1 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:06,240 Speaker 1: Ron An Aian. You know what I always tell you guys, 2 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:08,719 Speaker 1: you gotta stop feeling yourself right. You've got to stop 3 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:18,560 Speaker 1: it feels this way, and I'm guilty of it, the 4 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:19,360 Speaker 1: car Doctor. 5 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:21,560 Speaker 2: You're gonna tell me to do that, Yeah, you know, 6 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:23,759 Speaker 2: tell me to put a SIDEMARKT Molle in somewhere. 7 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:26,440 Speaker 1: I do this because you know what, you know, I'm 8 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:28,200 Speaker 1: trying to give you the poor man's scan tool. He 9 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:29,200 Speaker 1: pardon the expression. 10 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:32,960 Speaker 2: Welcome to the radio home of ron Anian the Car Doctor. 11 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:36,360 Speaker 2: Since nineteen ninety one, this is where car owners the 12 00:00:36,400 --> 00:00:40,680 Speaker 2: world overturned to for their definitive opinion on automotive repair. 13 00:00:41,159 --> 00:00:43,960 Speaker 2: If your mechanics giving you a busy signal, pick up 14 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:47,120 Speaker 2: the phone and call in. The garage doors. 15 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:48,920 Speaker 1: Are opening, but I am here to take your call 16 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:51,880 Speaker 1: at eighty five five five six ninety nine hundred and. 17 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:52,760 Speaker 3: Now he. 18 00:00:55,360 --> 00:00:55,680 Speaker 2: Running. 19 00:00:56,520 --> 00:01:01,840 Speaker 1: There was a recent article this weekend on Foxnews foxnews 20 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:04,240 Speaker 1: dot com I think it was or the Fox website, 21 00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:06,600 Speaker 1: and there was a lifestyle piece and was talking about 22 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:09,080 Speaker 1: what would the older self tell the younger self? What 23 00:01:09,160 --> 00:01:10,800 Speaker 1: sort of message would you give to yourself if you 24 00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:13,560 Speaker 1: were thirty years younger? And I thought about that and 25 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:16,200 Speaker 1: I started reflecting on that and saying, you know, what 26 00:01:16,319 --> 00:01:18,760 Speaker 1: changes would I make, you know, personally and professionally in 27 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:21,640 Speaker 1: my business career. You know, how would I change and 28 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:23,959 Speaker 1: how would I approach things? And a lot of the 29 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:26,160 Speaker 1: things they have listed in that article sort of hit 30 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:29,160 Speaker 1: the tone right. It's be more confident, take a little more, 31 00:01:29,319 --> 00:01:32,240 Speaker 1: take some more vacations, save a little bit more money, 32 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:34,280 Speaker 1: spend more time with family. All the things we all 33 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:37,640 Speaker 1: yearn and earn and crave to do, and somehow we 34 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:41,720 Speaker 1: never get around to doing it. I think that applies 35 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:45,319 Speaker 1: to auto repair at a super high level, because you know, 36 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:47,760 Speaker 1: auto repair is a very stressful career. It really is. 37 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:50,520 Speaker 1: There's a lot going on. You're responsible for a lot. 38 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:54,280 Speaker 1: You know, you're constantly going back and getting updated and educated. 39 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:55,120 Speaker 4: You know. 40 00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:57,480 Speaker 1: I spoke to a customer at the counter two weeks ago. 41 00:01:57,560 --> 00:02:01,160 Speaker 1: I was taking night class to nights that week and 42 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:03,640 Speaker 1: they were like, you know, I'm so happy and surprised 43 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:05,600 Speaker 1: at the same time to see that you're still going 44 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:08,480 Speaker 1: to class. And I said, well, I'm still fixing cars. 45 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:11,400 Speaker 1: I still need to go to class. Why wouldn't I 46 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:13,440 Speaker 1: You know, it doesn't it doesn't change. You get to 47 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:15,880 Speaker 1: a certain agent. It just falls off the end of 48 00:02:15,880 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 1: the chart that you know, you don't need to take 49 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:22,040 Speaker 1: class anymore. Believe me, there's always something changing evolving moving 50 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:24,800 Speaker 1: on in the approach. I think otherwise you're you know, 51 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:27,520 Speaker 1: you can't run the business. You can't run an order 52 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:29,600 Speaker 1: repair business the way you ran it. But you know 53 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:31,960 Speaker 1: a year ago, five years ago, ten years ago, you can. 54 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:35,240 Speaker 1: But you're not going to be successful, happy and produce 55 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:38,160 Speaker 1: positive results on as large as scale as you possibly could. 56 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:39,720 Speaker 1: And that's what it's all about, right, It's about an 57 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:43,480 Speaker 1: efficiency level and making it all work and come around 58 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:46,000 Speaker 1: full circle. Because there's always that bump in the road. 59 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:49,079 Speaker 1: There's always that that rock that kind of falls into 60 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:50,960 Speaker 1: the into the path that you have to sort of 61 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:54,760 Speaker 1: steer around. I had a customer fight his way in 62 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:57,600 Speaker 1: the door this week, literally, and I wasn't going to 63 00:02:57,639 --> 00:02:58,919 Speaker 1: tell you this story, but I'm going to tell you 64 00:02:58,960 --> 00:03:00,519 Speaker 1: because I think it. I think it's that's a tone. 65 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:03,200 Speaker 1: I think it makes an example that you know, there's 66 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:05,800 Speaker 1: a there's there's a there's a method to the madness 67 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 1: in most repair shops. I know, there isn't mind someone 68 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:11,639 Speaker 1: you know, if you call the shop during the week 69 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:13,400 Speaker 1: and right now we're real busy and I'm trying to 70 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:15,920 Speaker 1: stay off the phone and trying to just you know, 71 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:18,960 Speaker 1: sort things out. Who are the who are the tire kickers, frankly, 72 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:21,000 Speaker 1: and who really wants to get their car fixed? Because 73 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:24,200 Speaker 1: we don't have time for nonsense. We're too busy. And 74 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:26,240 Speaker 1: you know, the message is simple. It says, hey, you've 75 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:28,760 Speaker 1: reached the shop. You know, we're We're got a lot 76 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:30,400 Speaker 1: of cars in the shop today. We're not here to 77 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:32,720 Speaker 1: you know, we can't answer the phone on a full 78 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:34,960 Speaker 1: time basis right now. And it's it's for a lot 79 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:37,080 Speaker 1: of reasons. And you know, if you want us, you know, 80 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:39,040 Speaker 1: send us an email and I give you the email address. 81 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:40,840 Speaker 1: If you're a regular customer and you've got the shop 82 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:42,800 Speaker 1: text number, please use it and you know we'll get 83 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:44,160 Speaker 1: right back to you. And that kind of thing. We're 84 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:47,960 Speaker 1: just trying to maximize time, maximize efficiency, be proficient at 85 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:51,280 Speaker 1: what we do. I had somebody, and part of it is, 86 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:52,480 Speaker 1: I have to admit to you, part of it is 87 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:53,680 Speaker 1: I want to see how smart you are. I want 88 00:03:53,720 --> 00:03:55,920 Speaker 1: to see how well you can follow directions. If I 89 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:58,560 Speaker 1: tell you this is the procedure for contacting us. Then 90 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:01,080 Speaker 1: you kind of got to reach that right That's the 91 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:03,760 Speaker 1: way I choose to run business right now. And if 92 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:05,880 Speaker 1: I'm asking you to email me with questions, if I'm 93 00:04:05,880 --> 00:04:08,360 Speaker 1: asking you to text me with questions or leave a message, 94 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:10,080 Speaker 1: that's what I want you to do. Don't call the 95 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:12,840 Speaker 1: shop seven times thinking that the machine's going to change. 