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Speaker 1: Ron Andanian, what did you do in the fifties and

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Speaker 1: the sixties. You built muscle cars, you build hot rods.

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Speaker 1: It began in the late forties and then after World

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Speaker 1: War Two, and that contributed to it also. You know,

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Speaker 1: that was where a lot of performance packages, a lot

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Speaker 1: of the guys were maintaining. The bombers came back trying

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Speaker 1: Car Doctor, if it does, what that tells me is

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Speaker 1: I don't want to tell you this. You're gonna get upset.

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Speaker 1: It's in the trans Yeah, what I know, say I

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Speaker 1: could tell Welcome to the radio home of Ron Andanian,

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Speaker 1: the Car Doctor. Since this is where car own there's

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Speaker 1: the world overturn to for their definitive opinion on automotive repair.

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Speaker 1: If your mechanics giving you a busy signal, pick up

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Speaker 1: the phone and call in. The garage doors are open.

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Speaker 1: But I am here to take your calls at eight

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Speaker 1: five five five six and now. But it was no

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Speaker 1: Mikhail running. Hey, it's time to start your insance along

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Speaker 1: and welcome morning the Car Doctor here at eight five

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Speaker 1: five five zero zero, here to take your calls, answer

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Speaker 1: your question, solve your problems. That's what this radio show

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Speaker 1: is all about. I have proof, and I'm gonna talk

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Speaker 1: about it in this in this first segment, that this

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Speaker 1: radio show needs to exist just for this very very reason.

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Speaker 1: More information about this radio show too, I should point

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Speaker 1: out at Car Doctor show dot com and we welcome

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Speaker 1: a few more affiliates across America today, and we're glad

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Speaker 1: to have you guys with us, and thanks for being

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Speaker 1: part of the growing car Doctor family, the rocketing car

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Speaker 1: Doctor family. It's uh so I pretty soon be able

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Speaker 1: to afford to um. I don't know lunch, oh, we

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Speaker 1: already do lunch, so, but will afford dinner too? Um.

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Speaker 1: But the fund continues. Proof the radio show needs to exist.

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Speaker 1: And I thought of it like this because I didn't

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Speaker 1: know any other way to explain it to my kids,

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Speaker 1: of all people. Okay, the little is the Nanian unit.

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Speaker 1: She's out in Pittsburgh this weekend and she's she's having

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Speaker 1: Rachel's telling her, no, you know it's it's it's got

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Speaker 1: to be synthetic. Put synthetic in the car. Four escape.

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Speaker 1: I think. And you know, Dad always says synthetic. And

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Speaker 1: They're just not gonna get it. And you just listen,

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Speaker 1: And I explained it to Rachel afterwards because she called

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Speaker 1: So there's three kinds of oil, all right. There's conventional,

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Speaker 1: which has been around since they found dinosaurs. There's synthetic blend,

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Speaker 1: which actually came from my knowledge and memory. Synthetic blend

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Speaker 1: and then synthetic blend. Synthetic is a man made molecularly

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Speaker 1: It's here to answer those simple direct questions. And if

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Speaker 1: keep up on raining tom First of all, whatever happened

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Speaker 1: was convinced it was probably needed a new key, a

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00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:45,520
Speaker 1: new ignition switch, or the keys reprograms, and he and

429
00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:48,080
Speaker 1: he had not set up to do that. So he

430
00:22:48,119 --> 00:22:50,600
Speaker 1: recommended I bring it down there. Yeah, all right, Well

431
00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:52,320
Speaker 1: you gotta what now, you gotta wait because now that

432
00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:54,120
Speaker 1: I think the dealers on the right path, I think

433
00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:56,640
Speaker 1: he's got the right approach to it. From what you're

434
00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:58,920
Speaker 1: describing to any part to them this morning, they didn't

435
00:22:58,920 --> 00:23:01,560
Speaker 1: mention that he one of the modules had a memory.

436
00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:04,719
Speaker 1: I wonder why that is. Well, I don't know. I

437
00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:06,560
Speaker 1: wasn't the one talking to him, but I you know,

438
00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:08,680
Speaker 1: did they did they at least scan for codes? I'm

439
00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:11,800
Speaker 1: sure they did. Oh yeah, they went through the whole

440
00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:14,840
Speaker 1: right area and they just couldn't get nothing right. Well,

441
00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:18,200
Speaker 1: and you know what, sometimes if as if a module

442
00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:21,239
Speaker 1: is bad, sometimes it won't hold memory. But sometimes if

443
00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:24,120
Speaker 1: it does, it will so but at least if they're

444
00:23:24,119 --> 00:23:26,840
Speaker 1: scanning it for codes, that's at least the starting point.

445
00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:29,199
Speaker 1: You gotta wait, kiddo. There's nothing more you can do.

