The Laundry List Dilemma

Ever gone in for an oil change and left with a list of recommended repairs? This week we’re talking about the laundry list is it just upselling, or is your tech looking out for preventive maintenance? This and more on today’s show!

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into this week's show. You guys ready, Yeah, what you
got this week?

Speaker 1 (02:46):
All right?

Speaker 2 (02:46):
So I got an interesting topic. I tell you guys
all the time, love getting on the internet having conversations
with people. This week. Now, it's funny because the little
things we cover, little things here and there throughout the years,
and stuff and things pop up. But when you deep
dive into conversations, which is what happened to this week.
The conversation was the laundry list Now, we've talked about
laundry listening before. If you don't know what laundry listen is,

(03:07):
it's when you take your car to an auto repair
shop for a repair. Let's say something simple. Let's pick
up something and say, I got a noise in my
right rear tire. Right, Okay, it's pretty nondescript. I mean,
it's just annoying different things. So you leave the car
with the garage, or maybe you wait. Hopefully you're smart
enough to leave it, because nobody wants to sit in
a waiting room forever. I don't like it, and I

(03:28):
want to take a car to the dealership. I hate the
fact that I have to do that.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
But.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
It's part of life, right, So hopefully you've dropped it
off and the technician gets it up in the air
and he starts working on the car. Well, here's the thing,
he's looking at everything. I from being in the automotive business,
believe that is thorough and good work. Customer's perspective on
this talking a lot this weekend is some people feel
that it's laundry listing. I wanted to look at this

(03:55):
and he gave me a list this long, all these
things I should fix on my car. I'm mixed feelings
on that. It's a really mixed bag for me. Guys,
really honest with you about how that kind of works, right,
I want to know everything's wrong with a car. I
have the ability more than most of you guys that
are listening to this show do, obviously, with having a
large garage here out of my house and having my

(04:16):
own lift and all that kind of stuff, that I
can put my car up on the lift at any
point in time and I can kind of go through it.
You don't need a lift for that to be able
to do that. By the way, you can do that
right in your driveway, small garage, whatever it is. You can.
If you have the ability, or at least some mechanical ability,
you can look over a car and see if it
needs some things right on your own. But if you don't,
and you've taken your car to a pair shop and
you feel that you're stuck in that position, because everybody

(04:37):
hates feeling like they're stuck, right, is it a good
thing or a bad thing to tell a customer everything's
wrong with their car? I asked you guys, see how
you guys feel on it. Hey, one of y'all pickt.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
Okay, I'll go first, right.

Speaker 4 (04:50):
I think it's a it could be a mixed mixed opinion, right.
So I think as you know, as a business person,
you know, you want to do right and you kind
of want to tell the customer what everything's wrong with
their car.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
So you view it as it's you're trying to do
what's right by the customer, not that you're trying to
make money.

Speaker 4 (05:09):
I see it, right, and I see it as both ways, right. So,
like you know, obviously, as a good business person, you
want to make sure that you know, you take care
of the customer, that they know what's completely wrong with
their car. And the same time, I understand from the
customer's point of view, you know, you think you took
it in for a small problem or just in an
individual problem and you come back with a laundry list.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
Okay, I have a little bit, Like I said, I'm
on both sides of this, guys. And there's a reason
why if you had brought your car to me when
I was in an automotive business, you know, back in
the day, and I look your car over and by
the time I get to the point where I've written
down the sixth item, I'm sorry, I'm at six items.
You're not taking care of your car, probably the way

(05:49):
that you should be. If I'm able to go very
quickly get to six items wrong with your car that
probably should be addressed. The car either is not being
serviced by the right person, or is not being serviced correctly,
or it's just not being serviced at all. Those are
my feelings on it. When I get to the point
where I'm like, man, look at this, man, look at that,
look at that. A car doesn't get that way overnight.

(06:10):
It only gets that way over time, which means either
like I said, you've had the wrong person service in
your car right there, or the person you've had a
long time you know, doing it is missing those things
are just not seeing it. Maybe it's just an oversight.
I kind of find it hard to believe that you
get to six items or oversight. If I'm looking at
you gotta belt, you got a hose, your tires are
going bald. The noise that you're hearing is because the

(06:30):
brakes are all the way down the road. I mean,
there's certain things I'm like, okay, the car screams neglect,
rather you are willingly doing it or you just don't
know because somebody's informing you correctly. I don't know. I
can't make that decision, but I feel like, as being
the auto guy, that I should tell you everything I see,
and there's a reason for it. I know something that
will wait.

Speaker 4 (06:50):
I might say, you know, And I do feel like sometimes,
you know, as a customer, when you bring your car in,
you you know sometimes what's what the car has been
through and what's been done on it. So I think
even if you don't have a car person, you know
car background, you know on how to fix things or
what needs to be replaced or you know, done every couple,

(07:11):
you know, one hundred thousand miles, six thousand miles, whatever
it needs to be. I think that you know, at
a certain point, the customer should know that, hey, I've
either done this or I haven't done this right, or
you know, there's probably a good chance this needs to
be done.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
Okay. So I've talked before, and I explained to you
guys that what some people believe is laundry listing, right,
I don't look at that way. And let me give
you an example. I think I've given this example before.
I'm doing a timing belt on a car. And why
I'm doing the timing belt, I have to remove things
to get to the timing belt rather be the water pump,

(07:44):
whatever it is. Those parts all have the exact same
amount of time on them as the part that failed. Okay,
And if I have to take those parts off or
remove them to get to what I need to do
the job in my autumn of mind and as a
business owner, and when I was doing this all the time,

(08:04):
it was in the best census to replace those parts
that I had to take off to get to it.
And I'm not give me, don't get wrong. I'm not
talking about tearing the motor down or replace things, just replaced.
I'm saying, I take the water pump off. If I
take thermostat, housing and all that kind of stuff, I
might as well put a thermostat in it. Go ahead
and do the water pump in it. If I'm removing
the hoses and they're already kind of ugh, let's put
a set of hoses on it. Why I'm doing that

(08:26):
because I had to move all that stuff to get
to the time. If I have to move that stuff,
it makes sense to me to go ahead and do it,
and some people goes, well, you don't have to remove
this and that to get that. I'm talking on certain models,
not all cars, so you know, before you keyboid warriors
to start attacking me, I'm just saying on certain moles.
I'll give you a perfect example. I can't count how
many times that I had somebody want me to do
the time belt. But when I start telling them we

