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Speaker 1: Ron Anien. If your car is more than five years old,

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Speaker 1: when's the last time you put a battery in it?

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Speaker 1: We're heading into winter, you know, are you ready for winter?

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Speaker 1: Is the battery done? Have you thought about putting a

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Speaker 1: battery in the car? You know, just because it starts

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Speaker 1: doesn't mean the cars ready for winter. The car Doctor

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Speaker 1: verify the actual acidic or based state of the coolant

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Speaker 1: to make sure, because maybe we're rotting these things from

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Speaker 1: the outside in and that's what's causing the failure. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the radio home of Ron and Anian the Car Doctor,

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Speaker 1: since this is where car owners the world overturned to

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Speaker 1: for their definitive opinion on automotive repair. If your mechanics

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Speaker 1: giving you a busy signal, pick up the phone and

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Speaker 1: call in. The garage doors are open, but I am

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Speaker 1: here to take your calls at eight five and now running.

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Speaker 1: You know, here's a thought for the day. If you

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Speaker 1: worried about the cost of auto repair and you want

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Speaker 1: to save money, maybe you could stop driving and sell

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Speaker 1: the car. But I don't think that's a viable option.

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Speaker 1: So I think the bottom line is you've either got

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Speaker 1: to repair the car by another one and that's what

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Speaker 1: this radio show is all about. You know. One of

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Speaker 1: the things I always say is there's no whining in

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Speaker 1: order repair. There really isn't. And you can't complain about

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Speaker 1: the cost of the repair if you're not making an

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Speaker 1: honest effort to get it done right and making an

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Speaker 1: honest effort to at least research it and try and

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Speaker 1: only thing that wines and automobiles should be bad differentials

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Speaker 1: and transmissions for the record, which are expensive to repair.

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Speaker 1: Just so you know, UM, I'll talk to you little

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Speaker 1: bit of this week about SUPERU that came into the

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Speaker 1: that I've been keeping track of week to week, day

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Speaker 1: go this same customer called back and said, you know,

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Speaker 1: ever since, and I hate the ever since comment, but

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Speaker 1: you always have to take it seriously. You're obligated, that's

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Speaker 1: part of your responsibility is the attending mechanic. You know,

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Speaker 1: there's always that chance, but you've got to look at it.

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Speaker 1: Ever since now, when we travel at sixty out on

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Speaker 1: So if we're in the fast land, if we're in

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Speaker 1: the farthest most high speed lane to the left and

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Speaker 1: and depending upon the severity of the turn, the vehicle

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Speaker 1: the front fenders are physically vibrating and bouncing and the

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Speaker 1: wheels are bouncing on the road. Huh, I said, Well,

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Speaker 1: we did rotate the tires two weeks ago. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's egg shaped? Does it look like there's any signs

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Speaker 1: it spins on the balancer. We didn't see anything, so

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Speaker 1: obviously we finished with the rotate. Well, you know, Carr

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Speaker 1: just look everything over. You know, maybe he's mistaking, although

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Speaker 1: I don't see how. Maybe he's mistaking a rubbing dust shield,

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Speaker 1: Just a matter of habit, and if you do it

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Speaker 1: Huh uh gee, that's kind of different, clunk, and the

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Speaker 1: front the lower control arm, the front inner bushing was

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Speaker 1: I've got a bad control arm. Look at that. And

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Speaker 1: I still got a vehicle. That plane, Jane, without the

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Speaker 1: just you just the devil's in the details, details or

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Speaker 1: the automatic transmission failed. Now you would say, well, what's

430
00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:31,320
Speaker 1: so hard about getting transmission parts? Well, number one, it's

431
00:20:31,320 --> 00:20:34,440
Speaker 1: an OH six, So it's it's older than fifteen years.

