come right out and tell you I've never dealt

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Speaker 2: with a warranty company that made sense to me. All right,

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Speaker 2: most of the warranty companies, well, I'm going to say

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Speaker 2: all of the warranty companies I've dealt with only cared

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Speaker 2: expense of the shop. And you know, maybe that's biased,

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Speaker 2: but as always, I welcome and open the microphone to

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Speaker 2: and deal with my questions. And you know, it's it

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Speaker 2: just seems like it's always they want to control the diagnosis,

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Speaker 2: want to quote out of a manual, and as I

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Speaker 2: always say, let the manual fix the car. But back

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Speaker 2: to my email from Brian. You know, Brian was trying

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Speaker 2: to point out that it's got to make sense, which

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Speaker 2: to the gentleman regarding the coolant loss on the Ford Escape,

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Speaker 2: that it's got to make sense if you're losing coolant

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Speaker 2: and you don't see it externally. You don't see puddles

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Speaker 2: in the engine, And at what point do you say,

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Speaker 2: In this mechanic's opinion, it does not, I think, and

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Speaker 2: I understand why there are engine machine shop deserts because

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Speaker 2: I think, based on observations of what I'm seeing being fixed,

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Speaker 2: and do a quote unquote valve job, those days are

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Speaker 2: long gone. The intricacy and the tenacity and the degree

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Speaker 2: of difficulty to take a potter modern day engine and

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Speaker 2: put it back together, the expense involved, and the potential

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Speaker 2: for other things being wrong. The cost factor is too high,

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Speaker 2: and it just it becomes a bigger problem than it's worth.

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Speaker 2: And in a lot of cases, you're just better off

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Speaker 2: put an engine in the vehicle. And then it's an

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Speaker 2: evaluation on you as the customer. Do you want to

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Speaker 2: buy a new car? Do you want to buy a

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Speaker 2: new engine? And with the idea that you put an

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Speaker 2: engine in a vehicle, and engines today, I'm going to

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Speaker 2: say are probably entry level New Jersey dollars entry level,

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Speaker 2: nine grand or better, and it just becomes a very

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Speaker 2: expensive proposition. Back to Brian's point, as he points out,

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Speaker 2: the insurance company is looking for a reason to deny it,

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Speaker 2: and I couldn't agree with them more if the warranty

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Speaker 2: company actually cared about the customer. Tear it down. Let's

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Speaker 2: see where it's leaking. But we're going to replace the

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Speaker 2: engine because that's where it's got to be going if

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Speaker 2: we don't see an external leak. And you know, Brian,

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Speaker 2: I commend you. I really like it when you chime

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Speaker 2: you chime in. But you know, definitely some really really

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Speaker 2: great points. Tom Ray, my executive producer, chief engineer, cooking

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Speaker 2: bottle Washer, sent me an article this week from the

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Speaker 2: city Life. Is this from this is from CityLife dot com.

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Speaker 2: Let me look at the back of the article. The

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Speaker 2: city report guess lit at the pump Many New York

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Speaker 2: drivers pay premium but get regular. So evidently there's a

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Speaker 2: problem in New York City that somewhere in the last

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Speaker 2: two years, and let's see it starts at least every

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Speaker 2: gas station in New York City has failed at least

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Speaker 2: one inspection in the past two years. Record show mostly

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Speaker 2: for selling fuel with lower than advertised octane. Wow, what

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Speaker 2: a nightmare this can cost? Right, you know, a vehicle

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Speaker 2: requires an octane, which is a better form of fuel.

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Speaker 2: It's a it's a it's a premium fuel. It has

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Speaker 2: additives in it. I know, I'm I know. My buddy

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Speaker 2: Roger over there is going to tell me gas is gas,

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Speaker 2: which I get it. We have this ongoing battle every

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Speaker 2: time he shows up. But the point is when you're

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Speaker 2: octane rating. Octane is an engine's ability to resist detonation.

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Speaker 2: It is actually a slower burning fuel, so the flame

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Speaker 2: front is longer in the cylinder, so it's a better

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Speaker 2: burning fireplace log all right, it'll last longer, and that

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Speaker 2: prevents all sorts of internal issues in the engine, and

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Speaker 2: it gives the engine more power. Well, evidently new York

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Speaker 2: City gas stations, whether it's intentional or by mistake, and

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Speaker 2: little bit of it or some of it is by mistake,

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Speaker 2: but regardless, they're finding a lot of New York City

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Speaker 2: wonderful article. It points out it makes you afraid to

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Speaker 2: buy gas in New York, but you may want to

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Speaker 2: find it. Go out and look at the city Life

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Speaker 2: of the City report and the gas lit at the pump.

