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

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Speaker 1: Car Doctor. Since this is where car owners the world

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Speaker 1: but I am here to take your call at eight

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Speaker 1: five five five six and now he running. Hey. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the Father's Day edition of The Car Doctor of

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Speaker 1: the second hour this weekend as we can it called

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Speaker 1: Father's Day, and help celebrate that and all that the

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Speaker 1: and be the be the inspiration and be the way

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Speaker 1: forward for so many generations. Um just uh always good

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Speaker 1: Let's kick this hour off right off the bat and

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Speaker 1: let's go over to Audrey in Virginia. And keep in

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Speaker 1: mind we're giving away a twenty five gift card today

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Speaker 1: for Orilly out of Parts. We're gonna do it this hour.

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Speaker 1: So let's go see what Audre's got to say in

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Speaker 1: her Ford Mustang. Audrey, Welcome to the Car Doctor. You're welcome.

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Speaker 1: What's going on? Um? Well, I got a new battery

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Speaker 1: I've been having problems where I wait a few days,

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Speaker 1: I go out to my car. I'm retired, so I

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Speaker 1: started and it's dead. And I've had it jump started

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Speaker 1: at least twice. And um, I was told by the

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Speaker 1: possibly be the alternator. Well, listen, it could be something

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Speaker 1: between the headlights and the tail lights. Until they diagnosed that,

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Speaker 1: nobody really knows. Did you have the problem. Did you

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Speaker 1: have the problem with the old battery in the car? Okay, so,

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Speaker 1: how long since the old battery was replaced and the

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Speaker 1: new battery put into the problem? Start? Did it start

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Speaker 1: right away? Um? Well sort of. I had the new battery,

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Speaker 1: so called new battery put in on May a, just

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Speaker 1: last month, and uh, my neighbor helped me and he said,

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Speaker 1: And then uh, I went to try it on May eighteenth,

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Speaker 1: five days later, I thought I'd better go started up

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Speaker 1: again on June two, and it was dead as a

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Speaker 1: door knob, nothing, not even any clicks. No, no discredit

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Speaker 1: to your neighbor or his efforts or anybody trying to

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Speaker 1: put a battery in this vehicle. One of the things,

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Speaker 1: one of the things that professional can do and should

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Speaker 1: they need to do a draw test, A current draw

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Speaker 1: test for battery replacements, so you avoid scenarios like this

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Speaker 1: because now you've got you know, is it the battery

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Speaker 1: Could you have a bad new battery? Sure, new means

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Speaker 1: the battery while it's sitting there, would do you a

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Speaker 1: tell you to look at is you know what brand

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Speaker 1: And they're decent batteries. I mean batteries today. You know,

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Speaker 1: I'd be curious what the date code on this battery is.

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Speaker 1: hasn't been sitting there for any length of time? And

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Speaker 1: this battery need to be charged? Never assume a battery

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Speaker 1: Does the car sit. Does the car sit outside or inside?

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Speaker 1: Audrey outside? Okay. You know, one of the things you

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Speaker 1: there are devices out there, for example, like solar battery chargers.

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Speaker 1: It would it would, it would lay on the dashboard, Okay,

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Speaker 1: You know it's going to take them half hour or

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Speaker 1: You know what, are you stay on the line, Tom

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Speaker 1: is gonna be getting your information. We're gonna be sending

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Speaker 1: And uh, you know you're probably a father and a

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Speaker 1: So stay on the line. Let Tom get your information.

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Speaker 1: if people will want to deal with it, and evidently

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Speaker 1: into making a car. Um just just absolutely crazy stuff.

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00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:07,399
Speaker 1: So I'm just just something to point out. The next

430
00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:09,320
Speaker 1: time he had a car show, take a look at,

431
00:24:09,359 --> 00:24:12,160
Speaker 1: you know, appreciate the car for the piece of jewelry.

432
00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:14,200
Speaker 1: That it might be because some of these dash boards

433
00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:17,480
Speaker 1: are just so magnificent. We've had a few air conditioning

434
00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:19,840
Speaker 1: jobs run through the shop in the past couple of

435
00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:23,200
Speaker 1: weeks too, and it's interesting. Somewhere just straight up recharges.

436
00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:26,320
Speaker 1: They lost anywhere from two to seven or eight ounces

437
00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:29,439
Speaker 1: of refrigerant. It wasn't a big deal. But we've had

438
00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:33,000
Speaker 1: a bad blend or actuator. We've had a leaking condenser.

439
00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:36,440
Speaker 1: We've had a leaking condenser high side to the compressor line.