(08:47):
need to do the tensures because of hydraug tensor and
stuff time but you're like, why I don't want to
do all that, I just want to do time belt.
I'm like, the tensioner has the exact same mileage on
it as the timing belt that has failed or whatever
it may be. You know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
Like, and there's a reason why the timing bell came.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
Off, right, Why do you want me to and I
call piecemeal? Why do you want any piecemeal together? Why
not go ahead, let's do it everything. It's no different
than a little different like I always do. And people
I've caught so much flak over and it's just my
way of doing it. You don't have to do it.
When I do breaks and the caliber has failed on
a vehicle. Let's say it's got one hundred and thirty

(09:23):
three thousand miles on it and the right front caliber
has failed and it comes in it stuck whatever it is.
Or you went to go do a break job in
the caliber and you know, recess the caliber on it,
and you go to put it and it doesn't want
to come back out and out it needs a caliber.
At that point in time, I would stop and go
it needs a caliber. But mister customer, I would do
what you already know what My answer.

Speaker 3 (09:44):
Is, Right, this one rotors pads.

Speaker 2 (09:47):
Well, not on that as the roads, but at least both.
I'm gonna do both calibers. Right. Well, that one didn't fail, right,
but this one did, and it has exact same miles
as the one on the left hand side does not
the right I just said the right side, but so
you know it both sides. I want to do both
of them. And then people were like, well, I just
feel like you're just trying to sell me something I
don't need. No, I genuinely am looking out for your

(10:09):
I just went ahead and pushed the pistoon back to
get it all set and put it all back together,
and this one stopped moving. This one is just as
old as the one on the left hand side. I
know it's more money. I get it. The money is
not always available to people, but I don't feel like
that's considered a laundry list now. Talking with the keyboard
Warriors and might I say that, and the people I

(10:30):
talk to pretty generally, and I run ideas about online
and all the different forms and stuff. It was very
mixed reviews on this. People are like, absolutely, I don't
ever want it the same to you I have. They're like,
I don't want to touch it unless I'm doing everything and
I'm doing it right. Because what happens is, I know
you guys don't mean to or maybe you do. Who
knows the minute that I turn the car over to you,
right And let's just say I put it together. In

(10:51):
two months, it goes down the road and all of a
sudden they start hearing a break noise and you bring
it into me and I go, the caliber on the
left side is starting to stick. Well, how do you
know that's your place of the right caliber the last time?
How do you know it wasn't that one making the
noise all along? And you'll say others. It happens all
the time. If you guys are in the automotive business,
you know what I'm talking about. This is something that
happens if you're the customer. Customers do this, they just

(11:14):
do it. I'm not saying it's tricktly, you not chat.
I'm just saying this happens all the time. I'll give
you a perfect instance on it. A lot of times.
Nathaniel knows the reason why I says I don't like
to do brake pads without doing rotors. Most of the time,
I'm over turning roaders. Now, I'm not saying that a
car needs roaders every time you do breakpads. That's not

(11:35):
what I'm saying. But if I get to the point
I started to see some in hotspots or some grooves
or anything in it me personally, He'll tell you they
go in the junker. I just take them off, I
throw them away, and I get a new set for
what it costs. Nowadays, I'm both most cars replaced the roaders.
It's worth my peace of mind. I don't. I'm gonna
look and try to figure out why, if I've done

(11:57):
them recently, why my roadors are already junk so quickly.
Do I have a caliber that's sticking every once in
a while?

Speaker 5 (12:02):
Right?

Speaker 2 (12:02):
Was it a bad set of pads? I don't think so,
But is it unusual where you know the bad pad thing?
To be fair?

Speaker 4 (12:09):
To be fair, roaders have gotten pretty junk in the
last couple of years.

Speaker 3 (12:13):
Back in the day, you could resurface your well.

Speaker 2 (12:17):
Okay, So I just had this conversation about resurfacing roadors. Right,
somebody asked me like, do you replace or do you resurface?
And I go, I just replace, and they're like, oh really,
I'm like, the cost for me to I don't have
a machine in my garage to do it. So the
cost for me to take you to somebody who still
does not a lot of people do anymore. I used

(12:37):
to have undercar laithe back in the day when I
when I was, I had a garage, so like, I
don't have any of that stuff anymore, so I'd take
you to somebody who's going to do it. Okay, But
the cost to have somebody turn the roaders versus a
cost replacing roaders nowadays it's just easier to just replace them.

Speaker 4 (12:50):
Well, and they don't have a lot of material like
they back then, Dad, where you could actually surface.

Speaker 6 (12:54):
And they are.

Speaker 2 (12:55):
That's whereason why they work so easy. I guess my
first question would be, are the are the roaders?

Speaker 5 (12:59):
You know, the basic bronze gold?

Speaker 3 (13:05):
Don't they don't as the same?

Speaker 2 (13:08):
Yeah, I don't think.

Speaker 3 (13:09):
I don't think they do a classification for voters like that.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
They do. They do a premium like there is a
premium brand, right, but as a company out there that
will give you the same one. It's like roaders on
the truck. I think there are forty nine dollars rotors
what they were on the truck. Okay, if I would
have took the roaders off, let's just say there is
enough material there. I don't even look. I don't care
because I already saw, you know, I saw some some

(13:33):
groovy and I didn't like. Okay, I'm sure they probably
could have been turned and I've got some life out
of them. But if they're already wearing out, I'm gonna
take material off of it.

