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Speaker 1: a tire rotation. I can't remember if we flushed break

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00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:06,560
Speaker 1: fluid or not. If we didn't, it was okay, it

426
00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:09,760
Speaker 1: was clean enough. Um, we we looked it over, changed

427
00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:12,720
Speaker 1: the oil, we did air filter, We do a cabin

428
00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:17,879
Speaker 1: filter among other things. And Danny, to get to the

429
00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:20,800
Speaker 1: cabin filter, you've gotta take again, the glove box has

430
00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:22,359
Speaker 1: to come out, the right side of the dash has

431
00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:24,359
Speaker 1: to come off the you know, you've got to. You've

432
00:22:24,359 --> 00:22:27,000
Speaker 1: gotta get everything in there out to get to where

433
00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:28,399
Speaker 1: you want to be. And it's a sort of in

434
00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:31,520
Speaker 1: a crummy spot. It really is that GM engineers should

435
00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:36,359
Speaker 1: be shot. But that's okay. Still like GM products, So

436
00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:39,399
Speaker 1: we take the air filter out. The first clue that

437
00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:45,639
Speaker 1: there's been some oh, how shall we put it, extracurricular activity,

438
00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:49,800
Speaker 1: is there's little nibble marks on the cabin filter. Oh

439
00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:53,720
Speaker 1: and you know the ribbed pleats of the filter are

440
00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:56,880
Speaker 1: there's a rib pleat the filters, you know, eight inches wide,

441
00:22:56,880 --> 00:22:58,920
Speaker 1: and there's a rippleat about six inches and then there's

442
00:22:58,920 --> 00:23:00,840
Speaker 1: a chunk missing, like a grater on the moon. And

443
00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:06,159
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, okay, so evidently there was Mr Cooper

444
00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:09,960
Speaker 1: was housing some friends of the Friends of the Wildlife

445
00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:13,240
Speaker 1: in this car at one point, and um, you know

446
00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:15,200
Speaker 1: they're gone now we think they're gone. We didn't find

447
00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:16,960
Speaker 1: them in there. We just this is like their summer home.

448
00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,080
Speaker 1: I guess you know, I guess we'll we'll, we'll, we'll

449
00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:21,240
Speaker 1: spend our our lives in the Ford Demi vacation and

450
00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:24,800
Speaker 1: the Chevy kind of thing, you know. And all the

451
00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:29,760
Speaker 1: fuzz and the leaves and the debris and some of

452
00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:32,680
Speaker 1: the other things that were left behind had fallen into

453
00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:35,639
Speaker 1: the evaporator case. So you've got to clean it out. Well,

454
00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:39,360
Speaker 1: you know, you can't. You can't see it because you're

455
00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:43,800
Speaker 1: literally it's down into the left and you can't get

456
00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:46,120
Speaker 1: a vacuum nozzle in there. You can't get an air

457
00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:48,320
Speaker 1: gun in there. You you know, you've got to take

458
00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:50,960
Speaker 1: the dashboard apart. Is really what they're trying to make

459
00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:57,120
Speaker 1: you do, right, What are we gonna do? I think

460
00:23:57,359 --> 00:24:01,679
Speaker 1: I saw it in home alone to remember the scene

461
00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:05,520
Speaker 1: where Marv and um, what was the other crook's name,

462
00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:09,520
Speaker 1: Marvin uh? And Joe Pesci's Joe Pesci's character, I can't

463
00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:14,440
Speaker 1: think of, uh. The way they were called the Wet Bandits, right, yeah,

464
00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:16,639
Speaker 1: the Wet Bandits and they're walking they come out of

465
00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:20,080
Speaker 1: the subway and um, uh, Marv, the tall one, I

466
00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:22,480
Speaker 1: can't think of the actor they were great, had taken

467
00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:24,800
Speaker 1: scotch tape and putting scotch tape around his hand, and

468
00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:27,080
Speaker 1: he put it into the Salvation Army coin plate and

469
00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:30,359
Speaker 1: he came out with a fist full of quarters. So

470
00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:32,440
Speaker 1: I said to Danny, I said, you know one way.

