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Speaker 1: Ron and Nanian, what is it about the radio show

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Speaker 1: that you just do joy so much? Because you sound

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Speaker 1: with me. It must be working with Tom. And I

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Speaker 1: But the other one that was black, and that the

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Speaker 1: ground I've never seen. Yeah, and I've never seen one

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: call in the garage to orders are open, but I

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Speaker 1: six and now he running. I was thinking what would

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Speaker 1: Not necessarily, but I think the money's gonna get there.

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Speaker 1: You know, we were talking about this yesterday when the

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Speaker 1: folks from Hunter Engineering came out. We were looking at

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Speaker 1: And then they've got to come out and they've got

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Speaker 1: And that's to get into an entry level position in

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Speaker 1: And you know, I'm not saying this is in every case,

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Speaker 1: Then I was reading and I was on All Data

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Speaker 1: last night, All Data dot com. Uh, they come out

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Speaker 1: And this is written by Rich Deagle. He's the senior

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Speaker 1: automotive editor over there at all that and Rich opened

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Speaker 1: up with a question, can hybrid and electric vehicles be

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Speaker 1: dangerous to work on? Next sentence one word absolutely, And

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Speaker 1: So it's a very good chance you'll see one of

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Speaker 1: Chevy bolt. That warning for technicians wearing medical electronics. You

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Speaker 1: other week. Yeah, you're you're you're a popular guy. Well,

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Speaker 1: So what's going on that this car's got two miles

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Speaker 1: look for a diagnosed Well, So, how did it start?

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Speaker 1: quality parts, Kurt uh No, I'd say a medium quality parts. Okay,

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Speaker 1: plastic radiators, a plastic side tank. Correct, it does have

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Speaker 1: so when the when the car is warmed up, all right,

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Speaker 1: questions about purchasing older Volkswagons. Ross, welcome to the car doctor, Sir,

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Speaker 1: I went out. I went out and I found one.

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Speaker 1: You know what, I'm not sorry I did. Uh, you

426
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Speaker 1: just get to that point, how old are you? Well,

427
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Speaker 1: this will be even midlife crisis. Car. I'm fifty two, Okay,

428
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Speaker 1: So if you want this Volkswagen for another ten years,

429
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Speaker 1: you'll be sixty two going, which I had bought one?

430
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Speaker 1: You know, is it? You know I always look at life.

431
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Speaker 1: Am I gambling with the butter and egg money? Am

432
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Speaker 1: I gambling with the rent money? Am I taking money

433
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Speaker 1: away from my kids college? If the answer to all

434
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Speaker 1: those is no, and the family can go on, you

435
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Speaker 1: know what you deserve a little, Lauren? Are you deserve

436
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Speaker 1: to be able to smile? And you may You may

437
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Speaker 1: own that car for six months ago, God what did

438
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Speaker 1: I do this for? And then again you may in

439
00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:02,720
Speaker 1: that car for six months, and you may come out

440
00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:04,920
Speaker 1: of the house one morning wearing those you know, little

441
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Speaker 1: point the Italian racing shoes, the scarf, the goggles in

442
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Speaker 1: the hat. I mean, you know, it just it just

443
00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:12,800
Speaker 1: might be your thing, and it just might light your

444
00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:14,520
Speaker 1: fire and make you want to wake up every day

445
00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:19,560
Speaker 1: and go out and see the world right right. Cars

446
00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:22,399
Speaker 1: your therapy to a large degree, Cars your therapy. And

447
00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:26,040
Speaker 1: that's why, uh, you know, I'm I'm confounded by those

448
00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:29,600
Speaker 1: that just think they're transportation. Sometimes they are, but sometimes

449
00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:34,160
Speaker 1: they're much more than transportation. So um, just be aware

450
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Speaker 1: of that. Hey, listen, stay on the line. Tom just

451
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Speaker 1: gave me the high sign. Uh. Your love of Volkswagen

452
00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:42,400
Speaker 1: has prompted Tom to offer you the Iraq Porsche's Book,

453
00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:45,040
Speaker 1: written by Matt Stone. It's colored pictures of the International

454
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Speaker 1: Race of Champions Porsche nine eleven's the men who race them.

455
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Speaker 1: I think you'll really enjoy it. And who knows, maybe

456
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Speaker 1: your next car will be a Porsche after you get

457
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Speaker 1: tired of the Volkswagen. All right, all right, and thank you,

458
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Speaker 1: thank you very much. You're very welcome. Stay on the line.

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Speaker 1: Let Tom get your information and uh we'll we'll get

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Speaker 1: that right out to you this week. I'm not an

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Speaker 1: any in the car doctor. We're back right after this.