432
00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:37,960
Speaker 1: And we're seeing car parts disappearing at an alarming rate

433
00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:42,040
Speaker 1: for older vehicles especially, And you know, I've had conversation

434
00:20:42,080 --> 00:20:45,440
Speaker 1: with some people recently where they're saying that we may

435
00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:49,240
Speaker 1: not see certain old parts come back because the manufacturers

436
00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:52,439
Speaker 1: are having a difficult enough time keeping things in stock

437
00:20:52,520 --> 00:20:55,920
Speaker 1: for those five and six year old vehicles. So we

438
00:20:55,960 --> 00:20:58,920
Speaker 1: may see things, you know, slowly, that that OH six

439
00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:03,120
Speaker 1: montagoes not in port anymore, that that twelve Honda accord

440
00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:06,679
Speaker 1: is not important, anymore. Honda's got a pretty much as

441
00:21:06,720 --> 00:21:08,880
Speaker 1: big a parts problem as anybody out there right now,

442
00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:10,880
Speaker 1: by the way, So I don't think it's the quality

443
00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:13,000
Speaker 1: of the car to the of the car, the alleged

444
00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:16,280
Speaker 1: perception of how good that vehicle is. It's it's a

445
00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:18,520
Speaker 1: lot of the car companies now have parts issues. But anyway,

446
00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:23,119
Speaker 1: our montego and pointed conversation failed the transmission. Now, this

447
00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:26,480
Speaker 1: is an early c VT, which is not a a

448
00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:30,840
Speaker 1: traditional automatic transmission. It's it's a different sort of technology.

449
00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:34,840
Speaker 1: And they only made this particular model of transmission for

450
00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:38,440
Speaker 1: two years. So you've got a better than fifteen year

451
00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:41,919
Speaker 1: old car with a two year design of transmission, and

452
00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:44,560
Speaker 1: now it failed at forty thousand miles at the top.

453
00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:47,280
Speaker 1: It off in research because I did some of the

454
00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:49,080
Speaker 1: research for to try and give her a direction on

455
00:21:49,119 --> 00:21:51,160
Speaker 1: where to go to find parts after we had diagnosed

456
00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:53,600
Speaker 1: with the failure was because we weren't able to get

457
00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:57,240
Speaker 1: parts of this car. Just it just didn't exist. Um,

458
00:21:57,359 --> 00:21:59,359
Speaker 1: she ended up. I said, that's when she told me

459
00:21:59,359 --> 00:22:01,320
Speaker 1: about the warranty. He said, well, you know, why don't

460
00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:03,760
Speaker 1: we talk to the manufacturer and see what they would do,

461
00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:06,160
Speaker 1: because they sold the wise, they soldial warranty that isn't

462
00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:10,360
Speaker 1: of any value. So she called the manufacturer up and

463
00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:12,719
Speaker 1: Ford and we can we have to bring it out

464
00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:15,400
Speaker 1: the dealership out the Pennsylvania where you bought it. Okay,

465
00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:18,840
Speaker 1: let's do that. Um. They trucked it out there two

466
00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:21,440
Speaker 1: and a half, almost three hours away, and they looked

467
00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:23,280
Speaker 1: at it and they said, yep, it needs a transmission.

468
00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:28,639
Speaker 1: Well they're obsolete. Yeah, but your warranty policy said that,

469
00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:30,239
Speaker 1: you know, you were going to cover this and this

470
00:22:30,320 --> 00:22:33,440
Speaker 1: and this, and they were obligated to follow the contract

471
00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:35,720
Speaker 1: of that, because that's what a warranty policy is. It's

472
00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:38,160
Speaker 1: a it's a it's a legal document, it's a contract.

