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

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Speaker 1: And now he's running. Hey, welcome running the name of

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Speaker 1: Is this weekend like all weekends, and UM, we give

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Speaker 1: and Nanny in the car doctor here at zero zero zero.

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Speaker 1: How can I help? Thank you, thank you for accepting

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Speaker 1: my call. You're welcome. I have a two and fifteen Beautiferana,

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Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you. General Motors claims that it's and

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Speaker 1: I quote a design characteristic of the vehicle unquote, an

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Speaker 1: The dealership has been very helpful. They replaced the headlight.

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Speaker 1: It turned out to be the same headlights. They've tried

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Speaker 1: I thought it was only me. Um, I'm wondering if

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Speaker 1: it in such a ways. I wonder if that would

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Speaker 1: doing some there's a big German influence in Buick now,

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Speaker 1: I'm hoping that if I do have to go after

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Speaker 1: reimburse me, because I did have a case which they

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Speaker 1: closed with me as being an un dissatisfied customer, which

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Speaker 1: I mean, my friends, my friend has a two thousand

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Speaker 1: Uh huh Okay. I was trying to say that delicately,

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Speaker 1: thank you, And you know, I want to get to

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Speaker 1: forget exactly what the acronym is ii h S something

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Speaker 1: Insurance Safety Insurance Institute for Highway Safety rated UM not

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Speaker 1: Verano stinks. It does. It also stinks. It's horrible. It's

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Speaker 1: people don't understand, Barbara, how well you do. But headlights

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Speaker 1: are so important. I learned this lesson ten years ago.

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Speaker 1: And you know we started out. I put a set

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to spend the money to buy Ford stuff.

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Speaker 1: I'll I'll do the aftermarket at a quarter of the price.

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Speaker 1: They lasted two weeks. I threw them in the garbage

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Speaker 1: and I bought Ford headlamps. Well, I couldn't take it.

428
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Speaker 1: You know, it's it's headlamps, breaks and tires make driving

429
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Speaker 1: a vehicle fun and safe, and you've got to have

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Speaker 1: something good. On a slightly different note, I'm gonna raise

431
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Speaker 1: my hand and change the subject. Tom jump up to

432
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Speaker 1: the mic, would you please and tell me the story?

433
00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:35,480
Speaker 1: Tom was. Tom had an issue with a vehicle. We're

434
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Speaker 1: talking about tail lights, and it sort of strikes a

435
00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:40,960
Speaker 1: belt along your lines. You wonder how they're designing things.

436
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Speaker 1: What was the vehicle you called me from the road

437
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Speaker 1: for this was a key I didn't get the exact

438
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Speaker 1: model number. But I'm sitting behind this keya at this

439
00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:51,000
Speaker 1: traffic light and the light turns green and I'm sitting

440
00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:53,159
Speaker 1: there and it's like, what are you doing? And when

441
00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:57,199
Speaker 1: they pulled ahead the signal light the signal indicators are

442
00:23:57,320 --> 00:23:59,480
Speaker 1: on the bumper, so you can't see them from you

443
00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:02,720
Speaker 1: can see them you're sitting behind the car. It's like really, so,

444
00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:05,840
Speaker 1: so you know, don't take what you're going through with

445
00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:10,080
Speaker 1: the buick as an isolated case. It seems that perhaps

446
00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:15,680
Speaker 1: the governing bodies that regulate how vehicles display lights has

447
00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:18,840
Speaker 1: sort of taken leave of their senses. Um, because I'm

448
00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:21,199
Speaker 1: starting to see more of this. And Tom's right, if

449
00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:23,840
Speaker 1: you notice, not that there's anything to do with your problem,

450
00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:26,479
Speaker 1: but if you notice, you ever notice how a lot

451
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Speaker 1: of cars approaching you and driving in front of you

452
00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:34,680
Speaker 1: at night look like caricatures or faces. Uh? I have

453
00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:37,320
Speaker 1: to honestly say no, but I'll be looking for that.