Speaker 3 (13:41):
And they're gonna wear down even faster.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
It's just gonna warp on me even faster seeds just
to replace them. That's just my personal preference. Okay, I'm
not saying that's what you have to do. But that
is if you asked me to do a break job
for anybody, friends, family, neighbors, stuff, they asked me to
do breaks in their car, I always tell them, give
me set of paths, set of roads instantly. And I
have to ask for the caliber yet because I'm hoping
you don't need one. But if you're gonna even have

(14:03):
me crack the car open, it's getting pads and it's
getting rotors. And if you thought I just laundry listed
you because I asked for those without seeing the car,
then you're not my customer. You're not the customer that
I want. And I did the same thing in business. Guys,
that's not the person I want to work on their car.
I only wants to work on people's cars who truly
want to improve the performance of the car or fix

(14:24):
the problem. That's the only ones. And if you're not
interesting that, it doesn't make you a bad person. It
just means you're gonna make my life more difficult. And
you're gonna tell me that I'm laundry listing things and
stuff like that when the car really truly needs it.
There's a lot more I can jump into on this topic.
And we're going to but before we do that, I'm
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Speaker 1 (17:47):
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Now back to your host, Dave Polach.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
Hey, guys, welcome back. So if you catch the first segment,
we were talking about laundry listen, that's right. Today's topic is
talking about laundry listening. And if you don't know what
it is, it's when it's time to have your car
worked on and they tell you it needs other things
other than what you took it in for. So there's
mixed opinions on this back and forth as far as
how people feel about it. I'm gonna give you a
scenario and you guys tell me if you think it's

(18:21):
handled right or it's handled wrong. I've had this happen,
but this was a Hey Dave when we were talking
about this topic. That's how it came around on the show.
Hey Dave, So, Hey Dave hadn't had a heady day
even a while. Hey Dave. So, I won't say what happened.
I haven't found what I want to talk about it
in there. I get them, I just don't want to
talk about them all the time. Sometimes I don't think
there's all that interesting. But then we can stop, right, Yeah,
something I can't talk about. So customer brings a vehicle in, right,

(18:44):
and they're noticing that there's fluid on the ground. Now
every time, so they says there's fluid on the ground.
Most of the time they have no idea what fluid
it is, just I've seen fluid. So get the hood
open on a car and underneath the hood they realize
that there is a bubble on one of the radiator hoses. Okay,
so obviously that's where the flu has come from. And

(19:05):
my understanding is the bubble is right where it comes together,
right where you slide it on someplace, and it is
a bubbled right there. That's where the leak is so
of course as an auto garage, Okay, in this if
this happened to me and I was augage, you call
the customer and you're like, hey, found your problem. Got
a radiator hose just kind of bubbled and stuff. It
looks like that's you know what they give me the problem.

(19:26):
Here's why I suggest, I suggest you replace the radiator
hose and the other hose or two whatever it is,
have just as long on them upper hose, lower hose,
and some have that small little thermostat hose that goes
over It depends on what you're set up is and
I know some that have like six or seven hoses.
One of the Fords has that weird hose with the
center coupler and it goes in a different direction. Is

(19:48):
that a focused guy? Somebody will tell me. I think.
I think it's a focus that does it. But that's
another setup that I think that has hoses going in
every different direction. So you sell to the customer, and
the customer at that point in time, do they feel
like your laundry listing because you're like, look, it is
your upper hose, but your your lower hoses just as
old or the other three holes hoses are just as old.

Speaker 3 (20:08):
Probably not.

Speaker 4 (20:09):
I mean, I don't think that would be count as laundrylisted,
considering that it is if you explain it, it is,
you know, in the same vicinity.

Speaker 3 (20:16):
So it does the same thing.

Speaker 2 (20:18):
I thought, the same thing, but some customers do They're like, well,
the only hose was Leaco was the top hose. Why
we got to replace all the rest of the hoses, right,
And like I said, it's because they're just as as old. Right,
it makes sense to do so, So let me take
it a step further. Right, you order the hoses. Okay,
you guys all know how this works, if you'd like said,
if you're a customer, you don't. Next step is, once

(20:39):
you authorize it, we call the parts warehouse or we
get online and check online stuff. And that's how we
did it back in the day. It was get online
and see what was you know, listed and who has it,
and we get it sent to us. It goes up technician,
he makes repair, he puts it all together. Okay, now
there's some shots that probably don't do this. If I

(21:00):
call one of my guys not doing it, we had issues.
But once I put all the hoses on, I pressure
tested it. Some people just throw the hose on because
they see the leak, and they tighten all the clamps
on it. So, by the way, put new clamps on
everything too. When I put hoses, I put new clamps
on anything. That's just my way of doing it. You
can do it however you want. I just that's I've
learned my lesson over the years. So am I laundry

(21:22):
listening when I put new clamps on it too. I mean,
I guess you could look at it that way, right,
But I want when I said I want to do
a job and I want to do it thorough, I
mean I want to do a job and I want
to do it thorough. So I put new clamps on it.
Because some of those clamps, the ones that are you
guys know, the ones that are spring loaded and stuff
like that. I can grab my tool, I can spring
load it as soon as I hit I just don't
feel that it closes once I've you know, clipped it
all the way back, flipped it all the way back,

(21:43):
and I let it go. I sometimes I just don't
feel it clamps all the way down like it used to.
Like I said, I've had them come back in the
leak because that's been the case. So my habit is
to go ahead and put new clams on. Like I said,
there's a lot some you don't have to, but there's
some that they don't make the clamps as nice. They
made out a little bit looser metal and they just
don't go back to form.

Speaker 7 (22:00):
Right.

Speaker 2 (22:01):
So nevertheless, if you don't pressure test, I had an
issue with you back in the day. So let's say
you go to pressure tests, right and now now that
you have good hoses on it, you find something that
starts to leak when you pressure test it, if you
have to call the customer back because you found something,

(22:22):
am I hilaundry listening again? Or is it I've been
able to put the car together the way it needs
to underload, we pressure test it. I see something else
leaking or whatever it is.

Speaker 3 (22:33):
I'm gonna say no.

Speaker 4 (22:34):
Okay, And for the fact as well as you know,
when you talk to the customer the first time, you
probably already told them I'm going to pressure test this.

Speaker 2 (22:42):
They're uh simple.

Speaker 4 (22:43):
A lot of people don't, right, but I mean, but
you know that's how it should go. You know, he Hey,
we're gonna get these parts.

Speaker 2 (22:49):
In be honest, I don't know if I would have
said that. I don't know if I would have said
to the customer that you would be by the way,
mister customer, when I get all these houses on it,
I'm going to pressure test it to see if you
have any others. I probably I would never have that
conversation with the customer, to be honest with you, No,
I'm going to do it right, just because I'm checking
my work, not that I'm looking for something. I'm just
saying checking my work.

Speaker 4 (23:07):
If you did do it in the beginning, right, you'd
probably save yourself a little bit more of a hassle, because,
all right, well order these hoses. We're going to pressure
test it to make sure everything's fully functioning. If anything
goes wrong, we'll give you a call.