473
00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:43,160
Speaker 1: It's funny how or what the resources are for finding

474
00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:47,240
Speaker 1: parts as you climb the ladder, so to speak. You

475
00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:50,320
Speaker 1: know what what Ford Motor Company could find versus a

476
00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:53,800
Speaker 1: local trans builder or a local repair shop or myself

477
00:22:54,359 --> 00:22:58,159
Speaker 1: have access to is very different. And they found a

478
00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:02,920
Speaker 1: remanufactured CBT transfer this oh six Montego, had its shipped

479
00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:06,159
Speaker 1: to the dealership, put it in and it worked for

480
00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:10,240
Speaker 1: about ten days and it it failed. It actually failed

481
00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:12,840
Speaker 1: on her way home back from the dealership. She was

482
00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:15,640
Speaker 1: driving it back from Pennsylvania because obviously she didn't need

483
00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:19,400
Speaker 1: to uh, she didn't need to um, you know, get

484
00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:21,800
Speaker 1: it towed back. But she didn't need to get a

485
00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:23,320
Speaker 1: took back to the dealer. So went back to the

486
00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:27,880
Speaker 1: dealer again, and same thing, that that replacement transmission had failed.

487
00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:31,200
Speaker 1: And she dug in her heels, Maggie dugging her heels

488
00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:34,480
Speaker 1: to her credit, and said, look, I bought this service contract.

489
00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:35,919
Speaker 1: You guys told me you were gonna be able to

490
00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:39,160
Speaker 1: take care of it. I need a transmission Ford Motor Company.

491
00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:40,760
Speaker 1: And I think it was because of the way to

492
00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:44,119
Speaker 1: the service contract. And I think the value here is

493
00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:48,240
Speaker 1: that Ford Motor Company wrote the contract. So that's why

494
00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:50,639
Speaker 1: I like to buy. I like to buy service contracts

495
00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:55,280
Speaker 1: that are manufacturer direct or at least um right from

496
00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:59,520
Speaker 1: the dealership. Um leary of the flyers that we get

497
00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:01,239
Speaker 1: in the mail box and say hey, extend your car

498
00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:04,160
Speaker 1: is warranty, because I think the ones that are tied

499
00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:06,159
Speaker 1: right to the manufacturer give you a little bit more

500
00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:09,000
Speaker 1: cloud and a little bit more push. Fort Motor Company somehow,

501
00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:14,360
Speaker 1: on extra effort, found a brand new CDT transmission sitting somewhere.

502
00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:16,719
Speaker 1: Oh no, I take that back. I remember what happened.

503
00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:19,760
Speaker 1: They went to the vendor, the original builder of that

504
00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:24,760
Speaker 1: transmission from fifteen years ago, and they pulled together enough

505
00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:28,040
Speaker 1: parts to build a brand new trans on an obsolete

506
00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:30,800
Speaker 1: car that's been gone out of production fifteen years. Can

507
00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:34,360
Speaker 1: you dig that? As crazy as that sounds, that's what happened.

508
00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:37,359
Speaker 1: She got it back. Cars working flawlessly. Now these past

509
00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:39,280
Speaker 1: two months, I've been hesitant to say anything about the

510
00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:42,439
Speaker 1: final outcome until I knew for sure. But we just

511
00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:46,280
Speaker 1: saw the car last week on Thursday for an oil change,

512
00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:48,960
Speaker 1: and everything was working well and everything was holding up.

513
00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:52,119
Speaker 1: So so sometimes when you buy a service contract, it

514
00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:55,120
Speaker 1: pays off it just you know, it depends on where

515
00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:58,879
Speaker 1: you're getting it from and in the value of it. Um.

516
00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:00,719
Speaker 1: You know, last week, I think last week last week

517
00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:03,159
Speaker 1: show of the show before that, I talked about helping someone.

518
00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:06,760
Speaker 1: She was purchasing a vehicle coming off lease, and we

519
00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:09,800
Speaker 1: talked about service contracts and I said, you know, it

520
00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:12,320
Speaker 1: was afford Also, it was Afford Escape, I said, by

521
00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:16,280
Speaker 1: the manufacturer, by it right from Ford. And when she inquired,

522
00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:20,240
Speaker 1: she's got four years of bumper to bumper on a

523
00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:23,240
Speaker 1: nineteen Escape, so she's got four years four more years

524
00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:26,760
Speaker 1: on top of uh, whatever powertrain warranty has left because

525
00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:28,760
Speaker 1: the car's only got twenty thous miles on it, she's

526
00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:31,600
Speaker 1: got four more years of bumper to bumper protection with