454
00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:40,480
Speaker 1: Start looking for that. Especially on some of the Japanese vehicles,

455
00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:43,800
Speaker 1: there's a Japanese term for it. There it's a it's

456
00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:48,560
Speaker 1: a cartoon character. It's a cartoon caricature. Um. And they're

457
00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:52,600
Speaker 1: starting to look like eyes and noses and mouths. I

458
00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:54,919
Speaker 1: didn't understand. Yes, I know exactly what you mean. Now

459
00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:57,480
Speaker 1: it seems like we're more concerned with making a car

460
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Speaker 1: look like something other than a car than actually drive,

461
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,960
Speaker 1: having it and using it as a card. It's ridiculous.

462
00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:06,760
Speaker 1: And New Jersey motor Vehicle, as I understand, it doesn't

463
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Speaker 1: check for any safety things anymore. It's only emissions. And

464
00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:11,680
Speaker 1: I can tell you why we do that, welly, please

465
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Speaker 1: do tell me. I am a New Jersey motor vehicle

466
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Speaker 1: inspector and I've been inspecting cars for the better part

467
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Speaker 1: of I don't know, twenty years, and in the last

468
00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:25,359
Speaker 1: couple of years I have put stickers on cars with

469
00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:29,840
Speaker 1: cracked windshields, ball tires, oil leagues, broken tail light lenses,

470
00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:35,200
Speaker 1: no headlights, um. Because the check engine light wasn't on

471
00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:38,080
Speaker 1: and it passed emissions and that's all they care about.

472
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Speaker 1: And when you ask why, the insanity is because the

473
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Speaker 1: governing body states that most people will take care of

474
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Speaker 1: their cars, so the state is not in the business

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Speaker 1: to enforce that policy. They will leave that up to

476
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Speaker 1: the local police department in jurisdictions. Read that as we're

477
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Speaker 1: going to give the cops the ability to write more

478
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Speaker 1: tickets and generate revenue. Revenue, of course, follow the money trails,

479
00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:05,680
Speaker 1: all the money trail every time. Well, all right, I'm

480
00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:07,280
Speaker 1: doing what can I do for you? How can I

481
00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:09,960
Speaker 1: help you? Because I have no other better answer than what? Well, no,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to I think you gave me several answers. Certainly,

483
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Speaker 1: I'm going to look at the aftermarket. I'm going to

484
00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:19,680
Speaker 1: look at that and the part about the painting black.

485
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Speaker 1: For some reason, the dealership, by the way, has been

486
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Speaker 1: wonderful and they've tried a few things for me. I

487
00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:27,200
Speaker 1: have no complaint with the dealership, but they say that

488
00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:30,480
Speaker 1: you can't really get in there. But um, I have

489
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Speaker 1: a friend who does in striping and whatnot, and I'm

490
00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:37,359
Speaker 1: wondering maybe he can get in there. I'm thinking maybe

491
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Speaker 1: there's a way to, I don't know, open up the

492
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Speaker 1: bottom and then fuse it back together. Maybe, you know.

493
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Speaker 1: Depending on how you want to attack this, go to

494
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Speaker 1: a scrap go to a salvag yard, or find the

495
00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:51,160
Speaker 1: cheap aftermarket version and find out how that comes apart.

496
00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:54,000
Speaker 1: Maybe that'll relate to how the the the expensive piece

497
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Speaker 1: experiment with an experiment with it can't hurt. I really

498
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Speaker 1: appreciate your help. Thank you so much. Very welcome, Barbara.

