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Good morning folks, you're tuned to Car Connection where the coffee is strong and the stories
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The wrenches, they never stop turning.
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I'm your host, Dyle Motormouth Jenkins, coming to you from the Car Connection Workshop, where
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the smell of fresh oil, a little elbow grease is all part of a balanced breakfast.
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And around here we don't just talk cars, we live them.
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Whether it's a 25 year old Jeep Wrangler getting a second chance at life, a Nissan
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Rogue getting its brakes back in order, or a mystery leak that's got everyone scratching
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This is where we roll up our sleeves and get it done, with a little wit, a little wisdom
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and a whole lot of fun.
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The Car Connection isn't just about nuts bolts and diagnostics, it's about connection.
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Connection to our vehicles and to the people that drive them, to the community that keeps
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Niagara rolling because when you fix a car, you're not just turning a wrench, you're
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restoring someone's confidence, freedom, and maybe even their sanity.
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We're here every week, Monday through Saturday, with the MotorMouthBorningDrive helping you
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and your ride be safe, reliable, and ready for whatever road lies ahead.
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So whether you're a weekend wrencher, daily commuter, or someone who just wants to understand
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what that strange rattle really means, welcome aboard.
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Stick around for shop talk, expert advice, a few good laughs, and maybe, just maybe, a
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flashback automotive-related story or two from the days of the shop on the Hamilton
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Mountain, the big smoke.
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Yeah, I worked quite a few years on the Hamilton Mountain, so good morning to you, good morning,
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good morning, and welcome to hump day, and it is Wednesday, and if you're in the queue
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for the drive-through, get yourself something a little extra today, it's the middle of the
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week, and the kids are going to be out of school, take a land of this week, so let's
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all be eyes and ears and keep an eye on them because you know, we'll be excited to be out
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of school for the summer, school's out for the summer, I think I've heard that somewhere
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before, yeah, and they forget about safety, so let's all work together and make sure
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the kids all get back to school in September, so let's just keep an eye on them wherever
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we go, and you know, on the streets, yeah, I'll be throwing stale muffins at those racing
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down our streets, it's not an extension of the highway, you know, there's young mothers
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now moving into the older neighborhood that we're in, the old fellers are retiring out
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and heading into residential homes, and it's good to see younger families coming in, but
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you know, they got strollers, they got dogs, and they're walking their kids and stuff,
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and we don't need these idiots flying in and around, and I hope you're not one of those,
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because if you are, I get a poke in the eye with a frozen hot dog, yeah, slow down, let's
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slow down, it's summertime, the kids are out there, and moms, you're only days away from
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not having that quiet time, so take it in, here it is, we're going to have
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our morning swiggy in just a moment, double check your order at the takeout window, lock
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it down, and whatever your morning beverage is, prepare it, we'll have a swiggy in just
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building Canada since 1931, so let's have our morning swiggy together, here's how we do it,
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we count it down 321 grab your 16 pack of Crayola crayons and your leaf bag,
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so you can take some notes, we are going to dive in deep this morning on kind of a bit of a
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different topic, and it's kind of been, been on my heart, but I kind of kept pushing
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it back, but it really is the foundation, the topic today is the foundation for every single
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thing around us, everything, including self, you can apply it to self, and to everything,
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if you stood and rotated 360 degrees, everything around you falls into this category,
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and it's so easy to become complacent, but in the end, there's always regret,
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I shoulda woulda coulda, right, how many of us have been there, my hands up,
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when you go, I shoulda woulda coulda, and I'll tell you, there was a time in my own life
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where, and how about you, where you just put things aside, well I'll do it tomorrow,
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yeah just for now, put it there for now, and 20 years later, it's still in the for now spot,
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but yeah, we fall behind because we don't push ourselves enough, so on 321 you ready,
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I'm buying you some time there in case you're still at the takeout window this morning,
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yeah I hear, I heard that there's a donut diner in Stevensville, Ontario that has a blueberry
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center to it, like a goo, blueberry goo in there, yeah, and you can hardly get your hands on them,