440
00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:40,560
Speaker 1: We've had lessy's, we've had a couple of strange ones,

441
00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:44,640
Speaker 1: cooling fans not coming on. And it tells me that

442
00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:50,240
Speaker 1: air conditioning, to me, is the hardest problem, not to diagnose,

443
00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:55,160
Speaker 1: but to explain. And this is my point. I want

444
00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:57,399
Speaker 1: you to walk into your repair shop winning if you

445
00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:00,080
Speaker 1: have an air conditioning problem, and just tell them my

446
00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:04,120
Speaker 1: air conditioning is not cold, not I need I need

447
00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:06,439
Speaker 1: free On. By the way, it's not called free on anymore.

448
00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:09,360
Speaker 1: Hasn't been called free on a long time, but everybody

449
00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:11,399
Speaker 1: seems to still call it free on, free on, and

450
00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:14,440
Speaker 1: actually free on even when it was our twelve free

451
00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:17,200
Speaker 1: On was a trade name. It was a brand name

452
00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:19,879
Speaker 1: developed by DuPont Um. You can look it up, you

453
00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:22,040
Speaker 1: can google it, but free On really wasn't what it

454
00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:26,119
Speaker 1: was called. It was our twelve refrigerant and DuPont's version

455
00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:28,680
Speaker 1: of it was free On. That was the brand name.

456
00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:30,879
Speaker 1: But don't tell the mechanic you automatically need free On

457
00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:34,440
Speaker 1: because you may not. There's a reasonable chance that you're

458
00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:37,280
Speaker 1: one thirty four, your one f y F car will not.

459
00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:40,640
Speaker 1: It's got a leak, it's got a mechanical problem, it's

460
00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:43,679
Speaker 1: got an electrical problem. It's got something that's preventing it

461
00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:46,000
Speaker 1: from operating properly and doing what it's supposed to do.

462
00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:49,960
Speaker 1: So just just be mindful of that and um, you know,

463
00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:52,239
Speaker 1: consider that you've got to do things one step at

464
00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:55,679
Speaker 1: a time. Chances are the shop is going to have

465
00:25:55,920 --> 00:26:00,119
Speaker 1: to do a service and a C service to and

466
00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:03,399
Speaker 1: sometimes that's the only way. We've been using the MALLA

467
00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:07,360
Speaker 1: one thirty four machine a refrigerant machine quite a bit

468
00:26:07,359 --> 00:26:11,479
Speaker 1: in the past two weeks. Very nice unit, alright, stone quiet.

469
00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:15,159
Speaker 1: It's as quiet as a church. It it has the

470
00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:19,879
Speaker 1: ability to do automatic a C service, dial in your time,

471
00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:22,560
Speaker 1: dial in your weight, dial in your leak, check, push

472
00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:24,400
Speaker 1: one button, hook it up, walk away, and it does

473
00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:27,400
Speaker 1: it all flawlessly, and then it beeps along the way.

474
00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:30,200
Speaker 1: It's tells you, you know, hey, I finished this step.

475
00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:32,280
Speaker 1: I'm going on to the next one. I'm finished this step.

476
00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:34,200
Speaker 1: I'm going on to the next one. And then when

477
00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:36,880
Speaker 1: it's done, it's it's like your kids. It just sits

478
00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:38,959
Speaker 1: there and beeping and making noise until you pick them

479
00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:41,520
Speaker 1: up and say, okay, we're done. Um so, but mal

480
00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:43,600
Speaker 1: has got it going on. Uh. If you're in the

481
00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:45,560
Speaker 1: market for an A C machine, you should take a

482
00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:48,440
Speaker 1: look at Mala. Definitely very nice stuff. Let's pull over

483
00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:51,800
Speaker 1: and take a pause. Five five zero zero. I'll run

484
00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:53,760
Speaker 1: ay and the car doctor and I'll be back right

485
00:26:53,800 --> 00:27:04,280
Speaker 1: after this. She's real. Find my fornight, she's real. Find

486
00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:11,600
Speaker 1: my phone, my funk back. Ron, name of the car

487
00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:15,199
Speaker 1: Docker listener writes in Hey Ron, I'm wondering if you

488
00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:17,720
Speaker 1: have any great Father's Day stories about your father. Heard

489
00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:20,159
Speaker 1: you're talking in the first hour, and I'm just wondering,

490
00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:21,920
Speaker 1: do you have anything that you remember as a kid.

491
00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:26,520
Speaker 1: George in Georgia. You know, geez, George, you know, there's

492
00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:28,800
Speaker 1: so many Dad's stories. It's it's you know, it's tough

493
00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:30,679
Speaker 1: I don't remember him as much as I used to.

