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Speaker 1: The following program has been pre recorded. Ron Ananian, I

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Speaker 1: don't know if you're aware or even possibly how you

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the radio home of Ron and Aanian the

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

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Speaker 1: overturned to for their definitive opinion on automotive repair. If

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

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

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Speaker 1: five five and now he is running. What did you

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Speaker 1: learn this week? I learned a lot. I went to

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Speaker 1: problem is a lot worse than we actually think it is.

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Speaker 1: It really is, um, And I understand that. You know

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Speaker 1: what I'm gonna tell you is maybe it's reflective upon

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Speaker 1: It's a Kia Rio. It's a Rio s actually is

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Speaker 1: what it was. It was a submodel too. We needed

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Speaker 1: needed dentures afterwards when your teeth fell out because it

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Speaker 1: was such a bad rattle. How hard could this be?

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Speaker 1: We started working on this car on Monday, looked it up,

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Speaker 1: ordered two of the nicest break rotors from the brand

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Speaker 1: that we always use, perfect, looked up in the catalog,

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Speaker 1: showed up, Danny took him out of the box. The

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Speaker 1: And we sent those back and they looked it up again,

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Speaker 1: and this time we called the manufacturer and they said, no,

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Speaker 1: That part number showed up, and indeed it was. It

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Speaker 1: had four lug nuts. It had four holes for four lugs.

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Speaker 1: So I said, well, at least we got the number

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Speaker 1: you know, it just it was just missed it. You know,

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Speaker 1: And we laid the rotors against each other, and there's

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Speaker 1: all right, I gotta stop screwing around. By now it's tuesday, alright,

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Speaker 1: we lost We lost a day on this. By now

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Speaker 1: he came back and he said, you know, Ron, there

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Speaker 1: What does that mean? What We're driving a three year

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Speaker 1: We ended up machining the rotors. And I have to

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Speaker 1: tell you the story, right, Um, I'm looking for a

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Speaker 1: So we were very careful. I'm machined about seven thousands

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Speaker 1: How we're how we're being affected, how things are going

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Speaker 1: and she was desperate. She hasn't had her vehicle now

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Speaker 1: she's got no cooling fan. The car overheats. On occasion,

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Speaker 1: So I guess the moral to the story is, Um,

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Speaker 1: I know what I learned. I learned that parts are

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Speaker 1: where we make parts, as I consider machining rotors making

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Speaker 1: a part, we're making a bad part into a good part. Right. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know we're we're we're making parts work and getting

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Speaker 1: my twenty two Chevrolet Silverado I wanted. They don't they

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Speaker 1: don't always put the wheelwell linings in the rear wheel wells.

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Speaker 1: I had purchased something after market. They fit terrible. Their garbage. UM,

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Speaker 1: it's really you can't predict anything. Um, you really can't.

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Speaker 1: So I don't know what you learned this week. I

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Speaker 1: just learned that the parts problem is bad and it's

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Speaker 1: and gloom, but there's ways around it, you know. I

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Speaker 1: You just do the think non traditional methods. You know.

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Speaker 1: I would have loved to have jump on o'reillyoto parts,

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Speaker 1: get on rallyoto dot com and see if they've had it,

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Speaker 1: because they've got They've got some of the biggest warehouses

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Speaker 1: that matter, they're so big and uh I bet O'Reilly

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Speaker 1: ooto parts would have that cooling fan. But we'll never know.