96 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:14,640 Speaker 1: You know, I would think after the second or third time, 97 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:16,880 Speaker 1: he would realize, Hey, you know, I gesee, he wants 98 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:20,120 Speaker 1: us to do it this way. Someone was smart enough. 99 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:23,200 Speaker 1: They were initially they got it. They they sent me 100 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:25,720 Speaker 1: an email right away, They listened to the message once, 101 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:28,760 Speaker 1: they sent me an email once and off to the 102 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:31,320 Speaker 1: races we were. It was for a twenty year old 103 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:35,839 Speaker 1: vehicle that had a whining sound in it, and I, 104 00:04:36,279 --> 00:04:40,400 Speaker 1: you know, it was short on time. Hey, when can 105 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 1: you look at this? 106 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 5: And he was. 107 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:43,640 Speaker 1: He was a retired mechanic. And I got to tell 108 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:46,240 Speaker 1: you some of the retired mechanics are the worst. You know, 109 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:47,840 Speaker 1: the minute I hear while I used to fix cars, 110 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:50,280 Speaker 1: The minute I hear I used to fix cars, you know, 111 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:52,080 Speaker 1: in the back of my mind, I go, yeah, how 112 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:54,360 Speaker 1: long ago? Because I used to fix cars, maybe five 113 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:57,279 Speaker 1: minutes ago qualifies for a conversation. He used to fix 114 00:04:57,360 --> 00:04:59,760 Speaker 1: cars fifteen years ago. You might as well tell me 115 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:04,400 Speaker 1: that you put together a horse and buggy carriages back 116 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:07,000 Speaker 1: in the seventeen hundreds, because that's how much things have changed. 117 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:10,919 Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. There's no relevance to what goes on today. 118 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:13,960 Speaker 1: He then proceeded to tell me how he had scanned 119 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:16,040 Speaker 1: the car. He didn't tell me until later on in 120 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:18,760 Speaker 1: our conversations that it was twenty thousand miles ago. That's 121 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:21,040 Speaker 1: like saying I got my blood pressure checked two years ago. 122 00:05:21,279 --> 00:05:22,840 Speaker 1: It was good. Why do I have to go now? 123 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:26,440 Speaker 1: But the gist of it was, I listened to the car. 124 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:29,159 Speaker 1: I looked at the car real quick form, and then 125 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:31,520 Speaker 1: we had conversation about how to proceed, and I explained, 126 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:33,960 Speaker 1: you know, normally, when I get a vehicle in, I 127 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:37,720 Speaker 1: like to do a thorough lookover a two page list. 128 00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:40,240 Speaker 1: It's about one hundred and sixty five bucks, and then 129 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:42,320 Speaker 1: we can address his concern about another half hour, so 130 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:45,080 Speaker 1: you'll be about two hundred and fifty dollars in to 131 00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:48,680 Speaker 1: address this particular problem, and you know, give you a baseline, 132 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:50,360 Speaker 1: a starting point of what kind of shape is that 133 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:52,599 Speaker 1: vehicle in? Because I think that's important. I think that's 134 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:55,640 Speaker 1: real important. You know, you don't go to any doctor 135 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:57,600 Speaker 1: that I know of where they just focus on your 136 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:00,000 Speaker 1: broken leg. They take your heart rate, your blood pressure, 137 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:01,760 Speaker 1: or they weigh you. They ask you the same general 138 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:05,320 Speaker 1: medical questions you know that they always ask because they're 139 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:08,240 Speaker 1: concerned about the overall product. Well saw mine. I think 140 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:11,280 Speaker 1: a lot of other repair shops are too. And I've 141 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:14,120 Speaker 1: learned from time that the repair shop that doesn't ask 142 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:17,479 Speaker 1: these questions, that doesn't go through and do the things 143 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:20,440 Speaker 1: that you would look at and you know, verify suspension, 144 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:23,240 Speaker 1: good rusting parts, bad breaks, et cetera, whatever it is, 145 00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:25,560 Speaker 1: you end up boxing yourself in a hole. 146 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:28,120 Speaker 6: He didn't like that. 147 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:30,960 Speaker 1: I you know, and I thought about that when I 148 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:33,600 Speaker 1: was reading the Fox News story this morning. What would 149 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:35,440 Speaker 1: the would my younger self tell me to do? My 150 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:37,400 Speaker 1: younger self would tell me to do exactly what I did. 151 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:39,000 Speaker 1: I sent them back an email and I said, you 152 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:42,080 Speaker 1: know what, I don't think it's right that you don't 153 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:44,920 Speaker 1: want to get a diagnosis. The short version of it, 154 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:48,880 Speaker 1: I said, I think it's very important that you know, 155 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:51,280 Speaker 1: you let somebody look at overall, but if you just 156 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:53,599 Speaker 1: want to get the whining fixed. I said, I really 157 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:57,000 Speaker 1: believe it's in the transmission. All my research and information 158 00:06:57,120 --> 00:06:59,599 Speaker 1: and everything that I went and read on my time 159 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:01,560 Speaker 1: tells me that that's what it is. So if you 160 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:03,360 Speaker 1: want to save some money, called the local trans shop. 161 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:06,239 Speaker 1: I gave him the number, and I guess, in essence, 162 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:10,080 Speaker 1: I chose not to work on his car, And I 163 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:12,280 Speaker 1: think that's within the mechanic's right. I think a mechanic 164 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:14,440 Speaker 1: has the right not to have to work on everything. 165 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:19,040 Speaker 1: I think the conversation is respectfully declined because the mistake 166 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:21,640 Speaker 1: that other people are making is the mistake that maybe 167 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:25,480 Speaker 1: you're making, is you're trying to run the show. You 168 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:27,840 Speaker 1: can't run the show. And if you're at a mechanic 169 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:29,920 Speaker 1: shop where you feel like you have to run the show, 170 00:07:30,080 --> 00:07:33,760 Speaker 1: you've got to ask yourself, why do you have doubts 171 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:36,119 Speaker 1: about the competency of that mechanic? Do you have doubts 172 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:39,960 Speaker 1: about the competency of that shop? And that's a big 173 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:43,040 Speaker 1: thing nowadays. It's no secret, right it's getting harder and 174 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:46,040 Speaker 1: harder to find a competent mechanic, a reliable person. Heck, 175 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:49,080 Speaker 1: it's getting harder and harder to find somebody reliable to 176 00:07:49,320 --> 00:07:53,040 Speaker 1: bad groceries, to deliver pizza to you know, do some 177 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:58,000 Speaker 1: of the basic simple tasks society needs. Now we put 178 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:00,440 Speaker 1: you know, the guy in charge of two tons of 179 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:03,080 Speaker 1: electronics that rolled down the highway at seventy miles an 180 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:05,880 Speaker 1: hour and go through all kinds of weather and environmental conditions. 