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Speaker 2: You'll find that it's an article dated January twentieth of

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Speaker 2: this year. Definitely, definitely a good read. And Bob checking

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Speaker 2: in from Long Island Ron. It took some guts for

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Speaker 2: me to spend eighteen thousand dollars in a two thousand

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Speaker 2: have eighty four thousand miles on it, and it's better

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Speaker 2: than well way better than a brand new Acadia that

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Speaker 2: couldn't make it to one hundred and ten thousand. And

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Speaker 2: most of the brand new cars I have purchased them

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Speaker 2: en caurags. When I hear you tell callers that their

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Speaker 2: pickup won't make two hundred thousand, you know, it's not

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Speaker 2: it's going to make two hundred thousand easily. And that's

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Speaker 2: the sad part. And you know, the price of vehicles

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Speaker 2: is just it's out of control. Next week, all right,

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Speaker 2: next week on the show, we've got Ken Miller coming on.

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Speaker 2: Ken is the president of the Alliance of Automotive Service

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Speaker 2: Providers of New Jersey, And of course the Northeast Exposition

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Speaker 2: Trade Show is going to be at the Meatal Lands

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Speaker 2: in New Jersey and Secaucus at the Exhibition Center. I

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Speaker 2: We talk about the price of automobiles, what happens when

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Speaker 2: they get hurt in an accident. We talk about diminished

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Speaker 2: value and how expensive vehicles have become, and not necessarily

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Speaker 2: in a good or necessary way. And I won't give

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Speaker 2: that interview next week. But it's sort of in line

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Speaker 2: with what Bob's saying here about how expensive vehicles are

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Speaker 2: and they don't last, you know, any reasonable length of time.

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Speaker 2: He goes on in his email, ron I saved forty

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Speaker 2: grand and won't have to pay off my daughter's medical

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Speaker 2: school bill. And I'll believe I'll be writing this in

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Speaker 2: five hundred thousand miles. That's the way I feel. He

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Speaker 2: then go on to talk about how he wrote a

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Speaker 2: letter to Wicks in the fall last year about a

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Speaker 2: potential fake oil filters. He didn't get a response. He's

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Speaker 2: written to some of the others first brands groups, which

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Speaker 2: I believe is going to affect the quality of filters

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Speaker 2: and many things because they're gone now and he talks

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Speaker 2: about the problems that he had in dealing with fakes

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Speaker 2: and phonies. And this isn't a blow to Wilkes Wis.

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Speaker 2: This is about, you know, the comment I want to

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Speaker 2: make on this, and thanks, Bob. I appreciate all your efforts.

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Speaker 2: You know, a comment I want to make is be

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Speaker 2: sure when you're buying parts, it's from as reliable and

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Speaker 2: as good a source as you can and it may

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Speaker 2: not necessarily be the guy online. That guy online may be,

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Speaker 2: you know, he's selling quick, cheap, easy parts that he's

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Speaker 2: buying in volume that he's never seeing. He's bringing it

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Speaker 5: Yeah? I got a I actually got a fleet of

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Speaker 2: The open road to night. Give you run, He's help run.

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Speaker 2: Keep you right. Okay, let me go to Jim first

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Speaker 2: Welcome Aboord, sir, How can I help you today? Run

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Speaker 4: Service, Ohnie. I've been listening to you for about four years.

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Speaker 4: Late eight, nineteen eighty eight, I had retired. I was

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Speaker 2: So you were there in seventy.

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Speaker 4: Seventy to eighty eight. Nineteen eighty one was the nightmare

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Speaker 2: I was going to ask that right. Eighty one was

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Speaker 4: Yep, I'm a York fan. Let me put it that way.

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Speaker 4: To Hirel Supersport four fifty four, they're okay. But if

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Speaker 4: I mean seventy twn they did a contest between Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Develle,

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Speaker 6: I believe that in a quarter mile.

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Speaker 2: Now, let me ask you, let me ask you a question, Jim,

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Speaker 4: I know that. Yeah, I know that. I'm a muscle

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Speaker 4: you are. Yep, you got a money Carl, yeh, yep.

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Speaker 4: And you know Florida weather is right on car They

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Speaker 2: Yep. Oh yeah, without a doubt. Hey, Jim, I'll tell

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Speaker 2: you what. Stay on the phone, let Tom get your information.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna chand you got a car doctor coffee cup?