494
00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:33,919
Speaker 1: I think one of my favorites is when I was

495
00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:39,280
Speaker 1: probably every bit of four or five years old Dad,

496
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:42,080
Speaker 1: when Mom wasn't around. Dad put me on his lap

497
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:45,040
Speaker 1: in the Volvo and I would steer the Volvo and

498
00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:47,560
Speaker 1: move the gearshift over every time he pushed the clutch in,

499
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:50,800
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, I learned about manual transmission and

500
00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:53,720
Speaker 1: clutch operation that way, and it was just I don't

501
00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:55,600
Speaker 1: know that that got me hooked on being a mechanic.

502
00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:57,879
Speaker 1: I think that got me hooked on cars. That cars

503
00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:00,240
Speaker 1: were just so neat and fascinating. It was, you know,

504
00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:03,040
Speaker 1: the movement of the gearshift knob and the clutch pedal

505
00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:05,800
Speaker 1: and there was some coordination things going on, and I

506
00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:07,720
Speaker 1: was just so amazed at the way he handled that

507
00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:10,080
Speaker 1: piece of machinery that you know, it just got me

508
00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:14,439
Speaker 1: more curious. I think what got a I think what

509
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:18,119
Speaker 1: got me going with regards to being a mechanic. Was

510
00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:23,199
Speaker 1: it for me personally? It was my way of you know,

511
00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:25,440
Speaker 1: so many kids were better at sports and so many

512
00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:28,199
Speaker 1: different things, but it was helped me identify myself with

513
00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:30,960
Speaker 1: one of the talents that the big Man above gave

514
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:32,760
Speaker 1: me that I was able to do something and do

515
00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:35,280
Speaker 1: it by myself. It made me the quarterback of my

516
00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:37,879
Speaker 1: own little football team, so to speak. So you know,

517
00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:39,880
Speaker 1: that kind of made me feel good. But that's that

518
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:42,680
Speaker 1: I got from Dad too, So just dad stories. Um

519
00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:44,280
Speaker 1: Tom writes, And we had a question from a call

520
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:46,320
Speaker 1: or what is the going rate for R twelve refrigerants

521
00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:50,000
Speaker 1: if you can find it? Um, I've seen the little cans,

522
00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:53,240
Speaker 1: the little fifteen ounce cans of R twelve refrigerant going

523
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:57,160
Speaker 1: anywhere from two to a can. So I'm seeing all

524
00:28:57,240 --> 00:28:59,240
Speaker 1: kinds of crazy numbers. So if you find some and

525
00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:01,840
Speaker 1: you need some, you know, hang onto it because they

526
00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:04,040
Speaker 1: ain't making it anymore. Hey, Ron, I listen to your

527
00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:06,840
Speaker 1: radio program on occasion on my local radio station, w

528
00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:09,240
Speaker 1: d r C in Hartford, Connecticut, which they carry on

529
00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:11,800
Speaker 1: a de laid basis. What are your thoughts on undercoating

530
00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:14,520
Speaker 1: rustproofing a new vehicle pickup truck with line X or

531
00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:16,360
Speaker 1: some of the rustproofers that they carry at the auto

532
00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:19,360
Speaker 1: parts stores, or any commercial rustproofers that you know of.

533
00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:21,960
Speaker 1: I remember years ago we had Rusty Jones and auto armor.

534
00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:25,200
Speaker 1: My seven Dodge Diplomat had auto armor on it. When

535
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:27,520
Speaker 1: it was brand new, and it is still fabulous, although

536
00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:29,560
Speaker 1: I never drive it in the winter. My two thousand

537
00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:32,200
Speaker 1: eight Ranger with fifty one thous miles on it is

538
00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:34,240
Speaker 1: in pretty rough shape. It's out in the winter storm

539
00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:37,240
Speaker 1: so I can plow the various family driveways. Is amazing

540
00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:39,680
Speaker 1: how much of these road chemicals they pour on for

541
00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:41,840
Speaker 1: each storm. It's amazing how this stuff sticks to the

542
00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:43,640
Speaker 1: underside of the truck even when you try to hose

543
00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:46,400
Speaker 1: it off. I can't see spending thirty five thousand dollars

544
00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:48,400
Speaker 1: plus for a new truck that will rust out in

545
00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:50,400
Speaker 1: twelve years. I'm sixty two, and if I purchase a

546
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:52,120
Speaker 1: new truck I wanted the last twenty years, how do

547
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:55,680
Speaker 1: I protected? Martin? Great question, Marty, Uh, you know, listen,

548
00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:58,120
Speaker 1: I'm a little bit of fanatic when it comes to rustproofing.

