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Speaker 1: I'm not sure what the best type of tires are

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Speaker 1: for your car. I want to make sure your mechanic

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Speaker 1: is giving you an honest diagnosis. Then this is where

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Speaker 1: to turn for help. Welcome to the car Doctor ron

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Speaker 1: Anadian is here to answer your questions about cars.

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Speaker 2: I was go that way really fast.

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Speaker 1: If something gets in your way, t get in the call.

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Speaker 2: Nineteen seventy Pontiac Firebirds the car I've always wanted it.

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Speaker 2: Now I have it.

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Speaker 3: I rule.

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Speaker 1: Now here's the car Doctor ron Anadian.

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Speaker 2: Talking about the repair of the Week nineteen ninety six.

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Speaker 2: Out He came into the shop at Ari Automotive this week.

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Speaker 2: List of problems, sort of a short story almost It

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Speaker 2: was definitely approaching love letter status. No start, no crank,

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Speaker 2: door locks that didn't work, or radio that didn't work.

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Speaker 2: This guy had the car for seven months. This guy

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Speaker 2: worked on the car for a while. This did this,

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Speaker 2: This guy plugged into the it was a mess, sat

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Speaker 2: down and read the letter and we came up with

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Speaker 2: a list. And whenever you're faced with a problem like this,

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Speaker 2: you really need to get to the heart of what's

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Speaker 2: really wrong. And as obvious as that sounds, it's not

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Speaker 2: that easy to do. Because here was a scenario of

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Speaker 2: a real broken car with real problems that had been

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Speaker 2: the victim of lack of proper repair, and you needed

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Speaker 2: to have a clear direction. Clear direction requires clear action.

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Speaker 2: We sorted out what needed to be repaired in some

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Speaker 2: kind of list of priorities, and we found out some

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Speaker 2: interesting information.

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Speaker 3: In the end.

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Speaker 2: One of the things that the consumer or the owner

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Speaker 2: had said was the vehicle would go into a no

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Speaker 2: start condition. But after sorting through the list of who

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Speaker 2: did what and talking to the owner, the no start

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Speaker 2: condition as well as the no crank condition because it

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Speaker 2: had a no start which is where it cranked, and

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Speaker 2: a no crank where it did nothing. They each happened

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Speaker 2: independently of each other and only one time each over

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Speaker 2: the last six or seven months. The real issues with

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Speaker 2: this vehicle revolved around safety. We did our usual checklist

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Speaker 2: and it showed bed front end parts, specifically a lower

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Speaker 2: control arm on the left side where the bushing was

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Speaker 2: so bad. You know, I rated its time of life

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Speaker 2: in days, and two back tires that were so unsafe,

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Speaker 2: I rated their mileage. You know, their length of time

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Speaker 2: and mileage. This tire's got a mile to go, that

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Speaker 2: tire's got maybe two. So the question becomes, and we

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Speaker 2: put this to the vehicle owner, what do you really

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Speaker 2: want to get fixed? And that's part of the solution

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Speaker 2: to automotive repair today because it's really a case that

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Speaker 2: what you think is the problem and what you think

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Speaker 2: is important maybe different than what the mechanic finds and

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Speaker 2: reports back to you. So you really have to know

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Speaker 2: your mechanic, that's number one. And you've really got to

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Speaker 2: trust that mechanic and know that they're going to do

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Speaker 2: the right thing. But you've got to be prepared for

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Speaker 2: that report, just as when you go to a medical

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Speaker 2: doctor and you get a physical report on condition and

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Speaker 2: you need to take this course of action and that

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Speaker 2: course of action, what do you really want to get fixed?

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Speaker 2: Because in the end on this AUDI, it was determined

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Speaker 2: to let's fix the safety issues. Let's fix the front

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Speaker 2: end that's falling apart, let's fix the two back tires

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Speaker 2: that are unsafe, and let's wait to see is there

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Speaker 2: a connection or is there something else going on with

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Speaker 2: a battery and a no start and a no crank

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Speaker 2: that I can get into deeper when and if the

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Speaker 2: problem returns, because to go look for something that happened

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Speaker 2: once in seven months on a vehicle that's unsafe to drive. No, no, no, no,

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Speaker 2: we're backwards. Let's make it safe. Let's make it do

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Speaker 2: what it's supposed to do, shiny side up, dirty side down,

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Speaker 2: as he used to say back in the days of

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Speaker 2: CB radio. And it's important to let a good mechanic

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Speaker 2: do their job correctly. Hello and welcome. My name's Ron

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Speaker 2: and any and aka the card doctor. But right now,

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Speaker 2: let's ask the let's let's ask right now, let's do

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Speaker 2: what the car doctor does best, and let you ask

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Speaker 2: the questions. Let's go and talk to Bob Philisberg, New Jersey. Hey, Bob,

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Speaker 2: welcome for morning.