527
00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:37,280
Speaker 1: roadside and you know, disablement towing, hotel accommodations at the

528
00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:40,359
Speaker 1: vehicle is stuck overnight somewhere. And I think she paid

529
00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:43,240
Speaker 1: three grand. That's less than a thousand dollars a year

530
00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:45,960
Speaker 1: for bumper to bumper coverage on a vehicle that will

531
00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:49,920
Speaker 1: slowly age. Um. So I'm seeing some good things out

532
00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:53,439
Speaker 1: there coming from service contracts. Um. Either they're changing the

533
00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:56,840
Speaker 1: product in the way that it's being developed, or you know,

534
00:25:57,040 --> 00:25:59,439
Speaker 1: it's it's finally catching up to the technology of the

535
00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:01,159
Speaker 1: car and it's darning to jel and makes sense. So

536
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:03,680
Speaker 1: you want to consider service contracts. Maybe they're not as

537
00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:05,640
Speaker 1: bad as we once thought they were. They do seem

538
00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:08,960
Speaker 1: to have their place, so, um, just food for thought. Hey,

539
00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:11,120
Speaker 1: the phone numbers eight five five five six zero nine

540
00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:13,440
Speaker 1: nine zero zero. I'm Ronini and the car Doctor. I'll

541
00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:27,480
Speaker 1: be back right after this. Don't go away. Welcome back.

542
00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:29,400
Speaker 1: Ran named the card doctor here at eight five five

543
00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:31,840
Speaker 1: five zero nine zero zero. Let's go over to Joe

544
00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:34,800
Speaker 1: in Manhattan twenty jeep, Grand Cherokee, Joe, what's going on?

545
00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:37,960
Speaker 1: How can I help? Good afternoon, mister Nay And how

546
00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:41,800
Speaker 1: are you good, sir? What's cooking? Um? As I told

547
00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:44,439
Speaker 1: Tom briefly, Uh, I had a little bit of an

548
00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:47,680
Speaker 1: issue with Grand Cherokee. My father did me a favor

549
00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:49,080
Speaker 1: and took it to get an oil change, and I

550
00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:51,280
Speaker 1: thought he was going to the dealership, but he ended

551
00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:53,320
Speaker 1: up for some reason taking into the fire Stone over

552
00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:57,400
Speaker 1: in Wayne. Uh So he did the oil change, brought

553
00:26:57,440 --> 00:26:59,480
Speaker 1: it back to me in the city, and I went

554
00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:01,720
Speaker 1: to start driving it in About an hour or so

555
00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:06,320
Speaker 1: into the drive, um my start stopped on the engine

556
00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:08,840
Speaker 1: like you know, the warning came up and then uh

557
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:11,000
Speaker 1: I heard like a little tapping noise. So then I

558
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:13,280
Speaker 1: pulled over, opened up the hood and then I saw

559
00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:16,280
Speaker 1: oils everywhere on the the bottom of the engine bay.

560
00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:19,919
Speaker 1: Like called up the fire Yeah, and yeah, called up

561
00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:23,280
Speaker 1: the Firestone, and they sent out a flat bed came

562
00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:25,960
Speaker 1: and towed the back. Five followed it in my other car,

563
00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:29,080
Speaker 1: and uh went over there. And what ended up happening

564
00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:31,920
Speaker 1: was the tech when he put the new oil filter

565
00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:34,080
Speaker 1: in with the new overring, he pinched the overing and

566
00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:37,080
Speaker 1: the oil was spitting out of there, and I didn't

567
00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:39,520
Speaker 1: notice it up until he and I didn't notice it

568
00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:43,040
Speaker 1: until that happened. Um, so you know I was wondering.

