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today I want to give you essential

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vocabulary and conversation skills for

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speaking about something which is

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dangerous a black hole for your money

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and something that I can't live without

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nope it's not a typical British pub it

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is a car hia welcome to a new episode of

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super easy English maybe you're

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interested in talking about cars maybe

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you've broken down in the UK and need to

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speak to a mechanic or engineer about

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your car hopefully not or maybe you're

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so let's start at the most important

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part of the car the business end and

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underneath this Bonnet we

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have the most important and essential

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part of a working car your engine it's

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important to wear gloves one because

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it's super dirty at this end and two

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because you look a little bit like you

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know what you're talking about when

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you're wearing these gloves so here is

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the engine as I said the most essential

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part of the car over here is the engine

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coolant when you're going on long

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distances your engine will heat up a lot

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over time so you also need to make sure

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that this is at a good level to keep

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your engine

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cool here is where you can add your

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engine oil to keep everything nice and

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lubricated you can check your level of

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engine oil

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using the dipstick some of the things

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you will need to do this especially if

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you need to top it up is engine

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oil you will also need a

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funnel and a cloth because things will

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get extra

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dirty I take out the

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dipstick give it a little

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clean and make it back

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in

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here it's nearly empty ooo I best top it

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up soon

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but not now because I'm feeling lazy the

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other things I just remembered are

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here is fluid for the windscreen wipers

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which are here and here and this

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water comes out from these two

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guys hello out there let's clean these

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dirty windows

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good job nice

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and nice and

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clean okay now let's talk about the

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lights for the car here are your

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headlights for the car which work at

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various different levels of intensity

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when you first turn on your modern car

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you have daytime running lights and when

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it's in the dark and you flip your

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switch you have your normal beams when

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you cannot see anything and nobody is

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coming towards you you could turn on

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these your full beams and here are your

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indicators for indicating if you wish to

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go right or left and down below here are

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your fog lights for when when things get

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really dicey and you have to maneuver

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around fog and Mist there

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driver's side of the car the first thing

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I would do when I get in the car is put

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on my seat

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belt click then I insert the car key

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into the

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ignition before we start the car let's

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look at all the vocabulary we have at

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the front part of the car we have the

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steering wheel we have the gear

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stick the

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handbrake

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whoops and we have the

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pedals on the far right side we have the

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accelerator on the far left we have the

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clutch for changing gears in the middle

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we have the brake now this whole section

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of the car is known as the dashboard at

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the front of my dashboard I have three

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gauges the one on the left side is known

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as the rev counter the one in the middle

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is the speedometer the digital one on

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the right tells me certain information

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such as how far I've driven in total

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the temperature outside how long I until

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I must get a service at the garage it

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also tells me how long until I need to

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fill up the petrol tank other things we

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have we have the air blowers we have the

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emergency signal

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light we have this display which is very

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basic down here we have the options for

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the air blowers we have the position

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positions and next to that we have the

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AC or air conditioning button after that

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we have the intensity of the air blowers

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and then next to that one we have the

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temperature from cold to warm on this

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side we have parking assist which gives

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you an indicator sound when you're

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getting too close and the parking

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sensors sense something is

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nearby next to that we have some kind of

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traction control for if you want to

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drive like a

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complete we also have a

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storage box here inside there we have

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things like disinfectant from Corona

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times we

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have tissue and toilet

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paper just in case we also have dog poo

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bags for Nola or maybe for

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me and then we

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have what is

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this a map of Lewis with all the pubs

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and museums let's check out the

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passenger

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side okay in the passenger side we also

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have many things that the dri side has

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for instance seat belts Window Control

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rols but other things which the driver

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doesn't have we have the glove

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box as you can imagine this is named

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because people would usually store their

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driving gloves in this section but in

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here we have more evidence of

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Corona and a relic from the 20th century

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other things I didn't mention are the

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sun visors with a mirror so you always

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look

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pretty the

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lighting and this Center armrest where

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you can store all kinds of

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other let's talk about the things along

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the side panels of the car first and

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most

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obvious are your doors

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the second thing is a small indicator

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light to tell people that you are

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signaling to turn left you have your

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wing mirrors you have

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your door handle and you have electric

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windows

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ooh this one is manual

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though let's also not forget that down

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here we have our our

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Wheels okay here is your car wheel this

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is our front car wheel and on the front

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car wheel we have our brakes you have

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the wheel itself and you have your

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rubber tire these will need to be

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replaced if you're driving in the UK

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because we have really

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roads and finally let let's check around

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the back of the

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car okay welcome to what we call the

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Boot of the car this is the actual

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boot for storage we also have a

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windscreen wiper we have the fluid the

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windscreen wiper fluid that comes from

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here we also have the lights we have

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brake lights for when you are breaking

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we have an indicator light for signaling

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to turn left and finally these lights

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are the reversing lights to tell people

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that you are reversing and going

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backwards let's see what things I've not

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tidied in the boot of the car that I can

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show

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you okay here we have the parcel

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shelf let's remove this to unveil the

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mess okay we have

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ooh we have a battery charger for when

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your car runs out of battery this is

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important we

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have shopping from our most recent trip

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to the home wear store this is not

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important we have a big bag

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of engine

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oil glood help we have glass wipes for

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the windows because Nola likes to lick

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the windows Showroom

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Shine cleans shines and protects all in

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one without

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water upholstery shampoo for when Nola

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mixer seats dirty or I eat too much

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disgusting food and make a

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mess oh we have a lug nut key and you

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attach this to the lug nuts this is what

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you'll need for when you're driving on

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our dangerous UK roads and you blow your

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tire you must attach these to the lug

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nuts and take them off so that you can

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change the tire over

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and another thing you'll need to do this

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is a

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jack you make this under your

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car and you slowly twist

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this lever to lift up your car so you

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can change the broken

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Tire we've done this many times

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typically what happens is you break down

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not when it's nice bright and sunny but

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when it's cold dark and raining it's

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important to prepare yourself for when

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you do break down so we've

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packed a

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hoodie oh this is my old jumper

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actually a

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blanket and a hoodie it's also very

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useful when you break down to

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have a high VI jacket or high visibility

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jacket a Jerry can for topping up on

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extra fuel just in

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case we also

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have this thing for breaking down you

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must make this

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triangle something like

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100

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m away from your car so people are

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prepared to see you and look out for you

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when you're stranded in the middle of

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the road we also have a first aid kit

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for making DIY surgeries in the car but

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no there are plasters there are

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bandages all things we hopefully don't

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need okay that is the back of our car my

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fingers are freezing and I can't feel my

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ears now at the back of the car usually

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you would have your passengers but this

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is

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where Nola

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sits okay Nola should we go for a drive

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yeah okay let's

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go thanks for watching this week's

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episode let us know in the comments

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you'd like us to cover next in our slow

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easy English series and as always we'll

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see you next time SRA

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