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I tried, my pops got one, it got a couple, managed to score a couple of them, oh yeah,
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they're over the top, for sure, so you gotta check that out, if you can get some, so that's in the
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big town of Stevensville, Ontario, Canada, 321 got a little bit of different honey
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in there this week, I'm on a new jar, it's got a different flavor, it tastes a little bee in there,
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my friend, of years ago he'd always say, do you know what honey is, I go, no,
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bee poo, come on, I'm going, oh did you have to like wreck it, he goes that's what it is,
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they, you know, they eat the nectar and they, they poo, honey is bee poo, I'm gonna have to ask
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our bee guy, I gotta know, is it really bee poo, put that in the comments, put that in an email,
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motormouth.jackens.com, do you think it's honey is bee poo, really, yeah, that's what I was thinking,
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well let's jump into our morning weather, this podcast is, it's talk radio on platforms,
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that's what it is, I've been in talk radio 32 years now, and yeah, yacking is what I've made
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a living out of, and so have a lot of others, but it's what you learn during the yacking that helps,
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right, it helps you move forward, otherwise it's young, there's all different types of yacking,
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you know, it's, if it's talk radio, guess what, it's talk radio, fella, it's that simple,
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yeah, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure that one out, and so we, we move on this
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morning, and we thank our good friends, husband and wife team again, at City Auto Sales and Leasing,
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you're gonna love Louise and Earl Grant, I kid you not, you are going to love them so much,
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you will not be able to hold yourself back from going back and buying another car from them, so
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they provide low mileage quality vehicles at fair prices, you will not find any junk there,
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any scamming or anything like that, you'll be able to buy with confidence, be treated with,
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with nothing less than honesty and integrity, that's how they've earned the title, Greater
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Toronto Areas Premier, Pre-Owned Auto Store, they have a pretty decent inventory under roof and
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outside on the lot, but if you're looking for something specific, they have built the resources
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to find those vehicles over 25 years in what they do, the professionals in what they do, and they,
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they want you to come back, they don't just want to sell you a vehicle one time,
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they want you to refer them and come back next time you need another vehicle, so let's say thank
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you to Earl and Louise Grant for being there for us, because that's a huge part of the stress
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relieved, go and see Earl and Louise, go and see Kathy, Dave and Dan, they'll take care of that
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landscaping, hardscape for you, get that thing put together in no time, it's great to have referrals,
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it really, really is, so this program is dedicated to all of you who just want to learn more about
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your automobile, how to take better care of it, how to know the five things, what it is, where it is,
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how it works, how you broke it and ended up costing yourself money, and do you want to break
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it again or you don't get to know more about the five things so that you don't cost yourself
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additional repairs and maintenance, and just learning the basic fundamentals of vehicle ownership
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pays back tenfold, I'll tell you that for sure, how do I know I do it myself, I don't just talk
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to talk, I walk to walk and you come and fact check me anytime you want, check and see is my
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emergency brake, park brake on on my vehicles, go help yourself, have a look you see, are they
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maintained, have a walk around, take a look, see what you see, and are they older, they're almost
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ancient, but you know get lots of compliments where I go, and that's what we're going to be talking
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about this morning, is understanding there is, oh sorry, that's the wrong title,
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bifocals suck, anyways, maintenance is always ongoing, and that's why I said stand in a cornfield,
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rotate 360, and there's always something that has to have maintenance, well tomorrow, today,
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not tomorrow, yesterday, or because, 55 degrees right now in sunny, the wind is making it feel
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cooler here along the south shores of Lake Erie in the Niagara region, partly cloudy conditions from
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10 a.m. to 11 a.m. with mostly cloudy conditions expected at 11 a.m. so today's temperature range
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will be 54 to 74 where we are in the Niagara region, I'm not sure about where you are,
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but you know British Virgin Islands, it's always like 84 degrees, how cool is that,
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yeah, and it feels, it's going to feel like more like they're saying here 53 to 71, so today we're
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top out at 74, yesterday we hit a high of 75, and it looks like we have a little on the
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rainometer, a little bit on RAIN, maybe greater than .05, but in the last 24 hours we've had
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zero precip, so that's where we're at, and tomorrow is already Thursday, man, do you know what today is?
