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Speaker 1: parts store. You purpose. Welcome to the radio home of

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Speaker 1: Ron Andanian, the Car Doctors. This is where car owners

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

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Speaker 1: a lot and welcome Grant and Ady in the Car Doctor.

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Speaker 1: Here a little bit of holiday fist fistivus this weekend

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Speaker 1: let's see, Um, we heard to talk about your car,

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Speaker 1: Thank god, I'm looking out across the glass and I

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Speaker 1: dollars in shocks and struts. So you got you got

425
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Speaker 1: two grand that let's call it um. You know, is

426
00:21:32,119 --> 00:21:34,719
Speaker 1: it is it worth it? Well? I don't know. Now

427
00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:36,520
Speaker 1: you gotta go out and price out. You know, have

428
00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:39,640
Speaker 1: you priced a new vehicle yet? Go price a new Miniven? Yeah?

429
00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:45,080
Speaker 1: You know it's it's fifty grands. So all of a sudden,

430
00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:48,080
Speaker 1: where does you know, where does you know where where

431
00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:50,080
Speaker 1: does it begin and where does it end? I always

432
00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:53,920
Speaker 1: tell people, don't fix something to try and get more

433
00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:56,520
Speaker 1: value for it when you sell it. That doesn't make

434
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Speaker 1: any sense to me. All right, you know, let's let's

435
00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:01,960
Speaker 1: say you put let's say you put two grand in it.

436
00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:03,679
Speaker 1: You said, you know, you put two grand in it,

437
00:22:04,119 --> 00:22:05,960
Speaker 1: and you're only gonna get two grand four? What was

438
00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:09,240
Speaker 1: the point? You know? It doesn't make any sense if

439
00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:10,479
Speaker 1: you if you put two grand in it, you can

440
00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:13,600
Speaker 1: get five grand four. That's a different conversation, but generally

441
00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:17,040
Speaker 1: that never happens. So um, you know, and I'll tell

442
00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:19,360
Speaker 1: you what Gary, stay on the line. Tom and Mike

443
00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:20,879
Speaker 1: have given me the high sign. You're gonna be the

444
00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:23,840
Speaker 1: winner of our gift card today for O Rillyota parts.

445
00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:25,679
Speaker 1: Maybe it'll help you with some of your expenses and

446
00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:29,080
Speaker 1: some of your vehicle repairs Orillyota parts, better parts, better prices.

447
00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:30,880
Speaker 1: Every day that gift card will be coming your way.

448
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Speaker 1: Stand the line so Tom can get your information. And Michael,

449
00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:36,040
Speaker 1: why don't you punch me up? Alan Maryland Al wants

450
00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:38,360
Speaker 1: to talk about lug nuts. All Welcome to the car doctor, sir,

451
00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:42,159
Speaker 1: How can I high you show always learned something. Thank you.

452
00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:46,720
Speaker 1: I just I heard your dialogue about the stuck lug

453
00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:49,639
Speaker 1: nuts on the tires, and um, I just wanted to

454
00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:53,280
Speaker 1: put a plug in for Antise's compound. And uh, I

455
00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:55,480
Speaker 1: might not have helped this person because it doesn't sound

456
00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:58,360
Speaker 1: like somebody works on their own cards, but anybody that does,

457
00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:01,640
Speaker 1: even the most basic mainten you can't live without Anti

458
00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:05,240
Speaker 1: seas compound. And after motor oil and brake fluid, the

459
00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:07,560
Speaker 1: most important stuff I got a my garage shells is

460
00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:10,320
Speaker 1: Anti seas compound. As soon as I get a used car,

461
00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:12,639
Speaker 1: the first thing I do is take off all attires,

462
00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:15,720
Speaker 1: take out all the spark plugs, the screws holding the

463
00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:19,359
Speaker 1: valve cover gasket. Anti Seas compound goes on everything, and

464
00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:21,200
Speaker 1: that's how you get a quarter million miles on a

465
00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:23,640
Speaker 1: car and still are able to take the boats out.

