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Speaker 1: Ronan, I really have nothing planned. I really have nothing scheduled.

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Speaker 1: Talking about today, I don't know. So let's see how

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Speaker 1: I do. All right, So this is all at the

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Speaker 1: top of my head. I have no notes in front

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Speaker 1: of you, as usual, but I really have no notes

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Speaker 1: in front of me. Something the car Doctor. Basically, they

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Speaker 1: all look for Ques eight and a teen, which are

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Speaker 1: going to the instrint panel and they're uh, they're good.

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Speaker 1: Hold them, look at them. And even if they're good,

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Speaker 1: look at the contacts of the blades. Do the blades

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Speaker 1: have any burn marks in them? Welcome to the radio

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Speaker 1: home of ron and Anian the Car Doctor, since this

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Speaker 1: is where car owners the world overturned to for their

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Speaker 1: definitive opinion on automotive repair. If your mechanics giving you

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Speaker 1: a busy signal, pick up the phone and call in.

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Speaker 1: The garage stores are open, but I am here to

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Speaker 1: take your calls at eight five and now he running, Well,

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Speaker 1: wait a minute, isn't this Um? Isn't this a week early? Tom?

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Speaker 1: Have we uh? Have we? Have we jumped the broom

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Speaker 1: too early? Uh? No, I'm I'm just imagining you showing

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Speaker 1: me wedding pictures after the fact and having you wear

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Speaker 1: you know it wouldn't surprise me. You know what's gonna

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Speaker 1: what are you gonna talk about? Well, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's Um, I'll have to think of it.

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Speaker 1: I'll do it spur the moment, like I do this

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Speaker 1: Radio show, Tom, what do we have happened an hour ago?

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Speaker 1: Do we want to tell the listeners again? Sure? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we had another power supply go on a computer, thank

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Speaker 1: But you know, thinking quick on your feet is all

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Speaker 1: here with three ponty at Grand Damn Marine. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: the car doctor. How can I help? Oh? Yes, run,

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Speaker 1: I about the only lithium ions I have, I think

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00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:22,600
Speaker 1: are in my laptop computer. Um, the one's ever said

428
00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:24,760
Speaker 1: anything about it today. So you can carry it on.

429
00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:28,600
Speaker 1: They don't say anything about you storing it under the plane. Um. Um,

430
00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:30,679
Speaker 1: while I I know, I mean I carry it on,

431
00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:33,840
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't check any baggage that has a

432
00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:37,160
Speaker 1: battery in it. So uh and so I've never encountered

433
00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:41,080
Speaker 1: that interesting. Um yeah, because I had thought that you can.

434
00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:42,960
Speaker 1: I don't think you can put lithium ion in a

435
00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:46,040
Speaker 1: baggage compartment. The article continues from Forbes in August, the

436
00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:49,080
Speaker 1: test of the three hundred megawatt Megapac, a cluster of

437
00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:52,280
Speaker 1: lithium ion cells to support the energy grid, caught fire

438
00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:54,400
Speaker 1: in the Australian state of Victoria before it had even

439
00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:57,120
Speaker 1: gone online. It burned for three days because nobody knew

440
00:23:57,119 --> 00:23:59,720
Speaker 1: how to put it out. So the lithium ion batteries

441
00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:02,560
Speaker 1: are I don't care how big your country as, sooner

442
00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:05,320
Speaker 1: or later, you gotta put the fire out. Um the

443
00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:09,199
Speaker 1: cells in the megapac. Uh something about firefighters. That's two

444
00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:10,680
Speaker 1: of them were killed in the fire liting my own.

445
00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:13,719
Speaker 1: Battery fires are becoming more frequent events, a huge concern

446
00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:16,480
Speaker 1: as the e V industry grows and puts drivers directly

447
00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:19,040
Speaker 1: on top of these battery packs in their cars. You know,

448
00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:22,560
Speaker 1: next week on the Wedding Show, We've got Paul Eisenstein

449
00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:25,040
Speaker 1: joining us, and I'll have to talk to him about Uh.

450
00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:26,959
Speaker 1: You know, I'm sure electric vehicles are gonna come up

451
00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:29,119
Speaker 1: as everything else seems to come up. With Pauli's just

452
00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:31,320
Speaker 1: the walking knowledge of what's going on in the industry.