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Speaker 2: All right? Fan like you?

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Speaker 2: Oh yes, sir, absolutely all right. So you stay on

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Speaker 2: that out to you this week. And uh, we're happy

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Speaker 2: old school gearheads. We could go on for hours, but yeah,

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Speaker 2: do that, and we'll do that for you. Let's go

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Speaker 2: over to Kevin in Virginia. Can we do that and

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Speaker 4: Hey?

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Speaker 6: Tom, is Kevin from Massachusetts. I've just headed back to

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Speaker 2: From Florida in the chs in the Chrysler three hundred.

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Speaker 7: No, no, that's at home. I'm in the Dodge Ram

433
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Speaker 7: and I picked up a tilt trailer on the way home,

434
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Speaker 7: and I had an empty trailer, so I stopped him.

435
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Speaker 7: Bought a nineteen seventy Dodge.

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Speaker 6: Dude. Don't know if you ever heard of one of them.

437
00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:09,040
Speaker 2: No, but I can imagine you doing that. For the record, everybody.

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Speaker 2: I've never met Kevin, but Kevin is a die in

439
00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:15,280
Speaker 2: the hard dodge guy. And I think if it didn't

440
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Speaker 2: say dodge, he would walk If that was his option.

441
00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:21,879
Speaker 2: That was his choice. It's he's got Dodge printed on

442
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Speaker 2: his underwear. Everybody calls him Dodge in high school or

443
00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:26,880
Speaker 2: at summer camp because that's the name is mom put there?

444
00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:30,440
Speaker 2: So am I wrong? Am I wrong?

445
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Speaker 4: No?

446
00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:32,679
Speaker 6: Yeah? So?

447
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Speaker 2: What what what is a Dodge? Dude?

448
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Speaker 7: That's a D one hundred, right, It's a D one

449
00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:42,200
Speaker 7: hundred and it's got uh some fancy Trent packages to it.

450
00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:44,760
Speaker 7: It's a three eighty three big block with a three

451
00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:49,080
Speaker 7: speed on the column, right, and it was Don Knots

452
00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:51,320
Speaker 7: was like a spokesperson for a Dodge for it. I

453
00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:54,760
Speaker 7: remember that they only made about two thousand of them.

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Speaker 2: Now, what was the little Red Truck? Remember the Dodge

455
00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:00,840
Speaker 2: little Red truck that was a D one hundred also,

456
00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:01,560
Speaker 2: wasn't it.

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00:24:02,119 --> 00:24:03,640
Speaker 6: Yeah, yep, the Little Red Express?

458
00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:07,680
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. And those are Warlock

459
00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:10,800
Speaker 2: Those are rare and hard to find also, correct.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's the older one and then they went to

461
00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:15,240
Speaker 6: a Warlock. Those are the old Warlocks or even harder

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Speaker 6: to find.

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Speaker 2: Right, right. What's the fanciest Chrysler Dodge product you've ever owned? Kevin?

464
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Speaker 7: God, jeez, probably the Dart that I have right now.

465
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Speaker 7: As far as you know hot rod wise.

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Speaker 2: My friend, my friend Raymond had a he somehow acquired

467
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Speaker 2: a seventy one Hemi Couda and I can I can

468
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Speaker 2: tell this story because he's retired to Thailand, so chances

469
00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:48,080
Speaker 2: are he won't hear it. So he retired to Thailand. Anyway,

470
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Speaker 2: he acquired this seventy one Hemi Couda and you know which,

471
00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:55,119
Speaker 2: it was five years old at the time, So this

472
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Speaker 2: was nineteen seventy seven, seventy eight, right, and I can

473
00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:03,600
Speaker 2: remember it like it was yesterday. God that car was

474
00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:06,760
Speaker 2: god awful fast, but it was just terrible to try

475
00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:09,240
Speaker 2: and keep on the road. It just you know, it

476
00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:13,840
Speaker 2: eate dollar bills like a puppy getting at a ground

477
00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:17,680
Speaker 2: beef package. It just gobbled it down. So he got

478
00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:21,280
Speaker 2: the opportunity, and looking back, it probably wasn't the right

479
00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:23,680
Speaker 2: thing to do, but he got the opportunity to sell

480
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Speaker 2: it back to the guy that he bought it from

481
00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:31,560
Speaker 2: for a new Jersey State Police car and five grand. Now,

482
00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:33,720
Speaker 2: the new Jersey State Police car was one of those

483
00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:37,000
Speaker 2: old Dodge cop cars. It was kind of like the Bluesmobile, right.