446
00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:30,760
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to give them some time and let

447
00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:32,960
Speaker 1: them do what they have to do. They're on the

448
00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:34,840
Speaker 1: right path. But don't be surprised that they come back

449
00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:36,960
Speaker 1: and they tell you that this is a BCM, a

450
00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:40,240
Speaker 1: body computer, very common fault on those vehicles that will

451
00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:44,040
Speaker 1: require replacement and reflashing. And um, that's what it's going

452
00:23:44,119 --> 00:23:45,800
Speaker 1: to take to fix it. So good luck to you.

453
00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:47,560
Speaker 1: Keep me, keep me in mind, call me next week,

454
00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:50,000
Speaker 1: let me know what ends up fixing this. Steven and

455
00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:53,399
Speaker 1: San Diego thirteen Ford Explorer waiting. They're very patiently. Steven,

456
00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:54,719
Speaker 1: how can I help you? Sir, you're not with the car.

457
00:23:54,800 --> 00:24:00,320
Speaker 1: Doctor h sir. This Ford Explorer Sport I've had since

458
00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:03,439
Speaker 1: new and it's always been serviced at the four dealer.

459
00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:07,680
Speaker 1: But I've been having problems with this PTU power transfer unit.

460
00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:11,320
Speaker 1: Um it's got too hard, the oil has gone bad,

461
00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:15,359
Speaker 1: and it's lunched itself. I replaced it. The dealer wanted

462
00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:17,000
Speaker 1: too much money to do that, so I did it

463
00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:20,720
Speaker 1: myself and it wasn't much fun. But it's on there.

464
00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:23,639
Speaker 1: It's working good. However, in the process of doing that,

465
00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:26,280
Speaker 1: I seem to have broken the steering lock and I

466
00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:29,560
Speaker 1: don't even I can't even find where it is or

467
00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:32,800
Speaker 1: how I may have damaged it and what to do about. Well,

468
00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:36,080
Speaker 1: when you when you, when you did the PTU, Stephen,

469
00:24:38,119 --> 00:24:41,840
Speaker 1: you took out the steering rack. You I'm trying to

470
00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:43,359
Speaker 1: think of how you got from one end of the

471
00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:45,760
Speaker 1: car or the other sort of speak. I didn't take

472
00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:48,320
Speaker 1: out the steering rack. I never touched the steering Anything

473
00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:50,960
Speaker 1: I did is I took off the passenger side wheel,

474
00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:53,760
Speaker 1: including the upright in the drive shaft, to pull that

475
00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:56,879
Speaker 1: out the transfer case so I could switch out. And

476
00:24:56,920 --> 00:24:59,280
Speaker 1: that's the only time I touched the steering, well, the steering,

477
00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:01,960
Speaker 1: the steering, the lock mechanism from what I recall, is

478
00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:04,720
Speaker 1: in the top part of the column, right, it's all

479
00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:07,879
Speaker 1: done up there. Now, it's possible that something's not broken.

480
00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:11,000
Speaker 1: It's possible that this is usually solenoid driven in the

481
00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:15,560
Speaker 1: solenoid is just not being actuated because maybe the solenoid stuck,

482
00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:18,480
Speaker 1: maybe the soloid doesn't have proper signal. But you did

483
00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:22,280
Speaker 1: a very mechanical repair. And I'm trying to think of

484
00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:24,720
Speaker 1: how you got to the point that how what you

485
00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:27,480
Speaker 1: did would affect the pt would would would affect the

486
00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:30,080
Speaker 1: steering wheel lock. It's just a it's just a little

487
00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:32,919
Speaker 1: lock finger that comes out and snags a notch in

488
00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:36,159
Speaker 1: the in the column so it doesn't rotate. Um, And

489
00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:39,520
Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken on A thirteen, have you looked

490
00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:47,000
Speaker 1: have you pulled down the knee bolster and looked there wheel? Yeah, now, um,

491
00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:48,560
Speaker 1: take a look at that. If you can get your

492
00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:51,359
Speaker 1: hands on some service information that will help you, obviously.

493
00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:54,480
Speaker 1: But I sort of recall there's a why do I

494
00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:57,800
Speaker 1: think there's a ring plate, there's a there's a lock

495
00:25:57,880 --> 00:25:59,879
Speaker 1: plate there, and there's just a lock mechanism that it

496
00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:02,720
Speaker 1: has to latch into. But again, I don't see where

497
00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:04,640
Speaker 1: it's connected to what you did. I think it's more

498
00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:08,119
Speaker 1: coincidence than anything else. Not it thought that when I

499
00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:10,440
Speaker 1: the keys weren't in the car when I was doing

500
00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:13,600
Speaker 1: the work underneath. But I was pulling the stairing rack.

