with us today is aaa spokesman robert sinclair. nice to see you here... >> good to see you. >> ...instead of standing on some hot roadway. >> yeah, or cold. >> or cold, depending on the season. >> indeed. >> this report -- when i said it costs money, it's no joke. the report found that an average of over $700 among new yorkers spend on their cars because the roads are in bad condition. >> right. i think the total was $781, and that's actually up from the report that they was $675, so it's getting worse. the roads are in bad shape. you hit the roads. you damage your wheels, your tires, your suspension components, rack and pinion, control arm, springs, struts, all these kind of things, and, in fact, if the road is bad enough, you might even drop the car down so it could tear up underneath the engine and the transmission -- the whole undercarriage. so, it is a very impressive -- negatively impressive -- figure that the average motorist in our area is spending this on a yearly basis in order to keep their car up to par. it's a bad situ