181 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:07,040 Speaker 1: And now we're going to start to tell him how 182 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:10,400 Speaker 1: to maintain that thing that he's been trying to learn 183 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:13,040 Speaker 1: and maintain for the past I don't know, five, ten, fifteen, 184 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:17,280 Speaker 1: twenty thirty years. You know that article about what would 185 00:08:17,280 --> 00:08:20,720 Speaker 1: you tell your younger self? It would be about what 186 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:24,320 Speaker 1: you learn as you get older, you know, have more confidence, 187 00:08:24,920 --> 00:08:29,400 Speaker 1: be yourself, do your job, pay attention to detail, because 188 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:31,200 Speaker 1: those are all the things you'll learn with age. And 189 00:08:31,240 --> 00:08:34,000 Speaker 1: I think with age comes wisdom, and wisdom brings you 190 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:37,040 Speaker 1: the ability to know you know what, I respectfully decline, 191 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:38,800 Speaker 1: I haven't gotten an answer back yet. I did write 192 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:40,440 Speaker 1: him a nice email. I haven't gotten answer back yet. 193 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:41,960 Speaker 1: I don't know if the car is still coming Wednesday. 194 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:43,599 Speaker 1: I'll have to explain it to him that, Hey, I 195 00:08:43,640 --> 00:08:46,400 Speaker 1: sent you an email, didn't you see it? But you know, 196 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:50,040 Speaker 1: it's just funny. I've never had that experience for somebody 197 00:08:50,120 --> 00:08:51,480 Speaker 1: fought to get in the door, and then when they 198 00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:53,160 Speaker 1: got in the door, and I told them, Hey, this 199 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:54,240 Speaker 1: is how we're going to do it. And I gave 200 00:08:54,320 --> 00:08:55,640 Speaker 1: him all the reasons why that I don't want to 201 00:08:55,640 --> 00:08:57,480 Speaker 1: bore you guys with We've only got a two hour 202 00:08:57,520 --> 00:09:00,640 Speaker 1: show today. He just kind of glossed past that. He 203 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:03,160 Speaker 1: just seemed to know best. But I guess that's because 204 00:09:03,160 --> 00:09:06,680 Speaker 1: he was a mechanic fifteen years ago, and that's just 205 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:08,640 Speaker 1: the way it works. The phone number here is eight 206 00:09:08,679 --> 00:09:10,959 Speaker 1: five five five six zero nine nine zero zero. That 207 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:13,120 Speaker 1: phone number is twenty four to seven. I did get 208 00:09:13,120 --> 00:09:15,400 Speaker 1: a few requests. I don't know if there were a requests, 209 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:20,160 Speaker 1: but conversations about calling back or you know, if you 210 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:22,960 Speaker 1: want to be part of the midweek taping and you 211 00:09:23,040 --> 00:09:26,040 Speaker 1: call eight five five five six zero nine nine zero zero, 212 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:27,640 Speaker 1: tell me that in your message. Hey, Ron, I want 213 00:09:27,640 --> 00:09:29,280 Speaker 1: to be part of the mid mid week taping. Please 214 00:09:29,320 --> 00:09:32,280 Speaker 1: call me Wednesday night because we're calling you back. We're 215 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:34,480 Speaker 1: doing a Wednesday night seven am or so, I'm sorry, 216 00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:39,080 Speaker 1: Wednesday night seven pm Eastern time phone conversation thing where 217 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:40,640 Speaker 1: we'll call you back and get you in the queue 218 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:42,679 Speaker 1: and this who we can record the conversation, put it 219 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:44,439 Speaker 1: up here on air, and then everybody benefits. I'm just 220 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:46,960 Speaker 1: trying to give you more access to me, and you 221 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:49,120 Speaker 1: know more, everybody gets more information, because that's what this 222 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:52,120 Speaker 1: radio show really is all about. So eight five five 223 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:54,800 Speaker 1: five six zero nine nine zero zero is the phone number. 224 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:56,400 Speaker 1: I'm running India in the car, doctor, and I'll be 225 00:09:56,440 --> 00:09:58,720 Speaker 1: back right after this to kick the garage doors wide open. 226 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:12,640 Speaker 6: Don't go away. 227 00:10:13,800 --> 00:10:16,240 Speaker 1: Need advice on how to maintain that classic gt O. 228 00:10:16,679 --> 00:10:19,360 Speaker 4: Ron is the guy A five five five six zero 229 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:20,720 Speaker 4: nine nine zero zero. 230 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:24,440 Speaker 1: Here's Ron. Hey, let's get over and talk to uh. 231 00:10:24,520 --> 00:10:26,959 Speaker 1: Let's go to poll in New Hampshire and see what's 232 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:28,800 Speaker 1: going on up here. Polled into the card doctor, sir, 233 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:29,320 Speaker 1: how can I help? 234 00:10:30,559 --> 00:10:31,080 Speaker 5: Hey? Ron? 235 00:10:31,160 --> 00:10:32,600 Speaker 4: Ron, thank you for taking my call. 236 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:33,120 Speaker 1: Welcome. 237 00:10:34,160 --> 00:10:39,800 Speaker 4: I'm betwixt in between. I never thought i'd be thinking 238 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:44,120 Speaker 4: about an electric vehicle, but I'd like your information on 239 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:48,840 Speaker 4: a electric gas powered vehicle. 240 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:52,600 Speaker 1: You mean much about you mean a hybrid? 241 00:10:54,360 --> 00:10:57,160 Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's that's what I figured. The hybrid. And 242 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:01,960 Speaker 4: what manufacturer do you think is as overall dependability would 243 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:03,160 Speaker 4: be a good choice? 244 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:06,720 Speaker 1: Toyota. I think I think I think Toyota's got the 245 00:11:06,760 --> 00:11:09,160 Speaker 1: market on hybrids. I really do. I think they're well 246 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:12,560 Speaker 1: thought out. I think that they're over engineered, which is 247 00:11:12,559 --> 00:11:15,520 Speaker 1: a good thing. You know, what kind of vehicle were 248 00:11:15,559 --> 00:11:16,880 Speaker 1: you thinking about, Paul. 249 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:21,559 Speaker 4: Well, like I said, my vehicles right now, it's a 250 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:25,480 Speaker 4: ninety three toota Tursell and the two thousand and six 251 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:28,480 Speaker 4: Ford F three fifty. So I've been away from the 252 00:11:28,640 --> 00:11:32,600 Speaker 4: new vehicle market for a lot of years, and I 253 00:11:32,679 --> 00:11:36,920 Speaker 4: just figure I might outlive the usefulness of at least 254 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:39,760 Speaker 4: the Toyota. It's getting hard to get parts and things 255 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:41,880 Speaker 4: for it. I mean I put one hundred and fifty 256 00:11:41,960 --> 00:11:45,160 Speaker 4: or two hundred dollars plus a year in it just 257 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:48,439 Speaker 4: to keep it up and running, right, But you can 258 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:50,160 Speaker 4: only keep a dinosaur running so long. 259 00:11:51,160 --> 00:11:55,400 Speaker 1: Right, Well, you're hundred dollars a year, you're getting away cheap. 260 00:11:56,160 --> 00:11:59,120 Speaker 1: National national average has two grand a year, is more 261 00:11:59,200 --> 00:12:01,400 Speaker 1: like the number on an all car. But when you 262 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:03,880 Speaker 1: when you consider what lease payments or car payments are 263 00:12:03,960 --> 00:12:06,280 Speaker 1: versus you know, and then initial pay out two thousand 264 00:12:06,320 --> 00:12:08,560 Speaker 1: of years really not a lot of money either, So 265 00:12:09,240 --> 00:12:11,880 Speaker 1: you know, I get it. I think the answer to 266 00:12:11,880 --> 00:12:14,040 Speaker 1: the question is, you know, there's well, there's a couple 267 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:15,480 Speaker 1: of things I've got to look at and talk to 268 00:12:15,520 --> 00:12:18,080 Speaker 1: you about. You know, who works on this, who's going 269 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:19,800 Speaker 1: to work on whatever? This new vehicle? Is? 270 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:20,120 Speaker 4: You? 271 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:24,520 Speaker 1: Your local garage, the dealer, you know where where you're located. 272 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:28,400 Speaker 1: Is there enough population per se? The dealership will be 273 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:31,440 Speaker 1: around a while. The independent shop has the technology and 274 00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:33,800 Speaker 1: the cost factors under control. You know, that's a and 275 00:12:33,840 --> 00:12:36,400 Speaker 1: that's a question for them and for yourself. Who works 276 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:37,320 Speaker 1: on your stuff? Now? 277 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:42,640 Speaker 4: Fortunately I have the ability to do the work myself, 278 00:12:42,679 --> 00:12:45,280 Speaker 4: so it's parts, so it's a lot cheaper than having 279 00:12:45,320 --> 00:12:47,760 Speaker 4: it taken out and having somebody to do it. But 280 00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:51,200 Speaker 4: the newer cars, I'm far enough away from it. I 281 00:12:51,240 --> 00:12:53,920 Speaker 4: agree with you. I'm in a horse and buggy age 282 00:12:53,920 --> 00:12:57,000 Speaker 4: even if it was ten years ago, and I figure 283 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:00,160 Speaker 4: it'd be a dealer, you know, takes the dealer and 284 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:01,840 Speaker 4: let them take care of it from then on. 285 00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:06,680 Speaker 1: Right. So, if if you're really that remote and you 286 00:13:06,760 --> 00:13:09,680 Speaker 1: want to try and do more of this than you can, 287 00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:12,360 Speaker 1: or as much of this as you can, then I'm 288 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:14,200 Speaker 1: want to tell you to buy another gas powered vehicle. 