549
00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:01,280
Speaker 1: I'm not so much a fan of undercoating and rustproofing.

550
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:03,720
Speaker 1: I'm not saying there's anything wrong with it, but I've

551
00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:06,600
Speaker 1: always of late, I've taken the paint approach when I've

552
00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:08,400
Speaker 1: purchased the plow truck. And you might have heard me

553
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:10,680
Speaker 1: tell the story before I've stripped the wheel wells out

554
00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:12,640
Speaker 1: of it. I stripped everything out of it that I could.

555
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:14,920
Speaker 1: I got it down to the very barest of metal

556
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:19,520
Speaker 1: and Benjamin Moore low luster alkalid UH paint. I've painted

557
00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:22,480
Speaker 1: the entire undercarriage of the truck, and then I've rustproofed, patched,

558
00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:26,800
Speaker 1: aerosol spray, rustproof patch in various uh you know, various

559
00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:29,840
Speaker 1: places of of of undercoating. I think the key with

560
00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:32,400
Speaker 1: undercoating is you've got to get it all or there's

561
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:35,400
Speaker 1: got to be protection at all levels. Because once the

562
00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:39,080
Speaker 1: chemical or once the moisture gets past an open or

563
00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:42,240
Speaker 1: unprotected area on any vehicle, I think the game is

564
00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:44,680
Speaker 1: over because it just sort of creeps along under the

565
00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:47,280
Speaker 1: protective material and there's nothing you can do about it

566
00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:50,000
Speaker 1: at that point and creates a bigger problem. Um. I

567
00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:51,760
Speaker 1: agree with you spending a lot of money on a

568
00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:55,400
Speaker 1: vehicle to let it rust out. The problem is, as

569
00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:57,680
Speaker 1: you say, you're oh eight rangers rusted out to the

570
00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:00,240
Speaker 1: point that you know it's rusting out to the point

571
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:02,800
Speaker 1: that it's in pretty rough shape. So you know where's

572
00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:05,320
Speaker 1: the tradeoff? Yes, I agree we are putting too much

573
00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:07,440
Speaker 1: chemical on the roads in all states. It seems no

574
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:09,960
Speaker 1: matter where you go. UM, which is sort of mind

575
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:12,400
Speaker 1: boggling because we've got vehicles with all wheel drive, all

576
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:15,480
Speaker 1: wheel steering, all wheel breaking, and we still put enough

577
00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:18,080
Speaker 1: chemical on the on the on the roadways that it

578
00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:20,000
Speaker 1: makes you wonder what it's doing to the environment, although

579
00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:23,560
Speaker 1: I know they'll tell you that you know it's environmental, uh,

580
00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:27,480
Speaker 1: environmental safe chemical, so it doesn't cause a problem. But

581
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:31,040
Speaker 1: I think you've got to do some undercoat Martin, back

582
00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:32,840
Speaker 1: to your question. I think you've got to do some undercoating.

583
00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:35,280
Speaker 1: I think you've got to do some painting, proper care,

584
00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:37,560
Speaker 1: and I think washing off. I think those three steps

585
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:39,600
Speaker 1: will help promote the life of the vehicle. Um, I

586
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:42,040
Speaker 1: wouldn't worry about the truck rusting out in twelve years

587
00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:44,320
Speaker 1: or so because at the right things are going. They're

588
00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:46,600
Speaker 1: gonna stop making parts for most things after seven. So

589
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:48,080
Speaker 1: as long as you get seven years out of it,

590
00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:50,479
Speaker 1: you're good. And you just have to factor in the

591
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:53,520
Speaker 1: expense of a new vehicle sooner rather than later. Just

592
00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:56,560
Speaker 1: my perspective, just getting ready for the future. Eight five

593
00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:00,280
Speaker 1: zero nine zero Marnin eating the car Doctor. We're at

594
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:16,080
Speaker 1: right after this, don't go away, locome back running in

595
00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:18,520
Speaker 1: of the car Doctor, winding it down this hour. You know.

596
00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:20,600
Speaker 1: The one other thing that I thought was interesting we

597
00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:24,000
Speaker 1: haven't talked about at all is the way tools are changing.

598
00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:26,080
Speaker 1: So I've been going through the back room of the

599
00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:28,800
Speaker 1: shop and I've got a collection and there are some

600
00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:32,200
Speaker 1: things there that I thought would always be worth money.