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Speaker 1: The lady never left me the vent, so if she's

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Speaker 1: Welcome back, Hi, Ron, thanks for having me back. I'm

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Speaker 1: doing good man. Um, how is your day today? Did

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Speaker 1: if you get a code for uh pas oh three

426
00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:17,880
Speaker 1: oh three, which is a misfire, you know, that's usually

427
00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:20,480
Speaker 1: going to be a spark plug or a coil pack,

428
00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:23,320
Speaker 1: you know. And for the ambitious car owners out there,

429
00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:25,639
Speaker 1: they can head over to the park to retailer and

430
00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:27,920
Speaker 1: pick up those plugs or pick up that coil pack

431
00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:31,280
Speaker 1: and you know, and pop it in. So it gives you,

432
00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:34,879
Speaker 1: it gives the car owner a pathway to addressing the

433
00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:37,560
Speaker 1: issues that they might be experiencing with the car. So

434
00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:40,000
Speaker 1: they kind of right, they kind of know which way

435
00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:42,880
Speaker 1: they're going now. In all fairness, the cailer we had

436
00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:44,800
Speaker 1: on just before you, John from Texas, got a P

437
00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:47,840
Speaker 1: zero three oh two. He did do plugs and coils.

438
00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:51,240
Speaker 1: He didn't do enough testing because he still has his problems.

439
00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:53,480
Speaker 1: So let's caution everybody. We still want you to test

440
00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:55,560
Speaker 1: and not and not guess now, what I had said

441
00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:58,159
Speaker 1: to him was move coils and plugs around to determine

442
00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:00,640
Speaker 1: as it ignition as a mechanical and you know, we'll

443
00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:02,680
Speaker 1: get him on the right path, We'll get him straightened out.

444
00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:06,680
Speaker 1: But yes, I understand your point. Um, some scan tools

445
00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:09,800
Speaker 1: connect to a phone, right, we get and we have listeners,

446
00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:13,040
Speaker 1: it will tell me, well, I'm using a brand scan tool.

447
00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:15,359
Speaker 1: Names don't come to mind, but something that will connect

448
00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:18,000
Speaker 1: to their phone. And you know my argument against that

449
00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:20,840
Speaker 1: is it's slow. Right if I'm trying to look at

450
00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:23,400
Speaker 1: live data on a on an Android phone, I don't

451
00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:25,960
Speaker 1: know how fast it is. Necessarily. I'm not condemning all

452
00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:29,000
Speaker 1: of them, but I've I've always been a handheld guy.

453
00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:34,320
Speaker 1: Are there advantages to handheld versus the phone disadvantages? Uh?

454
00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:36,480
Speaker 1: You know, where do you where do you make that?

455
00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:40,840
Speaker 1: Where do you make that decision? Point? Yeah? Um, So

456
00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:44,560
Speaker 1: basically the phone elements that you're talking about are basically

457
00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:47,359
Speaker 1: going to be like the devices that are dongles that

458
00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:51,080
Speaker 1: sync up to the through via Bluetooth connection to your phone,

459
00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:53,480
Speaker 1: and you will be able to retrieve some information, but

460
00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:55,240
Speaker 1: they're definitely gonna be a lag there. It's not going

461
00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:57,800
Speaker 1: to be comparable to a professional line scan tool that

462
00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:01,040
Speaker 1: you're that your mechanic at the at your service center

463
00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:02,920
Speaker 1: would have, right, So that would be the difference. It

464
00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:05,880
Speaker 1: would be actually, it would be level of data transmission

465
00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:10,280
Speaker 1: and also UM and also the like quality of data

466
00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:13,880
Speaker 1: and UM what's being delivered. So you're you know, it's

467
00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:16,320
Speaker 1: it's I guess it becomes down. It comes down to

468
00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:20,520
Speaker 1: price point. So let's let's let's go specific. Now your

469
00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:23,320
Speaker 1: launch right launch tech you is it launched tech USA

470
00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:29,120
Speaker 1: dot com? Harsh for the listeners? Yes, m okay. So

471
00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:33,520
Speaker 1: you're you're you're a scan tool manufacturer, full disclosure. How

472
00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:36,879
Speaker 1: do you decide you know, you're putting like you just

473
00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:38,480
Speaker 1: came out with a new d I Y scan tool.

474
00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:41,000
Speaker 1: How did you decide what to put in it? You know,

475
00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:43,879
Speaker 1: where's the price point? You know? Is it market study?