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Okay, yes, you're right, it's hump day, absolutely, today we are at an episode, season two,
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episode 199, I can't believe it, but you know what happens tomorrow, we'll be at
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200, and then we, for the motormouth morning drive, we shift into season three, come
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fun Friday, so we better have a really good fun Friday, I'm thinking everybody should have a
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blueberry filled fritter, or whatever it is, it was really good, let me tell you,
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it's impossible, how come you showed up without, without any blueberry filled
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thingies from the donut shop, they were all gone, apparently they're the one, that's the one,
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everyone wants, so I said, well, and that just means they need to get more, put more out, so
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everybody gets a chance, well thank you to our certified financial planning professionals, Tony
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Mealy and Larry Tietro, these guys are amazing, and whatever your financial situation or questions are,
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these are the guys that you want to tap into, that have the credential certified financial
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planning professional, and Tony and Larry joined us back in 2007 as the planners, and we did a
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segment on radio every week with one of them for 15 minutes, and it went gangbusters, so
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I'm looking at bringing guests in, that I can introduce you to, that have been a part of car
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connection, communications for many, many years, and sharing them with you, because they have a ton
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of knowledge in their profession, and that's the fellas, my brothers from other mothers, Tony Mealy
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and Larry Tietro combined have well over 50 years experience, they're tied in with us, not because
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they need more clients, these guys are super busy, they want to reach out to you, if you're reaching
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back, if you've got questions, these guys can put together a game plan to help you in whatever
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condition you're in, so please don't give up on yourself, and don't continue to just ask people
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their opinions, because everybody can fix everybody's problems except for their own,
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you got to go to those who have the fruit on the tree, so book yourself an hour and a coffee,
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leave your wallets and purses at home, Tony or Larry, whoever you decide to work with,
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will walk you through your investment portfolio, and for all those who have investments with
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banks, you're not working with CFPs, you know that right, you're working with advisors, and they
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sell products, that's all they do, cookie cutter products, your money's not working hard for you,
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it's working great for the banks but not for you, and I can say this because I'm not under
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compliance, but Tony and Larry are, so if you've got investments at the bank, you need that hour
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and a coffee because that money is not working hard for you, it's working great for the banks,
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just take a look at what their profit line was in 2025, yeah, you'll get a better understanding,
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they deal with, Tony and Larry deal with debt retirement, working to get rid of that,
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debt that's hovering over you, estate planning, wills, powers of attorney, health proxies for
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children that are 18 years of age or older, mortgages at great rates and wonderful people to
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work with, life insurance, critical illness insurance, and the list of services goes on and on and on,
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so get that discovery meeting done today, if he won't call, you call, if she won't call, you call,
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somebody set that up and again, leave your money at home, they're not going to be asking you for
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any money, they need to see where you're at and determine course of action for your personal
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circumstances, so let's jump in this morning, yes, our car connection maintenance schedule system
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is all plugged in on our website, so you can look at the review and fill out an order form,
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it comes directly to the studio here and I send those out directly, there is a limited amount,
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so it's not oodles and oodles of them, we do a run, when they're gone then we'll
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consider doing another run, if you're poking the bear and saying yeah I could use that maintenance
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schedule to keep me on track with vehicle maintenance, now what I'm about to talk to you
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with this morning, talk to you with or at, stay where you're to till I come where you're at,
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the do does and the did is done, I watch a lot of these online influencers that break down what
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happens when aircrafts crash, what was the what you know there's probable cause with Dan Greider,
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there's taking off with Mr. Millican and there's pilot debrief with Hoover, great guys,
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they really tear in to what happened and that's what intrigues me is there's a lot of older
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aircraft out there including commercial aircraft, the big guys and a lot of the common denominator
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for the last year or so that I've been watching is lack of maintenance and not just lack of maintenance,
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negligence, you know the recent crash of the UPS, UPS aircraft
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came down to that was actually a DC-10 and I remember as a kid back in the 70s the DC-10s
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were grounded because the engines would fall off just like that, so now it's called a DC-11
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but it's still a DC-10, so what happened to that UPS plane and why did it come down