471
00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:34,159
Speaker 1: He says, well, we don't have any scotch tape. We

472
00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:38,200
Speaker 1: don't know. So we took some upholstery glue and put

473
00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:39,840
Speaker 1: it on a rubber glove. Danny put the glove on

474
00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:41,919
Speaker 1: and we sprayed his hands up and just kind of

475
00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:44,840
Speaker 1: eased his hands in and it actually worked quite well.

476
00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:47,080
Speaker 1: We went through about a half a dozen gloves by

477
00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:49,200
Speaker 1: the time we got it all up and and and out,

478
00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:54,560
Speaker 1: but you know, it worked. And you know, the point becomes,

479
00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:58,920
Speaker 1: you can't see what you're getting into on a used car,

480
00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:01,239
Speaker 1: and sometimes it's something and you can't even predict, and

481
00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:04,040
Speaker 1: sometimes you just gotta be willing to pay the freight

482
00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:05,320
Speaker 1: and go through it. It It took a little bit of

483
00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:07,280
Speaker 1: time and Mr Cooper happily paid the bill. He was

484
00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:09,160
Speaker 1: thrilled we got it all cleaned up and he's safe

485
00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:10,840
Speaker 1: and it's you know, we're able to get a little

486
00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:14,760
Speaker 1: disinfected in there to clean out any you know, cooties,

487
00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:18,160
Speaker 1: and you know it's just you never know what you're

488
00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:21,199
Speaker 1: gonna run into on a used car. But remember that, okay,

489
00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:25,399
Speaker 1: the sticky glove trick, right, it does work when you

490
00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:27,080
Speaker 1: want to get things out that you can't pick up

491
00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:30,280
Speaker 1: every leaf, every blade of grass, every pebble, every rock,

492
00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:34,199
Speaker 1: every you know, mouse poop um. You know, you just

493
00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:36,600
Speaker 1: want to get it out. It's boom boom, boom, boom boom,

494
00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:40,320
Speaker 1: and out it comes um. And that's what we did

495
00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:43,119
Speaker 1: this week. We we we cleaned up a mouse nest

496
00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:46,520
Speaker 1: inside of Crews, and I thought to myself, and I

497
00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:49,360
Speaker 1: guess everybody buys a three year old used car, thinking yeah,

498
00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:52,600
Speaker 1: this can never happen to me, right, Listen, that's not

499
00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:56,880
Speaker 1: the worst the worst one. I think. I've had two

500
00:25:56,880 --> 00:26:01,119
Speaker 1: bad interior car smell experiences in my career. One of

501
00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:04,359
Speaker 1: them was the woman who spilled the quart of milk

502
00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:10,760
Speaker 1: inside the Chevy Tahoe in the back and then she

503
00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:13,160
Speaker 1: was going away on vacation. She was flying somewhere. I'll

504
00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:16,280
Speaker 1: never forget this. She had bought some groceries for the

505
00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:18,920
Speaker 1: kids in the housekeeper, spilled the milk in the back

506
00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:23,120
Speaker 1: of the tahoe, went on vacation. This was July, went

507
00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:26,040
Speaker 1: on vacation, comes back in August, all right. She had

508
00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:28,840
Speaker 1: been away for a month with her husband and brings

509
00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:30,640
Speaker 1: the car down the middle of August. Wants the back

510
00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:32,560
Speaker 1: of the end. Gee, this is really bad smell in

511
00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:35,080
Speaker 1: the car. Well, I can understand that a quart of

512
00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:37,120
Speaker 1: milk left, you know, spilled out all over the back

513
00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:41,520
Speaker 1: carpet for a month in July, baking every day. No

514
00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:43,159
Speaker 1: matter what we did, we couldn't get the smell out

515
00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:45,080
Speaker 1: of that car. I think she traded it in. That

516
00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:47,440
Speaker 1: was a bad one. And the other one that was

517
00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:49,520
Speaker 1: kind of interesting was the customer that brought me the

518
00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:51,119
Speaker 1: car and I said, what's the problem, Well, there's a

519
00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:54,320
Speaker 1: squirrel in my car. Well, how do you know there's

520
00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:56,400
Speaker 1: a squirrel in your car? Because I don't see it.