289 00:13:14,760 --> 00:13:18,240 Speaker 1: They generally are simpler. You know, the technology is there, 290 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:21,000 Speaker 1: but not per se as it is in a hybrid. Plus, 291 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:22,760 Speaker 1: if you touch the wrong thing in a hybrid doing 292 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:24,960 Speaker 1: some basic service that you might be encouraged to do 293 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:27,440 Speaker 1: or think you can do, you touch the wrong you 294 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:30,240 Speaker 1: touch the wrong thing, it'll kill you, you know, I 295 00:13:31,280 --> 00:13:31,480 Speaker 1: you know. 296 00:13:33,240 --> 00:13:35,280 Speaker 4: I mean, this is a ninety three vehicle that I've 297 00:13:35,280 --> 00:13:38,480 Speaker 4: been taken care of, and I have enough knowledge to 298 00:13:38,559 --> 00:13:41,640 Speaker 4: know that the newer vehicles I'd have to rely on 299 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:44,079 Speaker 4: somebody that's up to date onto it. So I would 300 00:13:44,080 --> 00:13:46,520 Speaker 4: probably take it either to a place like your place, 301 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:50,080 Speaker 4: or to add back to the dealer. Other than maybe 302 00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:52,840 Speaker 4: change in a flat tire or something. I think i'd 303 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:56,240 Speaker 4: rely on somebody with a lot more no how and 304 00:13:56,720 --> 00:13:59,000 Speaker 4: an up to date education on how to deal with 305 00:13:59,040 --> 00:14:02,920 Speaker 4: these things, because you know it's Greek to me, right, yeah, and. 306 00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:05,480 Speaker 1: It's and listen by the same token, does it need 307 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:08,559 Speaker 1: to be a brand new vehicle? You know your age 308 00:14:08,559 --> 00:14:10,960 Speaker 1: comes into this as a factor too. How old are you? 309 00:14:10,960 --> 00:14:13,080 Speaker 4: Paul seventy four? 310 00:14:13,240 --> 00:14:16,280 Speaker 1: Okay, so you think you'll drive another ten years, fifteen years? 311 00:14:16,679 --> 00:14:17,240 Speaker 1: God willing? 312 00:14:17,880 --> 00:14:21,240 Speaker 4: Well, God will and I hope. So, yeah, I don't 313 00:14:21,240 --> 00:14:23,120 Speaker 4: have a problem with it. You know, a year or 314 00:14:23,160 --> 00:14:26,760 Speaker 4: two or three year old car. But I'm just out 315 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:31,160 Speaker 4: of the touch with the gas powered electric powered vehicles 316 00:14:31,160 --> 00:14:34,840 Speaker 4: that I don't know. And you said Toyota, so I 317 00:14:34,880 --> 00:14:36,400 Speaker 4: guess that's the way to go. 318 00:14:36,480 --> 00:14:40,920 Speaker 1: But you know, I think Toyota's well, I think Toyota's 319 00:14:40,920 --> 00:14:44,280 Speaker 1: got the market as far as engineering and quality. You know, 320 00:14:44,360 --> 00:14:46,840 Speaker 1: are we talking a Prius. A Prius, to me is 321 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:49,040 Speaker 1: one of the most over engineered cars on the planet. 322 00:14:49,680 --> 00:14:51,920 Speaker 1: You know, we we hardly do anything to them for 323 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:55,360 Speaker 1: the first one hundred thousand miles. Frankly, it's it's it's 324 00:14:55,400 --> 00:14:59,000 Speaker 1: fluids and filters and changes and maybe a starting battery. 325 00:14:59,640 --> 00:15:01,520 Speaker 1: The rest of the vehicles like a bullet. It's just 326 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:02,360 Speaker 1: that reliable. 327 00:15:02,960 --> 00:15:03,160 Speaker 5: You know. 328 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:06,480 Speaker 1: You might do front brakes, you're gonna do tires. I 329 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:08,840 Speaker 1: don't think we've ever put rear brakes on a Toyota Prius, 330 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:10,640 Speaker 1: and all this time in the shop and we've got 331 00:15:10,680 --> 00:15:12,840 Speaker 1: them with two hundred thousand miles and they just they 332 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:15,680 Speaker 1: just don't wear out. You know. I think we've done 333 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:19,880 Speaker 1: one exhaust system, you know, again, a higher mileage Prius. 334 00:15:19,880 --> 00:15:22,120 Speaker 1: It's just it's just it's just a really well made, 335 00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:26,000 Speaker 1: well built car. Now, are you talking a hybrid vehicle 336 00:15:26,160 --> 00:15:29,600 Speaker 1: like a fore erunner, a pickup truck, something else that's 337 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:32,600 Speaker 1: bigger and heavier. That's I think that's a different conversation 338 00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:35,800 Speaker 1: because you got to realize as they get heavier and bigger, 339 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:39,320 Speaker 1: there's more load, and it's more taxing on that drive train, 340 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:43,040 Speaker 1: that hybrid gas power train, and I think there's other 341 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:48,680 Speaker 1: factors that come into play, you know, So it depends 342 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:51,560 Speaker 1: what we're after. I also encourage you take a look 343 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:54,000 Speaker 1: at what you know. If you're buying a let's let's 344 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:56,600 Speaker 1: make it a camera, because it's an easy comparison. If 345 00:15:56,600 --> 00:15:59,600 Speaker 1: you're buying a hybrid camera versus a gas powered camera, 346 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:04,600 Speaker 1: what's the cost difference? All right? And you know which 347 00:16:04,640 --> 00:16:07,560 Speaker 1: one is going to be more of a brick, more reliable, 348 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:11,240 Speaker 1: simpler to maintain, you know, I always tell everybody, you know, 349 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:13,560 Speaker 1: buying a house is like looking at or buying a 350 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:15,360 Speaker 1: car is like looking at the roof on your house. 351 00:16:16,040 --> 00:16:18,800 Speaker 1: A black asphalt shingle roof is fairly simple and easy 352 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:20,640 Speaker 1: to work on, and more people can work on it, 353 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:23,080 Speaker 1: and there are more people are trained in it. You 354 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:25,600 Speaker 1: buy a house with a brass or a copper plated roof, 355 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:27,360 Speaker 1: it's a little bit of a specialty. You got to 356 00:16:27,360 --> 00:16:29,400 Speaker 1: find the right guy to take care of it. And 357 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:32,760 Speaker 1: there's a little bit more technology to that. So you know, 358 00:16:32,840 --> 00:16:35,880 Speaker 1: I'm not saying no, I'm just saying, A, do you 359 00:16:35,960 --> 00:16:39,000 Speaker 1: have the need? B Are you willing to put up 360 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:41,480 Speaker 1: with any of the issues with servicing it? Because you 361 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:43,520 Speaker 1: sound to me like you're still deep in your heart 362 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:46,320 Speaker 1: a service at yourself kind of guy. You know, you 363 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:49,400 Speaker 1: buy a gas powered Camra, you'll be able to service 364 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:51,840 Speaker 1: that just like you would you're ninety three. You'll be 365 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:53,240 Speaker 1: able to take care of that and change you in 366 00:16:53,440 --> 00:16:55,800 Speaker 1: that just like you're ninety three. You know. So I 367 00:16:56,160 --> 00:17:00,160 Speaker 1: don't think that's an issue. You know, it's it's you know, 368 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:02,360 Speaker 1: there's just a bunch of factors to consider. To me, 369 00:17:02,440 --> 00:17:07,560 Speaker 1: it's cost, it's insurance, it's resale, it's you know, what 370 00:17:07,600 --> 00:17:09,240 Speaker 1: am I going to do with the other two vehicles? 371 00:17:09,920 --> 00:17:12,640 Speaker 1: And right now heading into a recession just to take 372 00:17:12,640 --> 00:17:15,760 Speaker 1: it the opposite direction, right now, heading it into a recession. 