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Speaker 4: I have a good question a quick statement. The local

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Speaker 4: auto parts store was the guy was trying to recharge

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Speaker 4: his air conditioning as older van had about four bottles

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Speaker 4: of one point thirty four sitting on the ground with

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Speaker 4: or discharge hose and was whipping around. I went back

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Speaker 4: in the store and I asked him. I says, don't

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Speaker 4: you need a license to buy that stuff? And apparently

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Speaker 2: I'm one of not one thirty four, not yet. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: to my knowledge, our twelves and other story. As a

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Speaker 2: matter of fact, somebody brought me a can, a little

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Speaker 2: illegal bottle of R twelve to the shop this week

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Speaker 2: and wanted me to put it in the vehicle, and

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Speaker 2: I told them I can't do it because it's illegal

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Speaker 4: Yeah, because I'm a licensed to work on refrigeration and

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Speaker 4: it takes about five thousand dollars worth of equipment to

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Speaker 4: properly work on it. So air conditioning, leave it up

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Speaker 4: to the professionals.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, Bob, But a better statement couldn't be said.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, get the air conditioning working in this car.

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Speaker 4: Last time I spoke to you, I was going to

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Speaker 4: replace the compressor saff seal, and I remember that the

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Speaker 4: old compressor had a little noise in it. So I

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Speaker 4: went out ursus a brand new compressor and it's all happy.

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Speaker 4: Throw the car about forty miles with the air conditioner on,

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Speaker 4: and the oil engine oil pressure went down seriously, it

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Speaker 4: has been low, and it's worse yet. In fact, off

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Speaker 4: to the side of the road and the oil lace

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Speaker 4: flashing on.

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Speaker 2: This is the motor that, this is the vehicle that

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Speaker 2: was in the barn, and you did the head on it,

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Speaker 2: but not the bottom end.

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Speaker 4: No, No, this is the one that you had worked on.

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Speaker 4: This is I had replaced the head gasket on it,

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Speaker 4: and I found that the board was all pounded out. Gotcha,

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Speaker 4: But I BoA's had low oil pressure. Do you think

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Speaker 4: the band aid would be rods and mains and a

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Speaker 4: new oil pump that would get by for a while

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Speaker 4: or should I just go ahead and replace the engine.

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Speaker 2: This is the one with one hundred something thousand.

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Speaker 4: Miles on above it's got one hundred and ten thousand

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Speaker 4: miles on. This is the one that you would worked on.

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Speaker 4: In fact, you had mentioned to me about it has

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Speaker 4: some kind of a little tick in it.

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Speaker 2: Right, Okay, you know, I'm sort of a believer because

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Speaker 2: I know what you're trying to accomplish and for what

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Speaker 2: it's going to take you to do rods and mainz

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Speaker 2: versus you know, swinging a replacement motor, you're probably better

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Speaker 2: offless and Bob, there's nothing like an absolution. Replaced the

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Speaker 2: existing motor, at least the short block obviously. Yeah, because

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Speaker 2: the amount of time you're going to spend doing that

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Speaker 2: versus doing rods and mainz and then ending up with

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Speaker 2: another potential issue. Yeah, there's more going on there. Tell

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Speaker 2: you the truth. Mains generally don't wear out on those motors.

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Speaker 2: It's rods more than anything else. But then you know

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Speaker 2: general shape and age and what else could be wrong

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Speaker 2: with it. For what it's going to cost, you might

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Speaker 2: as well swing a short block and it pop the

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Speaker 2: head on it. At least you're fresh and good for

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Speaker 2: another hundred thousand miles.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, all right, all right, what about a used engine,

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Speaker 4: because I have a connection for a good used engine

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Speaker 4: supposed to be low miles.

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Speaker 2: It's been to Atlantic City lately, Bob, No, take the dice,

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Speaker 2: roll them. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if you've had any good experience with

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Speaker 4: used engines or not.

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Speaker 2: No, And it's something I've stayed away from over the years,

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Speaker 2: just because you know, maintenance, And this is my feeling.

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Speaker 2: Maintenance has become so critical on engines today, and I

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Speaker 2: see more and more people doing less and less and

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Speaker 2: not taking proper care of the vehicle, and then when

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Speaker 2: they have a problem, they just sort of push it

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Speaker 2: off over onto the next guy. That's one of the

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Speaker 2: social ills we've created in society. Today. Let the next

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Speaker 2: guy worry about it. Yeah, when you're dealing with that

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Speaker 2: it's been tested in the salvage yard, even if they

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Speaker 2: can run it on a test stand, can they really

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Speaker 2: test stand? Or do they let it run for an

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Speaker 2: hour and see how it makes the vehicle run? And

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Speaker 2: you know, put it through a chassis break and everything

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Speaker 2: else to it, doesn't you know for what it's going

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Speaker 2: to cost. Swing a fresh short block, go through the head,

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Speaker 2: make sure the head's right, put it all together once.