569
00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:45,120
Speaker 1: I mean, I haven't had any issues since it's been

570
00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:47,560
Speaker 1: about you know, about two and a half weeks, three

571
00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:50,320
Speaker 1: weeks now, since that happened. I haven't had any issues

572
00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:52,919
Speaker 1: with knocking or anything. They refilled the oil, you know,

573
00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:56,879
Speaker 1: make sure everything was fine. Um, you know, so I

574
00:27:56,960 --> 00:27:59,240
Speaker 1: just um, like I said, I haven't had any issues

575
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:01,399
Speaker 1: right now, but I don't know, you know, what steps

576
00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:05,399
Speaker 1: I should take? Well, my my questions are multiple. So

577
00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:09,280
Speaker 1: they they redid the oil change, you know, did the

578
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:13,000
Speaker 1: filter correctly filled it with oil to start stop work?

579
00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:18,320
Speaker 1: Now it works, Uh, you know, everything works fine, but

580
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:20,760
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know if like something is going

581
00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:23,639
Speaker 1: to happen later on down the road. Well, and and

582
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:27,240
Speaker 1: you really don't okay. Uh you know, right now it's

583
00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:30,200
Speaker 1: operating as designed. It's quiet, there's no ticking, there's no

584
00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:35,840
Speaker 1: noises from it. Uh no, Okay, you know the quandary

585
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:39,800
Speaker 1: here is all right. Um, you know, first of all,

586
00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:42,240
Speaker 1: they have insurance, so this isn't gonna come out of

587
00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:44,560
Speaker 1: in somebody's pocket. All right, if if we had to

588
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:47,280
Speaker 1: make a claim. Uh, you know, my concern is, right,

589
00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:51,000
Speaker 1: you know, if had a hundred thousand miles, let's project out.

590
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:53,479
Speaker 1: If had a hundred thousand miles it had engine failure,

591
00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:55,960
Speaker 1: that's kind of hard to prove, all right, it's probably

592
00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:58,200
Speaker 1: it's it's kind of hard to tie back. Did it

593
00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:01,720
Speaker 1: take some miles off the engine? Yeah, I'm sure it did. Uh.

594
00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:03,480
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's not good to run an engine

595
00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:06,040
Speaker 1: low on oil to the point of tapping. Um. I'm

596
00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:08,000
Speaker 1: assuming that when you heard it start to tap, you

597
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:11,080
Speaker 1: shut it off right away. I pulled over and shut

598
00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:13,080
Speaker 1: it off right away. Yeah, So you know you were

599
00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:16,120
Speaker 1: smart like that, and that's that probably saved it from

600
00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:20,520
Speaker 1: self destruction. Your concern isn't what happens in five years.

601
00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:25,040
Speaker 1: Your concern is what happens in five months, alright, Yes,

602
00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:29,360
Speaker 1: basically all right. Now, the good news is it's under

603
00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:33,800
Speaker 1: manufacturer's warranty. All right. Um, if the engine were to

604
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:37,120
Speaker 1: fail in five months, I don't know how the manufacturer

605
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:39,560
Speaker 1: would prove that it's the result of having it run

606
00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:42,600
Speaker 1: low on oil. They're gonna ask you for oil change receipts,

607
00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:46,360
Speaker 1: all right, I have them all, and I also have

608
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:49,920
Speaker 1: when that happened. I'm sorry to cut you off. When

609
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:53,240
Speaker 1: that happened, I had firestone. They're uh put in writing

610
00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:55,440
Speaker 1: that it was due to the text. Uh you know,

611
00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:58,760
Speaker 1: mistake that and if anything should happen, so I have

612
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:02,640
Speaker 1: that in writing, right, UM, I would probably you know,

613
00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:08,000
Speaker 1: when's your next oil change scheduled? Um, I'm probably gonna

614
00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:11,240
Speaker 1: get it done within the next like two weeks. So

615
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:13,040
Speaker 1: what have you put that many miles on it already?

616
00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:22,120
Speaker 1: Or it's just peace of mind? Uh? It right? Right?

617
00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:25,000
Speaker 1: So yeah, I would. I would get it changed, and

618
00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:27,720
Speaker 1: obviously that the dealer do it and maintain that trail

619
00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:31,600
Speaker 1: of dealership. UM oil change intervals like that. You know

620
00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:34,280
Speaker 1: the interesting thing someone said to me the other day,

621
00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:37,400
Speaker 1: You know what oil filters will I put on certain cars?