Speaker 2 (23:19):
I will say something that I say and you heard
me do it, as you guys grew up and heard
me over the years. I away always say, so, I'm
going to start with this. This is what I see
is the issue. I'm going to start with that and
then but this is my starting point before I can
fully evaluate real lead with this. Right, that's a conversation
I used to have all the time, and I always
say that on everything. I'd say that on breaks, hoses, belts,
you name it. Let me go ahead and address the

(23:41):
known issue that I see, and then I'll go ahead
to a full test on it. Just make sure nothing
else arises. I used to say that a lot of
times because I learned my lesson Younglarly years when I
was in my twenties and I did it. I never
I didn't think about saying that to customers all the time,
even though it might have been in my head, I
never said it. Over the years and having issues and customers,
oh I wish you'd said this. With that, it just
developed my technique of trying to say that every single

(24:04):
way it.

Speaker 4 (24:04):
Protects you and informs them. You know, they don't feel
like they're out of the you know, left in the dark.
They have kind of an assumption that it may be
a little more expensive than what them previously talked about.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
I'm going in a direction with this, just the whole
tight so there's a reason for it. So I've had
this happen and this was one of the ones that
was given to me. They put all the hoses on.
The customer is already questioning. I guess the fact that
they want to replace all the hoses, but I won't
say reluctantly. They just decided to put the hoses on it, okay,
So they get the Okay, they put the hoes on.

(24:35):
The guy pressure tests it and during a pressure test
he finds that it has a faulty radiator cap. The
cap isn't holding pressure whatever, I guess. He tries to
call the customer a bunch of different times. Customer doesn't
answer the phone. Radio caps like what fifteen twenty five
dollars the most radar less than that? So what does
he do some of them? I pay twenty five dollars

(24:56):
for some caps. So he puts radar cap on it,
fills the off, pressure tests, make sure everything's good. It's
good to go, and backs it out of the shop.
Calls the customer says, hey, the vehicle's ready. By the way,
After I put all the hoses on and everything I
pressure tests, I saw your radio cap wasn't really holding pressure, right.
I just threw a cap on it took care of it.
It's X amount of dollars. Here's the difference in price,

(25:16):
and the customer I gets blue a fuse. Now waitfiting
just another thing you just added something else to.

Speaker 3 (25:23):
It, right, understandable.

Speaker 2 (25:25):
It was okay, So I understand a little bit of
the customer. I mean, it's this much, guys, what the
customer is saying. But what the customer doesn't realize is
time is money. Okay, I got the car in the shop.
I know it needs a radio cap. It can't leave
without it. It has to have it, right, It's not
leaving without there. Rather, you're gonna be upset as a customer.
Not the car is not leaving without the radiat air cap.

(25:46):
It has to have it, okay, So rather I got
a hold of you on the phone or not. I
personally agree with with with the guy that they gave
me this list layout. In the story, he threw a
radio cap on it, test everything was good, backed it out,
it's ready for pickup. When he finally gets the customer
on the phone, he says, hey guy, everything checked out.
And by the way, why it was under low. We
tested it. It needed a radio cap. It's way bit to

(26:09):
the customer. If I paid twenty five bucks for it's
probably fifty dollars to the customer. By timing everything said
and done, that's just way markup quarks guys, so it's
fit and the customer loses their crap over fifty dollars.
So he presented it in a different light to the customer,
which is probably the same way I do. Okay, mister customer,
if I did get you on the phone the first
time when I called you and you picked the phone,
and I said, hey, test everything. It needed a radio cap.
It has to have a radarcap to leave. Unfortunately, stuff

(26:30):
like that, What would you have told me to do?
What the answer was, well, I tell you put a
radio cap on it, but you put it on with
that w I permission. Okay, We're in no different position
than we were before. Though the fact was this time
is money. You're holding up my bay. I need to
get to the next car. I can't get you on
the phone. I know it needs it before it leaves.
It has to have it. So I ordered it, I
got it, I put it on the car, I test everything.

(26:53):
It was a leak anymore, and I put it out
front for you to go ahead and get it. That's
how I would have handled it. But somehow, I guess
his customer felt that he was laundry listing.

Speaker 3 (27:03):
Yeah, he's like, oh, you just.

Speaker 2 (27:04):
Gave me something else and stuff like that, and I
don't see it that way. It had to have it.
I understand a little bit like I said a little
bit of the customers like, well, you just put a
part of my car. But if your answer is simply
out of tod you go ahead and do it. But
you did it without my permission. I did it to
move the car along quicker, get you your car back quicker.
Because if you call me at four o'clock finally and

(27:27):
the shot closed at five, you say, well, yeah, I
guess you got to go ahead and do it. The
chances are you're now not getting your car back that night.
If the shot closes by five, by time they get
on the phone with the park guy, he delivers it
to you. You get the cap, you put it on,
your pressure test, stuff like that, it is time for
your guys to go home. Most likely. I'm not saying
in all situation, but let's just say that's the scenario.
Move it up wherever you need to, half hour, an
hour further, whatever it is, to the point where now

(27:48):
the customer like the car. You were trying to work
with the customer and give an opportunity. You still have
his car. I don't see anything wrong with his shop, dude,
I don't see it as laundry listing. It needed to
have it, but the customer's view was, you're just adding
more stuff to my billy. Had to have it right,
and they took care of you. They were doing right
by you. Now, if it was like a four hundred,
five hundred dollars part, if it was if it's one
hundred dollars part, maybe maybe I get it a little bit.

Speaker 4 (28:10):
Yeah, I mean, like like you said, I understand the
customer's point of view. Obviously nobody likes someone else spending
their money.

Speaker 2 (28:16):
They don't. And then I get it.

Speaker 4 (28:17):
But but did I get you know, the garage aside,
You know you needed the part for it to leave.

Speaker 2 (28:21):
You know, it must not leave them without it.

Speaker 3 (28:23):
Right most time customers want the cars quickly.

Speaker 2 (28:26):
And you know, customer, I only verbally said that you
would have told the guy to put it on the
car anyways anyway, because you know, because you do know
you need it, right, So it is a mute point
at that time, right, I mean, it's it doesn't it
really doesn't mean.

Speaker 3 (28:38):
And you know you're still trying to be good bye.

Speaker 4 (28:39):
The customer you want your car for no reason, right,
he said, you're just trying to get that car on
the road as quickly as possible so they can, you know,
not run.