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Speaker 1: Lolocome back. We're on naming the car Doctor. Eight five

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Speaker 1: five five zero nine zeros. The phone number again eight

464
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Speaker 1: five five five six zero nine zero zero call leave

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Speaker 1: a message if we're not on the air. This shows

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Speaker 1: live on the network Saturday afternoons to to four pm

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Speaker 1: East Coast time. But Tom Ray can give you a

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Speaker 1: call back and put you in the next live que.

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Speaker 1: Just all you gotta do is leave a message. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna help you fix your car. That's the whole purpose.

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Speaker 1: Of this show. If you're new to us, we thank

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00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:40,560
Speaker 1: you for that, and if you're old with us, we're

473
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Speaker 1: glad you stuck around. UM recent article from the about

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Speaker 1: the Pew Research Center that talks about electric vehicles, It's

475
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Speaker 1: tight electric vehicles get mixed reception from American consumers. By

476
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Speaker 1: Alison Spencer and Carry Funk, Americans are closely divided. The

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Speaker 1: article starts out with over the idea of phasing out

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Speaker 1: combustion engine vehicles by the year five, and many are

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Speaker 1: on the fence about whether they themselves would purchase a

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Speaker 1: chief alternative and electric car or truck. A recent Pew

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Speaker 1: Research report finds of the US adults support a proposal

482
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Speaker 1: to phase out production of gasoline powered cars and trucks,

483
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Speaker 1: while oppose it. My question is who did they ask? Right?

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Speaker 1: What you know? What are the age groups? And the

485
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Speaker 1: article then goes on to talk about how it's it's

486
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Speaker 1: the younger generation that's more for bringing in electric vehicles

487
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Speaker 1: versus the older which is opposed to it. But I

488
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Speaker 1: want to know, is everybody aware of the facts and

489
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Speaker 1: are we are any of us even aware of all

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Speaker 1: the facts. I don't even claim to know all the

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Speaker 1: information because everything I hear is yes, I get it.

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Speaker 1: You know, electric vehicles less pollution. But to phase out

493
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Speaker 1: the entire gasoline combustion engine family and bring out electric

494
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Speaker 1: I go back to where we're gonna get the electricity from.

495
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Speaker 1: It's just that simple. Where is this going to happen.

496
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Speaker 1: We've got an infrastructure problem in the country. We need

497
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Speaker 1: to build the electric grid up. We can't even do that.

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Speaker 1: Seems like the government can't get that to happen because of, uh,

499
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Speaker 1: you know, differences between the legislators. But you just say

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Speaker 1: to yourself, you can want everything you want, but how

501
00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:13,879
Speaker 1: does it happen? When does it happen? And it doesn't

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Speaker 1: seem to make sense. Seven percent of US adults, the

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Speaker 1: article goes on to say, say they currently own an

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Speaker 1: electric or hybrid vehicles vehicle. Most of these owners, sevent

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Speaker 1: of the seven, say they are very or somewhat likely

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Speaker 1: to seriously consider an electric car truck the next time around.

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Speaker 1: You see how they play with the numbers. Though seven

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Speaker 1: percent of adults say they own an electric or hybrid vehicle,

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Speaker 1: many of these owners seventy two, they make it sound

510
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Speaker 1: like it's a large number. Sev seven is about what

511
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Speaker 1: five So five percent of the populations say they are

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Speaker 1: very or somewhat likely to seriously consider an electric car

513
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Speaker 1: truck the next time around. But yet, like the idea

514
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Speaker 1: to phase out electric or to phase out guest Lene

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Speaker 1: engine by the year, the number is don't make sense.

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Speaker 1: Three in ten Americans, the article continues to describe themselves

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Speaker 1: as knowing a lot about electric vehicles. Well, there's a

518
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Speaker 1: good reason, so let's listen to the three in ten

519
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Speaker 1: who say they know more about electric vehicles and are

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Speaker 1: divided about their openness to going The electric vehicle group

521
00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:17,920
Speaker 1: at least are somewhat likely to consider an electric vehicle

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Speaker 1: purchase in the future. So three out of ten of

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Speaker 1: the three out of ten are somewhat likely to consider

524
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Speaker 1: a vehicle electric vehicle purchase in the future will say

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Speaker 1: they are not too or at all likely to do so.

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Speaker 1: Where are we gonna get the electricity from? Where we're

527
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Speaker 1: gonna get the lithium from where we gonna get the

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Speaker 1: infrastructure to support it? Um? I don't know. I just

529
00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:46,480
Speaker 1: these articles are written very deceivingly. My job's here to

530
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Speaker 1: just to report the news, but it is frustrating research.