476
00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:45,480
Speaker 1: Do you say, well, we're gonna make a scan tool

477
00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:48,760
Speaker 1: for five thousand dollars two thousand dollars? You know, how

478
00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:52,240
Speaker 1: does that variable get determined and you know, how does

479
00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:54,960
Speaker 1: the listener know, you know, do they go for the

480
00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:59,399
Speaker 1: five tool, the thousand dollar tool, the tool Where's where's

481
00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:05,239
Speaker 1: their line in the sand? Yeah, it depends on the demographic, right,

482
00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:09,440
Speaker 1: So we categorize our segments into the demographics. One thing

483
00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:11,760
Speaker 1: about us as the Launch, as the company is we

484
00:25:12,359 --> 00:25:15,520
Speaker 1: UH serve many different demographics, some the do it yourself

485
00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:19,240
Speaker 1: to the professional technicians and services facilities. So we at

486
00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:23,480
Speaker 1: launch realized that sometimes the d I Y segment um

487
00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:26,119
Speaker 1: is getting is kind of is neglected. And in the

488
00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:30,240
Speaker 1: free information age, we understand that consumers, the average consumers

489
00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:33,720
Speaker 1: you know, has had a phone in their life ever

490
00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:36,360
Speaker 1: since you know, they were a teenager. So we realized

491
00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:39,000
Speaker 1: to take demand that in the aspect of their life,

492
00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:42,159
Speaker 1: and that's when we decide to release a d I

493
00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:45,560
Speaker 1: Y product with just enough information that's going to be

494
00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:48,800
Speaker 1: and and functionality that's gonna be relevant for them and

495
00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:52,359
Speaker 1: for UH. For the next segment, the professional segment, obviously,

496
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:54,640
Speaker 1: you know, we we work very closely with the shops

497
00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:57,919
Speaker 1: and the services facilities and the master text and we

498
00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:00,880
Speaker 1: take their feedback and developing the high high and professional

499
00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:03,399
Speaker 1: line products. But you know, and this is gonna be

500
00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:05,320
Speaker 1: my question. We're gonna we're gonna stop for a pause

501
00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:07,679
Speaker 1: and then we come back. You'll answer it. My question

502
00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:11,960
Speaker 1: before the pause is, but is the handheld device where

503
00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:15,639
Speaker 1: it's just your phone, is that device likely to be

504
00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:18,920
Speaker 1: more limited than a true handheld scan tool, whether it's

505
00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:21,680
Speaker 1: d I YRE professional. Don't answer it yet, you think

506
00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:23,479
Speaker 1: about that. Let me pull over take the pause. I'm

507
00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:25,280
Speaker 1: run any in the car doctor. I'm here with Haresh

508
00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:27,959
Speaker 1: Goben from launch tech or launch Tech USA dot com,

509
00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:30,639
Speaker 1: Launch scan Tool Products. We'll both be back right after this.

510
00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:41,159
Speaker 1: Don't go away, welcome back. We're on the end the

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Speaker 1: car doctor. Here. We're with Haresh Goben from Launch scan Tools,

512
00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:48,040
Speaker 1: launch Tech USA dot com. And before the pause, I

513
00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:49,520
Speaker 1: had asked to Rush. I kind of put him on

514
00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:51,480
Speaker 1: the spot a little bit and made him sweat. I

515
00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:53,119
Speaker 1: like to make them sweat. It's kind of fun, right

516
00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:57,199
Speaker 1: Haresh and uh, we were we were talking about you know,

517
00:26:57,320 --> 00:27:00,520
Speaker 1: what's better that the handheld phone device or the you

518
00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:02,760
Speaker 1: know the I'm sorry the phone device, were the handheld

519
00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:05,520
Speaker 1: scan tool? And you know, what are you going to

520
00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:08,280
Speaker 1: get more out of? What's what's what's the solution? What

521
00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:12,600
Speaker 1: do you think. So this is a catch twenty two question,

522
00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:14,600
Speaker 1: A very good question at that ron, but I would

523
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:18,479
Speaker 1: I'm gonna approach to answer it from this angle. So

524
00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:21,639
Speaker 1: for a D d I Y type device O B

525
00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:26,040
Speaker 1: D scan tool, it's all about expectations in terms of

526
00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:29,600
Speaker 1: the functionality that one expects. So on a D I

527
00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:33,199
Speaker 1: Y type scan tool, there will be some limited function

528
00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:36,560
Speaker 1: at such functionality as compared to a professional line scan tool.