Speaker 2 (28:46):
Trying to take the best. Now here's the thing, So
I presented to the guy. I said, well, you should
have asked the customers. So if I just just put
it on, backed it out, you drove down the road
and it started a leaking because the radio cap was bad,
would you be mad? And then guys, he's like, yeah, yeah.
I was like, that's how you presented these people. If
I would have just slapped it together, send you down
the road knowing it needed that part, and then let's

(29:08):
say right away the next day, a week from now,
it failed after I put on, would you be mad
at me? Well, yeah, it means you didn't do your
job thoroughly. Then I can't win. And I did do
the right thing, And that's my answer on it. I
got some more on some Waunderer list stuff. Guys, hold still,
I got some more funny scenarios for you. You're gonna
want to hear them. I'll be right back.

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You're automotive specialist. Now back to your host Dave Polach.

Speaker 2 (33:09):
Hey, Guy's welcome back. Still talking about laundry lists and
I don't think there's any way to really solve it
as far as if somebody really believes it's a laundry listen. Right,
So if someone believes that that is laundry listen and
you think that's good customer service, I don't. I don't
believe there's a happy medium. Would you agree? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (33:27):
No, I mean I don't think there is a happy medium.
I got a question though, do you think you know
there's a way to solve that problem? Do you think
that it would help if you had, say, like you know,
like in the doctor's office where they have you know,
the liver pointed out, the kidney pointed out.

Speaker 3 (33:43):
Do you think something like put it on.

Speaker 2 (33:44):
The board with the car broke it out, here's the
liver of the car.

Speaker 4 (33:47):
I mean it's kind of funny, But do you think
that you know, say you had a diagraph or a
model to show them, or even if you had it
organized in categories.

Speaker 3 (33:58):
Like like we're talking about like laundry list and right.

Speaker 4 (34:00):
So like when you go do a great job, right,
and you know you wanted to get rotors pads, maybe
lead the brakes right, Maybe they got a unbounced tire
or an old tire and they think that, you know,
you're just racking it on, right, I have two answers,
I do, okay, I mean to cut through you.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
I have two answers for that. So back in the day,
we had breakdowns, we had caliber with the rotors and
the brake pad you removed as a display that we
could show to the customer. That never seemed to work
for me. It didn't really matter. Here's the problem. Half
the time for most garages, it's a phone tele phone
conversation you're having over the phone because they've left you
the car. So that does you know, right? And I
was gonna say that, right, It does you no good

(34:38):
to have it, okay, Now, if you could send it
over diarmly have digital PDI okay, which a lot of
shops use. I know there's a lot of garages listening
to the show that you use. A bunch of our
nap auto garages that our sponsors use it. So if
you know what that is, most of y'all shouldn't know
by now, But if you don't, it's it's a digital
So they take a picture of the problems they find
and they send you an email or by text, and
you can physically see it right, But I find.

Speaker 3 (35:01):
Even that it doesn't explain why why right?

Speaker 2 (35:04):
Or you know, pictures that's worth worth a thousand words
sometimes does not work in that scenario. That's why because
people go, what am I looking at?

Speaker 7 (35:11):
Right?

Speaker 4 (35:11):
And that's why I asked, do you think that maybe
having a diagram or even know you said diagrams don't work,
Maybe a a organized list of why those parts need
to be replaced, so like you know, like obviously you
know the past.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
Are you talking about for your service writers? Just to
go down and listen.

Speaker 4 (35:26):
Say it, maybe not to say it, just to show them,
like if you sent it off to like the customer,
like you know, say they want to quote and you
send it off right, or you know, and you show
them you know, all right, we're gonna put all the
work that you know is suspension and suspension is that and.

Speaker 3 (35:40):
All the work you know for the motor.

Speaker 2 (35:43):
But I don't I understand that, but I don't sell
it that way, so I.

Speaker 3 (35:46):
Know you don't.

Speaker 2 (35:47):
But that's what I'm saying, like, oh, you came in
for suspension work, you need every piece of the suspension.

Speaker 3 (35:51):
I'm not selling I know what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (35:53):
When you know, when they feel that you're laundry listing
and there's multiple things you know, maybe not on the
same project, but across the car to you think, do
you think that it may help to may break it down?

Speaker 2 (36:04):
I don't think so. So here is what I know
about auto repair and auto garages. Like I said, listen
to the show. Know exactly what I'm talking about. Customers
who listen to the show think about it in this fashion.
Nobody takes their car to repair shop and goes, man,
I wish I could spend two thousand dollars while I'm there. Today,
it's the other way around. You take your car to
the repair shop and go I hope I can get
it in and out there for as little as possible. Right.

(36:27):
The problem with it is is once I look the
car over and it needs X, Y and Z and
to really be right, it may need you know, A,
B and C as well for it to really be correct.
That's sometimes customers go, hey, just fix I just want
to be right. But then you have the other class
of customers who are like you have to explain it

(36:47):
to them in thorough detail, and then maybe the authorizer
or they don't, And then you have the customers or
have your car there on a hope and a prayer
and hope, hope it was something simple. Those are usually
the ones where you run into this trouble with who
believe it's lottery listing because they brought the car in
a hope and a prayer that really didn't need anything.
Maybe it was just a rock stuck in between the
breakepad and the roader. And that's the noise I'm hearing

(37:08):
you and you laugh, but I hear I know with
you being you've heard that they hope it's the simplest
little thing and there's really not any money involved. There's
always money involved to a certain degree. First of all,
anytime you take a car to a pair shop, for
the most part, there is money going to be involved
one way or another. If you think you're taking your
car to repair shop and you need a guy to
take a look at the car for an hour to

(37:28):
tell you what's wrong with it and there's no cost
associate to that, you're nuts and silly of you to
expect me to do that too, By the way, because
all the time we fought it. The whole time I
was in automotive business. And what do you mean I
had to pay a diagnosis fee because I spent an
hour or two taking a look at your car to
tell you what's wrong with it. Now that I've told
you what's wrong with it, you can tell whoever it
is who's going to tell you they can do it

(37:49):
for cheap, or what's wrong with it. I did all
the hard work you're gonna pay me for. I diagnosed
a car to tell you what's wrong with it, and
so you can tell the next guy who you tell
me can do it cheaper. That's why you pay me
a diagnosis fee, because I need to get paid for
my time. Because if you decide to take the car
out of our shop and go someplace else with it
to tell the guy what I told you, that has value.
You don't go to a doctor's office right and have

(38:10):
the doctor take a look at you and he goes, well,
guess what you need to take out your wisdom teeth
and you go okay, doc, Well thanks, my neighbor says
he can do it, you know, for free. It doesn't
work that way, Okay, you still have a doctor's bill.
You don't go to a steakhouse and bring your own
steak and cook it, do you. That's the reason why
you shouldn't bring your own cars for a parashop asks

(38:30):
and to put it on.