373 00:17:16,280 --> 00:17:17,520 Speaker 1: You know, when you get out there and you see 374 00:17:17,520 --> 00:17:18,959 Speaker 1: the price, I don't know if you have looked at 375 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:21,080 Speaker 1: the price of a new vehicle when you find out 376 00:17:21,119 --> 00:17:22,840 Speaker 1: it's you know, forty to fifty grand to buy a 377 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:26,639 Speaker 1: replacement vehicle on just about anything today. You know what, 378 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:29,119 Speaker 1: that oldtra selling that four pickup might go in another two 379 00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:30,560 Speaker 1: years and it's starting to look pretty good. 380 00:17:32,080 --> 00:17:36,440 Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah. My problem is I just don't know what's 381 00:17:36,480 --> 00:17:40,360 Speaker 4: going on with the economy and everything. I definitely I'm 382 00:17:40,359 --> 00:17:44,480 Speaker 4: not looking for a big vehicle, just basically transportation. I 383 00:17:44,520 --> 00:17:47,679 Speaker 4: would say ninety nine percent of my driving is probably 384 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:50,119 Speaker 4: within the fifteen to twenty miles. That's why I was 385 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:53,840 Speaker 4: thinking of a hybrid that you know, use it on 386 00:17:53,960 --> 00:17:56,200 Speaker 4: electric and when you need to gas, have the gas. 387 00:17:56,960 --> 00:17:59,080 Speaker 1: And that's not and that's not a bad idea again, 388 00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:01,080 Speaker 1: as long as all the other cost factors and all 389 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:04,080 Speaker 1: the other economic factors you know, come into play. But 390 00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:05,720 Speaker 1: I think you've got to go out and sit in 391 00:18:05,720 --> 00:18:07,639 Speaker 1: a few things and drive a few things, Paul. I 392 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:10,679 Speaker 1: think there's going to be some technology shock to you 393 00:18:10,760 --> 00:18:13,159 Speaker 1: driving the other two vehicles all these years. So have 394 00:18:13,280 --> 00:18:15,240 Speaker 1: that it. Go take some road tests and give us 395 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:16,760 Speaker 1: a call back. Let's let us know what you end 396 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:19,000 Speaker 1: up driving and buying. I'm running ay in the car, doctor, 397 00:18:19,040 --> 00:18:20,159 Speaker 1: I'll be back right after this. 398 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:27,080 Speaker 4: Ron's in his own the auto Zone Studio and he'll 399 00:18:27,119 --> 00:18:28,360 Speaker 4: be back right after this. 400 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:44,720 Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Auto Zone Studio. Here's Ron. Hey, 401 00:18:44,800 --> 00:18:46,960 Speaker 1: let's get on over to Mike and Maine and see 402 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:49,320 Speaker 1: what's going on with his seventeen Volkswagen. Mike, Welcome to 403 00:18:49,359 --> 00:18:50,800 Speaker 1: the car Doctor. How can I help? 404 00:18:52,119 --> 00:18:54,560 Speaker 5: Hi? Ron, listened to you a long time since you well, 405 00:18:54,640 --> 00:18:57,120 Speaker 5: you used to be on WR New York. I'm from 406 00:18:57,600 --> 00:19:00,600 Speaker 5: I'd like a Delaware water gap house up here. Anyway, 407 00:19:00,880 --> 00:19:04,920 Speaker 5: I changed the rear brakes on my seventeen Volkswagen Jetta 408 00:19:05,040 --> 00:19:08,200 Speaker 5: and I bought all new parts. I went to that 409 00:19:08,359 --> 00:19:12,320 Speaker 5: but I got their ultra premium rotors and calipers and pads. 410 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:15,920 Speaker 5: And after I got finished, I bleed everything out and 411 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:19,560 Speaker 5: the pedal wasn't like normal. It like went down halfway 412 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:22,720 Speaker 5: or a little bit better than halfway, but the brakes grabbed, 413 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:25,520 Speaker 5: and I'm wondering what that could be. And I went 414 00:19:25,560 --> 00:19:28,680 Speaker 5: to my local because I did some research on YouTube, 415 00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:32,119 Speaker 5: and they said that I could have got air in 416 00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:35,920 Speaker 5: the ABS system and I needed a test, you. 417 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:37,359 Speaker 1: Know of scantle. 418 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:40,239 Speaker 5: I think some equipment to pulse the motors that are 419 00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:43,280 Speaker 5: in here that that dude the breaks And I was 420 00:19:43,320 --> 00:19:47,639 Speaker 5: wondering what else could I have done? You know, because 421 00:19:47,640 --> 00:19:49,840 Speaker 5: I'm seventy two years old and I've changed a lot 422 00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:52,920 Speaker 5: of brakes on. I've had bolkswagens for the last forty years, 423 00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:55,680 Speaker 5: and I have all the tools and everything to work 424 00:19:55,720 --> 00:19:58,560 Speaker 5: on them. And I don't mess around when I'm into breaks. 425 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:00,800 Speaker 5: I just change everything out. Just wonder if you have 426 00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:01,720 Speaker 5: any suggestions. 427 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:04,639 Speaker 1: Yeah, is this so the rear brake set up? Is 428 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:10,040 Speaker 1: it a cable setup or an electric parking brake cable? Okay? 429 00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:12,520 Speaker 1: So when you were done doing the doing the repair, 430 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:14,679 Speaker 1: did you happen to cycle the parking break on and 431 00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:16,400 Speaker 1: make sure that both rear wheels lock? 432 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:17,920 Speaker 5: Yes? 433 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:19,360 Speaker 1: I did, all right, and they both lock. 434 00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:22,560 Speaker 5: They both locked, okay, and. 435 00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:25,600 Speaker 1: Parking brakes adjusted properly. I you know you you pull 436 00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:29,720 Speaker 1: it way, you three four clicks and they're locked on. Yes, okay, 437 00:20:29,760 --> 00:20:32,359 Speaker 1: So we know we know that the ratcheting mechanisms in 438 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:35,000 Speaker 1: the calibers are working. We know that you know the 439 00:20:35,040 --> 00:20:38,719 Speaker 1: park break assembly is working. I wonder just just to 440 00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:41,159 Speaker 1: do it, because it's simple enough. If you apply the 441 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:43,400 Speaker 1: parking brake and step on the brake, does it change 442 00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:45,919 Speaker 1: the pedal height at all? You could try it. 443 00:20:46,200 --> 00:20:48,280 Speaker 5: I haven't tried it. You know, I haven't tried that. 444 00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:49,720 Speaker 1: You know, you could try it. 445 00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:50,160 Speaker 4: It might. 446 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:52,439 Speaker 1: If it does, then it shows you that there's too 447 00:20:52,520 --> 00:20:55,480 Speaker 1: much of a gap for some reason. I don't think 448 00:20:55,520 --> 00:20:56,879 Speaker 1: it's going to be. But I like to you know me, 449 00:20:56,960 --> 00:20:58,520 Speaker 1: I like to eliminate. Tell me what's good, I'll tell 450 00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:01,159 Speaker 1: you what's bad. You know, it's a simple test. If 451 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:04,439 Speaker 1: it does make a difference, then there's something in the 452 00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:07,240 Speaker 1: way that the pedal height or i'm sorry, the pedal 453 00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:10,960 Speaker 1: gap to the rotor is is wrong. That the Because 454 00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:12,480 Speaker 1: you know when you say and you must know this, 455 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:15,199 Speaker 1: I can tell you've been doing this a while. You know, 456 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:17,879 Speaker 1: when you cycle the parking break, you're actually ratcheting the 457 00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:20,480 Speaker 1: piston out, you know, closer, so that the pad is 458 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:22,120 Speaker 1: closer to the road, or so you take up any 459 00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:24,960 Speaker 1: slop or gap in there so that you get a better, 460 00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:26,040 Speaker 1: more positive feel. 461 00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:26,840 Speaker 4: You know. 462 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:29,240 Speaker 1: My next other, my next comment would be, and I'm 463 00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:31,680 Speaker 1: sure this is okay, but let's let's ask all the questions. 464 00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:34,000 Speaker 1: You got the great calipers on the correct side. It'd 465 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:36,480 Speaker 1: be almost impossible to hook them up backwards on a 466 00:21:36,520 --> 00:21:40,680 Speaker 1: cable system. Both bleeders point up. I'll tell you the story. Yeah, 467 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:42,240 Speaker 1: I'll tell you the story someday about the guy who 468 00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:43,919 Speaker 1: managed to put the caliper on the wrong side and 469 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:48,439 Speaker 1: the bleeder's pointing down and he spent months. It's a 470 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:51,480 Speaker 1: kind of a weird story on a ford on an escort, 471 00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:54,160 Speaker 1: so it shows you how old it was. So then yeah, 472 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:55,439 Speaker 1: I've got to go with You know, do you have 473 00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:57,879 Speaker 1: air in the system. You've got a rubber hose leading 474 00:21:57,920 --> 00:22:00,760 Speaker 1: to the rear brakes on that over the be right. 475 00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:04,280 Speaker 1: I hate to do it because I don't like to 476 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:06,119 Speaker 1: squeeze rubber hoses. But if you took a pair of 477 00:22:06,119 --> 00:22:08,040 Speaker 1: ice gripts and pinched off that hose, does the pedal 478 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:08,560 Speaker 1: get better? 