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right after taking off because the engine fell off, the engine hanger that holds the tail of the
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engine towards the wing separated, so the engine drops down, flips around over top of the wing
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and unfortunately it took out the other engine on the tail, if that had not happened they would
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have all survived as well as those on the ground that were innocently killed but it all came down
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to and I watched the in committee talking about what had happened and this is what really ticked me
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off because it's happening with all kinds of aircraft, one that just recently went down that
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took out a bunch of skydivers, they discovered the engine stalled out because there's water and
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debris in the wing tank, well who's maintaining that, seriously aren't you glad we are not flying
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airplanes every day, would you look at your your vehicle a little bit differently and go
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oh I don't know honey, 12,000 feet, what if it stalls out, what if you know the engine blows up
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exactly and there's pieces of of aircraft falling off, things that are not refitted properly,
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aircraft, small aircraft and these aren't brand new aircraft folks and that's what I listen for,
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what's the age on those aircrafts, 54, 63, 74, 80 somethings, early 90s, did you hear me say
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2026, 2025 or 2024, no, so what does that mean, they all need to be certified all the time but even
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it comes to the big commercial airplanes that UPS planes should not have gone down, it should have
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not even left the runway because it was previously determined that that hangar had a split bearing,
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the bearing in the hangar holding the engine on was given an okay by the technicians
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whoever looked at it the bearing was splitting it had split which means what, should it remain in
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service and that's what our military instructor that taught us said if you can't give it a yes
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it's a no, if you're giving it a maybe it's still a no, if you can't look at an object on your vehicle
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when we're looking them over for you folks, if we can't say yes that's fine to remain in service
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it's a no, flat out, so all those people on the ground and the the four crew died because someone
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decided well it's here it is, here's the answer, they all knew that was a weakness on those DC 10s
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now called DC 11, Airbus A320s, they share the same hangar and they're defective, for Pete's sake
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could you not say the bearing split the hangar needs to replace whatever the cost so they're all now
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pointing fingers at each other for the blame game but the point is those innocent people
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all lost their lives because some doofus didn't stand up and say the bearing split the hangar
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needs to be replaced yeah it's going to be expensive but they're all doing it,
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the planes have a pattern failure and they did when they came out as a DC 10, the engines are falling
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off, so that's when I started thinking about today's topic is how important it is to understand
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what it is as a car caregiver, if your vehicle were one of those small aircraft
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you know another another aircraft that went down in a skydiving aircraft went down in in hawaii
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that airplane had lost part of its wing previously when it was working as a skydiving plane at
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another outfit and the plane apparently got fixed but it wasn't and they have actual photos that
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that where the the flap came off the wing was buckled so in other words it was bent
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but they fixed another flap in there but the wing was bent which means it's not in position
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correctly for lift for air flow to lift that plane and for the plane to be stable in the air
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so not only are we seeing lack of maintenance on automobiles lack of maintenance on aircraft
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and that needs to change people need to go to jail for negligence people need to have a reminder
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that your job is to call it not to you know and there's pilot errors there's pilots
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that shouldn't even be flying because they don't have enough experience flying the plane
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but people get paid to put it through anyway and people get paid off to just you know yeah
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the plane's healthy check people get killed so i got thinking you know aren't you glad you don't
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what would your attitude be if you have you you fly an aircraft to get to work every day
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how important would it be to make sure that you know when you go
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through your pilot checklist and that's another area that's being neglected no pilot checklist
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something's not quite right with the aircraft but they still make a decision to go up anyway
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are you crazy no you call it off just a vehicle no different your vehicle's
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no different if there's a problem with it call off the trip is it worth your safety
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i say no 100 if something is going wrong and could go wrong but it's not getting fixed
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we need to just say you know what we need to call it we just need to call it because safety is number
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one so maintenance is always ongoing and it doesn't matter whether the vehicle's still under warranty
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or it's out of warranty or it's 10 15 20 25 years old they are all pieces of machinery
