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Speaker 1: the Car Doctor, since this is where car owners the

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

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Speaker 1: but I am here to take your calls at eight

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Speaker 1: five and now running. If a repair shop is like

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Speaker 1: But it just it just boggles my mind how fast

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Speaker 1: And the customers comment was when it gets wet, the

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Speaker 1: And I'm using the A T S E Scan and

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Speaker 1: one spot Mode six scan tool, data, data stream graphic.

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Speaker 1: There's a scope Module edition that I have in the package.

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Speaker 1: If I had to, I could break out the scope

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Speaker 1: Bernie took me to right away. We go to Mode six.

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Speaker 1: reported on cylinder four, had a pending code on cylinder four,

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Speaker 1: And um, you know he's coming back in two weeks.

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Speaker 1: then yeah, I would put in the adjustable pieces. Now,

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00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:35,280
Speaker 1: obviously you want to look, you know, how far off

427
00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:38,080
Speaker 1: are the adjustments is it? Is it a quarter degree?

428
00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:41,640
Speaker 1: Is it two degrees? How bad is it within two degrees?

429
00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:44,879
Speaker 1: I am off on one side? Okay, so something is

430
00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:48,520
Speaker 1: clearly bent. Now you can look and see if does

431
00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:50,880
Speaker 1: something look kinked as their paint mark where the paint

432
00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:53,560
Speaker 1: is flaked off. You know, if you measure side to side.

433
00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:55,600
Speaker 1: Even with a tape measure, you can be pretty accurate

434
00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:58,760
Speaker 1: to a degree, No pun intended as far as does

435
00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:02,080
Speaker 1: something look bent or two listed. Sometimes it's the vehicle.

436
00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:05,040
Speaker 1: Sometimes the vehicle itself is twisted. Sometimes the vehicle took

437
00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:07,800
Speaker 1: a shot on one side, and it's just you know,

438
00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:10,680
Speaker 1: maybe it was an accident if you're not the original owner.

439
00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:12,600
Speaker 1: Maybe it's the way the struggle allows it to sit.

440
00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:16,000
Speaker 1: But if if you're going to be replacing parts, I

441
00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:18,960
Speaker 1: would replace them with any and all if they if

442
00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:24,800
Speaker 1: they exist adjustable pieces, because because to do it, you know,

443
00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:26,840
Speaker 1: if you're gonna go through the pain of replacement, why

444
00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:30,520
Speaker 1: not make it adjustable. But the reason I was confused

445
00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:32,960
Speaker 1: and the reason I had to call you, because so

446
00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:35,240
Speaker 1: when I'm less, see, if I'm putting the seams on,

447
00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:37,520
Speaker 1: I still have to take the whole reel off, the

448
00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:41,480
Speaker 1: the hub off and all that stuff. Well I'm going

449
00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:44,600
Speaker 1: through all this and just putting the sames on and

450
00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:47,119
Speaker 1: trying to correct it, and then I might as well

451
00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:49,560
Speaker 1: as just as you say it, I said, just change

452
00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:52,760
Speaker 1: the existible parts. So we do have any I know

453
00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:56,520
Speaker 1: you must have experienced dealing with all will drive c ands.

454
00:24:57,080 --> 00:25:01,360
Speaker 1: They don't have anything in a reun ecustment, And like,

455
00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:04,920
Speaker 1: what else I should do while I'm there. Well, at

456
00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:07,680
Speaker 1: eighty thousand miles, it's only eight years old. Have you

457
00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:12,680
Speaker 1: done struts yet the rear shocks? Okay? And I don't

458
00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:14,680
Speaker 1: think you need to if they're dry, if they're dry

459
00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:18,240
Speaker 1: and quiet. And if the vehicle, how is the vehicle

460
00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:20,600
Speaker 1: ride height? Did the alignment guy tell you that was

461
00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:25,960
Speaker 1: the right height? Okay? Yes? Then if ride heights okay,

462
00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:28,720
Speaker 1: I would only change control arm, tyrod, whatever you have

463
00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:31,080
Speaker 1: to do to make the alignment adjustable. There's no need

464
00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:34,360
Speaker 1: to spend any extra money there really is, all right,

465
00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:36,280
Speaker 1: you know. And obviously take a look, you know at

466
00:25:36,359 --> 00:25:38,960
Speaker 1: rubber bushings. The rubber bushings looked dried out, but on

467
00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:42,000
Speaker 1: a twelve, I just don't think they're going to be

468
00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:44,560
Speaker 1: unless this is in a really harsh environment. I don't

469
00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:47,280
Speaker 1: think Indiana is a real harsh environment. Uh, you know,

470
00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:50,159
Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's not the you know American Southwest

471
00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:53,399
Speaker 1: where it's a d forty degrees in the afternoon in

472
00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:56,439
Speaker 1: the middle of winter. Um, I'm I'm not picking up

473
00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:59,520
Speaker 1: the Southwest. I like a dry heat. But oh boy. Um.