479 00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:11,320 Speaker 5: Okay, I haven't tried that yet. 480 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:14,280 Speaker 1: All right, now, now do that you know you're doing 481 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:16,880 Speaker 1: that with the with the possibility you know, you could 482 00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:19,359 Speaker 1: tear up the hose, but at this point we'll chalk 483 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:21,560 Speaker 1: that up the diagnosis. You know, you just want to 484 00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:24,720 Speaker 1: inspect the hose afterwards, make sure it doesn't look to form. 485 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:28,639 Speaker 1: There's possibility of damage on the inside, but usually not. 486 00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:31,840 Speaker 1: They do make a special set of vice scripts that 487 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:35,120 Speaker 1: are round it. They're actually meant for pitching pinching off 488 00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:37,920 Speaker 1: rubber hoses, you know, so that there's no teeth there 489 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:39,840 Speaker 1: that grip into the rubber. If you know what I'm saying, 490 00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:42,480 Speaker 1: and we'll actually crack it. You know, it might be 491 00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:44,720 Speaker 1: something else, you know, add that to the toolbox. But 492 00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:47,240 Speaker 1: pinch off the hoses. If you pinch off the hoses 493 00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:50,240 Speaker 1: and you still have a crummy pedal, then you've got 494 00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:52,800 Speaker 1: air ahead of the system. If not, if the pedal 495 00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:56,440 Speaker 1: gets good, then I've got to believe that the air 496 00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:59,520 Speaker 1: is after the hose and there's still air in the 497 00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:00,520 Speaker 1: caliber somehow. 498 00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:03,440 Speaker 5: Okay, all right. 499 00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:05,560 Speaker 1: Now, now you could try this. You know, when you 500 00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:07,320 Speaker 1: bleed these how are you bleeding them? 501 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:12,399 Speaker 5: I had a fellow pump the brakes and you know, 502 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:15,040 Speaker 5: you know the usual routine. You pump them, pump the 503 00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:17,360 Speaker 5: pump them, send any holes down on it, and then 504 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:21,879 Speaker 5: you crack the bleeder and drain it into a bottle. 505 00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:27,040 Speaker 1: And yeah, now you know, depending upon how enthusiastic that 506 00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:30,639 Speaker 1: person is that's operating the pedal, you know, they could 507 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:33,639 Speaker 1: in theory air rate fluid and I've seen that. You know, 508 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:35,560 Speaker 1: one of the things I like to do if I 509 00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:38,160 Speaker 1: don't know the person, if the person helping me bleed 510 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:43,280 Speaker 1: breaks is not mechanical. We'll say it that way. I 511 00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:47,000 Speaker 1: like to do a clear plastic tube off the bleeder 512 00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:51,280 Speaker 1: into a cup or receiver of some kind, I don't care. 513 00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:53,239 Speaker 1: We used to use the soda cups from Burger King 514 00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:55,800 Speaker 1: because they were the good size, and put a little 515 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:57,960 Speaker 1: clean fluid at the bottom and just have somebody stroke 516 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:00,240 Speaker 1: the pedal, leave the bleeder open and just you know, 517 00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:03,160 Speaker 1: push fluid out, push suck fluid in, push flu it out. 518 00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:05,480 Speaker 1: But the clear hose would give me the ability to 519 00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:08,199 Speaker 1: see bubbles coming out of the system to tell me 520 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:10,320 Speaker 1: if there's any bubbles there. And when I got a 521 00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:12,800 Speaker 1: solid stream of fluid, I knew that all the bubbles 522 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:16,320 Speaker 1: were out. You may also find go open a bleeder, 523 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:18,679 Speaker 1: go open a bleed and let it gravity bleed and 524 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:21,800 Speaker 1: just watch it, and you know, take a screwdriver handle 525 00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:25,240 Speaker 1: and gently tap the cast iron, and you know, bubbles, 526 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:29,000 Speaker 1: bubbles break. Fluid will sometimes adhere itself to the inside 527 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:32,600 Speaker 1: of the casting, you know, like you ever see movies 528 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:34,840 Speaker 1: where they do cave rescues and you'll see pockets of 529 00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:38,679 Speaker 1: air stuck up inside the inside of the cavern, so 530 00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:41,480 Speaker 1: to speak. Air bubbles do the same thing and break fluid. 531 00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:44,520 Speaker 1: It's a nature of liquid, and you know, sometimes it 532 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:47,960 Speaker 1: just takes a while to remove it. It does sound though, 533 00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:50,439 Speaker 1: like you've got a good amount of air somewhere in 534 00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:53,800 Speaker 1: the system in that the system ran. You know, either 535 00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:56,600 Speaker 1: the system ran very low or you've just got a 536 00:24:56,600 --> 00:25:00,119 Speaker 1: big air bubble somewhere. Did the master ever go empty? 537 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:00,919 Speaker 2: No? 538 00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:03,520 Speaker 5: Okay, Well, one thing I didn't know this one. When 539 00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:06,399 Speaker 5: I did bleed the breaks, I had a good uh 540 00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:08,720 Speaker 5: well because I had a piece of tie gun hose 541 00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:12,400 Speaker 5: that I slipt over the breeder screw not there, and 542 00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:14,879 Speaker 5: I could want the fluid come out. And it was 543 00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:17,680 Speaker 5: the front breaks were really had good pressure, and then 544 00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:21,560 Speaker 5: the rear brakes, you know, it was like mediocre. It was, 545 00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:24,280 Speaker 5: it wasn't you know. And I realized the rear breaks 546 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:27,480 Speaker 5: don't have as much pressure. Uh. I believe that the 547 00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:32,320 Speaker 5: front breaks uh put on the on the system. But 548 00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:35,200 Speaker 5: it wasn't like a good solid stream. But I got 549 00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:37,080 Speaker 5: all the air bubbles out because I had to, like 550 00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:38,960 Speaker 5: I said, I had to clear plaster, close the tip 551 00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:41,160 Speaker 5: on hose right, and you know the. 552 00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:43,119 Speaker 1: Other thing the other thing you could do is just 553 00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:46,960 Speaker 1: just let's eliminate what's good bleed the Master. Have somebody 554 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:49,280 Speaker 1: sit in the car and you know, crack open the 555 00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:51,919 Speaker 1: bleeder the lines on the Master, put a bunch of 556 00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:55,080 Speaker 1: rags undernath. You don't get break fluid everywhere, and you know, 557 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:58,040 Speaker 1: let's just let's just burp the Master a couple of times, 558 00:25:58,119 --> 00:26:00,280 Speaker 1: just just on the chance. Could we have you know, 559 00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:02,280 Speaker 1: created an air pocket up and the Master did it 560 00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:03,920 Speaker 1: run loan and you didn't realize that. You know, there's 561 00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:06,639 Speaker 1: one hundred things that can happen, and you know, just 562 00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:08,960 Speaker 1: start at the beginning and work your way down. As 563 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:12,359 Speaker 1: far as doing a bleed on the ABS as a rule, 564 00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:16,560 Speaker 1: I haven't had that problem too often on VW. I'm 565 00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:20,320 Speaker 1: not saying it can't happen, but I would verify in 566 00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:23,720 Speaker 1: service procedure if they talk about an ABS bleed anywhere, 567 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:25,600 Speaker 1: or I would look at a scan tool, do they 568 00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:28,800 Speaker 1: offer an ABS bleed and see is that is that 569 00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:31,199 Speaker 1: part of procedure? If it's part of procedure, then you 570 00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:33,359 Speaker 1: know what can happen. It just hasn't happened to me. 571 00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:35,640 Speaker 1: Per se. It happens on a lot of other vehicles, 572 00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:39,240 Speaker 1: just han't had it happen on a vw Okay. 573 00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:42,320 Speaker 5: Well, the thing about it is that was my next 574 00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:48,040 Speaker 5: thing I told to tell her that I talked to I. 575 00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:49,320 Speaker 5: You know, I don't I