466
00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:29,160
Speaker 1: So highly recommended compounds. Do you think Anti Seas has

467
00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:33,080
Speaker 1: changed formulation over the years, Well, I'll tell you I

468
00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:36,640
Speaker 1: used the Permo text and after you know, twenty years

469
00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:39,040
Speaker 1: of using this stuff, it still comes in exactly the

470
00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:42,320
Speaker 1: same container, it says exactly the same stuff on it,

471
00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:45,560
Speaker 1: and I've never had a problem with it. So I

472
00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:48,200
Speaker 1: think it's probably the same stuff. Now. Maybe some other

473
00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:50,280
Speaker 1: brands have changed, but the Permo text seems to be

474
00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:52,920
Speaker 1: the same stuff. UM. I will tell you this. I

475
00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:55,280
Speaker 1: I used Permo text in the shop. I used to

476
00:23:55,359 --> 00:23:59,000
Speaker 1: use anti sas on lug nuts. Now it's either dry

477
00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:01,440
Speaker 1: or the very little this drop of oil and generally

478
00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:04,480
Speaker 1: not even the oil. UM. I stopped using anti ss

479
00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:06,919
Speaker 1: on spark plugs. I read a bunch of reports and

480
00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:08,919
Speaker 1: I'm not listening. What works for you works for you.

481
00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:11,879
Speaker 1: I'm not discounting that. Don't misunderstand me, UM, But I

482
00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:14,320
Speaker 1: read a bunch of reports that talked about the effects

483
00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:18,480
Speaker 1: of anti cs on spark plugs and how the computer

484
00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:21,640
Speaker 1: reacted to the change in the ground circuit and load

485
00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:24,479
Speaker 1: of the plug and affected vehicle timing. It was it

486
00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:27,560
Speaker 1: was like I read this and I went what, Um, Like,

487
00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:32,160
Speaker 1: everything affects everything today, So I get it my concern

488
00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:34,480
Speaker 1: with anti cs. But the primary thing when I was

489
00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:36,040
Speaker 1: trying to get to in the main reason why I've

490
00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:37,959
Speaker 1: I've gotten away from using anti seas as much as

491
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Speaker 1: we used to is my experience has been I've noticed

492
00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:44,240
Speaker 1: anti cs seems to dry out faster. I don't know

493
00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:46,879
Speaker 1: if they're putting more glass in it, or they changed

494
00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:49,919
Speaker 1: the formulation. But it's not the same stuff it was.

495
00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:54,000
Speaker 1: To me what my experience is ten years ago. I

496
00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:56,960
Speaker 1: just I just see differences in it. But you are right,

497
00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:00,840
Speaker 1: You are right. We do need some sort of thread

498
00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:04,080
Speaker 1: protection um on the on the on the studs or

499
00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:06,679
Speaker 1: whatever it is we're trying to do. Uh, you know,

500
00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:09,800
Speaker 1: and and and snow plow vehicles. Yeah, I'll use a

501
00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:12,040
Speaker 1: dab vantage. She's just a touch. I won't give it

502
00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:14,359
Speaker 1: a bath. I'll use just to touch. But you know,

503
00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:16,719
Speaker 1: the point becomes that there are things you can do

504
00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:19,600
Speaker 1: for salt and corrosion. There's a couple of products out there,

505
00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:22,080
Speaker 1: fluid film for plow vehicles that are gonna get salt

506
00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:25,119
Speaker 1: and corrosion on them. There's another product I'm just researching

507
00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:28,920
Speaker 1: now called salt X, which I haven't really I haven't

508
00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:31,960
Speaker 1: finished my reading on it, but they talk about corrosion protection.

509
00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:35,359
Speaker 1: To the point is, and I really appreciate what you're saying,

510
00:25:35,359 --> 00:25:38,280
Speaker 1: and I understand that I do. The point is, you know,

511
00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:40,520
Speaker 1: if a shop is running lug nuts on with an

512
00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:44,960
Speaker 1: air gun and a black yes walk away, I mean

513
00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:47,879
Speaker 1: that's that's the first telltale sign of an idiot. Uh

514
00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:50,000
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, let's let's call it like it is.