453
00:24:31,359 --> 00:24:33,399
Speaker 1: So uh, I'll have to talk to him about that

454
00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:35,720
Speaker 1: and see where that is. Why is it? Why is

455
00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:38,760
Speaker 1: it graphing aluminumis on battery different to close this out,

456
00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:43,320
Speaker 1: gmgs graphing aluminis on cells different from other chemistries by

457
00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:47,200
Speaker 1: using proprietary plasma generated graphing. Um. I'm sure we're gonna

458
00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:50,200
Speaker 1: be giving high school science classes in this stuff, because, Yeah,

459
00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:51,560
Speaker 1: that's that the kids of the future will be doing.

460
00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:55,200
Speaker 1: Right forget Autoshop to be working on proprietary plasma generated

461
00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:59,240
Speaker 1: graphing batteries and depend testing by Stanford University show the

462
00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:01,520
Speaker 1: GMG chemistry. He has three times the energy density of

463
00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:04,719
Speaker 1: the next best sell. It also uses nanotechnology to insert

464
00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:09,080
Speaker 1: aluminum adams inside minuscule preparations in graphine planes. You know

465
00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:12,439
Speaker 1: what that means, Tom, The Aliens have finally landed and

466
00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:16,160
Speaker 1: they're they're interjecting technology into our culture. Oh they landed

467
00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:18,480
Speaker 1: a long time ago. Yeah, that's why I wear a

468
00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:21,480
Speaker 1: tinfoil hat. I was wondering what that new look was

469
00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:25,120
Speaker 1: that you were sporting today. Look, hey, Thanksgivings coming. When

470
00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:27,919
Speaker 1: you walk down the aisle in the grocery store and

471
00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:29,920
Speaker 1: you go to get that foil that your wife wants

472
00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:31,680
Speaker 1: you to get, keep it, keep an eye out. There's

473
00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:33,440
Speaker 1: a sign out that says there's a hat free hat

474
00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:35,560
Speaker 1: in every box. Of aluminum foil. That's if you can

475
00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:37,720
Speaker 1: find the aluminum foil and the turkey to go with it,

476
00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:40,040
Speaker 1: which is that's a whole other conversation. Hey, let's pull

477
00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:41,440
Speaker 1: over and take a pause. When we come back, we'll

478
00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:44,480
Speaker 1: go talk to Curtain Arizona about his own BMW. Don't

479
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Speaker 1: go away. I'm Ronanini in the car doctor will return.

480
00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:58,080
Speaker 1: Let's welcome back ran any of the car doctor here.

481
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Speaker 1: Let's get on over and talk to Curtain Arizona one

482
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Speaker 1: BMW Kurt, Welcome back, sir. How are you hello? Ron?

483
00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:09,240
Speaker 1: I'm doing well for taking my call, and I love

484
00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:11,320
Speaker 1: listen to you every week. How how are all your

485
00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:13,919
Speaker 1: overheat cars from the summer we talked? Right? You had

486
00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:17,919
Speaker 1: a car out there that was overheating. You've got a

487
00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:21,960
Speaker 1: good memory water pump in there and a new radiator.

488
00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:24,720
Speaker 1: It was a Mini Cooper, wasn't it wasn't? Was it

489
00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:28,480
Speaker 1: a Mini? It was the BMW M. Who was the

490
00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:31,800
Speaker 1: BMW one we're talking about? Okay, got you, got you?

491
00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:34,800
Speaker 1: Got you got you? So, so what's going on with them?

492
00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:39,720
Speaker 1: It's a two thousand one and the battery inside the

493
00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:42,960
Speaker 1: key fob has long since been gone, so I don't

494
00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:44,600
Speaker 1: lock it that way, I have to lock at manual.

495
00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:48,920
Speaker 1: But when I put that key into the ignissition and

496
00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:53,200
Speaker 1: turn it, sometimes I get nothing, no crank or anything.

497
00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:56,240
Speaker 1: If I pull the key out and then stick it

498
00:26:56,280 --> 00:26:59,000
Speaker 1: back in, it will then turn. Sometimes I have do

499
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:02,800
Speaker 1: it to times and it turns, cranks and starts up.

500
00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:07,520
Speaker 1: No problem. Is that a result of that battery going bad? Um?