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00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:03,159
Speaker 1: Good luck to you. Very good. I'm runing ating the

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Speaker 1: car Doctor zero zero. We'll be back right after this, hey,

501
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:15,840
Speaker 1: ranting any of the car Doctor hitting the dusty trail

502
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Speaker 1: here by the way, for all my brother mechanics in

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Speaker 1: New Jersey this week coming up Wednesday and Thursday, the

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Speaker 1: thirty one of May and the first of June, a

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Speaker 1: really great Chrysler class being put on by the folks

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Speaker 1: the current model year two nights. I'll be there. I

510
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Speaker 1: hope to see you there. That'll be down in Woodbridge,

511
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Speaker 1: New Jersey. You can get out to a t G

512
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Speaker 1: Training dot Com for more information. Let's get over and

513
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Speaker 1: talk to Doug from Plymouth, New Hampshire, OH three Dodge

514
00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:51,080
Speaker 1: caravan and what's going on here? Doug? How can I

515
00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:53,080
Speaker 1: help you running any of the car Doctor right? Your service, sir,

516
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:56,040
Speaker 1: how you do good? What's cooking? Um, I have a

517
00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:59,760
Speaker 1: I have a caravan. That's uh. When you hit the break,

518
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:03,159
Speaker 1: it's kind of sporadic. It feels like the A B

519
00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:07,880
Speaker 1: S wants to go off. It doesn't happen all the time,

520
00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:10,440
Speaker 1: and it makes the noise like the A B S

521
00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:13,240
Speaker 1: is going to go off too, So it might it

522
00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:17,480
Speaker 1: only it almost quivers almost, and you can hear the

523
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Speaker 1: A B S. I think it's you can hear the

524
00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:22,119
Speaker 1: A B S go off, but I'm not sure. I

525
00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:25,080
Speaker 1: was wondering if it was the A B S and

526
00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:27,760
Speaker 1: the light doesn't come on in the dash or anything. Well,

527
00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:30,920
Speaker 1: I think what you're probably getting is a false A

528
00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:33,840
Speaker 1: B S event. Did you ever think about how A

529
00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:36,200
Speaker 1: B S works? Everything about how does the computer know

530
00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:37,879
Speaker 1: to apply A B S? Do you know what A

531
00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:41,480
Speaker 1: B S is? But it's slipping and when it's slipping right, Well,

532
00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:45,600
Speaker 1: it's actually what actually happens is the reason anti lock

533
00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:49,640
Speaker 1: breaks were created is to prevent one wheel from going

534
00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:53,080
Speaker 1: into lock up while the others are still rolling. So

535
00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:55,959
Speaker 1: when when you've got four wheels on the car, if

536
00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:59,760
Speaker 1: the computer sees the right front go into lock up,

537
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:04,760
Speaker 1: it assumes that that wheel maybe is on a leaf

538
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:08,200
Speaker 1: or something with lower rolling resistance, a patch of ice,

539
00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:10,560
Speaker 1: and the wheel was able to be stopped by the

540
00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:14,280
Speaker 1: brakes lock up, so that one's dragging and the other

541
00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:17,240
Speaker 1: three or rolling and it's not going to cause unequal

542
00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:19,920
Speaker 1: breaking in the vehicle won't stop as straight and the safe.

543
00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:23,240
Speaker 1: So the idea is that when it sees a wheel

544
00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:27,400
Speaker 1: approach lock up or lock up, it will then pulse

545
00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:30,680
Speaker 1: the brakes hydraulically to slow things down in a more

546
00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:35,920
Speaker 1: controlled environment, more controlled situation. So that being said, does

547
00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:40,440
Speaker 1: your problem occur under ten miles an hour over ten

548
00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:46,000
Speaker 1: miles an hour where you can um both both? Kind

549
00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:47,680
Speaker 1: of yeah, but it's got to be pretty much over

550
00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:50,719
Speaker 1: ten really okay, And it seems to have happen more

551
00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:54,720
Speaker 1: when it's really warm out too. Alright, Well, my thought

552
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:58,040
Speaker 1: is you've got a false ABS event going on. All right.

553
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:01,960
Speaker 1: The computer is seeing ear vehicle as you slow down,

554
00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:06,560
Speaker 1: and it's seeing one wheel de accelerate differently than the

555
00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:08,600
Speaker 1: other three, or maybe it's two wheels, you know, it's

556
00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:10,400
Speaker 1: it's hard to say until we start looking at it.