515
00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:53,920
Speaker 1: I I it's. But we also put in a plug

516
00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:56,840
Speaker 1: for routine maintenance. You know, you or to be taking

517
00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:58,840
Speaker 1: those tires off every once in a while, and I

518
00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:00,800
Speaker 1: put a little damn devant I see every time I

519
00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:03,200
Speaker 1: take them off. So if the thing has the tendency

520
00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:04,679
Speaker 1: to draw out, I'm not going to draw out of

521
00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:07,200
Speaker 1: my cars because I'm I'm working on you and I agree.

522
00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:10,080
Speaker 1: I agree, Alison, you have yourself a merry Christmas and

523
00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:11,600
Speaker 1: a good safe help you to a year on and

524
00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:13,880
Speaker 1: thanks for being part of the Car Doctor family. All right, sir,

525
00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:16,040
Speaker 1: look forward to hearing your show next year. Thank you,

526
00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:19,479
Speaker 1: so you take good care. Five zero zero. I'm run

527
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Speaker 1: on Nating of the Car Doctor. We'll be back right

528
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Speaker 1: after this. Welcome back run Nating the Car Doctor. Here,

529
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Speaker 1: you know, quick tips, all right, I just want to

530
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Speaker 1: get this out real fast from the folks at car

531
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Speaker 1: Star car star dot com if you're looking for some

532
00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:44,640
Speaker 1: just last minute ideas for the stocking stuffers, air freshener,

533
00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:47,800
Speaker 1: cell phone holder clips, cell phone charger, when shield, sunshade,

534
00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:51,760
Speaker 1: roadside emergency kit, tire gage, tire plug kit, spillproof travel mug.

535
00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:53,920
Speaker 1: I want one of those, a gas gift card or

536
00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:56,560
Speaker 1: a personalized key chain. All great ideas courtesy the folks

537
00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:59,000
Speaker 1: at car Star car star dot com, those last minute

538
00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:01,199
Speaker 1: stocking stuffers for the aliday coming up. Let's go over

539
00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:04,000
Speaker 1: and talk to Pete and Pittsburgh. Pete and Pittsburgh. I

540
00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:06,440
Speaker 1: like that. Pete and Pittsburgh say that three times fast.

541
00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:09,840
Speaker 1: Hey Pete, how can I help? You're doing good, sir?

542
00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:13,280
Speaker 1: What's going on? Hey? I have a two thousand, fifteen

543
00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:15,920
Speaker 1: Haunta c rv UM and I just had a recent

544
00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:19,480
Speaker 1: alignment done just as routine maintenance and find out that

545
00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:25,080
Speaker 1: the left front um wheel has it's a tenth of

546
00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:28,040
Speaker 1: a degree. I want to say negative cast. I don't

547
00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:31,240
Speaker 1: have the paper in front of me anymore. Um, And

548
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:34,680
Speaker 1: everything else was all right. UM. Now my understanding is

549
00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:37,320
Speaker 1: the cast is not adjustable, and it just had me

550
00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:39,240
Speaker 1: a little bit concerned because the car is a little

551
00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:43,399
Speaker 1: bit newer, and I brought it off an elderly couple

552
00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:46,199
Speaker 1: with a fifteen thousand miles and nothing has happened to

553
00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:50,359
Speaker 1: it since then. Castor is a cast well. Castor is

554
00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:53,399
Speaker 1: a measurement of think of a bicycle, all right, the

555
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:56,439
Speaker 1: front wheel of a bicycle as as you go into

556
00:27:56,440 --> 00:28:01,080
Speaker 1: a turn, and the the angle of the bicycle spindle

557
00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:05,159
Speaker 1: changes as you turn the wheel. That's the measurement of castor.

558
00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:09,760
Speaker 1: As the bicycle fork travels over center into and out

559
00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:15,240
Speaker 1: of the turn. Castor effects tracking and handling. It doesn't

560
00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:20,040
Speaker 1: necessarily affect tire wear. A tenth of a degree, Yeah,

561
00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:24,840
Speaker 1: it's out of speck. It's not necessarily a lot, all right,

562
00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:28,000
Speaker 1: It's not going to affect tire wear. As long as

563
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:31,400
Speaker 1: the vehicle track straight, holds the road straight, you have

564
00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:34,760
Speaker 1: a correct amount or a good amount of road feel.