529
00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:39,400
Speaker 1: In addition to that, UM the d I Y might

530
00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:42,560
Speaker 1: have a lag and data delivery and that there might

531
00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:47,600
Speaker 1: be like gaps and coverages and vehicle coverage. With that said, UM,

532
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:51,000
Speaker 1: a professional line scan tool, you can you can pretty

533
00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:52,960
Speaker 1: much be assured that you will be able to have

534
00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:58,040
Speaker 1: accommodate an expansive type of vehical coverage from euro domestic

535
00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:01,800
Speaker 1: and Asians. In addition to you'll be able to UM

536
00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:05,119
Speaker 1: to accommodate firewalls that you might not be able to

537
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:10,240
Speaker 1: accommodate on a D I Y. Now that that is

538
00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:12,639
Speaker 1: a whole another conversation. Let's not even go there. You know,

539
00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:14,720
Speaker 1: I also look at it as if I was going

540
00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:18,840
Speaker 1: to give a child, a son or a daughter going

541
00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:21,879
Speaker 1: to college a scan tool to throw in their glove compartment.

542
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:24,040
Speaker 1: Maybe it would just be an app on their phone,

543
00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:25,800
Speaker 1: just so when they call me and they go, hey Dad,

544
00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:27,760
Speaker 1: the check engine lights on, and I can tell them, hey,

545
00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:29,840
Speaker 1: plug in, tell me what the code is. I'll talk

546
00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:31,600
Speaker 1: to our mechanic and he'll tell me what to do

547
00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:33,399
Speaker 1: if it's serious, or can it wait? Can you come

548
00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:35,840
Speaker 1: home with the car? That kind of thing. But if

549
00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:38,120
Speaker 1: I'm a d I wire in my garage on a

550
00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:41,400
Speaker 1: Saturday afternoon and I'm trying to dope something out, I

551
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:45,280
Speaker 1: want as much firepower as I can get. So you know,

552
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:48,200
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go look, for example, at the Millennium Master,

553
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:50,320
Speaker 1: the new scan tool that Launch just came out with

554
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:52,800
Speaker 1: for the d I wires. Right, What's what's talking a

555
00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:54,800
Speaker 1: little bit about all the horsepower in that tool in

556
00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:58,239
Speaker 1: our last couple of minutes here, Haresh, What's what are

557
00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:00,440
Speaker 1: they gonna see when they look at that too versus

558
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:04,240
Speaker 1: a professional tool? What might they not see? And how

559
00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:07,160
Speaker 1: do they make that decision? Where to make that purchase decision?

560
00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:12,600
Speaker 1: So we've chose to release the Millennium Master. It's a

561
00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:17,000
Speaker 1: very formidable tool because it's not exactly just a code reader.

562
00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:20,600
Speaker 1: It's based on Android seven platform, and it mimics our

563
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:24,480
Speaker 1: award winning professional line software, so there's definitely gonna be

564
00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:27,200
Speaker 1: sound vehicle coverage on that tool in addition to being

565
00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:30,720
Speaker 1: able to access a multitude of service resets from brake

566
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:34,920
Speaker 1: resets to oil change to s RS resets um and

567
00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:38,080
Speaker 1: to a very sound vehicle coverage. So very good, uh

568
00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:42,240
Speaker 1: point that you you highlight this product. It's it's it's

569
00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:44,440
Speaker 1: a step above from the average d I Y tool

570
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:47,640
Speaker 1: because we realized that um the d I Y consumers,

571
00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:50,360
Speaker 1: you know, they deserve more. You know, these are enthusiasts,

572
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:52,720
Speaker 1: and these are people with vehical knowledge that they might

573
00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:55,120
Speaker 1: not might not work on vehicles for a living, but

574
00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:59,600
Speaker 1: you know they've grown up around cars and their gear heads.