521
00:26:56,840 --> 00:26:59,560
Speaker 1: She goes, we'll stick your nose in there. Uh yeah,

522
00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:03,600
Speaker 1: that's what does smell like something's dead. What what happened here? Well,

523
00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:05,320
Speaker 1: you know, I lived by the woods, and I opened

524
00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:06,960
Speaker 1: the car. I opened the door to get in, and

525
00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:08,720
Speaker 1: the squirrel went running in and went right up the

526
00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:10,800
Speaker 1: heat event and then it couldn't get out, and it

527
00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:12,760
Speaker 1: ran around in there for a couple of days, driving

528
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:15,720
Speaker 1: itself nuts until it died. M can you get it out?

529
00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:19,359
Speaker 1: I don't think gloves and glue would have helped in

530
00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:20,920
Speaker 1: that case. And I was like, no, when I think

531
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:23,520
Speaker 1: that car got traded into, but I don't really remember.

532
00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:26,320
Speaker 1: I've blocked it from my memory. So and anyway, more

533
00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:28,080
Speaker 1: stories to come, more car doctor, and to come. I'm

534
00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:31,840
Speaker 1: ron Nating the Car Doctor. Zero nine zero. We're back

535
00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:38,080
Speaker 1: right after this Welcome back, run Nating the Car Doctor.

536
00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:42,160
Speaker 1: Just between you and me. So I got the left

537
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:45,280
Speaker 1: front corner of the Monty Carlo apart this week seventy

538
00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:47,160
Speaker 1: two money Carlo. In case you're new and you don't

539
00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:49,520
Speaker 1: know what we're talking about, but I found the car

540
00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:52,000
Speaker 1: I went to Collagen, not the exact car, that the

541
00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:53,840
Speaker 1: exact car I went to college, and I crushed because

542
00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:56,520
Speaker 1: after almost food miles on it, it was tired back

543
00:27:56,560 --> 00:28:00,720
Speaker 1: in nineteen and um, you know, I got the bug

544
00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:03,320
Speaker 1: I wanted. I wanted one again. So I'm redoing another one,

545
00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:06,280
Speaker 1: same color, combination, same car. It's like, this is the

546
00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:11,880
Speaker 1: twin to the one that I had. So I took

547
00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:13,800
Speaker 1: a part in the left front corner of the suspension

548
00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:16,760
Speaker 1: this week. And you know, because I'm gonna Benjamin More

549
00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:22,040
Speaker 1: paint the frame and wash everything down. It's really neat,

550
00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:26,320
Speaker 1: you know, when you're when you're older, you really appreciate

551
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:28,920
Speaker 1: the way things were built and where technology has come

552
00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:33,160
Speaker 1: from and the basis of it, and you really appreciate

553
00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:37,159
Speaker 1: how simple things were in the seventies. In terms of cars.

554
00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:40,840
Speaker 1: I think the seventies the early seventies were some really

555
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:44,960
Speaker 1: really unique times. You could see the way the industry

556
00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:47,800
Speaker 1: was thinking, how they created you know, just the frames.

557
00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:50,200
Speaker 1: The frames were just to clam halves of shells of

558
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:53,400
Speaker 1: a frame of steel and just welded together and bang,

559
00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:59,440
Speaker 1: make it work. This is a Texas car. And as

560
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:04,480
Speaker 1: crazy it sounds, the car seventy two to two thousand twelve,

561
00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:08,000
Speaker 1: the cars almost fifty years old. It's forty seven years

562
00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:12,360
Speaker 1: old now and sitting in Texas all its life. It

563
00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:16,640
Speaker 1: was never exposed to North Jersey rust and chemical and

564
00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:20,160
Speaker 1: weather and so forth. You take a can of break

565
00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:23,360
Speaker 1: clean and a shop towel and you wipe off the

566
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:28,800
Speaker 1: Texas mud and there's black frame rail underneath. Right. You know,

567
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:32,560
Speaker 1: you're just huh um. The fender liner came out, didn't

568
00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:36,000
Speaker 1: break a single bowlt nothing, nothing snapped. There's no rust.