565
00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:37,040
Speaker 1: You know, some cars, you're get in a car that's

566
00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:41,880
Speaker 1: got um incorrect castor it's it has more negative cast

567
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:44,320
Speaker 1: and it just won't have any road response. The wheels

568
00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:47,360
Speaker 1: real sloppy. To return, you have to drag the wheel back,

569
00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:49,720
Speaker 1: you know, things like that. Whereas if you're get in

570
00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:50,880
Speaker 1: this car and you go around, the turn of the

571
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:53,440
Speaker 1: wheel just comes back to center automatically. Cars got a

572
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:55,600
Speaker 1: good caster, I wouldn't worry about a tenth of a degree.

573
00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:58,240
Speaker 1: Tenth of a degree of castor doesn't really bother me.

574
00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:01,600
Speaker 1: Tenth of degree a camera. Yeah, maybe I do something

575
00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:04,320
Speaker 1: about it because it's gonna affect tire were at some point.

576
00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:07,280
Speaker 1: But then again, I've learned to, you know, watch tire

577
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:10,480
Speaker 1: wear too on vehicles that have marginal alignments, just to

578
00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:12,400
Speaker 1: see where they really go. I've seen alignments do some

579
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:15,120
Speaker 1: very funny things on cars over the years. So I

580
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:17,520
Speaker 1: don't think you have anything to worry about, Pete. I

581
00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:19,480
Speaker 1: think it's more a matter of just you know, just

582
00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:23,440
Speaker 1: be aware and um, you know there's things you could do.

583
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:26,320
Speaker 1: There are ways to adjust it or to change it,

584
00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:29,560
Speaker 1: but at what price. You know, whether we're going to

585
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:34,920
Speaker 1: change strut, spindle, control arm, createle, you know, name some

586
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:36,600
Speaker 1: part that's attached to the front of the car to

587
00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:40,239
Speaker 1: find out which one is just slightly off, and you know,

588
00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:42,840
Speaker 1: you'll realize that it becomes for what you're gonna gain,

589
00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:49,760
Speaker 1: It becomes a a non economical repair, all right. You know,

590
00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:52,920
Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's not a danger at this point. So, um,

591
00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:56,760
Speaker 1: it's not really going to affect anything, alright, sir. So

592
00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:01,280
Speaker 1: that's it. That's all I got. Thank you for your help.

593
00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:02,720
Speaker 1: You're very welcome, Pete. You have a good rest of

594
00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:07,600
Speaker 1: the afternoon. Um. Yeah, that's that's not necessarily a big

595
00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:09,800
Speaker 1: bad deal. Hey, real quick, roun. It's been a while

596
00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:12,160
Speaker 1: since I wrote, Um. I've been leasing new cars, just

597
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:16,040
Speaker 1: least Infinity Q fifty six weeks ago, and somehow I

598
00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:18,480
Speaker 1: caught a plastic bag around my exhaust. I always hate

599
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:20,960
Speaker 1: it when that happens. Horrible smell comes in the cabin,

600
00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:23,520
Speaker 1: probably toxic yup, and you can smell it standing outside

601
00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:25,840
Speaker 1: the car as well. Not really, I'm from Jersey. Everything

602
00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:28,360
Speaker 1: smells the same here. I am not mechanically incline, so

603
00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:29,760
Speaker 1: I'm not going to put it on a lift and

604
00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:31,240
Speaker 1: try to scrape it off. I was told to do

605
00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:34,680
Speaker 1: everything from winning it burn off by itself to getting

606
00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:37,640
Speaker 1: easy off, open off, cleaner and scrape it off. Not

607
00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:39,680
Speaker 1: sure what the Infinity dealer could do from me. If

608
00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 1: you have any thoughts, maybe there's a professional place I

609
00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:43,120
Speaker 1: can bring the clean the pipes. I would love to

610
00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:44,400
Speaker 1: read what you hear and have it to say thanks

611
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:47,480
Speaker 1: again for your time run lands Um. Listen, nothing easier

612
00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:49,200
Speaker 1: than putting up in the air when the car is hot.

