[speaker001:] hi my last uh auto repair was my my uh alternator went out I have a nineteen eighty six Toyota uh it's a little Tercel
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and uh I have a friend a friend whose real good with uh repairing cars so I got him to take the alternator off and take it and uh you know get a replacement part
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] we went to a uh a a place called Quality Auto Parts an and their parts are supposed to be guaranteed and and everything and they're they're uh very reasonable so uh I bought the alternator we put put it on the car and it it didn't work and it blew out all the fuses
[speaker002:] oh no
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] how much was the alternator
[speaker001:] uh I believe something like sixty nine dollars something something on that order
[speaker002:] did he did he hook up the wire wiring wrong
[speaker001:] no he hooked it up right it it was just that the the part just just didn't fit the car so I took it back and uh he he took the alternator the guy in in the parts shop took the alternator and he put it on the little thing he has in there to test them and uh he said there was nothing wrong with the alternator so we we went back and tried it again put it on again and it still didn't work and we took the car up to um a little place called Pep Boys I don't know if you have them in your area
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] but uh they're they're pretty reasonable uh car repair place also so uh took it up there towed it up there because it you know wouldn't start or anything and this thing just kept blowing out the fuses and uh took them about an an hour to um figure out what was what was blowing the fuse and it was it was the alternator that was blowing the fuse anyway ended up taking it to the Toyota dealer and the only problem was that uh it had to be a genuine Toyota uh alternator because most of the other ones that they say will fit it that that you know they sit in there and everything but there's just some little difference that um causes it not to work
[speaker002:] uh-huh they probably built that in so they could make money
[speaker001:] and I yeah yeah I guess so and that was my that was my last experience
[speaker002:] well I had a weird there's a little sensing device uh in front of my um um I'm not sure right in front of the fan fan it's a it's an air conditioner sensing device I don't know why it actually there's a metal piece that fits through the belts uh and somehow that broke off and uh I I still can't figure out how it broke and uh anyway so a this piece obviously um I have a Subaru and uh I think you can only get it through Subaru dealer etcetera so
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] uh this little sensing device costed like sixty bucks
[speaker001:] uh-huh goodness are you able
[speaker002:] and and I haven't had too many problems with my car I got a eighty eight Subaru GL XT and it uh
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] uh and then you know just basic maintenance and oil changes an I and I do not do my oil changes and I will not do my oil changes I've I think the first time I tried to do one ended up um trying to get uh you borrowed somebody else's jack and I did this and I went and bought everything so after buying the filter and all the oil you're looking at ten bucks at least or somewhere in there an
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker002:] and uh and then to go to the trouble that I figured it's easier spending eighteen bucks at Jiffy Lube
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] so that that's um you know as far as any maintenance on my car that I shy away from the oil changes that's for sure
[speaker001:] uh-huh well my car is uh it's an eighty six and I really hadn't had any any trouble with it until until that and the car now has a hundred and thirty something thousand miles on it and uh and this was just recent so I really can't complain about this one
[speaker002:] how did you put that many miles on it in
[speaker001:] um well I used
[speaker002:] four or five years
[speaker001:] I used to work uh it was a seventy mile trip everyday you know two ways was seventy miles
[speaker002:] oh a hundred and forty mile trip
[speaker001:] no it was it was just seventy miles yeah
[speaker002:] oh thirty five miles each way yeah
[speaker001:] and uh I did that for about three years and it really it really added up I've only taken uh maybe two trips that were about four hours long down uh down to Shreveport and uh the rest of it was you know it's just basically driving a long ways to work and now I drive like twenty twenty three miles each way so I'm getting a little a little uh little relief but still I drive a long ways
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] but I guess because they're highway miles you know it's not so bad on your car as as if it you know were just regular street
[speaker002:] uh-huh do you work for TI
[speaker001:] you know yes I do
[speaker002:] okay
[speaker001:] do you
[speaker002:] I was going to ask you you know as far as how we're getting compensated for what we're doing right now um I don't work for TI and I'm just I get these green I don't know what you want to call them fake
[speaker001:] points
[speaker002:] point things and uh I just wondering how I go about getting my cash
[speaker001:] uh there's a number that you call it's the same number that you that you call to make a call
[speaker002:] oh okay
[speaker001:] you you call that number and and uh somehow or another they'll give you an option to leave a message and you can leave a message
[speaker002:] okay
[speaker001:] I know someone that did that you leave a message and they'll they'll call you back
[speaker002:] okay all right well that's good to know I haven't been doing this this is the first time I've been called in a long time and I haven't been doing it so
[speaker001:] oh really
[speaker002:] and uh I've done it maybe twelve times
[speaker001:] uh-huh well I don't know if I've done it quite that much but uh mine is mixed up too I have to call and get it fixed  um uh let's see before I had this car I had a um um I bought an Audi five thousand
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] but I bought it I bought it used I I just bought it from a friend who was going to who just charged me what the dealer was going to give give him for it for a trade-in and uh it had a whole lot of miles on it I I figured maybe I'd get one or two years out of it an I an I did get a couple of good years out of it and the uh the engi ne messed up on me and then I gave it to a guy to repair who works for the automotive for the Audi dealer and uh he took the engine apart and you know he just said he couldn't fix it so the engine never got put back together again
[speaker002:] huh oh well
[speaker001:] I
[speaker002:] I was driving a sixty six Plymouth Fury
[speaker001:] wow I think those old cars
[speaker002:] yeah yep and
[speaker001:] might might be a pretty good bet because you I don't know I
[speaker002:] oh that that's when they made cars though this things was the body was in good condition and you know it ran fine it was starting to burn some oil
[speaker001:] uh-huh um
[speaker002:] and um but I had to you know get you know I after about three couple of months after I was out of college I finally splurged and bought my car so
[speaker001:] uh-huh I read a book one time that said that the best cars were made before seventy four
[speaker002:] yeah well you know these cars made in the sixties and stuff I mean the steel I mean the thickness I mean it those thing they're just the you just don't see cars like that and they last a long time and they were simple too the engines were simple and durable and
[speaker001:] uh-huh yeah
[speaker002:] some people will still buy them you know they'll
[speaker001:] yeah it's easy to it's easy I guess it's still easy to find engines for those cars engines and transmissions and if you I guess if you keep trading changing them out you can keep a car for a long time course I guess I could do the same thing with the the Toyota that I have I just don't know how much they'll charge me to
[speaker002:] it always costs so much to fix anything or do anything with it you're just better off buying another car
[speaker001:] yeah I guess so but I just think they cost too much in the in the first place now a days