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Speaker 1: Ron An Indian.

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Speaker 2: If you're going to do this job, do it right.

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Speaker 2: That's what this is about. And if you're not going

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Speaker 2: probably going on here is you probably have impending coil failure.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the radio home of ron Anian the Car Doctor.

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Speaker 1: Since nineteen ninety one, this is where car owners the

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Speaker 1: Ronnie, Hey, welcome.

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Speaker 2: about that. And keep in mind too, we're here for

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Speaker 2: you to help solve your car problem, whatever that might be.

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Speaker 2: Ron at cardoctorshow dot com. If you're looking for me

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Speaker 2: during the course of the week, I'll try and answer

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Speaker 2: each and every one of my emails. I do each

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Speaker 2: and every week, folks, I really do so if you've

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Speaker 2: got a problem or a question. Need information ron at

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Speaker 2: cardoctorshow dot Com. I think about technology, I have to

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Speaker 2: enforce to It's the business I'm in. I was reading

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Speaker 2: a recent issue of AC Delco News and it's titled

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Speaker 2: Looking Ahead Forward Collision Alert Operation and Settings. The FCA

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Speaker 2: system Forward Collision Alert is available on many late model

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Speaker 2: GM vehicles, ranging from Cadillac to Chevrolet, and is designed

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Speaker 2: to help drivers avoid or reduce the harm caused by

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Speaker 2: front end crashes when approaching a vehicle ahead much too quickly.

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Speaker 2: The FCA system warns driver with a red flashing alert

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Speaker 2: and rapid beeps. And I was thinking about this, and

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Speaker 2: I said, hey, this is great. This is technology. Look

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Speaker 2: at this. It's going to tell us if we're driving poorly.

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Speaker 2: But do we need it? I'm wondering if it's a

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Speaker 2: depend and see thing. And I just wanted to bring

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Speaker 2: much time looking at GPS's, and we spend way too

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Speaker 2: much I'm doing everything but driving, and I'm wondering if

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Speaker 2: somehow technology is making us more dependent and taking away

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Speaker 2: the critical thinking skills and reducing our skill level in

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Speaker 2: terms of operating a vehicle safely. Are we going to

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Speaker 2: become more complacent? Well, you know, the camera didn't warn

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Speaker 2: talking or I looked behind me to see what the

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Speaker 2: baby was doing, and I had the accident. I'm sorry,

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I just wonder if technology is really

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Speaker 2: it and try to fix it. Just just some thoughts,

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Speaker 2: so you know your views and your comments are always appreciated.

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Speaker 2: Send them to me email Ron at cardoctorshow dot com.

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Speaker 2: welcome Chris from Bergenfield, New Jersey. Some comments and thoughts

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Speaker 2: about alternator problems on Volkswagen. Chris, Welcome to the Car Doctor,

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Speaker 2: Sir How can I help.

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Speaker 3: I called you about a year ago, okay, and I

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Speaker 3: had the serpentine belt replaced on it, and this was

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Speaker 3: this was way before that, and the car started squoaling,

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Speaker 3: and the mechanics said it was at tentioner, right, the

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Speaker 3: tensioner was replaced, it still kept doing it. I took

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Speaker 3: it to another mechanic. He replaced attentioner. It still kept

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Speaker 3: wasn't sure what it was why it was squealing, which

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Speaker 3: I guess, as if you're a good mechanic, you should

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Speaker 3: be able to find that out. Sure, And you said

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Speaker 3: it very well could be the alternator bearing in it,

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Speaker 3: So I told him just replace that, and he replaced

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Speaker 3: it technically the alternator's work, but it still kept doing it.

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Speaker 3: I also replaced a power steering pump, even though the

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Speaker 3: you know, just to waste some money.

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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, sometimes wasting that money makes you feel good though,

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Speaker 2: because at least you know you tried.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's a it's a diesel and there's a

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Speaker 3: there's a mechanic buying me who has a sign outside.

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Speaker 3: They specialize in diesel, so I went over there. Of course,

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Speaker 3: a timing belt is just about time. I have a

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Speaker 3: curious on what it would cost, if if it could

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Speaker 3: can you just figure out what's what's going on with

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Speaker 3: the noise on this thing too? He said it's the

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Speaker 3: alternator and he swapped it out. And if you look

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Speaker 3: for the prices of alternators, they vary. And he was saying,

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Speaker 3: don't buy the junk parts from some of these friends stores.

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Speaker 3: He says, he will not buy parts from them. And

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Speaker 3: I saw them going from like one fifty to like

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Speaker 3: It is silent, right, That was it all along?

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Speaker 2: So it was a bad new alternator.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, technically it works.