613
00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:51,320
Speaker 1: Take a putty knife for a scraper and just scrape

614
00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:53,480
Speaker 1: as much plastic off it as you can. There isn't

615
00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:55,320
Speaker 1: a great deal of rocket science here. It's not like

616
00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:58,040
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to you know, use any chemical, use

617
00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:00,880
Speaker 1: any cleaner. If it's plastic, it's gonna be soft and

618
00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:02,360
Speaker 1: gooey when it's hot. I put on a pair of

619
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:05,040
Speaker 1: rubber gloves and just scrape it free. You know. The

620
00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:07,800
Speaker 1: problem becomes, my experience, the more you leave it on

621
00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:11,600
Speaker 1: the pipes. Sometimes it doesn't necessarily burn completely off, and

622
00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:15,120
Speaker 1: then it becomes rock hard and it stays there, and

623
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:17,000
Speaker 1: you know, now you've got something you've got to chip

624
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:19,320
Speaker 1: away at in order to remove it. So I would

625
00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:22,760
Speaker 1: try to get it off sooner rather than later. And um, yeah,

626
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:24,920
Speaker 1: that can be really annoying. It's it's it's amazing the

627
00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:27,480
Speaker 1: stuff that's uh, that's in the road that you run over.

628
00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:30,520
Speaker 1: I always wonder and I get concerned about this, and

629
00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:32,680
Speaker 1: it's one of the reasons we'll wear gloves in the shop.

630
00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:35,200
Speaker 1: You think about think about all the dead animals you

631
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:38,360
Speaker 1: see on the road, right just you know, right, so,

632
00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:42,000
Speaker 1: how many mechanics are out there rotating tires with their

633
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:46,040
Speaker 1: bare hands? And then you know, how many mechanics do

634
00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:49,320
Speaker 1: you see eating lunch with dirty hands? You gotta wonder.

635
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:51,840
Speaker 1: You know, listen, if they're dumb enough to put will

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Speaker 1: nuts will nuts on with air guns and black sockets

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00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:58,280
Speaker 1: and no no torque sticks, then you know it's you know,

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00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:00,680
Speaker 1: they hate to talk bad about my industry, but it's

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00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:03,720
Speaker 1: out there. It really is, so um, you know, just

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00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:07,040
Speaker 1: something to be aware of. So yeah, listen, common sense. Uh.

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00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:08,680
Speaker 1: That's one of the reasons though, why we will wear

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00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:10,720
Speaker 1: rubber gloves in the shop. Also because we're trying to

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00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:13,360
Speaker 1: keep our hands clean, you know, this time of year.

644
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:16,360
Speaker 1: Um and I do this every year. We've been doing

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00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:18,040
Speaker 1: this every year for a very long time. It's a

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00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:21,920
Speaker 1: great tradition and I think tradition is what what spices

647
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:24,760
Speaker 1: up life, is what makes life so much, so much better.

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00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:28,000
Speaker 1: At times, we do our little Christmas ditty and that's

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Speaker 1: coming up in the next segment of the Car Doctor.

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Speaker 1: But before we go and take away for the pause,

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Speaker 1: I just want to, you know, tell everybody I am

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Speaker 1: really glad to have been here for each and every

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Speaker 1: one of you this past year. As a half of

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00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:39,960
Speaker 1: the past year has gone by, um god willing, I

655
00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:42,120
Speaker 1: plan to continue to do this for a very long time.

656
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:45,080
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed doing it. I wouldn't be able to

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00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:47,520
Speaker 1: do this without the support of my staff and my crew.