474
00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:02,760
Speaker 1: But that's that's that's how I would approach it. Believe me,

475
00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:06,040
Speaker 1: a two thousand twelve Sienna. There'll be other things you

476
00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:07,600
Speaker 1: get to spend your money on. Right now, let's just

477
00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:12,760
Speaker 1: make the alignment, right sure, one more question with the expertise.

478
00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:18,359
Speaker 1: My brother has eleven uh walk swag, and I know

479
00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:23,960
Speaker 1: you load that brand with with the endless money. We

480
00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:26,560
Speaker 1: don't across the pond. That's the way I did. Wait

481
00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:28,760
Speaker 1: wait wait, wait wait, he's gotta he's got he's got

482
00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:30,960
Speaker 1: a Volkswagen. That's what what kind of a money pit?

483
00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:35,760
Speaker 1: Endless money across the part? How crazy is when he

484
00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:39,359
Speaker 1: says they're virtually worthless. There you go, unsolicited from a listener. Folks,

485
00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:42,600
Speaker 1: they're just you know, big all your dump money into. Okay, well,

486
00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:46,479
Speaker 1: help bring him out and man, it's really really you

487
00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:48,560
Speaker 1: have to have a really good patience to work on

488
00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:51,160
Speaker 1: these cars. But long story said, I'm going to help

489
00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:54,760
Speaker 1: him out. Real drum brakes that's what he got from

490
00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:56,919
Speaker 1: the spect I don't know who we put drum brakes

491
00:26:56,920 --> 00:27:00,320
Speaker 1: on the eleven car, but that is really a drum

492
00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:02,600
Speaker 1: breaks and I have to deal with it right now.

493
00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:04,679
Speaker 1: Is that a way I can update that to the

494
00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:09,560
Speaker 1: calipul set up, or uh I just stick to the drum,

495
00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:11,240
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know. That's a fair question of

496
00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:14,200
Speaker 1: mich I will say this that they do make upgrade

497
00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:16,240
Speaker 1: kids for a lot of vehicles, and I think Jetta

498
00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:19,399
Speaker 1: is right up there. My question would be if, and

499
00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:21,679
Speaker 1: I know there are Jettas that are four wheel disc,

500
00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:25,000
Speaker 1: If the rest of the suspension is traditional and it's

501
00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:29,119
Speaker 1: the same and generally usually most cars carry the same suspension,

502
00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:32,080
Speaker 1: the engineers change the components out close to the wheels,

503
00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:35,720
Speaker 1: the spindle, the break assembly and so on, perhaps he

504
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:39,120
Speaker 1: can find us a scrapped you know, a Jetta that

505
00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:41,120
Speaker 1: year that was hit in the front with four wheel disc,

506
00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:43,840
Speaker 1: buy the car for parts and take everything off the back,

507
00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:46,360
Speaker 1: and you know it, and then it doesn't It doesn't

508
00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:48,080
Speaker 1: hurt to have a parts car line around. If it's

509
00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:49,879
Speaker 1: a car that's a money pit, every once in a

510
00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:51,600
Speaker 1: while you gotta pick something off of it. It just

511
00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:53,920
Speaker 1: makes life a whole lot easier. So you know, that's

512
00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:55,360
Speaker 1: the way I would do it. I would just sit

513
00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:58,200
Speaker 1: there and if I can find a parts car um,

514
00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:00,960
Speaker 1: you know, do that and at that point then you've

515
00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:02,840
Speaker 1: got a full supply and there's nothing you're gonna miss.

516
00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:05,479
Speaker 1: But yeah, I understand. Let's let's change it all. Keep

517
00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:07,080
Speaker 1: in mind, though, if you make that a four wheel

518
00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:09,639
Speaker 1: disc brake car, you're gonna have to look at break

519
00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:13,520
Speaker 1: proportioning valve master cylinder just to make sure they're the same,

520
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:16,280
Speaker 1: because you are going to change the bias how that

521
00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:20,000
Speaker 1: vehicle handles when you break, because a four wheel disc

522
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:23,520
Speaker 1: car reacts differently than a drum front disc brake car.

523
00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:26,200
Speaker 1: So there you go. The parts car will becoming very handy.

524
00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:28,480
Speaker 1: Good luck to you. I appreciate the call and your

525
00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:31,480
Speaker 1: brother he has my sympathies. My friend, I'm in the

526
00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:36,440
Speaker 1: car doctor zero zero, God, is this a great job

527
00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:47,840
Speaker 1: or what? I'll be back right after this. Geez, where's

528
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:49,560
Speaker 1: Tony at with when you need him? Let's get over

529
00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:52,320
Speaker 1: to Michael in Texas and see what's going on here.