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Speaker 2: Right, but it was just noisy.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And he told me to take it back to

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, and you know I say this to suppliers

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Speaker 2: all the time. You know, they come in, they want

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Speaker 2: think their margins are higher because they're cheaper, and there's

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Speaker 2: they're they're more likely to sell more of those. Let's

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Speaker 2: face it, more people are probably buying cheap parts today

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Speaker 2: to make a number. But you know, we're, like I've

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Speaker 2: been saying, I've been saying this for a while, Chris,

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Speaker 2: We're at a parts race to the bottom. And you know,

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Speaker 2: it's all about how cheap can we make something, how

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Speaker 2: much money can we make on it, how much money

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Speaker 2: can we steal from the American public but not produce

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Speaker 2: a product that works. And it's a dangerous line and

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Speaker 2: it's a dangerous way of thinking. And you're just gonna

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Speaker 2: see more and more of it that it's a lot

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Speaker 2: like our society. I really believe that. You know, you

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Speaker 2: see the lines of the haves and the have nots increasing,

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Speaker 2: You're gonna see the lines of good parts and bad

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Speaker 2: parts increasing as it's going to become very decisive. If

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Speaker 2: you want good parts, it's it's four times the amount.

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Speaker 2: If you want to just get by with noisy, crummy

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Speaker 2: long as they should. Well, it's this, and it's it's

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Speaker 2: it's gonna be a problem. It is, but there you go,

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Speaker 2: new never ever worked. Couldn't say it any better.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, and and he and the one mechanic who

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Speaker 3: bought that part. He was telling me that he has

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Speaker 3: gotten bad water pumps. And he said the whole deal's

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Speaker 3: a wash. He sayss got to do the whole thing

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Speaker 2: Well, and the part I don't get is, you know,

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Speaker 2: one of the one of the biggest mistakes mechanics make

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Speaker 2: is they don't value their time, so they'll attempt to

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Speaker 2: sell their customer a cheaper job. Hey, I can be

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Speaker 2: cheaper than the next guy, because I don't want you

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Speaker 2: to come in here based on my talent. I want

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Speaker 2: you to come in here based on my price. And

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Speaker 2: because of that, he buys the cheaper part. So the

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Speaker 2: parts house think it's okay to sell the cheaper part,

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Speaker 2: and they just perpetuate the problem. You know. In nineteen

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Speaker 2: a history lesson. In nineteen eighty six, General motors came

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Speaker 2: out with touch screen dashboards. Does anybody remember this? Buick,

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Speaker 2: Rivieras and Pontiacs and the like, they all had touch

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Speaker 2: screen dashboards. Crt screen dashboards. They were terrible. They were

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Speaker 2: so bad because people were people were having accidents. They're

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Speaker 2: driving along, they want to change the radio station or

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Speaker 2: distres active driving. They were losing people just hitting cars

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Speaker 2: when the model year came to an end nineteen eighty six,

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Speaker 2: the leftovers and the dealer lots, it just looked like

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Speaker 2: they had new cars to sell, but it was all

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Speaker 2: the ones they were trying to return or they couldn't

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Speaker 2: line because the eighty sevens were coming out. And my

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Speaker 2: point is if more people got together and said enough,

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Speaker 2: we're not buying any more junk parts, you would see

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Speaker 2: a major change in the in the in a shift

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Speaker 2: in the way that we approach order repair in this

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Speaker 2: country and the way people would think. And you know,

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Speaker 2: I still have hope for humanity, Chris, I really do

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Speaker 2: I think if you show them the right way, I

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Speaker 2: think people just go.

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Speaker 3: It seems like they will just go ten to save

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Speaker 2: with some questions about a nineteen ninety nine GMC suburban. David,

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Car Doctor, sir. How can I help?

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Speaker 4: Well? Thanks, Ron, really please to talk to you.

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Speaker 2: Oh thank you, sir.

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Speaker 4: You've helped me solve a number of problems through the

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Speaker 4: if I replaced it with a new one, would it

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Speaker 2: It's always nice to try and design something the way

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Speaker 2: This is a big block truck, David, yeah seven, So

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Speaker 2: it's nose heavy.

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Speaker 4: Full floating rear in it has the thirteen inch rear

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Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, it's a massive brake system. I wonder,

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Speaker 2: So I wonder what would happen if we created a

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Speaker 4: I actually had read about that, and I did that

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Speaker 2: The bubbles get if the bubbles get trapped in there,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, right, And that may have helped minimally, but it's

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Speaker 4: still you know, the ninety three suburban, the brake pedals firm.

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Speaker 4: Maybe you hit it and you've got brakes and this

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Speaker 2: Is is the ninety nine a hydroboost system? David, is it? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: They both are, they both are. You know, I'm kind

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Speaker 2: I make changes to it. I mean, I'm sure you can.

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Speaker 4: Oh got yea right, Okay.

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Speaker 2: It's got to be right there. If it's not right there,

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Speaker 4: Now, I did change the master cylinder at one point

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Speaker 4: parts sometimes aren't any good either, but that's a good

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Speaker 4: I hadn't tried that, and that's something I will try.

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Speaker 4: And I don't mind spending the money to replace the

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Speaker 4: ABS system. If somebody could tell me, yeah, when you're done,

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Speaker 4: you're going to have really good breaks. I just haven't

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Speaker 2: Where does the mush for lack of a better way

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Speaker 2: you've got to start to diagnose, David. The clock's gonna

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