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Speaker 2: Do it once. Remember we always find the time and

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Speaker 2: the money to do it right the second time. Somehow

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Speaker 2: the first time. Let's see what I can get away with.

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Speaker 2: It's a lot of work, you know that game. So

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Speaker 2: let's do it once, do it right, and get it

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Speaker 4: Okay, I'll let you know.

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Speaker 2: Take care, Bob, Bye, bye bye. Let's go over and

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Speaker 2: talk to Joe Longview textas Hey, Joe, how can I

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Speaker 2: help you in your OW one Chevy Blazer today?

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Speaker 3: Thank you for taking my call.

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Speaker 2: Well, thank you for staying there, sir. I realized it

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Speaker 2: took a while to get.

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Speaker 3: To enjoy your program. Okay. This is my doughter's car. Okay,

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Speaker 3: and about a month ago it started doing this. When

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Speaker 3: you're cranky and the ABS light come on. If they do,

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Speaker 3: they stay on until you shut the engine off. The

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Speaker 3: next time you crank it, they don't. You know, they

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Speaker 3: may or may not come on. They come on about

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Speaker 3: a third or maybe half of the time when you

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Speaker 3: crank the engine.

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Speaker 2: Okay, And I've.

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Speaker 3: Been thinking I'm gonna wait until they stay on so

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Speaker 3: when I take it someplace, you know, But I guess

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Speaker 3: my question is should I wait it? It'd be better

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Speaker 3: to take it now, even though the light may not

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Speaker 2: Do you have a regular mechanic?

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Speaker 2: Do you know is you know you got a good

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Speaker 2: relationship with him? I mean, if the light came on today,

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Speaker 2: but by the time you got it to him, the

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Speaker 2: light's out. In theory, there should be something in history.

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Speaker 2: So you know, my point being asking him if he's

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Speaker 2: not gonna tell you it's two hours of diagnosis, you know,

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Speaker 2: can you go in there and say, hey, whatever his

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Speaker 2: name is, can I just get an informational skin?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Where you know, pluging a scan tool plug into ABS

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Speaker 2: module and at least report the code, because without the code,

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Speaker 2: we're chasing our tail.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I didn't know going on and off like

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Speaker 3: that if it would leave a code, but you're saying

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Speaker 3: it probably will.

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Speaker 2: It should keep a code in history up for a

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Speaker 2: certain time period. That's why if it happened, if it

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Speaker 2: happened on Monday, I'd like to get to him by

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Speaker 2: Tuesday or Wednesday. Yeah, okay, and just to see if

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Speaker 2: there's something there, and if there's not, then there's other

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Speaker 2: things we could do to start to work our way

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Speaker 3: Hey, if I get a code, I will do that,

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Speaker 3: all right, Joe, thank you very much.

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Speaker 2: For your Hell No, you're very welcome. You have yourself

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Speaker 3: I hear the train of coming.

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Speaker 2: It's all and around me, and I ain't seen the punchine.

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Speaker 2: I don't know when I'm ducking full of prison that time. Hep,

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Speaker 2: you know you got ten thousand bolts. That's nothing like

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Speaker 1: Noah, not that kind fuck kind bolts.

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Speaker 4: That's what I said.

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Speaker 1: He said, you know what bolts are and what that's right?

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Speaker 3: When I say bolts or what?

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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back, ronin Ady and mccardock. Let's get over

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Speaker 2: and talk to Ed Brownville, Maine. Hey, Ed, welcome. How

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Speaker 2: can I help you?

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Speaker 5: Sir? Oh, thank you, thank you for taking my call.

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Speaker 2: You're very welcome.

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Speaker 5: I just wondered about wheel bearings in in front of

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Speaker 5: it of ramfree. I never heard anything like this with

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Speaker 5: the people. Tell me, you know, wheel you got playing

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Speaker 5: your wheel, You're gonna need wheel bearings pretty soon.

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Speaker 2: Describe it a little more to me, Ed, What did

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Speaker 2: you take it in for service?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: I take it in. You know, I rotate the tires

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Speaker 5: every five thousand miles, you know, right, get into a

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Speaker 5: shop for oil change and they do a check everything.

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Speaker 5: That's that's about it. And I've been hearing this since

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Speaker 5: I've had about thirty five forty miles on the car.

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Speaker 2: You've been hearing this from the service people and is

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Speaker 2: it What is it that they wiggle the wheel and

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Speaker 2: the wheel feels loose.