530
00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:54,920
Speaker 1: Any in the car? Doctor at your service? Sir? What's

531
00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:59,400
Speaker 1: going on? Hello to you? I thank you for taking

532
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:03,640
Speaker 1: my calls from properly. I asked I have this for

533
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:07,800
Speaker 1: E one Tipty van. It's got about two hundred and

534
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:13,080
Speaker 1: fifty five miles on it now. He turned up. It

535
00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:15,800
Speaker 1: was headed to the Junkyard for turty, and I had

536
00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:20,360
Speaker 1: more electronic system the Titanic in the Bismarck. But anyways,

537
00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:24,160
Speaker 1: I have this Uni body problem where the Uni body

538
00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:29,440
Speaker 1: boats have rotted away and the back doors have settled

539
00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:33,120
Speaker 1: pretty close to the buffer, and I have to I'll

540
00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:35,600
Speaker 1: fight it to get it open. And I've had it

541
00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:38,040
Speaker 1: jacked up and I moved it a little bit, but

542
00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:41,080
Speaker 1: hardly not enough. I didn't know whether you guys would

543
00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:43,680
Speaker 1: accept this call or not, but if you can give

544
00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:48,160
Speaker 1: me some it's improvising advice. I should appreciate it. I

545
00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:51,600
Speaker 1: figured I'll discover to get it. Let me let me,

546
00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:54,240
Speaker 1: let me ask you this, Michael, if if the is

547
00:29:54,280 --> 00:30:00,080
Speaker 1: it the body that's so rotted well, the the you

548
00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:04,160
Speaker 1: the body boats there happened boats, I don't know, probably

549
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:06,360
Speaker 1: about eight or ten of them around that boat to

550
00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:09,920
Speaker 1: the frame. They have rubbers underneath them, and it's settled

551
00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:14,440
Speaker 1: down because those have been rotted away. So I'm dealing with.

552
00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:18,280
Speaker 1: I'm I'm surprised that the body has not blown off. Well,

553
00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:20,960
Speaker 1: i gotta tell you, I'm sitting here listening to the call,

554
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:24,840
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking, let's say a ninety four one, and

555
00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:26,600
Speaker 1: Michael sounds like a nice guy, and I don't want

556
00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:29,920
Speaker 1: see anything bad happened to him. The vehicles two thousand

557
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:34,880
Speaker 1: four fourteen, the vehicles coming up on thirty years old. Soon,

558
00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:40,520
Speaker 1: um uh, you know how soon before the body does

559
00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:43,640
Speaker 1: blow off the frame? And how unsafe is it? I

560
00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:46,360
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know, sir. I imagine the ones

561
00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:49,960
Speaker 1: up front or pretty much secure ones in the rear

562
00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:52,680
Speaker 1: have allowed me to settle probably about a half an

563
00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:57,800
Speaker 1: inch I would stay at least, and uh, I thought

564
00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:00,560
Speaker 1: maybe they would wait wait, I could wedge it then

565
00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:03,000
Speaker 1: and then have it slip out the right back to

566
00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:07,600
Speaker 1: the same Yeah. But Michael, listen to me a minute.

567
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:10,040
Speaker 1: All right, what you're talking about is you're talking about

568
00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:15,360
Speaker 1: modifying a body that is literally rotting off the frame, right,

569
00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:19,400
Speaker 1: fair statement. I mean that's what it's doing. So how

570
00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:23,080
Speaker 1: can you how can you drive that? And I get it,

571
00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:25,560
Speaker 1: you know what, It becomes an obsession. But you've either

572
00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:27,000
Speaker 1: got to shim it up in the back of the

573
00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:30,920
Speaker 1: proper way for that matter, why can't you raise the

574
00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:34,720
Speaker 1: body up a little and slide in a metal shim

575
00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:36,680
Speaker 1: a wash or something just to give you the extra

576
00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:38,840
Speaker 1: clearance and just shim it. But if the if the

577
00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:43,560
Speaker 1: rear bolts aren't securing the body to the frame, it's

578
00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:45,880
Speaker 1: just it's just an accident waiting to happen. At what

579
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:49,000
Speaker 1: point does it become a fatality. The other issue is

580
00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:51,720
Speaker 1: how will that vehicle react in an accident? And that's

581
00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:54,000
Speaker 1: what you also have to think about. How will that

582
00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:56,000
Speaker 1: vehicle react in an accident. I don't care if you

583
00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:58,880
Speaker 1: can drive down the highway at sixty, but if that