don't want to take a 576 00:26:49,359 --> 00:26:50,879 Speaker 5: lot of your time up. But do you think you 577 00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:54,280 Speaker 5: could do a segment on the scan tools because I 578 00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:57,440 Speaker 5: was looking at if you wrenched the launch and then 579 00:26:57,480 --> 00:27:02,480 Speaker 5: the hotel, and I was looking at them online yesterday, 580 00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:06,119 Speaker 5: and I'm willing to spend you know, between six hundred 581 00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:08,359 Speaker 5: and you know, fifteen hundred and two thousand dollars to 582 00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:11,640 Speaker 5: get something because I just like to know what's going 583 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:14,120 Speaker 5: on with my vehicle. And you know, I don't need 584 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:17,880 Speaker 5: to really do snapshots or what do you close shots 585 00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:20,040 Speaker 5: and stuff like that. But do you think someday you 586 00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:23,760 Speaker 5: could have people come in and you know, to explain 587 00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:26,399 Speaker 5: to go over what they what. 588 00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:29,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, we can do that, Sure, we can do that. 589 00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:30,960 Speaker 1: I think you know. The one thing you want to 590 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:33,479 Speaker 1: also think about is real quick, because the clock's going 591 00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:35,880 Speaker 1: to grab me. Is it's important with a scan tool 592 00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:39,400 Speaker 1: to have graphing capability. We don't talk about it enough, 593 00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:42,360 Speaker 1: but believe me, you'll you'll see more on a graph. 594 00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:45,960 Speaker 1: Look at your blood pressure as a single digit and 595 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:48,920 Speaker 1: then look at your blood pressure on a graph and 596 00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:51,840 Speaker 1: watch the variance, and watch how much more information is 597 00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:54,479 Speaker 1: seen spread out over a timeline than it is by 598 00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:58,159 Speaker 1: a single binary digit number and or digital display. And 599 00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:00,000 Speaker 1: I think you'll see the value there. But yeah, we can't. 600 00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:01,920 Speaker 1: We'll reach out to the folks. I want to reach 601 00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:03,200 Speaker 1: out to the folks at all Tell we'll get some 602 00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:04,880 Speaker 1: information up here on here by the end of the year, 603 00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:05,560 Speaker 1: all right, sir. 604 00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:11,480 Speaker 5: One. One other thing is I'm up here and it's 605 00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:14,119 Speaker 5: around sixty miles from where I have my house up 606 00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:17,280 Speaker 5: in Maine here down to Bangalor. And the poor dealer 607 00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:22,199 Speaker 5: had a was a lightning electric lightning right and I 608 00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:23,720 Speaker 5: was looking at it, and you know, he told me, 609 00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:25,600 Speaker 5: and you know you talked to that guy from Vermont 610 00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:28,199 Speaker 5: before I came on, and he said, if you're going 611 00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:30,320 Speaker 5: to go from here down to Bangor and get back 612 00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:33,080 Speaker 5: if you can't, if you bought one of these when 613 00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:35,960 Speaker 5: it's like ten twenty thirty below like it gets up here, 614 00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:38,200 Speaker 5: he said, you better charge it down to Bangalor. You're 615 00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:38,960 Speaker 5: not going to make it home. 616 00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:41,800 Speaker 1: Isn't that amazing? And yet this is where we're going. 617 00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:45,840 Speaker 1: It's sad, it really is another fallacy elected on the 618 00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:47,080 Speaker 1: American public. 619 00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:50,040 Speaker 5: Yeah, but you know that's something the thing, you know, 620 00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:52,680 Speaker 5: you know you can't you know, you look at there's 621 00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:54,959 Speaker 5: a lot of cold places in the United States, and 622 00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:56,960 Speaker 5: how can you what are you going to do carry 623 00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:59,800 Speaker 5: a seventy five hundred Honda generator in the back of 624 00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:00,400 Speaker 5: your vehicle? 625 00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:00,800 Speaker 4: Right? 626 00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:03,040 Speaker 1: Well, that's also that kind of goes to Mike, that 627 00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:05,320 Speaker 1: goes to, you know, when we lose power and electricity, 628 00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:07,880 Speaker 1: you can't carry five gallons of electricity with you, but 629 00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:11,280 Speaker 1: you can carry gas. Appreciate the comments, Mike, appreciate the question, 630 00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:13,400 Speaker 1: and let us know how you make out. I'm running 631 00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:15,280 Speaker 1: nading the car doctor. We're back right after this. 632 00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:22,080 Speaker 6: Second. 633 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:34,440 Speaker 1: It's not a big motorcycle. Just welcome back. We're running 634 00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:37,160 Speaker 1: the card doctor. Let's real quick. Let's go to John Louisiana. John, 635 00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:39,840 Speaker 1: you're on the car doctor. How can I help, sir? 636 00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:41,440 Speaker 1: S good, sir? What's going on? 637 00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:46,280 Speaker 3: Yes, sir, I have a thirteen gmcc Era pickup five 638 00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:49,720 Speaker 3: point three V eight. I got one hundred and ninety thousand. 639 00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:50,880 Speaker 1: Miles just broken down. 640 00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:55,600 Speaker 3: I don't have any lights on or anything right, and uh, 641 00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:59,680 Speaker 3: but I'm using five thirty which is recommended by the manufacturer. 642 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:03,360 Speaker 3: I switched to a thicker oil since my knowledge is 643 00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:04,520 Speaker 3: up there. 644 00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:07,880 Speaker 1: No, you know why Listen, five point thirty got it 645 00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:11,680 Speaker 1: to one hundred and ninety. Right, you know it worked. 646 00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:13,880 Speaker 1: You know, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. You know, 647 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:17,720 Speaker 1: switching viscosities. I'll tell you a viscosity story real quick, John, 648 00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:21,200 Speaker 1: all right, And I don't tell this story a lot 649 00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:23,040 Speaker 1: because it involved a buddy of mine who had a 650 00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:25,360 Speaker 1: repair shop. He since passed, and I guess I can 651 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:27,080 Speaker 1: tell the story because I couldn't get him out of 652 00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:32,080 Speaker 1: this changing the viscosity conscientiousness. He gave me a customer's 653 00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:34,320 Speaker 1: Hyundai that this is years ago. This is going back 654 00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:37,120 Speaker 1: about fifteen. That's probably going back about seventeen years because 655 00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:40,320 Speaker 1: he's gone ten. And he gave me a customers hun 656 00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:42,560 Speaker 1: Day that would only missfire when it was cold in 657 00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:45,200 Speaker 1: the morning. Drove him nuts. He couldn't figure out what 658 00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:46,880 Speaker 1: was wrong with it. He went round and round and round, 659 00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:49,520 Speaker 1: and he couldn't get rid of this misfire. Long story short. 