484
00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:39,520
Speaker 2: It was just you know, four p forty, you know,

485
00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:43,000
Speaker 2: cop cop tires, cop shocks, cop exhausted, all that nonsense.

486
00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:45,959
Speaker 2: It had a calibrated spinometer, I think up to one

487
00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:48,600
Speaker 2: hundred and sixty miles an hour. You could cruise really

488
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Speaker 2: fast on the highway. But it wasn't a hemikudah. It was.

489
00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:57,200
Speaker 2: It just wasn't a hemiicudah. And we always kid him

490
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Speaker 2: lovingly about it when we talk about it as we

491
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Speaker 2: as we recollect But I'll tell you what, that was

492
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Speaker 2: one heck of a car. I always liked Chryslers, and

493
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna die in the hard, die in the wool

494
00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:09,879
Speaker 2: hard Chevy guy just for a lot of reasons. But

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Speaker 2: one thing I always liked about Chryslers. Did you ever

496
00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:16,240
Speaker 2: notice how their engine compartments were always painted body color.

497
00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:20,359
Speaker 2: They were the only company to do that, and I

498
00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:23,199
Speaker 2: think that's a testimony they understood that even heat wouldn't

499
00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:28,480
Speaker 2: affect their paint. They just entrusted it so And you know,

500
00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:31,360
Speaker 2: Chrysler is an interesting company when you read about it.

501
00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:33,679
Speaker 2: Some of the things I was watching the series on

502
00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:36,520
Speaker 2: I think it came out on PBS America and the

503
00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:39,399
Speaker 2: cars that made it, and I think somewhere around that

504
00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:42,160
Speaker 2: it's a three part series. I encourage everybody to watch

505
00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:44,680
Speaker 2: it if they can. They talk about in the late

506
00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:48,040
Speaker 2: sixties when Chrysler was dealing with the muscle car era.

507
00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:51,399
Speaker 2: How the last six months of production of the sixty

508
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Speaker 2: nine road Runner, I think it was, they put out

509
00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:56,520
Speaker 2: an option where you could order a four to forty

510
00:26:56,560 --> 00:27:01,520
Speaker 2: six pack car, and it was just it's interesting to see,

511
00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:05,040
Speaker 2: you know what the car companies had the ability to do.

512
00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:07,680
Speaker 2: You know that If anything about the muscle car era

513
00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:11,399
Speaker 2: fascinates me, so it's how the car companies have the

514
00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:14,000
Speaker 2: ability to we want to do this, and they did

515
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:18,280
Speaker 2: it right. They just got the options and their their

516
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:20,879
Speaker 2: their reach and their ability to be flexible and make

517
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:25,480
Speaker 2: so many changes and just just good stuff. So Kevin,

518
00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:27,239
Speaker 2: always a pleasure, sir. I got to run them up

519
00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:29,280
Speaker 2: against the clock. You have yourself a good rest of

520
00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:33,280
Speaker 2: the weekend, get home safe and uh always well. I

521
00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:36,119
Speaker 2: know that, and I appreciate that you. Uh you be

522
00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:38,240
Speaker 2: well and enjoy your dodge. I'm running any in the

523
00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:54,560
Speaker 2: car doctor. I'll be back right after this. So first

524
00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:56,919
Speaker 2: of all, let me let me start off here and

525
00:27:56,960 --> 00:27:59,520
Speaker 2: say thank you for everybody for the response to the

526
00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 2: social media idiot campaign, because we've been talking about it.

527
00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:04,399
Speaker 2: You know, get out to our YouTube channel, look at

528
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:07,639
Speaker 2: our videos, like get out to the podcast page. If

529
00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:09,280
Speaker 2: you want more of the Car Doctor. You know, just

530
00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:11,440
Speaker 2: the broadcast show isn't enough if that's what you're getting,

531
00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:14,000
Speaker 2: or if you're a podcaster, you're you know, we always

532
00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:16,720
Speaker 2: ask you please subscribe. If you know someone that's looking

533
00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:19,960
Speaker 2: for car information, please subscribe because it does help us,

534
00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:22,280
Speaker 2: and it keeps us here, and it keeps us you know,

535
00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:23,800
Speaker 2: if we can be here to help you, then we

536
00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:26,679
Speaker 2: help others. And that's really what this show is about.