575
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:03,000
Speaker 1: And this is one of the main competencies and horror

576
00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:06,280
Speaker 1: product focuses of the Millennium Master. It does more than

577
00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:08,520
Speaker 1: a than average d Y tool, but it's not quite

578
00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:11,360
Speaker 1: a professional line tool, so it strikes that medium balance there.

579
00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:14,960
Speaker 1: And where's the price point on a Millennium Harsh? Where

580
00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:17,280
Speaker 1: what street price on a Millennium Master right now someone

581
00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:20,360
Speaker 1: wanted to go out and buy one, um It's gonna

582
00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:23,280
Speaker 1: depend on the region, and UM I would just suggest

583
00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:26,400
Speaker 1: the listeners follow up at www dot launch tech USA

584
00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:28,800
Speaker 1: dot com. We have different price points in terms of

585
00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:32,000
Speaker 1: that our distributor models, so I don't want to be quoted. Yeah,

586
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:34,160
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, is there a thousand dollar tool

587
00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:39,440
Speaker 1: is a tool? Uh? You know, and then it's definitely

588
00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:41,560
Speaker 1: less than a thousand dollar too, gotcha. Okay, that's what

589
00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:43,680
Speaker 1: I'm looking for. And if we were going to go

590
00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:48,960
Speaker 1: to a professional tool by comparison, professional tools begin in

591
00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:53,239
Speaker 1: the fifteen hundred to two grand range, right, yeah, our

592
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:56,920
Speaker 1: professional ludes uh professional line tool and X four thirty

593
00:30:56,920 --> 00:31:00,760
Speaker 1: one line beginning the thousand dollars up right. Okay. And

594
00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:02,640
Speaker 1: you know, one of the things I always tell everybody is,

595
00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:05,280
Speaker 1: you know, you don't want to buy too little and

596
00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:07,479
Speaker 1: you don't want to buy too much, because chances are

597
00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:10,880
Speaker 1: whatever you buy at some point in a couple of years,

598
00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:13,440
Speaker 1: for five years, four or five years is a long

599
00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:15,760
Speaker 1: time on a scan tool, right, You're gonna want to

600
00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:19,560
Speaker 1: upgrade it. There's there's gonna be changes. Um, chances are

601
00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:23,120
Speaker 1: you're gonna upgrade most most scan tools, the hardware in

602
00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:25,560
Speaker 1: the first in the next three to five years, just

603
00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:28,600
Speaker 1: because the speeds required to talk to the newer vehicles,

604
00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:31,320
Speaker 1: but if you're working on an older family fleet fleet

605
00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:34,360
Speaker 1: and older family feet fleet, I'll get it right in

606
00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:38,600
Speaker 1: a minute. Um uh. You know maybe that older scan tools. Okay,

607
00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:41,160
Speaker 1: so hey listen real quick, we're gonna listeners go get

608
00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:43,080
Speaker 1: more information. The clock is gonna grab us. Tell them

609
00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:47,880
Speaker 1: where they want to go. Visit www dot launch tech

610
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:51,080
Speaker 1: USA dot com for more product information and to find

611
00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:54,560
Speaker 1: an available distributor with the best price points in your area.

612
00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:56,640
Speaker 1: And and real quick. I just want to touch on this.

613
00:31:57,040 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 1: My spies tell me, I always say the best for last.

614
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:01,720
Speaker 1: You know that the b S T three sixty, the

615
00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:04,520
Speaker 1: battery and Charging system gadget as you guys call it,

616
00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:08,800
Speaker 1: um uh, connects to and and test batteries and charging system.