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that require maintenance to keep them going and when maintenance is not getting done
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it it lacks then that's when safety is uh jeopardized and things happen things happen
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so what is a car caregiver that's my question to you what do you think it is
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send me an email and in your words tell me what is a car caregiver do you have one set up in your
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homestead who is that person that's taking care taking charge of the maintenance on a piece of
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machinery that you fly down the highway at 135 140k you know i'm right i don't drive those speeds
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i honor the speed limit and just a tad over and you know what i like getting gas mileage
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and i don't like beating my vehicles up either because that's where it costs money
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you you play hard you pay hard that's what my boss taught me in my first year he said if you
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and he was a drag racer he said we're out there we're playing to break it that's what we're doing
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but we know that but on a daily driver you play hard you pay hard you make you you're making more
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maintenance for yourself so my question to you this morning which is one of my five step
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plan today to caregiving to being a car to be car caregiver or car caregiving
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are you the one in charge of making sure vehicles are top drawer maintaining them cleaning them and
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understanding that that's money sitting there in the driveway that's your hard earned money
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sitting in that driveway and i've often said to people when i used to do a lot of seminars
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is at the at that time it was about 15 grand you bought yourself a brand new car if you had
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15 1000 dollar bills would you leave them sitting on the kitchen table and leave the room now that's
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a joke today 15 000 what do you buy for 15 000 you got to buy hard and get your money's worth
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but i can't believe what people are paying for new vehicles today i don't see the value
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lots of plastic and you know what plastic is nobody's answered me in the email it's petroleum
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it's gasoline so that's why when these vehicles catch fire under the hood any of that plastic catches
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fire that that vehicle's gone unless you're right standing there with a with a fire receptacle to put
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out it's done like in 10 minutes that thing is well on fire and plastic is cheaper than making metal
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components and that's why i don't see the value you know the the sheet metal is so thin almost
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Reynolds aluminum wrap is thicker you know they're made so cheap so cheaply made the workmanship
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the fit and finish not on all of them but most of them and the mechanicals are just not hanging in
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there and they're they know what they're doing they're you know they're giving you poor quality
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but at big pricing so i want to stay on track here this morning with my my top 55 step plan
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to being a really good car caregiver so maintenance is always ongoing you have to settle in with that
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that's just the way it is or you've just got to settle into the fact that you've got to work your
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tail off trading time for money and keep making a car payment there's only two choices but this
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program and what i've been the lane i've been carving out for 44 years is an automotive tech
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this is what i do i can teach you how to keep that vehicle going until you're ready to retire
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and i i know people that they still have the the last vehicle they bought brand new
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took them all the way into the retirement and they're well into their retirement and they're
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still driving the same autumn feels and no they're not mechanics they're just everyday drivers
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they see the value and they remember how many payments they made to own that thing
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and then not just pay it off and drive it right into the recon yard into the recycle yard because
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that that's just dumb so this podcast and all that i've been doing for 32 years is to teach you
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you don't have to do that it's a choice and it is your choice absolutely absolutely it is you know
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a man convinced again against his will is of his own opinion still and that's
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how i live my life you know as now an online influencer i can't believe the idiots that
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put comments in and they think they're actually going to poke the bear i really don't care buddy
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i really don't care just so that you know you want to put a stinky comment in there
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just don't use any foul language it just shows how stupid you are that's all it does it just shows
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the depth of your stupidity exactly so the podcast this podcast plus our youtube channel is not for
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those that want to do things like that go do something else go back in the closet where you were
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and leave us all alone number two understanding there is always going to be a cost a cost so
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whether it's a cottage an rv i used to fix a lot of rvs and i'll tell you why best day of owning
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an rvs the day you sell it just like a boat they need a lot of maintenance and if you're not willing
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to up up do them all the time you're not going to be using it it's that simple all that stuff
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all needs caregiving full time cottage boats cdus snowmobiles atvs they're all heavy duty