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Speaker 5: That's that's exactly what they were doing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, had they shown it to you? Does it look loose?

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Speaker 5: No, they didn't show it to me. They just told

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Speaker 2: Is this your regular mechanic?

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Speaker 5: Uh?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it seems kind of odd that, you know, for

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Speaker 5: It's about fifty five now.

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Speaker 2: Really no noise though, no noise, oh, you know, it's

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Speaker 2: it's it's it's a simple enough thing to look at.

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Speaker 2: I mean, if the wheel bearing has rocking movement in it,

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Speaker 2: you know, back and forth, top the bottom, if you

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Speaker 2: sit there and rock the wheel, play is play. It's

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Speaker 2: a bad wheelbaring, you know, it's not supposed to have

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Speaker 2: any and it in time it's gonna get worse. I'm

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Speaker 2: surprised it's not making noise. I'm surprised you're not complaining

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Speaker 5: The only thing I complained about it is like a

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Speaker 2: Well, a vibration you're feeling through the steering wheel isn't

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Speaker 2: really severe. I would have to think that's more tire

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Speaker 2: tires were balanced quite a while ago? Yeah, okay, you

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Speaker 2: of the tire. Whenever you rotate tires always, you know,

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Speaker 2: the two that are going up front right right, well,

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Speaker 2: And the reason being is that now at least if

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Speaker 2: the tires are going to always be rebalanced as a

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Speaker 2: set every six to twelve thousand miles, depending on how

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Speaker 2: going to last a whole lot longer.

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Speaker 5: Oh, I had all that wheels balanced on the car

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Speaker 5: when when I bought them new.

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Speaker 2: Right, But a tire loses its balance, is the tire wears,

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Speaker 2: it will lose its balance all right, And if you're

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Speaker 2: be going out of balance, and what will happen is

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Speaker 2: and not that and that's partially your vibration. The tire's

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Speaker 2: you know, bouncing down the road so to speak. It's

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Speaker 2: not turning smoothly because it's out of balance. But that aside,

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Speaker 2: you know, take it into your mechanic and ge can

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Speaker 2: I just see the looseness in the wheel bearing. It

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Speaker 2: should be pretty obvious and it's a good education for

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Speaker 2: Unfortunately it's early. Are they saying both sides?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 5: He just said one side was more than the other, that's.

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Speaker 2: All, okay, Well, looseness is looseness, So one side more

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Speaker 2: than the other. Makes me think, what are they really checking?

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Speaker 2: Where is where a wheel bearing on that vehicle is

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Speaker 2: not supposed to have play in it.

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Speaker 5: I always thought that too myself when I used to

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Speaker 2: Well, but those were tapered or cone style bearings. Those

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Speaker 2: can have two, three, four thousands of wiggle in them.

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Speaker 2: This is a square roller bearing in a hub on

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Speaker 2: that four Grand Prix.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and there sealed right.

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Speaker 2: There, shealed. There's not supposed to be any playing there.

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Speaker 5: There's no way you can tighten them up or anything

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Speaker 2: There is no adjustment on that. It's replace it or

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Speaker 5: Well, I checked the price on those two and they're

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Speaker 2: Well, that's because the ABS wheel speed sensor is built

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Speaker 2: into the bearing. Everything's technology today and we tend to

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Speaker 2: more complicated than it had to be before. So you've

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Speaker 2: got to deal with it. Remember, the joy of driving

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Speaker 5: One other question, I'm sure planning to take a little

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Speaker 5: those bearings, now, yeah.

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Speaker 2: I would before you sure, before you take the ride.

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Speaker 2: That's got to be a couple of four or five

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Speaker 2: hundred mile ride at the very least, especially around trips.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, I would definitely get the wheel bearings done

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Speaker 5: Okay, all right, all right, thank you very much.

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Speaker 2: You're very welcome, sir. Have a good rest of the day,

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Speaker 2: and it's you know, listen regardless of mileage. But my

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Speaker 2: And if it's the regular mechanic, he'll understand, and I

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Speaker 2: think you'll have any objection. Let's get in there and

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Speaker 2: let's take a look at it. And you know, not

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Speaker 2: only check the front end at this point, especially if

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Speaker 2: Ed's going to be taking a long trip out on

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Speaker 2: it hasn't been done up to this point, excellent time

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Speaker 2: through and make sure a system by system, How are

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Speaker 2: Do some filters? Hopefully Ed's been changing trans fluid because

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Speaker 2: So you know, don't fall into the And it sounded

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Speaker 2: we're going on a trip, whatever happened to, Let's take

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Speaker 2: as comparison to let's have the problem five miles from

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Speaker 2: you know, I guess I could. They'll put that on

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Speaker 2: my They'll put that on my tombstone. A two page

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Speaker 2: Oh well, I didn't got to go down about an

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