501
00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:12,120
Speaker 1: It shouldn't be. Do you have Do you have another key?

502
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:16,639
Speaker 1: You can try? No, I only have one key for it.

503
00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:18,520
Speaker 1: In order to get the battery, you have to cut

504
00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:22,320
Speaker 1: the key open, so those keys are expensive. Gotcha? Gotcha?

505
00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:24,080
Speaker 1: Let me let me tell you what you're dealing with here.

506
00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:28,600
Speaker 1: You're dealing with BMW BMW security system issue, all right,

507
00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:31,720
Speaker 1: they call it, you know, BMW calls that their Electronic

508
00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:35,600
Speaker 1: Driveway Protection or e WS and and and a few

509
00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:39,920
Speaker 1: things happen, all right, Um, And I would probably tell

510
00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:41,879
Speaker 1: you to start with a key in a battery, just

511
00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:46,680
Speaker 1: because if you lose that key, I can't imagine the cost.

512
00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:49,280
Speaker 1: My understanding is to flash these cars are to get keys,

513
00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:53,560
Speaker 1: key codes. You need to so you know if you

514
00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:55,120
Speaker 1: want to if you want to do the don't want

515
00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:56,520
Speaker 1: to do the crime, you can't do the time. You

516
00:27:56,600 --> 00:28:00,520
Speaker 1: gotta have the right keys and so forth. Um, when

517
00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:02,359
Speaker 1: when you turn that when you put that key in

518
00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:06,840
Speaker 1: and turn it, Kurt, the onboard e W S or

519
00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:09,720
Speaker 1: the the anti theft system looks at the key code,

520
00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:12,800
Speaker 1: looks at the chip in the key, and it reads

521
00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:15,359
Speaker 1: it and it says, hey, is this really Kurt? Or

522
00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:17,600
Speaker 1: is this somebody with a screwdriver? Hey, it's really Kurt?

523
00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:22,480
Speaker 1: All right, let the starter crank. While the starter is cranking,

524
00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:26,240
Speaker 1: it then looks at the key again, and and then

525
00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:29,240
Speaker 1: it looks at another second look up table inside the

526
00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:31,920
Speaker 1: PCM and it says, hey, does the does the engine

527
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:36,440
Speaker 1: controller match the anti FF system? If it does, then

528
00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:40,360
Speaker 1: it allows the engine to pulse the injectors and make spark.

529
00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:46,040
Speaker 1: So it's actually a two step anti theft process, very complicated.

530
00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:49,040
Speaker 1: So you know that's why I'm saying, if you have

531
00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:52,360
Speaker 1: any doubt, if you think the key is an issue, UM,

532
00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:54,520
Speaker 1: I would see what it takes to get another key

533
00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:56,160
Speaker 1: and have a spare in a backup and I put

534
00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:58,440
Speaker 1: the battery in it to BMW. Don't you want to

535
00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:04,600
Speaker 1: have the whole experience right around car? Well, I don't

536
00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:08,760
Speaker 1: need that experience anymore. Is that? Is that gone for you? Um?

537
00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:11,720
Speaker 1: It's just to me you're trying to diagnose against because

538
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:13,680
Speaker 1: the only other thing I can tell you is do

539
00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:17,360
Speaker 1: you have a factory level scan tool for that car? No?

540
00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:20,520
Speaker 1: I don't, right, So let me let me lay out

541
00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:21,920
Speaker 1: for you what you're trying to do. When I say

542
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:24,240
Speaker 1: this with love, brother, you're you're trying to work on

543
00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:28,240
Speaker 1: the Space Shuttle with tools for a biplane. It doesn't

544
00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:32,520
Speaker 1: work right, you know. It's it's push comes to shove.