Speaker 4 (38:30):
And I truly do believe that's why there is diagnostic
fees just in general, because six out of ten cars
are looking for the best deal. So only four of
that ten cars are you know, dead set, get it done,
don't really care. The other six are you know, shopping around,
and you lose money as a business.

Speaker 2 (38:49):
I don't know what the number is that I can
say mem but without a shadout doubt. For years and
years and years and years and years, when I was
in the auto business, I gave people a certain amount
of my time. It didn't cost him anything. I get
ten minutes, twenty minutes, stuff like that. I pop the hood,
I look underneath the car A lot of times. I
take the scanner and pluck my scanner to it. I
never charge you for it. Most shops charged for a diagnosis,
tope for that. I hook the scanner to it, run

(39:10):
scan Hey, here's what it says. And everbody goes, well,
you do that because AutoZone and all of them started
doing it for free. If you think that most of
the people that are hooking a scanner to your car
at AutoZone or Advance Auto and stuff like that have
a deep dive understanding of what they're doing. That's not
the case, and I'm not chastising AutoZone, Advanced or any
any of these auto part stores that do that. That's
not what this is about. I think it's great they

(39:31):
decide to do that for people. The problem with it
is they did it because they hope to sell you
the part that you need. They didn't. They're not doing
it for no reason. They're like, I hook the scanner.
It says this, It says you need a crank position sensor.
They're gonna sell you a crank position sensor. Now, can
you tell me why? Can I needed the crank position sensor?
What caused the failure the crank posis? If there's a

(39:51):
reason for it is associate with the part I had
to buy. Can they tell you the reasoning associate with that?
Most of the time the answer is going to be no.
They can only tell you what the vehicles. Now, that's
not a diagnosis. That is a point in the general
direction to sell you the part, to try to fix
it yourself. Because most of those places exist for the
DIY guy. Okay, Hey, hope you come in. You it

(40:14):
needs X part. Do you have that on the shelf? Field,
I probably got one, Okay, I'm gonna go ahead and
buy it. And they put it on and then when
it doesn't fix their problem, that's where diagnosis, true diagnosis
comes in handy. Somebody's not goingly tell you what's wrong
with it, but why it's wrong. That's diagnostics, not a
scan of your vehicle. And there is a difference between

(40:35):
the two.

Speaker 4 (40:36):
No, I agree on number, and I think it's smart
when shops do charge a diagnostic a fee, but lets
customers know that you know, we're not going to charge
anything as long as you get the work done right.
At that point, you know, if they're truly wanting to
get the work done well, like I said, and it
doesn't bother them.

Speaker 2 (40:51):
I was different when I was in the business. I
didn't mind. I valued our customers quite a bit, okay,
So I had no problem walking out to a car
up to it, checking it, telling them, hey, this is
what it says. This may fix the problem, and maybe
something a little bit deeper, and I ain't charge them
anything for that. Why I made a friend, I made
a new customer. Maybe I've never met before shell like that,
so I it had its advantages to it, Guys, I'm

(41:12):
not gonna say it didn't, but it wasn't about the
money for me. I always believe you take care of
the customer, the customer will take care of you by
doing business with you as long as you extend that
olive branch. And I think a lot of auto garages
could probably learn from that nowadays still doing that. You know,
you run your business however you want, Like I got
a lot of OLLI garages that listen to this show,
and I'm not telling you how to do it. I'm
just telling you that as an on site owner or

(41:34):
operator like I was back in the day, and I
was on site all the time, it was nothing on
my time to go out there when I saw some
of the customer talking to one of our managers like that,
like what do you got going on? They tell me, Like,
I get a second walk out there, and I popped
the hoodlik Nine out of ten times I could pretty
much find what was going on pretty quickly. Not all
the time, but I could say, I think this is
probably what's gonna be your problem. I really need to
get in the garage take a better look at it.
But I think we're going in that general direction.

Speaker 3 (41:54):
At least narrow it down right.

Speaker 2 (41:55):
And then they were like, well, I'm gonna leave it
with you, And I made a customer that may not
have had unless I took that time. That was my approach.
I'm not saying that needs to be your approach as
a customer. I'm not saying that approach makes you want
to buy anything from that out of garage. I'm just
saying I think there's a certain way to do business,
and money doesn't always have to revolve around doing the
right thing by some something that's just being neighborly. It
really is. But when you get a certain like I

(42:18):
told you about the customer, I used to always hinge
on the fact that the customers used to really drive
me nuts. I told you guys the story I think
about the guy who told me his horn didn't work.
But I knew I was having a horn conversation with
him instantly, and why because we pulled his car on
the garage. We parked it, the window was down, he came,

(42:38):
paid his bill, walked right outside, never got in the car,
reached through the window and tapped the horn never sat down,
and Kate I watched him through the glass. He walked
back right back in and goes, hey, man, my horns
doesn't work. You guys broke it. And I you're trying
to be polite, but in my head, I'm going, okay,
I'm gonna get I'm getting taken advantage of here. There's
nobody walks out to their car. The car was not

(43:00):
there for a horn problem. By the way, guys, nobody
walks out to their car, reaches through the window and
taps the horn and comes back in, goes, many, all
broke my horn. Nobody does that unless it already had
a horn problem. And I think I told you when
we deep dived into the car to find the problem,
somebody had tried to rewire the horn into the car
themselves with thermostat wire for a house housing thermostat wire

(43:23):
had rewired the car with thermostat wire. And the customers like, well,
I don't know how that got there. You've owned the
car for a long time. You know how that got there.
But what did we do? As at autogarage, we fixed it,
didn't charge anything. Now I kind of asked that you
didn't bring it back to us because I felt like
I was getting taken advantage of. And it's okay to
fire a customer. I'm okay if you're a customer. I
had no problem back in the day firing you as

(43:44):
a customer because there's certain customers I want and I
didn't want that type of customer because I felt like
I was being taken advantage of. And that's just the
way it works. So there's two different sizes of the story.
I have a couple more stories you go on to hear.
They're very similar to that. So hold tight. I'll take
quick commercial break and we're going to finish up this
show with the last second. I'm right back.