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00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:49,960
Speaker 1: Uh Tony who was on hiatus at the moment, but

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00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,440
Speaker 1: we know he's out there supporting us, Mike R. Newby

660
00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:54,880
Speaker 1: and my number one go to guy in the studio, Tom,

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00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:56,600
Speaker 1: Tom and I kid each other a lot during the

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00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:59,239
Speaker 1: course of the year, folks, but I've been blessed. There

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00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:01,640
Speaker 1: isn't a better guy to have, uh sitting there pushing

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00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:04,160
Speaker 1: the buttons, making it all happen behind the scenes. And UH,

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00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:06,200
Speaker 1: you know, I want to just tell everybody thank you

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Speaker 1: on behalf of myself and Tom and Mike and Tony. UM,

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00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:11,240
Speaker 1: we're glad to have each and every one of you here,

668
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:14,360
Speaker 1: uh to be part of the Car Doctor crew and UM,

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Speaker 1: you know, be part of us. So UM, the next

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00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:19,120
Speaker 1: segment coming back you're gonna hear is a little ditty

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Speaker 1: I wrote many many years ago, and UM, I didn't

672
00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:23,760
Speaker 1: realize it would be so popular. We've done it time

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00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:26,680
Speaker 1: and time again, usually at everybody's request, and UM, you

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00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:29,480
Speaker 1: know you look forward to it. So without any further ado,

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Speaker 1: I'm runing any in the Car Doctor. We'll be back

676
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:38,400
Speaker 1: right after this. It was the night before Christmas and

677
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:41,160
Speaker 1: all through the dark. Not a car was still broken.

678
00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:44,479
Speaker 1: All the plugs had their spark, the wrenches were stashed,

679
00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:46,920
Speaker 1: all snug in their boxes. Well, me by myself, was

680
00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:51,000
Speaker 1: having Christmas party leftovers, some bagels and loses went out

681
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:53,200
Speaker 1: from the lot. There rose such a clatter. I sprang

682
00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:56,360
Speaker 1: to my feet and yelled, hey, what's the matter now?

683
00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:59,240
Speaker 1: What did my bloodshot, tired eyes should appear? But some

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00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:03,360
Speaker 1: crazy old guy went sleigh with reindeer. I winced, and

685
00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:05,840
Speaker 1: I cried, Oh great, just one more. I'd rather sit

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00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:07,560
Speaker 1: back and have a cup of tea and some s'mores.

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Speaker 1: He approached the front door with a smile so bright

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00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:13,280
Speaker 1: I quickly unlocked it and turned back on the office life.

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Speaker 1: Excuse me, kind servant, I'm having some trouble. The left

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00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:19,800
Speaker 1: runner on my sleigh has started to wubble. The balance

691
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:21,920
Speaker 1: is wrong and it pulls to the right. The reindeer

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00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:24,719
Speaker 1: are working too hard this cold night. I have so

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00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:26,719
Speaker 1: much to do and no time left to do it.

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00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:29,359
Speaker 1: Do you think that you could well please get right

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00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:32,200
Speaker 1: to it without saying a word. I went to work

696
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:34,640
Speaker 1: right away. Too bad the alignment machine and no specs

697
00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:38,080
Speaker 1: for a sledg. Meanwhile, the reindeer were prancing around that

698
00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:41,200
Speaker 1: root up in common with a couple of clowns. In

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00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:44,640
Speaker 1: a matter of moments time one point to the runner

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00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:47,319
Speaker 1: was straight in the alignment done too. I helped him

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Speaker 1: load up all the presents but one. He left it

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00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:52,319
Speaker 1: to pay me for cash, and he had none. I

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00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:55,040
Speaker 1: hope it's from snap on a half inch drive air gun.

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Speaker 1: He started the sleigh by merely calling their names on

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00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:01,399
Speaker 1: dash Or and Dancer, Donna and Blitzen. Get up off

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00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:05,120
Speaker 1: your butts, Rudolph comment fixing it started to idle and

707
00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:07,200
Speaker 1: float in the air. Then Rudolph lit up the sky

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00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:11,000
Speaker 1: with his nose extraordinary, and I heard him exclaim, this

709
00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:14,160
Speaker 1: could have been quite a mess. The car doctor rings true.

710
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:35,680
Speaker 1: The mechanics aren't expensive, they're really priceless. May and Chris

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Speaker 1: less mea