622
00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:39,760
Speaker 1: I use a lot of aftermarket filters. I'll use a Wix,

623
00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:42,160
Speaker 1: I'll use a UM, I'll use a fram I'll use

624
00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:45,640
Speaker 1: it whoever. And then a lot of newer vehicles, I'll

625
00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:48,160
Speaker 1: just put ANEE filter on it. And the reason is

626
00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:51,280
Speaker 1: it seems to end the argument, all right, not what

627
00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:54,920
Speaker 1: we've never had a failure, but in a situation like this,

628
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:57,959
Speaker 1: if if that engine were to fail in five months

629
00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:00,080
Speaker 1: or six months or whatever, and you go back to

630
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:02,720
Speaker 1: the dealership and they pull out a Chrysler filter and

631
00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:06,320
Speaker 1: you've got receipts showing oil changes done by them or

632
00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:11,320
Speaker 1: done by somebody. It cuts down on the argument. All right.

633
00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:15,320
Speaker 1: So I think you're in a good spot, all right, Joe.

634
00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:17,400
Speaker 1: I I think that you're very proactive and on top

635
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:19,440
Speaker 1: of it. I think getting that next oil change done

636
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:22,320
Speaker 1: by the dealer is going to be real important. And

637
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:26,080
Speaker 1: you know, at that point, just keep track of everything. Um.

638
00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:29,280
Speaker 1: I honestly do think though that you know, as more

639
00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:31,960
Speaker 1: time goes by, it's letting the firestone off the hook.

640
00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:34,720
Speaker 1: And I don't know how responsible they are. Usually the

641
00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:36,640
Speaker 1: damage is going to be right away where you're gonna

642
00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:41,560
Speaker 1: see it. Um. You may you may want to collect um.

643
00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:44,600
Speaker 1: And here's where a case we're using an oil analysis

644
00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:47,080
Speaker 1: lab actually does make sense. You may want to take

645
00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:49,400
Speaker 1: a quart of that oil or a pint of that

646
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:52,400
Speaker 1: oil whatever they call for, um, I'm sorry, a sample

647
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:55,000
Speaker 1: of that oil. Yeah, send it out and let it

648
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:57,800
Speaker 1: send it out the blackstone and get an analysis. You know,

649
00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:01,240
Speaker 1: explain to them the situation. Hey, the engine got food

650
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:04,360
Speaker 1: miles on it. I had this failure because of this.

651
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 1: Uh you know, do you see a a a higher

652
00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:12,200
Speaker 1: increased risk of or more issues of metal in the

653
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:14,760
Speaker 1: oil than is normally there? Because you've got a figure.

654
00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:17,440
Speaker 1: There are other people out there doing black Stone analysis,

655
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:20,160
Speaker 1: and I'm sure they've got more than their fair share

656
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 1: of jeeps with fifty plus miles on them that shows

657
00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:25,840
Speaker 1: a metal rating of you know, I don't know, make

658
00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:28,360
Speaker 1: up a number one percent. If yours shows up and

659
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:32,520
Speaker 1: it's got three, that's a point of a conversation, you know,

660
00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:34,280
Speaker 1: whether or not it would whether or not it would

661
00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:36,640
Speaker 1: hold up in court, or you know, take it to

662
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:39,040
Speaker 1: the point where fire Stone would actually do something. I

663
00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:42,480
Speaker 1: don't know. That's a that's a lawyer conversation, all right,

664
00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:45,360
Speaker 1: you know, because we're trying to we're trying to determine

665
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:51,200
Speaker 1: your loss before the loss happens, which is which is tough?