569
00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:38,920
Speaker 1: There's a little bit of rust around the interior body

570
00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:40,600
Speaker 1: panel on the fender on the left side on the

571
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:44,960
Speaker 1: inside face just early starting. And I think the only

572
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,120
Speaker 1: reason it's starting there is because it was a mouse

573
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:49,720
Speaker 1: nest in that corner of the fender. And you know

574
00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:53,720
Speaker 1: when when animals p the the the acid in their

575
00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:56,200
Speaker 1: p just eats away at the paint. I mean, that's

576
00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:58,000
Speaker 1: just there's just nothing you can do about it. They

577
00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:00,280
Speaker 1: were sitting there with his car was sitting in barn

578
00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:03,880
Speaker 1: for the better part of nine or ten years, you know,

579
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:07,520
Speaker 1: wipe everything down, little prep song, little Benjamin Moore. I've

580
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:10,959
Speaker 1: hand painted the frame. I've hand painted around, you know,

581
00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:13,400
Speaker 1: the inside of the fenders. But that isn't the part

582
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:17,440
Speaker 1: that got me. I took the front shock out because

583
00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:19,800
Speaker 1: I'm taking the control arms off because I wanted to

584
00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:22,000
Speaker 1: clean up the control arms and and and paint them.

585
00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:25,680
Speaker 1: Because even though this isn't a framework restoration, it bothers

586
00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:27,480
Speaker 1: me when things don't look right. That's just the way

587
00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:31,720
Speaker 1: I am. It was amazing to take the front shocks

588
00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:34,440
Speaker 1: out right and they're still the original and car guys

589
00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:36,960
Speaker 1: will get this. Car people will get this. They're they're

590
00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:40,720
Speaker 1: the original spiral wound front shocks. The base of the

591
00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:44,080
Speaker 1: front shock is spiraled. Um, it's got a twist in it.

592
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:46,240
Speaker 1: That's the way they manufacted. And wonder why they did that.

593
00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:49,560
Speaker 1: I never I've never looked into that. But what's really amazing,

594
00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:53,640
Speaker 1: somebody took the time. GM took the time. In two

595
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:58,880
Speaker 1: they they stamped, stamped, they etched into the bottom of

596
00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:04,040
Speaker 1: the shock delco with the part number made in USA.

597
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:08,000
Speaker 1: Where did that America go? You know? Now it's a

598
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:10,640
Speaker 1: label that falls off three weeks after if if the

599
00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:14,080
Speaker 1: wind blows the wrong way and there's no, there's no.

600
00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:17,479
Speaker 1: There's a lot of craftsmanship that went into the old stuff.

601
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:21,200
Speaker 1: And back then we thought the old stuff was garbage, right,

602
00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:23,120
Speaker 1: We ad their old cars, what could they be worth?

603
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:27,000
Speaker 1: And we just threw them away. It made me wonder.

604
00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:29,720
Speaker 1: I said to myself, I said, what's gonna happen when

605
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:32,320
Speaker 1: we get you know, the cars of today where it's

606
00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:36,560
Speaker 1: decals and and you know they're they're made off shore,

607
00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:39,720
Speaker 1: and you know, is it gonna be thirty years from

608
00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:41,560
Speaker 1: now We're gonna look at these parts and go, wow,

609
00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:45,080
Speaker 1: remember the good old days of and how well things

610
00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 1: were made. Oh, I dread the future. Sometimes it just

611
00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:52,920
Speaker 1: makes me wonder. I didn't get the frame back. I

612
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:54,840
Speaker 1: didn't get the control arms back on the car yet,

613
00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:57,360
Speaker 1: but I'm planning to maybe in the next week. Um,

614
00:31:57,400 --> 00:31:59,080
Speaker 1: I've got to get that once I finished up and

615
00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:02,480
Speaker 1: paint a little bit more. But you know, it doesn't

616
00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:06,480
Speaker 1: have to be a concourse chassis restoration, and it doesn't

617
00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:10,960
Speaker 1: have to be a one point car. If you really

618
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:14,440
Speaker 1: like working with your hands and you really like you know,

619
00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:18,120
Speaker 1: the mental challenge of it just finding an older car.