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for maintenance all of it buy a cottage and let it all fall down no you have a house and another
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house called a cottage and both need the same maintenance or something has to give so what is
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a car caregiver is the person that understands that there is an ongoing cost
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surrounding that purchase whether it's pre-owned or whether it's brand new you know the manufacturer
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is not is not going to hold your hands take you to go potty that's not going to happen
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your there's something called vehicle ownership that's where you own it you have the keys you're
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making the payments you own it and not everything's going to be covered where you just go crying to
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the the dealer and they're going to cover it that's not going to happen been there done that
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know how i know how that system works very well number three there has to be effort
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so the car caregiver fully understands that there's dedication that there's a cost that there has to
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be effort and knows the value of that vehicle to you not to the neighbor not to someone else
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tuning in this morning that thinks i'm an idiot that's okay you're welcome to say that that's your
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opinion doesn't hurt me at all just so you know i only have one feeling left and i say no to drama
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and anytime you want to be the big toe in the puddle is just fine by me you go right ahead
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i'll always shake my head and agree with everything you say because i don't need your drama so
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you have to look yourself at at your own vehicle and say what is the value of that vehicle if you're
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listening in your vehicle right now ask yourself that question it may be an older vehicle it maybe
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it's only a few years old what value do you place on that automobile really that i can't answer that
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question for you but i can answer the question for myself all the vehicles that we run and to
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accomplish things to get the videos done to get maintenance done to run life are value invaluable
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to me they're all tools that's exactly the way i see it they're all tools and they need maintenance
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all the tools in my toolbox i have over a hundred and 50000 dollars worth the hand tools
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they're all invaluable to me so i clean them i take care of them and i put them back in
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in the toolbox every day they're not piled up on the on the counter or on the floor laying on the
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floor i was taught that at a very young age in my apprenticeship your tools earn you your living
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they're invaluable clean them every day and put them away before you go home and in the shops i
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worked in that was the rules in the shop everyone clears their tray on the side of their toolbox
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and puts all their tools cleans them and puts them away it's disciplined so what value do you place
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on your automobile that you're sitting in maybe right now how valuable is that vehicle to you
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not to someone else saying oh i wouldn't put any more money into that old piece of junk
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well you know what what's it worth to you well my piece of junk is almost 20 years old in a few
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weeks here and 400 000 k it's invaluable to me why i don't have the money to replace it
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and i don't want to give it in debt to make any more car payments i've done my time with that
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and learned my lesson valuable lesson that when you when you sell out to being a car caregiver
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you are now in the driver's seat and there's going to be those talking heads that say you know
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well i don't know why you put always putting money into these older vehicles well i can be
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putting money into a three-year-old vehicle how about that what's the difference tell me what
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the difference is what is the difference if it's three years old or 20 years old you've still got
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to put money in it into it to keep it going i don't care if it's worth $500 kerbside to me
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it's worth 30 to 60 to 70 thousand dollars to replace it depends on how much you want to spend
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to buy somebody else's pre-owned and then it's still going to need money spending on it
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that's the circle of life in the automotive world whether you buy a 15-year-old vehicle
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or a five-year-old vehicle it still has to be maintained you still have to put money into it
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so what difference does it make if it's worth it's 20 years old and it's worth 1500 bucks kerbside
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where it's five years old and it's lost 50 percent of its value called it's called
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depreciation you know i remember when my parents bought a ford f-250 extra cab it was a trailer
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edition they they towed a 34 foot fifth wheel house trailer and they traveled the countryside
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and that was 1988 and they paid 34 000 for that truck and they drove that thing for a few years
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and then they wanted to get a diesel duly f-350 with the 73 in it they wanted to pull
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a bigger heavier trailer and they were offered like 8 000 for their 34 000 truck in less than five
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years do you understand depreciation was that a good deal somebody has to take the hit depreciation
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is 15 to 25 per year that's why in five years you go to trade it in yeah we'll give you 1500
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bucks for it and you go what do you know how much i paid for that that's depreciation so
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take a look at your vehicle today and put a put a price tag on it seriously and say it to yourself