557
00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:13,400
Speaker 1: So it's see it's seeing a different rate of de

558
00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:18,000
Speaker 1: acceleration and it's saying, oh, wait minute, Doug's about to

559
00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:21,120
Speaker 1: have this left front or right front or rear wheel

560
00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:24,360
Speaker 1: lock up. Let me start pulsing the brakes to save them.

561
00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:28,120
Speaker 1: It's it's trying to help. Okay. Uh. Here's an example

562
00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:33,560
Speaker 1: where maybe maybe not likely, but maybe with a good

563
00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:36,720
Speaker 1: scan tool and put four sensors up and graph them,

564
00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:41,040
Speaker 1: a mechanic might see something. Chances are, no, chances are

565
00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:42,959
Speaker 1: this is gonna be a case where we're gonna attack

566
00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:46,040
Speaker 1: this using a lamp scope, some type of a scope,

567
00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:48,280
Speaker 1: and we need to put two censors up at a clip.

568
00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:50,160
Speaker 1: If we could put all four up at a clip

569
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Speaker 1: so that we can compare the wave and see, you know,

570
00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:56,920
Speaker 1: who's putting out a different signal than the other. Get

571
00:30:56,960 --> 00:31:00,400
Speaker 1: out to the road lamps, gop pooked up, stead straight stop,

572
00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:04,080
Speaker 1: how's the signal look good? Bad? Same? Different? You know,

573
00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:07,000
Speaker 1: and pick it up. That wont That won't happen unless

574
00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:11,000
Speaker 1: it work and unless it's doing it correct correct, But

575
00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:14,760
Speaker 1: with a lab scope. Keep in mind, sometimes the problems

576
00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:17,240
Speaker 1: are there, they just haven't gotten to the stage of

577
00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:21,280
Speaker 1: actual failure. So sometimes a lab scope will tell us

578
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:25,520
Speaker 1: things even when the vehicle feels normal. So it would

579
00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:28,120
Speaker 1: be a good logical first step. Actually, I'll take that back.

580
00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:30,520
Speaker 1: It would be a logical second step. First thing I

581
00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:33,720
Speaker 1: would do, since this is a new Hampshire vehicle and

582
00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:36,600
Speaker 1: I'm assuming a lot of winters and snow and slush

583
00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:38,600
Speaker 1: and corrosion. I put it up in the air, and

584
00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:40,640
Speaker 1: I look at the tone rings, and I look at

585
00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:43,880
Speaker 1: the sensors for any physical damage, rust, or anything that

586
00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:47,080
Speaker 1: might possibly change the gap between the censor and the

587
00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:50,400
Speaker 1: tone ring, because that change in air gap will change

588
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:53,239
Speaker 1: the amplitude or the signal strength, and that will put

589
00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:55,880
Speaker 1: the vehicle into a false or modified a B S

590
00:31:55,920 --> 00:32:00,080
Speaker 1: event as well. All right, could I disengage the d

591
00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:03,200
Speaker 1: S altogether? Um, you could do that for testing purposes,

592
00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:05,880
Speaker 1: but I don't advise it as a safety thing because obviously,

593
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:09,960
Speaker 1: you know, that's a that's an insurance company issue, and

594
00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:13,680
Speaker 1: that's a that's a life safe, life threatening fatality type

595
00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:15,360
Speaker 1: of an issue. And I don't encourage that at all.

596
00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:17,440
Speaker 1: So let's get it diagnosed and we can get it repaired.

597
00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:20,080
Speaker 1: I'd rather have you safe than uh, you know, unsafe.

598
00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:23,600
Speaker 1: Five zero nine zero zero. The car doctors coming back

599
00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:29,600
Speaker 1: right after this, Hey, Ronne in the car doctors, we

600
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:32,120
Speaker 1: wind down this hour, by the way, stick around next hour.