617
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:11,160
Speaker 1: When you come back, we're gonna talk about that. But

618
00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:15,480
Speaker 1: can they find information about that at the website correct

619
00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:18,760
Speaker 1: under the product section. Got it? Okay? Haresh always a

620
00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:20,720
Speaker 1: pleasure man. You'd be well. Have a good rest of

621
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:24,240
Speaker 1: the day. You're very welcome. I'm ronning any of the

622
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:26,400
Speaker 1: car doctor. We'll be back right after this. Don't go away.

623
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:37,360
Speaker 1: He's welcome back. I want to take a minute and

624
00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:39,880
Speaker 1: thank Haresh Goban of launch Tech USA dot Com for

625
00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:42,240
Speaker 1: taking the time and talking scan tools with us. And

626
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:44,080
Speaker 1: there's a lot we could say about the subject, but

627
00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:47,000
Speaker 1: it is very timely. You know, you're as as cars

628
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:50,160
Speaker 1: continue to evolve in the technology advances all of you

629
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:52,720
Speaker 1: you you all have a need, as he said, for

630
00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:56,520
Speaker 1: that scan tool in the glove box. True story art

631
00:32:56,520 --> 00:32:58,720
Speaker 1: imitates life. Right. I got a phone called this week

632
00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:01,520
Speaker 1: from none other than Tom Right, my executive producer. I

633
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:04,960
Speaker 1: think it was Tuesday or Wednesday, and the Daughter unit,

634
00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:08,720
Speaker 1: Sarah Right, Tom's daughter. Where she Massachusetts? Tom, No, she's

635
00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:11,360
Speaker 1: in Connecticut. She's in Connecticut now and and her her

636
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:15,160
Speaker 1: fairly new Ford escape jump in when I'm wrong, Tom,

637
00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:17,560
Speaker 1: And it popped the check engine lighter. No, it popped

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Speaker 1: the throttle the wrench light pop pop the wrench light

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Speaker 1: and its echo sport and okay, right, and you know,

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Speaker 1: Tom Ron, what do you think it is? And we

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Speaker 1: kind of, you know, brainstormed a couple of possibilities. But

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Speaker 1: how nice it would have been, Tom Right, had we

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Speaker 1: had the ability to plug in a tool and Sarah

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Speaker 1: could do that. I mean, she's a doctor, you know,

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Speaker 1: she she's I'm thinking about buying her scan tool for Christmas.

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Speaker 1: You know it's it's I think it's going to become

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Speaker 1: Every car should have that ability, I think for peace

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Speaker 1: of mind. As a dad, How worried were you when

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Speaker 1: she called up and said, Dad, this lights on the dashboard.

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Speaker 1: I was worried, but I mean I knew kind of

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Speaker 1: had an idea what it was, because it was the

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Speaker 1: perfect storm. She had just come off the highway, which

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Speaker 1: was on an uphill ramp. She only the car was

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Speaker 1: helling her. She had fifty miles left, so she was

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Speaker 1: sucking fumes on the gas tank, and she had forgotten

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Speaker 1: to turn the auto start stop off, so the engine stopped.

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Speaker 1: She hit the she took her foot off the break,

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Speaker 1: she hit the gas and it threw the light. And

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Speaker 1: it's you know what, and you you make a good point,

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Speaker 1: because it's possible. Uh, she created the problem too. You know.

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Speaker 1: One of the things we've all got to realize is

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Speaker 1: that and we tend to do this. I think it's

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Speaker 1: the human being in this that we think, well, it's

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Speaker 1: a computer, it's perfect, it never goes bad, it never

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Speaker 1: breaks until it does. And then you're on the side

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Speaker 1: of the road somewhere and you're going, oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: what what what happened here? Why there's why are things

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Speaker 1: so bad and doing what they're doing? Those those who

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Speaker 1: work on computers no better? Yeah, well those are those

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Speaker 1: who work on computers with tires on them. No better too,

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Speaker 1: because it just doesn't work and you're gonna be fixing

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Speaker 1: them all the time. Because I know this guy in

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Speaker 1: the radio, and his favorite saying is still true to

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Speaker 1: this day, I'll Ronanini in the car doctor reminding all

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Speaker 1: of you good mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. See you