660 00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:51,840 Speaker 1: Brought it to me. I went through my diagnosis, my 661 00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:54,760 Speaker 1: usual things, and I kind of narrowed it down. I said, God, 662 00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:58,160 Speaker 1: it just seems like it only does it cold. I've 663 00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:00,160 Speaker 1: gone through the obvious. I see nothing when I go, 664 00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:02,480 Speaker 1: but I see nothing when I scan it. I said, 665 00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:05,160 Speaker 1: I just wonder what Wade Oily put in it. And 666 00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:07,720 Speaker 1: you know, knowing him the way he was, I just 667 00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:09,880 Speaker 1: knew he was a heavier viscosity as a got older 668 00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:11,320 Speaker 1: kind of guy. Well, I called up and I talked 669 00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:12,719 Speaker 1: to him. He says, well, I put the same thing 670 00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:17,360 Speaker 1: I always put in ye know, what's that fifteen forty? Well, yeah, 671 00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:19,920 Speaker 1: but the car called for the car called for five thirty. 672 00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:22,080 Speaker 1: The oil was so thick when it was cold, because 673 00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:25,080 Speaker 1: the problem only would happen between November and March, and 674 00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:28,520 Speaker 1: it would go away in the warm weather. And it 675 00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:30,360 Speaker 1: was the moment that I could give him the lesson 676 00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:35,000 Speaker 1: about you know, viscosity creates the drag creates causes the 677 00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:39,320 Speaker 1: engine to momentarily, you know, stumble in a sense in 678 00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:43,400 Speaker 1: between cylinder firing events. And you know, higher viscosity, thicker 679 00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:45,800 Speaker 1: oil will cause an engine to misfire and stumble. Depending 680 00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:49,280 Speaker 1: upon how sensitive the computer is, how sensitive the engine is, 681 00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:53,400 Speaker 1: you know, you could consider using high mileage oil. There 682 00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:57,440 Speaker 1: are various high mileage oils in the marketplace that you know, 683 00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:00,280 Speaker 1: I do that, Yeah, you know. And they've got they've 684 00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:03,880 Speaker 1: got vitamins and formulations for older engines with seals that 685 00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:06,320 Speaker 1: might be a little more brittle, and they had some 686 00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:09,040 Speaker 1: lubricity and they add some you know, softness backed into 687 00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:11,200 Speaker 1: the rubber. And yeah, I have no problem with that. 688 00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:13,920 Speaker 1: But I'd stay with the viscosity you got. I really 689 00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:16,280 Speaker 1: would if it's working, you know, and if it and 690 00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:18,240 Speaker 1: if it doesn't, if you see it, if you see 691 00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:21,320 Speaker 1: a change in oil pressure somehow and you think it's viscosity, John, 692 00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:24,600 Speaker 1: then the truth is you've got something else going on. 693 00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:26,400 Speaker 1: And you know, viscosity is only going to hide it 694 00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:29,320 Speaker 1: up until the engine goes kaboom. So and we don't 695 00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:30,560 Speaker 1: don't know what that to happen. 696 00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:33,320 Speaker 3: I try to fix everything that's wrong with it. Uh, 697 00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:38,440 Speaker 3: But it's uh, I mean, it runs fine, It don't 698 00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:42,800 Speaker 3: leak anything. It's uh No, I mean I changed motor miles, 699 00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:47,320 Speaker 3: you joints, Yeah, I get all pressure switch stuff like that. 700 00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:50,000 Speaker 1: And then and then how about how about doing John, 701 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,000 Speaker 1: how about doing the rest of the drive train fluids? 702 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:53,760 Speaker 1: You know, look at the trans look at the differential, 703 00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:57,080 Speaker 1: look at the transfer case, change drive line fluids, and 704 00:32:57,400 --> 00:32:59,480 Speaker 1: you know, driving another two hundred thousand miles. But I 705 00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:02,920 Speaker 1: wouldn't change viscosity in no way, shape or form. And 706 00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:05,280 Speaker 1: I keep doing what you're doing because it's working. I 707 00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:07,400 Speaker 1: gotta run John m up against the clock. I appreciate 708 00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:09,360 Speaker 1: the call. I'm running any in the car doctor. I'll 709 00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:26,160 Speaker 1: be back right after this. Welcome back, I'm run any 710 00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:27,800 Speaker 1: of the car doctor. Thanks for being with me this hour. 711 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:30,560 Speaker 1: Got an email this week from Dave down in Matthews, 712 00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:32,560 Speaker 1: North Carolina. Hey, Ron, just listen to your show, and 713 00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:34,600 Speaker 1: you left us with a reminder to inspect several things 714 00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:37,120 Speaker 1: on your car and a regular basis. That raises the question, 715 00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:39,080 Speaker 1: what do the following states have in common? And you 716 00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:43,720 Speaker 1: list Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, 717 00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:46,680 Speaker 1: South Carolina, South Dakota. These states, he continues, do not 718 00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:49,000 Speaker 1: have any annual vehicle inspection. It has become a subject 719 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:51,000 Speaker 1: of note to me because we live in Charlotte, just 720 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:53,080 Speaker 1: because the state line from South Carolina. Every day I 721 00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:56,160 Speaker 1: see vehicles with their non functioning tail lights, but more important, 722 00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:58,960 Speaker 1: non working brake lights. It's split pretty evenly between left 723 00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:02,240 Speaker 1: center mounted and rights. Sometimes it's from North Carolina cars, 724 00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:04,840 Speaker 1: where we do have annual inspection. My car will alert 725 00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:06,480 Speaker 1: me when there is a problem with the break light circle, 726 00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:08,600 Speaker 1: but my older truck does not. This brings up a 727 00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:10,680 Speaker 1: question about human behavior. If I noticed a tailight or 728 00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:12,120 Speaker 1: break light out on another car and I happened to 729 00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:14,360 Speaker 1: pull up beside them due to traffic all motion for 730 00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:15,719 Speaker 1: them to lower the winter and I tell them that 731 00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:17,880 Speaker 1: you might want to know. They usually tell me thank you, 732 00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:19,680 Speaker 1: and we both drive off. But my wife and son 733 00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:21,719 Speaker 1: tell me this is a foolish thing to do because 734 00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:23,480 Speaker 1: you never know the mental state of other drivers or 735 00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:25,799 Speaker 1: how they will react. What are your thoughts. I got 736 00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:28,000 Speaker 1: to tell you, Dave, I think there's a I think 737 00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:30,919 Speaker 1: there's positive in both all right. This week, coming back 738 00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:32,759 Speaker 1: from work, I was on my way home and I 739 00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:35,480 Speaker 1: was behind a Kia that had no lights on, no 740 00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:39,239 Speaker 1: parking lights, no tail lights, operating, brake lights work. And 741 00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:40,960 Speaker 1: I thought about it for two or three miles. We 742 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:42,839 Speaker 1: got to the traffic light before the house. I pulled 743 00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:45,080 Speaker 1: over next to them and put my window down, put 744 00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:46,719 Speaker 1: his window down, and I told him. He said, oh, yeah, 745 00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:48,319 Speaker 1: the car got serviced today. And they must have turned 746 00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:49,920 Speaker 1: it off. I didn't realize it, Thank you very much, 747 00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:51,920 Speaker 1: and he drove off. But I get your point. It 748 00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:54,239 Speaker 1: is kind of dangerous out there, and it's getting more so. 749 00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:56,920 Speaker 1: Sometimes maybe not saying anything is the way to go. 750 00:34:57,040 --> 00:34:59,480 Speaker 1: I'm running ady in the car Doctor. The mechanics aren't expensive. 751 00:34:59,520 --> 00:34:59,959 Speaker 1: Their price 752 00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:09,439 Speaker 6: Jack Sha