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Speaker 1: Kathy is at it again. She's submitting articles again, earning

532
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Speaker 1: her pay. California startup now offers a full electric vehicle

533
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Speaker 1: battery in just ten minutes. Remember I told you about Oh,

534
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Speaker 1: I don't know, four to six months ago. I said

535
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Speaker 1: for the electric electric vehicle to actually make it, they

536
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:06,800
Speaker 1: were gonna have to come up with a battery pack

537
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Speaker 1: that would allow you to pull into a gas station,

538
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Speaker 1: per se, or a charging station they swap out the battery.

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Speaker 1: That's what the article talks about. Maybe we'll get into

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Speaker 1: that a little later next week. Let's go to the phone.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Blaine in Louisiana, a fifteen Nissan Versa

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Speaker 1: with a check engine line. It won't run, Blaine, Welcome

543
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Speaker 1: to the car doctor. How can I help it runs?

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Speaker 1: It just it doesn't. It doesn't go anywhere. It's like

545
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Speaker 1: I'll putting a drive reverse low. I mean, I don't

546
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Speaker 1: know what could be the problem, because I mean, it's

547
00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:42,920
Speaker 1: going fine. And then she parked it. Next morning she

548
00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:45,080
Speaker 1: gets up to go to work. It doesn't even move,

549
00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:50,120
Speaker 1: but the engine runs and the engine sounds normal. Yes, okay.

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Speaker 1: Is it possible that one of the drive axles popped

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Speaker 1: out of the transmission? Is it making any grinding noises

552
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Speaker 1: or anything. Yes, it's making like a little a little

553
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Speaker 1: it was like a little grinding noise, like a little

554
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Speaker 1: grinding noise. It sounds like either one of the drive

555
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Speaker 1: axles popped out of the trans or there's something internal

556
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Speaker 1: in the transit failed. That that that is a CVT

557
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:17,560
Speaker 1: trans constant constant velocity. Let me let me tell you

558
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Speaker 1: the sun's gonna come up tomorrow and somebody else's Nissan

559
00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:22,480
Speaker 1: is gonna do the same thing, because it's a very

560
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Speaker 1: common problem. They do it all the time. They've they've

561
00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:29,880
Speaker 1: they've got their issues. Um, more than likely the trans

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Speaker 1: itself failed. How many miles are on it? Yeah, it's

563
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Speaker 1: ever put a trans in it? You're about though? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: just uh And I would at least have a conversation

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Speaker 1: with the Nissan dealer. I'm not saying it is. I

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Speaker 1: think it's out of warranty, but I thought Nissan had

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Speaker 1: extended the warranty on some of those up two hundred

568
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Speaker 1: and fifty thousand. Hence the reason for the you know,

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Speaker 1: the hence the comment for the you know how many

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Speaker 1: miles you have on it? But you know, at a

571
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Speaker 1: buck eighty it wouldn't be unusual. Uh. In New Jersey dollars.

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Speaker 1: I would estimate. I believe that trans is a forty

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Speaker 1: thousand dollar repair. Just just see you have. I had

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Speaker 1: some idea of walking in, but the fact that you

575
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Speaker 1: here that, the fact that you hear grinding isn't good. Yeah,

576
00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:26,000
Speaker 1: more more unlikely. A yeah, right, exactly, um exactly. So hey, listen,

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Speaker 1: you've got you got almost two or thousand miles out

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Speaker 1: of that when it did. All right, right, yeah, so

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Speaker 1: but that's the deal kid. Alright, sir, You're very welcome.

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Speaker 1: You have a good rest of the day. I'm running

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Speaker 1: any of the Car Doctor. We're back right after this

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Speaker 1: welcome back round Need of the Car Doctor. You know,

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Speaker 1: two repairs kind of stand out in my mind from

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Speaker 1: this week at the shop. And I should also point

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Speaker 1: that that we're gonna start to read parts some of

586
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Speaker 1: these on the website. Our Card Doctor show website is

587
00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:06,360
Speaker 1: just about ready for release, and we're kind of hashing

588
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Speaker 1: out the details again this week. One of the things

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Speaker 1: they want is they want a daily blog or a

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Speaker 1: weekly blog from me. And you know, they said, they

591
00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:16,000
Speaker 1: asked me, they said, what would you write about it?