666
00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:57,360
Speaker 1: So which is tough? Alright, kiddo, alright, alright, if I may,

667
00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:00,400
Speaker 1: I Tom, I didn't get to free Uh you know

668
00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:02,800
Speaker 1: with the second thing with my health hat charger, if

669
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:04,640
Speaker 1: I just real quick could throw that in a question,

670
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:06,000
Speaker 1: we'll tell you what if you can hang on, I'll

671
00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:07,240
Speaker 1: be glad to come back to you and we'll talk

672
00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:09,120
Speaker 1: about that right after the pause. I'm run any in

673
00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:28,120
Speaker 1: the car doctor, We'll return right after this. Welcome back

674
00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:30,320
Speaker 1: running the end of the car doctor. Joe, you're still there,

675
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:34,440
Speaker 1: Joe in Manhattan. You know, Joe, real quick, before I forget,

676
00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:36,360
Speaker 1: when you do take that cheap in or prior to

677
00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:38,680
Speaker 1: taking that cheap into the dealer for its oil change,

678
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:40,920
Speaker 1: try and clean up under the hood as best you can.

679
00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:42,560
Speaker 1: You don't want to make it, you know, you don't

680
00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:44,280
Speaker 1: want to leave a sloppy mess. It's gonna make them

681
00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:46,440
Speaker 1: start to look around. And keep in mind that some

682
00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:48,320
Speaker 1: of that oil is down under the belly of the

683
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:54,240
Speaker 1: intake manifold. Uh, this is the filters a V six jeep. Yeah. Yeah,

684
00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:57,720
Speaker 1: so the filter housing, so it filled the cavity between

685
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:00,520
Speaker 1: the cylinder heads under the intake manifold the oil so

686
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:02,160
Speaker 1: it's gonna drip out the bottom. It looked like a

687
00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:04,760
Speaker 1: remain seal oil league for the longest time. So you

688
00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:06,400
Speaker 1: want to try and clean that up as best you can,

689
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:09,359
Speaker 1: hopefully or they did it for you. UM. So just

690
00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:12,560
Speaker 1: just be mindful of that. UM. Question about your about

691
00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:17,040
Speaker 1: your health cat. Yeah, I brought it in, ordered it

692
00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:21,160
Speaker 1: and brought it in uh August, and literally the next

693
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:22,719
Speaker 1: week I sent it over to the speed shop and

694
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:25,400
Speaker 1: had some work done to it. Uh at an upper

695
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:28,880
Speaker 1: hell raised a pole in a low api lower done

696
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:32,360
Speaker 1: and with a tune and long tubes and um, you

697
00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:36,840
Speaker 1: know the works. Um. But um, anyway, I've had it,

698
00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:39,040
Speaker 1: you know roughly, you know about two years now and

699
00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:42,239
Speaker 1: last week when I took it out at the garage. Um,

700
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:45,000
Speaker 1: came out of the garage on thirty first Street. And

701
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:48,239
Speaker 1: when I went and turned it, said on the thing

702
00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:51,120
Speaker 1: it's puttered and stalled out in the game off I

703
00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:57,640
Speaker 1: put put it put it the part? Um. Uh So

704
00:34:57,680 --> 00:34:59,799
Speaker 1: I did? I did that? Restarted it? And I'm just

705
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:02,000
Speaker 1: kind of like having a bit of a thing a

706
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:05,279
Speaker 1: white did it? Did it sit for an extended period? Joe?

707
00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 1: And the clock is gonna grab us? I'm sorry, So

708
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:08,880
Speaker 1: we got to continue this question and another time. The

709
00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:10,640
Speaker 1: best answer I can give you is if it had

710
00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:12,640
Speaker 1: any sort of issue with a dead battery or lost

711
00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:14,960
Speaker 1: its memory and base settings, it may have to be

712
00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:17,279
Speaker 1: retrained and relearned. Again, it depends on how much you've

713
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:19,319
Speaker 1: let it sit. If that's not the answer, Joe, give

714
00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:21,279
Speaker 1: me a call back. I'm sorry, time is short. I'm

715
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:23,400
Speaker 1: on an any in the car doctor. The mechanics aren't expensive,

716
00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:24,600
Speaker 1: they're priceless. See you