545
00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:36,840
Speaker 1: You can guess at the possibilities of temporary or permanent solutions,

546
00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:38,520
Speaker 1: but it's gonna take you a long time. We're only

547
00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:40,720
Speaker 1: on the planet for about a hundred years. I don't

548
00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:44,000
Speaker 1: think you have enough time. Um, you know I I

549
00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:47,240
Speaker 1: The other thing to stop and consider is the fact

550
00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:49,440
Speaker 1: that the car is twenty well, it's twenty years old,

551
00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:54,760
Speaker 1: going on twenty one. While while parts are still av well,

552
00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:56,600
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, well, parts are still available, I

553
00:29:56,680 --> 00:30:01,080
Speaker 1: grab what you could, h there seems to be plenty,

554
00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:02,800
Speaker 1: just price tie and I'm okay with this happened. I

555
00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:05,040
Speaker 1: just wanted to make if it's as easy as the

556
00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:07,120
Speaker 1: battery to change it out in the key pob than

557
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:10,120
Speaker 1: I might do that, but if it's not more, it's

558
00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:13,480
Speaker 1: not worth it unless unless you could tell me when

559
00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:15,280
Speaker 1: you turn that key on, if you could, if you

560
00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:17,120
Speaker 1: had a scan tool that told me whether or not

561
00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:20,000
Speaker 1: the e w S module is looking and seeing the key.

562
00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:23,400
Speaker 1: I can't answer the question. In my mind. I've never

563
00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:26,000
Speaker 1: I've never run into where the battery being bad would

564
00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:28,840
Speaker 1: cause your condition. And part of what backs it up

565
00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:32,640
Speaker 1: in my head is BMW as a company, any car company,

566
00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:35,800
Speaker 1: wouldn't want a dead battery to disable the car. It

567
00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:38,320
Speaker 1: would put them in a bad way for a liability perspective.

568
00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:41,480
Speaker 1: They'll prevent you from locking and unlocking it obviously with

569
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:43,360
Speaker 1: a dead battery, but they wouldn't like the anti fest

570
00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:46,320
Speaker 1: system not to work. So you know what I'm saying.

571
00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:49,440
Speaker 1: They always they always designed cars with the intention of

572
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:51,360
Speaker 1: how can they be the least amount of a pain

573
00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:54,400
Speaker 1: in the neck to the consumer but still get their

574
00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:57,400
Speaker 1: point across. Personally, I think there should be a way

575
00:30:57,440 --> 00:30:59,520
Speaker 1: to disable an anti feft system in any car ten

576
00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:02,280
Speaker 1: years old or older, because nobody's gonna steal it anyway,

577
00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:05,640
Speaker 1: and it just becomes an expensive repair. Here, you are right,

578
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:09,080
Speaker 1: I agree, I don't un locked the car anymore, right,

579
00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:12,960
Speaker 1: you know, it's become one of those. So but I

580
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,760
Speaker 1: would tell you this, I would, you know, having having

581
00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:17,920
Speaker 1: seen people go down the road of I've only got

582
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:21,120
Speaker 1: one key and then they lose that, I'd probably spend

583
00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:24,960
Speaker 1: the money and get a second k just saying yeah,

584
00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:27,240
Speaker 1: so I'm a good idea. I've got a couple of

585
00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:29,040
Speaker 1: those cars. Yeah, I know it's I know it's a

586
00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:32,800
Speaker 1: beater for you, but um, you know, just just my perspective,

587
00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:36,080
Speaker 1: my way of looking at it. So keys are expensive, man,

588
00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:37,560
Speaker 1: They're just a pain in the neck. You might as

589
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:40,200
Speaker 1: well bite the bullet and get it over with, all right,

590
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:43,560
Speaker 1: they are, thank you much. I have a comment about

591
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:47,640
Speaker 1: electric cars, real quick, sure, real quick. I worked back

592
00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:49,480
Speaker 1: in d C for a congressman for a while and

593
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:53,760
Speaker 1: soon to realize that the guys back there everything revolves

594
00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:56,720
Speaker 1: around Washington, d C. They don't really think beyond that.

595
00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:59,360
Speaker 1: So what's good for Washington, d C. They think is

596
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:01,680
Speaker 1: good for the rest of country. It'll be great to

597
00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:05,080
Speaker 1: have electric cars in Washington, d C. But in Wyoming, Montana,

598
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:08,160
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a lot more difficult. So my guess

599
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:11,600
Speaker 1: is electric cars on the coast some of those big cities.

600
00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:14,920
Speaker 1: That's fine. Inters can take a lot longer to happen.

601
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:17,440
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Um, no part intend that it's going to

602
00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:19,920
Speaker 1: be a big shock to the system. That was pretty

603
00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:22,760
Speaker 1: funny actually when you think about it, Kurt, you have

604
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:26,440
Speaker 1: a good rest of the weekend. Brother, Thank you, appreciate it.