Speaker 1 (44:07):
You're listening to Dave Pilach on Let's Talk Cars Radio. Dave,
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back to Let's Talk Cars Radio. You're automotive specialist. Now
back to your host, Dave polac.

Speaker 7 (47:39):
Hey.

Speaker 2 (47:39):
Guys, welcome back. So I told you I had a
couple more incidents and stories for you on Laundrier Listen.
So I don't know if this classifies as laundry listen,
but some things that I've had happen, and some things
people share with us and stuff like that. So here
here's one of the ones that somebody had shared with me.
So on certain newer cars, right, you can go and
program your windows what they do?

Speaker 1 (48:01):
Yep?

Speaker 2 (48:01):
Okay. So rather it's one touch and it goes down.
If it's one touch and it goes up, there are
you talking about the button for it to go up?
Are you talking about in the car or in a
separate program it's in the car on the main screen.

Speaker 4 (48:12):
I know back in the day you had to have
a separate program and you could program the car.

Speaker 2 (48:17):
Right. So, now if you disconnect the battery in someone's car, okay,
apparently all those those presets go away. Now they're not
factory presets. They're what the customer has gone and set
for their window to do, right, what they wanted to do,
Like they wanted to be a one touch, like I said,
all the way down, one touch, all the way up.

(48:38):
They've set those parameters. You change the battery in the car,
and of course those presets. Now a technician all the
time I had technicians and stuff. What I would do
is we went set anything that need to be programmed,
and there's there's another one to this, and camera appreciate
because he knows where this one's going to go here.
And second, when I say it, there's certain things that
you have to punch codes in and stuff for them
to work. Okay, I e. Stereos, Yeah, nav systems, stuff

(49:04):
like that.

Speaker 5 (49:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (49:05):
So this particular customer on the window was mad because
he's like, well, you guys didn't do a thorough job.
No one in the world would ever know that you
had preset those The technician goes into the car and
sets everything back up. The way it's supposed to. He
makes sure he resets the time on the radio, all
those little things that you know that he knows to do.

(49:26):
From everybody goes, well, you didn't use a battery saver.
I'm gonna stop you. Not everybody uses a battery saver.
They just don't. We had one in a shop for years.
I don't. I don't. I think I used it maybe
seven to ten times, and the whole time we had it,
and I only did on certain cars that I knew
one hundred percent are real pain in the butt. That's
the reason why I did it. The cars. I needed
to be able to hold the memory. Why change something,

(49:47):
because if I didn't, it just caused a whole nightmare.
And I can't remember every car that does it. You
guys work on cars, you know what I'm talking about,
and you can't do that in every car that you're
working on. Not every car needs it. There's certain cars
that if you take the battery out, you had to
put the memory saver on it because it ops out
stuff and then you have to go through the dealership
or a dealership reprogram and all kinds of stuff for
to get all information. There's I can't remember all the
cars there's but there's cars out there like that. That's

(50:09):
what you use that for. Other than that, I would
never in a million years know that you had went
in and messed with your settings under your computer to
make your window work operate in certain ways and stuff
like that. So that is a nod in the gate, right,
So I don't think that everybody goes well, if you
had to go in you had to mess with it,
just charge them a charge after they complained and you

(50:30):
had to go back in and mess with the cars.
Should there be if you had to sit there for
an hour and play with it, should you charge for it?
I'm not charging for it. I'm probably irritated, especially if
you got like silly with me over the phone before
you brought all you guys mess with car stuff, and
that I could find out. It's what you're complaining about
is something that you programmed to do yourself right, that
you could easily done it yourself. Now I'll give you

(50:51):
another one, right NAV system and stereo. Yeah, okay, some
of those have to have a pin to reactivate, some
of them not that multiple pin. It's not my fault
if you don't know your pin. How do I know
that you don't know your pin, you know what I mean,
Like if somehow even if you put a battery saver

(51:11):
on it and that holds the pin and some and
then you go and it doesn't that didn't work. For
whatever reason, it didn't work. Most achro was one of
the biggest ones I can think of, because they have it.
Usually it's written down in the back of the owner's manual,
the numbers back and written on the back. There used
to be call a hotline. They could give you one yep,
so if you lost it you could call. There was
I don't know if there's still a hot line, but
you used to be a call and get a hot line.

(51:32):
You gave them the BIN number of your car. There
was a couple of other things you had to do
and they would give you the pin number for it.
You react to base. It's like then number of cars,
number of the radio. Here's the thing. If you entered
it wrong three times and locks it locks it and
guess what, only one person unlock it. It had to
go to the dealership. Back then, customers would be like, oh,
it used to get upset about and stuff like that,
and you go, well, I didn't know a lot of times.

(51:55):
Now I got smart over the years. I'd go straight
to the Orange man if I started the car and
I saw it, I look for the Orange Manual to
find the pin and plug it in. But if they
have the car, they didn't have the Orange Man and
stuff like that, there's not a whole lot you could
do for them at that point in time. It is
a I hate to say it, but sorry about your
luck situation. But if there's nothing I can do to
rectify it for it, I had no idea. You don't
know your pen. I didn't find it in the car anywhere.

(52:15):
I did everything I could for that not to happen,
but the car start I had to work, and there's
no way around that. Then what do you do? So
there's that kind of thing of you're stuck in a
situation that's not longer to list situation. I'll give you
one that is though real pain with that didn't mean
to cut you off, that's what pain. What that is though,
when like.

Speaker 5 (52:33):
Your radio is locked, it won't allow you to turn
on the vault, up the volume at all, and somebody's
already pushed one number on the radio, so you're trying
to type in the six digits, but when you get
to that fifth digit, the radio thinks that you're typing
in the six digit, so it really sets and you
keep typing it in and nobody's it's so annoying, And

(52:54):
then you had to like type in zero zero zero
and hope that you already got back to the number
one position to retype in the code.