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Speaker 2: All right, Well it's working because in the last three

538
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Speaker 2: weeks I was looking at the numbers of the analytics

539
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:35,640
Speaker 2: and we've seen a six and a half percent increase

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Speaker 2: in podcast downloads in the last three weeks, So our

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Speaker 2: numbers are up. We're very happy, We're very thankful, and

542
00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:45,200
Speaker 2: I just want to acknowledge everything you're doing is working

543
00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:47,800
Speaker 2: and please keep it up. My wife said to me

544
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:49,320
Speaker 2: the other day, she goes, I want to see you

545
00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:52,560
Speaker 2: on TV, much to Tom's disappointment, but my wife wants

546
00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:54,280
Speaker 2: to see me on TV. So we figured the only

547
00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:56,920
Speaker 2: way we can do this is more social media and

548
00:28:57,040 --> 00:28:59,240
Speaker 2: to get somebody's attention to say, hey, you know what,

549
00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:01,560
Speaker 2: this guy might be kind of fun to watch, and

550
00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:06,520
Speaker 2: the look at I could show you things like So Tuesday,

551
00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:10,240
Speaker 2: what a segue? Huh? Tuesday, I'm cleaning up after the

552
00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:14,920
Speaker 2: snowstorm and my snowplow broke. There is no worse feeling

553
00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:18,640
Speaker 2: in the world than, you know, having gone through the

554
00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:21,280
Speaker 2: snowstorm that the Northeast got hit with on Monday. It

555
00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:24,800
Speaker 2: was so bad Monday, you know, plowing that the only

556
00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:27,320
Speaker 2: way I knew I was on the road. I could

557
00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:29,240
Speaker 2: just make out because it was like you had five

558
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Speaker 2: foot of visibility and then it was a white out.

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Speaker 6: All right.

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00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:34,200
Speaker 2: If I looked to the left and I saw a mailbox,

561
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Speaker 2: and I looked to the right and I saw a mailbox,

562
00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:37,360
Speaker 2: I know I was on the road somewhere. I just

563
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:39,600
Speaker 2: wasn't quite sure which lean I was in. It was

564
00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:41,840
Speaker 2: that bad. So the fact that the truck made it

565
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:44,480
Speaker 2: through that, thank god, it only broke on Tuesday, and

566
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:46,440
Speaker 2: it broke at the right place. It broke in the shop.

567
00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:49,760
Speaker 2: It just the plow wouldn't come up anymore. So, long

568
00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:54,080
Speaker 2: story short, I went through some basic diagnosis. And it's

569
00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:57,400
Speaker 2: kind of hard because well, Frankly, some of it's on

570
00:29:57,480 --> 00:29:59,800
Speaker 2: me because you know, we had a new snowplow and

571
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:02,360
Speaker 2: st all three years ago and you never stopped to think, gee,

572
00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:05,080
Speaker 2: when it breaks, how will I fix it? So you know,

573
00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:07,480
Speaker 2: I had to dig up wiring diagrams and the boys

574
00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:10,600
Speaker 2: over at Traffic Safety and MAWA were very helpful, very receptive.

575
00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:13,600
Speaker 2: But one of the things I noticed is, you know,

576
00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:17,680
Speaker 2: nobody western on down doesn't look at how does the

577
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:20,120
Speaker 2: circuit work? If this goes bad? They changed that. If

578
00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:22,280
Speaker 2: that goes bad, they changed this, and I get that,

579
00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:24,360
Speaker 2: but I want to know how the circuit works. And

580
00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:27,400
Speaker 2: I found that the fifteen amp fuse there's four fuses

581
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:30,479
Speaker 2: under the hood, and the fifteen amp fuse that feeds

582
00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:34,000
Speaker 2: power to the control module and runs the headlights failed.

583
00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:38,280
Speaker 2: It melted. So put another fuse in long story short

584
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Speaker 2: and got everything working again. But why did that fuse fail?

585
00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:44,440
Speaker 2: And you know I could have shown you this, This

586
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:45,960
Speaker 2: would have been I thought this would have been a

587
00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:47,800
Speaker 2: good video and I should have done it. Maybe I

588
00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:51,120
Speaker 2: still will. You know, we'll put up on the YouTube channel.

589
00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:54,880
Speaker 2: Because I took an amp clamp which measures amperage, right,

590
00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:59,960
Speaker 2: and we monitored that fuse on startup, that fuse puts

591
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:03,600
Speaker 2: out about six point eight amps, almost seven amps. When

592
00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 2: we turned the headlights on, it spikes to nineteen and

593
00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:11,640
Speaker 2: then settles down to thirteen amps. Just shy of thirteen amps.