601
00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:35,479
Speaker 1: Uncle Steve First Lieutenant Stephen in Nanian takes off once

602
00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:37,400
Speaker 1: again here on the car, doctor as we talk about

603
00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:41,080
Speaker 1: well Memorial Day and um, well kind of coerce a

604
00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:43,440
Speaker 1: couple of good warst stories out of Uncle Steve and

605
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:46,160
Speaker 1: the things that um when I was a child, I

606
00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:48,240
Speaker 1: said on on his left and uh, I used to

607
00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:50,760
Speaker 1: listen to him regale about flying under the Eiffel Tower,

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00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:52,680
Speaker 1: which I still think he did, even though he won't

609
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Speaker 1: admit it. I've heard too many conflicting stories from too

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00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:57,600
Speaker 1: many other sources. UM. So anyway, that'll be coming up

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Speaker 1: at the top after the news at the top of

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Speaker 1: the hour, so will stick around. UM. Interesting article, boy,

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00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:04,680
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what you know. At first, you felt

614
00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:08,600
Speaker 1: bad for CEO Mark Fields from Ford. Ford's former CEO,

615
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:10,800
Speaker 1: Mark Field, just you know, he was fired. He was

616
00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:13,520
Speaker 1: let go because the stock price crashed. So the article

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00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:15,960
Speaker 1: states Mark Fields is leaving the company with an estimated

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Speaker 1: fifty one million dollars in cash, stock awards, and pension benefits.

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Speaker 1: Field fifty six retired earlier this week after three years.

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Speaker 1: After three years as CEO, Ford made record profits during

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Speaker 1: his tenure, but at stock price dropped nearly on investors

622
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Speaker 1: concerns about the company's future. Yeah, you know why the

623
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:36,960
Speaker 1: company has got no future because they just gave this

624
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:40,040
Speaker 1: guy fifty one million dollars to get out. I mean, well,

625
00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:43,400
Speaker 1: they can't see that Fields will be eligible for twenty

626
00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:45,800
Speaker 1: two million dollars in stock awards that are continuing to

627
00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:49,240
Speaker 1: invest in an estimated seventeen million and pension benefits. He

628
00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:52,080
Speaker 1: could earn a three point six million dollar bonus as

629
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Speaker 1: long as he's not hired by a competitor. I'm in

630
00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:58,680
Speaker 1: the wrong business. I mean, fifty one million dollars for

631
00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:03,000
Speaker 1: screwing up. This is like, I don't get it. I

632
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:05,280
Speaker 1: just you know. The other article here that kind of

633
00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:08,439
Speaker 1: caught my eye is BMW's recalling forty five thousand seven

634
00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:12,359
Speaker 1: series cars. The doors can fly open. So let's see,

635
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:15,520
Speaker 1: we've got flying cars with parts falling off them and

636
00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:18,400
Speaker 1: cars on the ground with doors flying open. I think

637
00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:21,319
Speaker 1: we need hard hats, body armor, and in general we're

638
00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:22,719
Speaker 1: just gonna be in a lot of trouble just trying

639
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Speaker 1: to get around bm doubles. You're calling more than older

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Speaker 1: seven serious cars in the US because the doors can

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Speaker 1: open unexpectedly while they're being driven. The recall covers certain

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Speaker 1: seven forty five blah blah blah blah. BMW says the

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Speaker 1: doors might appear to be closed, but can inadvertently open

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Speaker 1: because of road conditions, are occupant contact within the door.

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Speaker 1: So guess what, after all these years of making cars,

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Speaker 1: we now can't keep the doors shut. Yeah. I got

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Speaker 1: a lot of faith in flying cars. Holding tow anyway,

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Speaker 1: it's been a great hour. I've enjoyed being here with

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Speaker 1: each and every one of you, and I hope you

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Speaker 1: stick around for the second hour. Until then, I'm on

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Speaker 1: a naming the car doctor, reminding you good mechanics aren't expensive,

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Speaker 1: they're priceless. Let's see it, everyone, come along. She was

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Speaker 1: chi