Speaker 2 (53:01):
I had a lady who brought us the car years ago. Now,
you guys, send of the email, send me something. Tell
me if you could think how you should have handled this.
I'm curious. She brings me your car. It had a
weird noise coming out of the upper intake, so we
replaced the intake. I think I had a leak on
the intake gaskets. So under acceleration, you kind of hear

(53:21):
a noise, right all right, whistle something. I can't remember exactly,
I know it was making a noise. It just makes
you made a noise. So we quoted for we fix it.
Technician drives a car. It leaves. Three days later. The
lady call us back and she's on the phone with
one of my managers and she is just ringing them
out on the phone. So of course it gets bumped

(53:42):
for me to handle it. I got a phone. She's
a little nicer with me at first, and she tells me,
I'm like, look, no problem. If we mess something up,
more than happy take a look at it. We'll fix it,
We'll make it right whatever. She brings the car in
and I set a time for her to meet directly
with me, Skip the managers, everything like that, She's gonna
meet right with me. So I get in the car
and I go for a ride and I hear hear

(54:04):
the noise and it's but it's not consist The noise
isn't consistent, but there is a noise, and I'm like,
I couldn't now, guys, I am unfortunately deaf in one
ear almost all the way, so my here, I always
have to turn my head kind of like they'll tell
you they see me do it. Like if I'm really
trying to pay attention to what you're saying, I can't,
I can't hear. I'll turn my head my good ear

(54:26):
towards you to kind of hear a little bit. And
that's from big guns in the military. It does it
to you suggest be careful with here, Like I'm not
looking away from me, I'm trying what you're saying. So
it's sometimes for me to pinpoint when I'm hearing. I
can hear it sometimes, but I can't pinpoint exactly where
it's coming from because I'm only really hearing it in
one ear, and I can't hear where it's coming from.
I was like, I hear something. I'm not really sure
what we're dealing with, but I do hear something. That's

(54:47):
the noise it was making. I'm like, okay, so I go,
it's not the noise. The technician takes that worked on
because he goes, that's not what we fix. I hear
a noise, but that's definitely not what we addressed on
the car. But you're right, there is a noise. Now.
The customer's never gonna believe you in a million years,
never gonna believe that's not the same noise. So we

(55:08):
spend about I won't say we the shop. My technician
spends about two hours mess around. He's underneath the hood,
he's looks up, he's got the car started, he's ondernath
the hood and he can't hear anything underneath the hood,
and he's it's driving him nuts. He's like, look, I
know you heard it. I heard it when I sit
in the car, I guess slide the car. I cannot
find anything underneath the car. So I sit in the
car and I'm gonna work the throttlefore him. Why he's

(55:30):
underneath the hood of the car, which is not uncommon
when people do it all the time. And I'll hey,
give if I'm gonna get eath the hood, give it
a couple blips of the throttle, so like, see if
we can figure out what it is. Put it up
in the air, let's run it. Let's see if something's
rattling underneath the car. I'm sitting in the car and
I hear the noise. It's not the same noise, though.
It is a noise, a noise, a steady, pretty steady noise,

(55:51):
but it doesn't have the same pitch or anything like that.
Over and over again. I don't know what possessed me.

Speaker 5 (55:58):
To Were you not learning the car?

Speaker 2 (56:00):
I was alone, and I was alone in the car.
My technician was outside the car, and I was talking
about like with an animal or something. Hold on, So
I start looking around and I start messing with the
ac I'm trying to ac on and off, seeing if
it makes any more different noise maybe because everyone's while.
You'll get a whistle it come out of the vents
because one of the vents isn't open and close the
right way. And I'm less one of those. I don't
know if I bumped the stereo or whatever it was.

(56:22):
The stereo doesn't work, it doesn't light up, it doesn't
it's on the fritz. It doesn't work, but it does work.
Then the string doesn't work. The volume knob is broken.
But if you ever had one of the knobs are broken,
that you gotta spend a hundred times and it goes
up like one. It is maybe up two notches. And
the noise that you hear voices is the voice is

(56:43):
very lightly coming out of the speakers that are down
by the door, because the top speakers I don't think work.
It's just the door speakers you hear, and it's like
a that's the reason why it wasn't the same frequency
on and up. It's literally the talking or light music
playing through those little speakers down below, and that's what
she was hearing. Now, we had like two hours into
this car looking for this problem that has nothing to

(57:05):
do with us. We didn't get We don't get paid
for that, but should we you guys tell me should
we have got paid for that? We did fix the problem,
which was an intake issue one hundred percent. Car ran
great after we got done with it, and it had
an intake problem, but she sweared it was still making
a noise and we didn't fix the problem. Come to
find out it is your broken stereo, which we have
nothing to do with.

Speaker 5 (57:24):
What car The customers saying that's made an hour, Like, hey, I.

Speaker 2 (57:27):
Found they never apologize. They never do. You talk about
animals in a car. I'll give you one. I know
we're running out the show and give you a quick one.
I had a lady come in and talk about we
didn't service her car right one time. She's like, it's
making a noise. It's still making the same noise. You
need to go take it for a drive, it said. Okay,
I go. I get in the car, I sit down
the car, I start the car, I go to back up,

(57:48):
and I feel what I can only express to you
is hot breath on my neck.

Speaker 7 (57:53):
Ha ha.

Speaker 2 (57:53):
And there is the biggest, meanest dog in the backseat
of this car that made no noise. Ntil I was
already in the car, sitting down in it, getting ready
to back up, and he is not happy that I'm
in the car. You want to talk about having to
go to the bathroom and clean up after yourself. This
should have been one of those situations. She never told me,

(58:15):
never said a word there was a dog in the car. Nothing.
Oh yes, sir, I sat down. I get say in
the car and I started. No noise, no bark, no nothing.
I just feel that hot, sticky breath below on my
neck as I'm getting ready to back up, and I'm like,
and I turn and there's I think it was Wattleyler

(58:35):
mixed or whatever.

Speaker 3 (58:36):
She's like, you think I got a nasty bite? You
should check out my dog.

Speaker 2 (58:39):
He is right there and he starts to do the
lift of the teeth and the I probably messed myself.
Strange things happen in the automotive world. Guys. It's not
always about somebody trying to get over on you. It's
not about laundry lists and sometimes this customer, We're just
trying to take care of you. If you don't believe me,
you can argue with me. You can tell me I'm
wrong on that note. Guy, get out of here. His

(59:01):
show has gone by quick enjoy your Saturday. Sunday is
right around the corner. Make sure that you unplug, spend
some time with your kids. Fire up the grill, do
a board game, hire their cell phones. Whatever you gotta do,
but spend some time with them. They'll love you for it. Later.
'r out of here, See you guys later.