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out loud what is my vehicle that i currently have worth to me not to someone else what is it worth
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to me so you have to as a car care giver you have to know
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your vehicle's value to you not anybody else's opinion because opinions are like belly buttons
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everybody's got one and lastly being a solid car care giver you have to fully understand
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that your efforts to maintain that vehicle and knowing its value and knowing and understanding
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that it comes with a cost time and money that your return on your investment of time and money
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is greater than just signing papers and going back in debt and yeah you know what i get poked at
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all the time by new car salesmen i've been called an idiot i've been called i speak nothing but vomit
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go find something to do fellas really i i get it but you know what not everybody has
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buckets of cash to go and buy a brand new vehicle every three to five years the majority is you're
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driving what you can afford and sometimes you get caught in that trap where you know you buy
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something on a motion to impress people you don't even know and you don't even like i've lived 44
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years in the car business and that's actually not the right amount it's actually more than 44
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quite a bit more but uh you know i've been there and i still love the car business i still enjoy
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working on vehicles i still enjoy helping people uh when they need a hand up and that's the whole
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idea behind our youtube channel and this podcast is i'm here to help you not those not those talking
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heads i i don't give them any time they just make themselves look stupid in their comments they just
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make themselves look stupid and that's okay i let them let make themselves look stupid uh because
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not everybody's in the same boat if you're selling new cars you know what you're looking for the person
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that can afford to drive a brand new car for the most part pre-owned vehicles and pre-owned vehicle
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sales are going through the roof right now because that's what people can afford you know i look at
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the price tags on vehicles today i can't afford that i'm not willing to trade time for money to
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pay for that and lose all that equity there's no equity in vehicles none it's pay
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and the value of it just goes in the toilet at the end of the loan yeah okay we'll take
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a car and as a trade and they're offering you pittance for it and you go wow i made all those
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payments and that's all you're going to give me that's it wow yeah these are the things we have
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to think about so yeah i feel for the you know the the sales guys that i understand they got to make
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profit but you know what not everybody's in that same on that same page in that same class where
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you can just go and buy whatever you want you don't like the brother and sister that just won 75
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million dollars i was saying to myself what vehicle would i drive if i just won 75 million dollars
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i'd drive what i like yeah i'd still live frugal and i'd drive what i like
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because you can but not everybody's in that position so your homework for today
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look at that vehicle that you're driving look at the vehicles you have in your driveway
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are they paid off are you maintaining them what value do you place on those vehicles not somebody
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else's opinion your opinion what is the value of those vehicles in your driveway to you what do
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they mean to you dollars and sense wise and running your schedule your life getting the day
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today's stuff done i'm here to help you anything i can do to help you i'm here to help you our car
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connection maintenance schedules there to help you to get you on track keep and it's
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all done for you you just have to check the boxes do do have the procedures done to the car on time
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and check the boxes that's it you don't have to in no brain drain whatsoever and the maintenance
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schedules that are in them the owner's manuals that's not the gospel those are just suggestions
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and i just heard it yesterday as a matter of fact from a couple of manufacturers
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well don't you know don't follow the the maintenance book to the to the letter there's only suggestions
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is that misinformation or what it absolutely is to the consumer so that's why we have to learn
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to be sharper than the cat and we also have to learn that we need to be a prosumer not a consumer
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so i leave you with that we'll see you tomorrow morning as thursday come and join us for episode 200
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of motor mouse morning drive and car connection our car connection workshop you can find us on
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put that together many years ago to bring businesses and community together in the
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stevensville area that's where my pops my parents live there and uh a lot of friends live there
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and there's lots of amazing people and businesses there so we are put down as the automotive
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47:36
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47:42
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a difference in somebody else's life so till tomorrow happy healthy motoring keep it under 100
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and peace patience and kindness always friends and we'll see you in the next one bye for now