620
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:22,000
Speaker 1: That's simple, that's basic, and just doing it a little

621
00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:25,760
Speaker 1: bit every day. You know, there's a saying you never

622
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:28,840
Speaker 1: see a hot rod park outside the psychiatrist's office, and

623
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:31,200
Speaker 1: there's a reason for that, because the therapy is in

624
00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:34,840
Speaker 1: the shop, doing it every day, getting your hands dirty

625
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:37,840
Speaker 1: and and figuring out and solving problems. I'm running any

626
00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:41,680
Speaker 1: in the car, doctor, eight zero on back right after

627
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:57,440
Speaker 1: this shut out. Stop talking. That would be me running

628
00:32:57,480 --> 00:32:59,960
Speaker 1: any in the car, doctor. So you know, in the downtown,

629
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:02,640
Speaker 1: I'm in between this radio broadcast and nothing to do

630
00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:05,640
Speaker 1: in the brakes. Rick sent me in the information about

631
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:07,800
Speaker 1: the blue driver scan toil he was looking at on Amazon.

632
00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:09,320
Speaker 1: Let me look at it now, and it took a

633
00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:12,480
Speaker 1: quick look. My initial thoughts are, it looks interesting. For

634
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:16,280
Speaker 1: a hundred bucks, it will probably do what Rick wants

635
00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:18,400
Speaker 1: it to do. It's a it's a dongle that plugs

636
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Speaker 1: into the O B D two port under the dash

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Speaker 1: and then broadcast the information to your scan tool and

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00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:27,080
Speaker 1: lets you see codes and clear codes. That's a hundred bucks.

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Speaker 1: Whenever I buy anything, whether it be a scan tool,

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Speaker 1: a couch, a color TV, a car, it doesn't matter.

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00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:36,479
Speaker 1: I always ask what does the next step, get me

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00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:39,520
Speaker 1: if I spend X number of dollars more, where do

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00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:42,440
Speaker 1: I get? What am I missing? Because I've learned not

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00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:45,000
Speaker 1: to be you know, pound foolish and a dollar short,

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Speaker 1: and just you know, how much money can I save?

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00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:49,800
Speaker 1: Sometimes I say how much money can I spend? How

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Speaker 1: much more am I getting? I sent Rick back basically

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Speaker 1: that answer, saying, it will do what you wanted to do.

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00:33:56,760 --> 00:34:00,360
Speaker 1: But this tool only reads and clear codes in air big.

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Speaker 1: It will not read any data or information. And sometimes

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Speaker 1: that's part of the diagnosis if you're doing it on

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Speaker 1: your own. So take a look at handheld conventional handheld

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Speaker 1: scan tools. I send them the link to Launch. All right,

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Speaker 1: I think it's launched tech USA dot com. And take

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Speaker 1: a look at some of the scan tools that Launch

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Speaker 1: has because they've got some very good price points where

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Speaker 1: you know, maybe it's a two hundred dollar tool, a

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Speaker 1: four hundred dollar tool, and I realize it's more than

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00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:27,319
Speaker 1: the hundred bucks in the blue driver, but look at

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Speaker 1: how much more you're getting. There's a saying in the

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Speaker 1: auto repair industry you can never have enough scan tool

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00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:35,399
Speaker 1: in your pocket because you never know what you're gonna

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Speaker 1: rento around the bend and yes, I get it. Scan

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Speaker 1: tools they are a replaceable commodity. But it's just like

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00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:45,719
Speaker 1: the car today. The electronics are always changing, the technology

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00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:48,200
Speaker 1: is always changing, and you want something that A is

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00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:50,680
Speaker 1: a lot to begin with and B can be updated

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Speaker 1: in the field. And that's what Launch brings to the table.

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Speaker 1: So Rick, if you're listening, get out the Launch tech

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Speaker 1: USA dot com. Take a look at their stuff, take

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Speaker 1: a look at the Millennium ninety and see what you

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Speaker 1: think of that. Want a ninny and the car doctor

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