592
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:16,800
Speaker 1: And I don't know, what do you want me to

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Speaker 1: write about? And they said well, what do you think,

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Speaker 1: I said, you know what, I would write about the

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Speaker 1: things that go on in the shop, and maybe it'll

596
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:24,080
Speaker 1: be maybe it'll be good for me. It a lit'll

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00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:25,760
Speaker 1: be of an emotional moment. You know what are we

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00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:28,680
Speaker 1: feeling in the shop? What's the insanity this moment, this point,

599
00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:33,040
Speaker 1: at this stage of the game, we had Honda pilot

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00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:35,960
Speaker 1: came into the shop this week. It needed wiper blades.

601
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:39,080
Speaker 1: How hard is this? Right? It just needs to to

602
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:40,920
Speaker 1: wiper blades in the front and a pair of wiper

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Speaker 1: blades in the back. And unfortunately, the blade in the

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00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:49,000
Speaker 1: front was fine. The blade in the back Honda decided

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00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:51,360
Speaker 1: that when they catch it on the hook on the

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00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:54,200
Speaker 1: back door, there's a little plastic tab that sticks off.

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Speaker 1: Nobody in the aftermarket makes a wiper blade for the

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Speaker 1: rear of a pilot with that tab, so it just

609
00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:03,160
Speaker 1: doesn't sit right. You'll wipe out the blatant short order.

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00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:06,640
Speaker 1: And I looked at that and I said, look at

611
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Speaker 1: how they changed the profitability of a simple repair. Honda

612
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:14,880
Speaker 1: is the only one that has that wiper blade. You

613
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Speaker 1: have to go back to Honda for it. They've got

614
00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:20,280
Speaker 1: you locked in. Yeah, the other way, I'll work, but

615
00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:22,440
Speaker 1: it won't work right and it won't last as long.

616
00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:25,040
Speaker 1: And I looked at that and I saw it. To me,

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Speaker 1: that's the fragility of auto repair. That's how they can

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Speaker 1: change things in an instant. They add one little hook,

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Speaker 1: one little bobble, one little something, and they make it

620
00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:37,720
Speaker 1: so unique. Only the manufacturer can sell that part. That

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Speaker 1: bothered me. And then on the on the jocularity side,

622
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:45,520
Speaker 1: because you know, funny things do happen. Yesterday, we had

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Speaker 1: a blue Subaru we found in the park a lot

624
00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:50,920
Speaker 1: when we came in and no note, no keys, And

625
00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:53,080
Speaker 1: about twenty minutes after we opened, the owner called up

626
00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:55,360
Speaker 1: and said, hey, ron I I left my car, but

627
00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:56,720
Speaker 1: I was in a hurry. I've got to drop the

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00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:59,280
Speaker 1: key back off. I've got a flat. The left front

629
00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:01,680
Speaker 1: tire is is losing air. And I said, yeah, no problem,

630
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:03,800
Speaker 1: rich and he dropped off the key and we fixed it.

631
00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:09,239
Speaker 1: And before he called though, the phone rang and it

632
00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:13,040
Speaker 1: was Jill from Allendale, the next town over, and she said,

633
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Speaker 1: you know, I've got this blue super ru And I'm thinking, okay,

634
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:17,759
Speaker 1: so this is the super Ruiner's car. Because I didn't

635
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Speaker 1: recognize who the cars was. Who's the owner was of

636
00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:22,840
Speaker 1: the car that was actually there. Got a little confusing,

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Speaker 1: and she said, my super Bru's got a flat and

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Speaker 1: I went, oh, yeah, no, I I know that. She's like,

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Speaker 1: how do you know that? I said, because I can

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Speaker 1: see it. How can you see it? I said, well,

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Speaker 1: you're the blue super U right. She goes yeah. I said, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you've gotta You've gotta flat on the left side. She goes,

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Speaker 1: that's amazing. She says, how do you do that? Well,

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Speaker 1: come on, I can see it. It's right there. She

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Speaker 1: goes right where it's right out front. She goes, no,

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Speaker 1: my car is not even there. I just you know,

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Speaker 1: I said, where's your flat? She goes the left rear.

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Speaker 1: I said, oh, well, this one's got the left front.

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Speaker 1: At least I know I've got something close going on.

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Speaker 1: Sis boom ba, sis boom bah. Right, yeah, the great

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Speaker 1: Johnny Carson sis boom bah. The sound that sheep may

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Speaker 1: just before it explodes. So um, just boy, talk about confusion.

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Speaker 1: And I drove home last night thinking what if this

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Speaker 1: is an electric vehicle? And they were all written, it's

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Speaker 1: did you change the module, which module, which car, which system?

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be fun. I'll running any in the car,

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Speaker 1: doctor reminding until the next time. Good mechanics aren't expensive,

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Speaker 1: they're priceless. Let's see you