584
00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:01,960
Speaker 1: gets hit, does the body separate from the frame and

585
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:05,080
Speaker 1: the vehicle becomes airborne automatically because there's nothing holding the

586
00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:10,000
Speaker 1: body down. You know, you can patch work and Rube

587
00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:12,240
Speaker 1: Goldberg this all the time. And I don't mean to lecture,

588
00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:14,360
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna lecture a little bit here. But you've

589
00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:16,600
Speaker 1: got to think about this is a vehicle that, as

590
00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:19,120
Speaker 1: you said, you described it was on its way to

591
00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:21,480
Speaker 1: the junkyard, and you saved it. But saved it from

592
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:25,480
Speaker 1: what because this could also be a dangerous vehicle in

593
00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:27,320
Speaker 1: the event of an accident or in the event of

594
00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:29,280
Speaker 1: just driving down the road and hitting a pothole the

595
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:33,320
Speaker 1: wrong way, losing stability and control, and then it's a fatality.

596
00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:35,960
Speaker 1: You can try what you want. If it were me

597
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:37,600
Speaker 1: I'd get a body shop to look at it. Make

598
00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:40,000
Speaker 1: sure this vehicle is attached at the anchor and mounting

599
00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:43,000
Speaker 1: points that Ford wanted to attach that, and only then

600
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:45,640
Speaker 1: would I drive it once it's repaired properly. Good luck,

601
00:32:47,880 --> 00:33:05,600
Speaker 1: Zero on back right after this, Hang on to listen.

602
00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:09,440
Speaker 1: There's a there's an unspoken rule in order to repair

603
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:13,920
Speaker 1: and and and and that is that the vehicle. I

604
00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:15,960
Speaker 1: know the vehicle has to be safe, but there's just

605
00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:19,160
Speaker 1: this rule that says common sense has to apply. And

606
00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:21,200
Speaker 1: I'm not saying anybody to apply common sense. Maybe we

607
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:23,800
Speaker 1: don't look at it correctly. I'll tell the story this way.

608
00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:26,280
Speaker 1: We had a No. Six Mans in the shop this

609
00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:29,600
Speaker 1: week that was pushed in while it was driven in.

610
00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:32,120
Speaker 1: Should have been pushed in. When we got in the car,

611
00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:35,440
Speaker 1: the charging system wasn't working. Dash lights were lit up

612
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:39,400
Speaker 1: and there was an electrical smell. There was something clearly

613
00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:43,680
Speaker 1: burning under the dash on the right side. Diagnose the

614
00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:48,280
Speaker 1: problem down to the alternator was overcharging, was putting out

615
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:50,560
Speaker 1: eighteen and a half nineteen volts where it should be

616
00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:53,200
Speaker 1: fourteen and climbing. It just kept going up and up

617
00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:56,160
Speaker 1: and up and up. The wipers ran on their own

618
00:33:56,200 --> 00:34:00,479
Speaker 1: we couldn't get the wipers to shut off. Done right? It? Uh?

619
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:02,560
Speaker 1: You know needs an alternator to start. Is that going

620
00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:05,959
Speaker 1: to fix the vehicle? That's gonna fix the charging system problem?

621
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:08,360
Speaker 1: I don't know what other damage and where their consequential

622
00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:11,160
Speaker 1: damage was done to the rest of the computers, on

623
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:14,680
Speaker 1: board modules, wiring, et cetera. Until I fix problem may

624
00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:18,840
Speaker 1: My point is, there comes a stage in a car's

625
00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:22,600
Speaker 1: life where you have to decide either fix problem one

626
00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:26,680
Speaker 1: right and then walk away, and and be prepared to

627
00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:30,719
Speaker 1: walk away. You know they they drove the Masda out

628
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:33,240
Speaker 1: without the alternator being plugged in, so it was running

629
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:35,600
Speaker 1: on the battery. They live around the corner from the shop,

630
00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:37,960
Speaker 1: and they understood everything I said and they got it.

631
00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:40,759
Speaker 1: Can I tell them that's gonna fix it? I don't know.

632
00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:42,840
Speaker 1: You gotta put an alternator anything. Can I tell you

633
00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:44,719
Speaker 1: jacking up the rear of the Ford van from the

634
00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:46,640
Speaker 1: gentleman that just called from Texas is gonna make that

635
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:48,719
Speaker 1: vehicle safe? I don't know. You gotta look at the

636
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:52,480
Speaker 1: rest of them too. My point is electrical fires, bodies

637
00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:56,000
Speaker 1: that aren't mounted on frames correctly, they're all just as bad.

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Speaker 1: They're all just as big a danger. Cars have to

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Speaker 1: be safe. I'm not an aiding in the car doctor,

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Speaker 1: reminding you this time, every time, each time, for a

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