605
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:30,800
Speaker 1: You're very welcome. Be well. Zero a big shock to

606
00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:32,840
Speaker 1: the system, Tom. I think I have a second career coming.

607
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:34,600
Speaker 1: I'm running any of the car Doctor. I'll be back

608
00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:50,880
Speaker 1: right after this. Welcome back. We're on the name of

609
00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:53,520
Speaker 1: the car Doctor. We're roum you know, as we head

610
00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:57,360
Speaker 1: into winter, and you know we are right, it's getting colder. Uh,

611
00:32:57,400 --> 00:32:59,280
Speaker 1: you know it's it's time to start thinking about some

612
00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:01,760
Speaker 1: car maintenance Ince and uh, you know, just general things.

613
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:03,880
Speaker 1: What have you or have you not done? Um, I

614
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:06,560
Speaker 1: will tell you this and this is right out of

615
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:09,360
Speaker 1: the shop. Every week we're seeing the problem get worse

616
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:13,400
Speaker 1: every week. There is a definite shortage of certain parts.

617
00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:17,200
Speaker 1: Certain things are affected more than others. I have to

618
00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:21,720
Speaker 1: categorize it and say I believe um, uh, anything with

619
00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:25,360
Speaker 1: metal seems to be more at risk. Right now, I

620
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:28,240
Speaker 1: cannot buy a tire pressure sensor for the love of money.

621
00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:31,120
Speaker 1: It's it seems to be an obsolete or a non

622
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:33,840
Speaker 1: existent part. Not that it's obsolete, but they're on interspace

623
00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:37,360
Speaker 1: outer gal act outer space, intergalactic outer space back orders.

624
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:39,400
Speaker 1: I like to say, if I can remember the words,

625
00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:42,280
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, just something to be aware of.

626
00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:44,880
Speaker 1: So don't wait till the last minute to get your

627
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:46,760
Speaker 1: vehicle ready. If you haven't had it into the garage

628
00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:49,440
Speaker 1: in a while, get it in, get it serviced. Uh.

629
00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:51,480
Speaker 1: You know, if it's a little early and they tell you, hey,

630
00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:53,560
Speaker 1: you know you're gonna need breaks in five thousand miles

631
00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:55,920
Speaker 1: and it's in the budget, you may want to do

632
00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:58,160
Speaker 1: it now just so that you can you know it's done,

633
00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:01,080
Speaker 1: because you don't know what the next couple of months

634
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:03,680
Speaker 1: are gonna be like going into spring. UM. I've heard

635
00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:06,920
Speaker 1: rumors to the effect that the supply chain shorters that

636
00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:11,000
Speaker 1: we're seeing is uh is gonna go on until which

637
00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:14,000
Speaker 1: a good, better and different you know there you are. UM.

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Speaker 1: A lot of companies are taking steps, uh you know,

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Speaker 1: to try and counteract and correct this. UM. I have

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Speaker 1: to point out that UM Dormant Dormant Products dot com

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Speaker 1: Dorman's taking some huge steps. A lot of manufacturing here.

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Speaker 1: They're manufacturing a lot of things directly out of Pennsylvania

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Speaker 1: now in other places around the States. We just started

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Speaker 1: using one of their oil filter housings, uh cheap wrangler

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Speaker 1: jeep wrangler with the plastic oil filter housing. After six

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Speaker 1: or seven years on the road, the plastic housing is

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Speaker 1: just destroyed. It's just worn out because it's plastic. We

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Speaker 1: got one of their newer products to market, their aluminum

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Speaker 1: oil filter housings, UM things of work of art. It's beautiful,

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Speaker 1: it's it's really well made, and that was made right

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Speaker 1: here in Sylvania, right here in the States. So Dorman

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Speaker 1: is taking steps to us to shorten the supply chain

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Speaker 1: and thus eliminate the supply shortage. So kudos to Dormant

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Speaker 1: Dormant Products dot com. Hey, looks on up, it's time

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Speaker 1: to go another hour. Just flew by. I'm on an

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Speaker 1: eating of the car doctor saying thank you. I really

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Speaker 1: appreciate you being here and I appreciate it to spend

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Speaker 1: some time with you until the next time. Good mechanics

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Speaker 1: aren't expensive, they're priceless. Let's see you