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00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:15,320
Speaker 2: It's the headlight circuit, but it's also the controller feed

595
00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:19,760
Speaker 2: as well. A thirteen ampload on a fifteen am fuse

596
00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:23,560
Speaker 2: is too much and over time it's gonna fail. We're

597
00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:25,760
Speaker 2: gonna convert the plow truck to LEDs. I think the

598
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:28,080
Speaker 2: problem is we had put brighter bulbs in because we

599
00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:31,360
Speaker 2: couldn't see what the older bulbs, So we probably created

600
00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:33,800
Speaker 2: this problem ourselves. But it was just a case of

601
00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:38,120
Speaker 2: really good old fashioned diagnostics and it was so easy

602
00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:39,480
Speaker 2: to see. Because I thought about it, How am I

603
00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:42,400
Speaker 2: going to prove this? I used alms Law. I took

604
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:45,960
Speaker 2: out my omes Law calculator, plugged in voltage and amperage.

605
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:48,840
Speaker 2: It gave me the resistance value. It gave me the

606
00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:50,880
Speaker 2: wattage I was able to add that matches what the

607
00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:55,280
Speaker 2: bulbs are pulling because they're ultra bright headlight bulbs sixty

608
00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:58,360
Speaker 2: five watts apiece. So just would have been a good

609
00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:01,040
Speaker 2: video for television. Maybe I'll do it for YouTube. As well,

610
00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:04,680
Speaker 2: But anyway, I appreciate your social media support. Eight five five,

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

612
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Speaker 2: in the Car Doctor. We're back right after this. Gee whiz,

613
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Speaker 2: look at that. Here we are in the middle of

614
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Speaker 2: a nationally syndicated radio show and I just got noticed

615
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Speaker 2: that Waldrick lost electricity at the shop. This will be exciting.

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00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:35,239
Speaker 2: So the things that go on in the life of

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Speaker 2: I want to talk to you about. You know, we're

618
00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:40,560
Speaker 2: talking about maintaining cars and the value of it. We

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Speaker 2: had a customer this week with a twenty sixteen Chevy Traverse,

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Speaker 2: which is what made me think of the shop and

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Speaker 2: older car. Right it's now ten years old, it's got

622
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Speaker 2: eighty thousand miles on it, and he's going long on

623
00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:55,520
Speaker 2: oil changes and you can see that it's having an effect.

624
00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:58,160
Speaker 2: It's every time we change the oil. The last two

625
00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:00,920
Speaker 2: three times, it's starting to develop. At that yellow puss

626
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:04,320
Speaker 2: under the oil fill cap, the dipstick is really getting dirty.

627
00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:06,720
Speaker 2: You can see it's really starting to varnish up. And

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00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:08,720
Speaker 2: I had a real heart to heart with him because

629
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Speaker 2: I'm one of those mechanics, you know what, I'm trying

630
00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:12,200
Speaker 2: to get you to take care of your car, not

631
00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:14,800
Speaker 2: necessarily because I'm trying to make money and sell jobs.

632
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:17,240
Speaker 2: Because I'm trying to keep your car running longer. It's

633
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:20,680
Speaker 2: cars are just too darn expensive, right It's I think

634
00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:23,200
Speaker 2: it's thirty five grand to get into a car, you know,

635
00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:26,360
Speaker 2: entry level, and it's fifty grand to buy something really comfortable.

636
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:32,360
Speaker 2: And you know, we had that conversation, why do I

637
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:35,480
Speaker 2: have to change it based on time? Because oil, you

638
00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:39,720
Speaker 2: know it will have condensation issues. Short trip, driving three

639
00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:42,920
Speaker 2: to five miles a day, that vehicle's never going to

640
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:45,120
Speaker 2: warm up and it becomes a problem. And you want

641
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:47,040
Speaker 2: to stay on top of the oil changes. And oil

642
00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:49,320
Speaker 2: is still the cheapest thing you can put in it.

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00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:53,720
Speaker 2: We changed his oil. He was starting to develop some

644
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:56,480
Speaker 2: engine noise, you know, a little bit of a lifter tick.

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Speaker 2: We put in a bottle of Hotshot Secret tick Fix Protect.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna see how it resolves, because I'm sure it'll

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Speaker 2: help clean out the passages. Hotshot Secret make some good stuff.

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Speaker 2: Get out the Hotshotsecret dot com. But the bottom line is,

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Speaker 2: you want to do more to your car. You want

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Speaker 2: to take care of it and keep it longer till

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Speaker 2: the next time I'm running Ay in the car doctor,

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Speaker 2: good mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. Hey the car Doctor,

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