601
00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:35,800
Speaker 1: I've been trying to sell breakout my breakout box and

602
00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:38,760
Speaker 1: breakout box adapters for the original four to EKE four

603
00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:42,560
Speaker 1: engine control systems. E four was produced from eighty three

604
00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:46,160
Speaker 1: until but you know, you start adding it up and

605
00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:50,520
Speaker 1: you goosand and five two thousand fifteen. Those those cars

606
00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:54,520
Speaker 1: are anywhere from fifteen to twenty five years old, and

607
00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:57,440
Speaker 1: there's they're just not out there. I've had breakout box

608
00:32:57,480 --> 00:32:59,960
Speaker 1: adapters and stuff up on eBay for the past month,

609
00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:03,760
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, forty bucks can't give it away,

610
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:06,239
Speaker 1: just nobody wants it. And they were they were four

611
00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:08,760
Speaker 1: D tools back in the day. It's just it's just

612
00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:15,240
Speaker 1: crazy the way technology is driving certain cars into uh,

613
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:17,320
Speaker 1: you know, non existence, and I guess you know they're

614
00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:20,680
Speaker 1: getting older, but nothing survived, right. It seems like a

615
00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:22,320
Speaker 1: lot of these vehicles that we used to work on

616
00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:25,000
Speaker 1: a regular basis, the simple jobs we used to work

617
00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:28,320
Speaker 1: on a regular basis, just haven't survived. We also worked

618
00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:30,280
Speaker 1: on this week. I should point out seventy seven pant

619
00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:33,520
Speaker 1: trans am, the smoking in the Bandit car um black

620
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:37,200
Speaker 1: black tip trans Am gold trim, Anthony's car um. We

621
00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:39,920
Speaker 1: love Anthony. Anthony's a good guy. He's listening. You know.

622
00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:41,880
Speaker 1: We told him get this, this, this, he got that

623
00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:44,400
Speaker 1: that and that. We did a power steering pump and

624
00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:47,360
Speaker 1: pressure hoses this week. A little bit of a toughie

625
00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:50,800
Speaker 1: because the original power steering host. This kind of annoys me.

626
00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:54,880
Speaker 1: The original power steering hose. The replacement wasn't exactly like

627
00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:58,400
Speaker 1: the original host. It was just enough tweaks in it

628
00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:00,720
Speaker 1: that it just sort of fit, but not really it

629
00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:03,080
Speaker 1: could have, you know which I always wonder why the

630
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:07,640
Speaker 1: aftermarket or why the manufacturers do that, because this way work,

631
00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:10,319
Speaker 1: This way is sort of okay, you know. Is it

632
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:12,520
Speaker 1: a we don't care any more of the vehicles out

633
00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:15,080
Speaker 1: of warranty and it's your problem. That type of mentality.

634
00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:17,440
Speaker 1: I don't know, but it was. It was fun working

635
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:20,600
Speaker 1: on something with a carburetor again, and you know, basics,

636
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:22,920
Speaker 1: just nuts and bolts. It just took a little bit

637
00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:24,840
Speaker 1: of time because everything has to be trial fit and

638
00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:27,520
Speaker 1: looked at once, then looked at twice, and then hooked

639
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:29,439
Speaker 1: up and then made wet and then once you put

640
00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:31,920
Speaker 1: fluid in it, burp it and bleed it and um,

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Speaker 1: then you go take it for a rud and you

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Speaker 1: look for Sally Fields, which we didn't find. So I

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Speaker 1: didn't even have the cowboy hat. Um, so I know

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Speaker 1: when I have to get for Father's Day next year.

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Speaker 1: By the way, speaking of gifts for Father's Day, did

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Speaker 1: anybody see totally off topic here? We'll close it out here,

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Speaker 1: but sort of. It's a mechanical thing. The Royal Navy

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Speaker 1: has this jet pack there. There's a video up on

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Speaker 1: Facebook where they're talking about it's it's these couplings that

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Speaker 1: you strapped to your lists and you wear the jet

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Speaker 1: pack on your arm and you can fly like Iron Man. Um.

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Speaker 1: It's really kind of cool. I bet I can make

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Speaker 1: it faster, but uh, you know, it just makes you

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Speaker 1: wonder the technology and where it's going. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I better put that technology into electric vehicles because we're

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Speaker 1: sure you're gonna need it. Something's got to change. Hey,

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Speaker 1: it's been a pleasure. I hope you've enjoyed yourself. I

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Speaker 1: have everyone out there have a great Father's Day, Honor

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Speaker 1: those that are leading the way, and until the next time,

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Speaker 1: remember the mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. See that