501
00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:17,200
Speaker 1: When I was wrestling off the wheel and the hub,

502
00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:20,359
Speaker 1: I was pulling stairing rack. And I'm thinking back and yeah,

503
00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:22,760
Speaker 1: that shouldn't have moved. It should have been locked in

504
00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:27,640
Speaker 1: without the keys in maignition. Well let's let's let's back

505
00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:29,399
Speaker 1: up into this a different way. If you've got the

506
00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:34,600
Speaker 1: keys out of the ignition, now does the steering column lock? No? Okay,

507
00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:36,879
Speaker 1: how do you know the column wasn't broken before you

508
00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:39,760
Speaker 1: did the PTU. It's a it's a possibility. It's not

509
00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:41,840
Speaker 1: my car, it's my wife's child. I hardly ever drive

510
00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:45,200
Speaker 1: it right, That's what I'm thinking. Okay, I'm thinking it

511
00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:48,119
Speaker 1: was broken beforehand, and you just happened to Welcome to

512
00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:50,919
Speaker 1: the world of order repair, my friend. You know this

513
00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:53,080
Speaker 1: is why you know what people don't understand. This is

514
00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:55,760
Speaker 1: why we wrote test everything. We wrote, test everything before

515
00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:59,000
Speaker 1: and after the repair. We make notes, um even go

516
00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:01,320
Speaker 1: so far as to take cures because we're never quite sure,

517
00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:03,359
Speaker 1: you know, with the chip in the glass before we

518
00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:05,440
Speaker 1: worked on it, after we worked on it, when did

519
00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:07,080
Speaker 1: the A B S light come on? And that type

520
00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:10,840
Speaker 1: of thing. So um, But you know, if you need

521
00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:13,119
Speaker 1: to run at car doctor show dot com, take my

522
00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:16,679
Speaker 1: email and if you send me the seventeen digit fin

523
00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:19,000
Speaker 1: if you can't find a picture of where this is at,

524
00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:21,040
Speaker 1: I'll do some digging when I get back to work

525
00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:22,760
Speaker 1: on Monday, and I'll see what I come up with,

526
00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:25,440
Speaker 1: and I'll shoot you much much appreciate it. I'll take

527
00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:27,080
Speaker 1: a look where you said. Now I know where it

528
00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:28,879
Speaker 1: is and how it works. I'll have a play with it.

529
00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:33,040
Speaker 1: But maybe I didn't break it. Yeah, maybe you didn't

530
00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:34,719
Speaker 1: break it. But you can't tell your wife. Listen, how

531
00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:37,400
Speaker 1: come you didn't notice that the story wheel? You can't

532
00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:39,359
Speaker 1: do that, man, I'm telling you right now. It's just

533
00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:42,280
Speaker 1: you know, you gotta go, honey. You know it's because

534
00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:43,720
Speaker 1: trust me, it'll be well. And you know what she's

535
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:47,040
Speaker 1: gonna tell you. That's what I have you for, all right,

536
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:49,880
Speaker 1: It's that's why she's got you. You're the mechanic, remember that.

537
00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:53,080
Speaker 1: So alright, alright, sir, thank you very much. You're very

538
00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:56,119
Speaker 1: welcome and enjoy the rest of the weekend. Zero nine.

539
00:27:56,760 --> 00:27:58,639
Speaker 1: Well you can't, Mike, he I mean, you just can't.

540
00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:01,359
Speaker 1: You know, honey, you broke your car. I didn't break

541
00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:03,240
Speaker 1: the car. The car is a piece of junk, and

542
00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:04,960
Speaker 1: then you end up buying a new car for them.

543
00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:09,080
Speaker 1: That's the way it works. Zo zero. The car doctors

544
00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:19,000
Speaker 1: coming back right after this. Hey, welcome back. When don't

545
00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:20,399
Speaker 1: in the car docu, let's go over. It's off to

546
00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:24,600
Speaker 1: Rebecca in Minnesota, Western Minnesota, which I guess is different

547
00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:27,119
Speaker 1: than Eastern Minnesota. But she's in Minnesota. Rebecca, how can

548
00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:31,240
Speaker 1: I help you? Well, I need a car that doesn't exist.

549
00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:34,600
Speaker 1: And my sister in law, who's a big fan, tells me,

550
00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:36,080
Speaker 1: and by the way, thank you for the call. I

551
00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:39,560
Speaker 1: feel very honored. She says, you probably no better than

552
00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:41,840
Speaker 1: I do, whether or not the car exists. Okay, what

553
00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:46,000
Speaker 1: are we looking for. We're looking for a Jeep Liberty

554
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:51,080
Speaker 1: with a backup camera and UH lane change warnings. Of course,

555
00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:53,840
Speaker 1: they stopped making the Jeep Liberty about half a dozen

556
00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:56,720
Speaker 1: years ago, and I haven't been able to find anything

557
00:28:56,920 --> 00:29:01,239
Speaker 1: with that kind of ground clearance. That's the most importan point. Uh,

558
00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:03,560
Speaker 1: that kind of front seats, that kind of back seats,

559
00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:07,640
Speaker 1: that kind of uh inside storage, that's at a reasonable

560
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:10,560
Speaker 1: price and doesn't use too much gas. Um. I have

561
00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:15,240
Speaker 1: to cope in Western Minnesota basically with UH snow drifts,

562
00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:22,320
Speaker 1: icy conditions, and uh white out things like that. My

563
00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:26,320
Speaker 1: car buying for the past several years is consisted of

564
00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:29,320
Speaker 1: saving up and then buying used sedan with front wheel

565
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:32,360
Speaker 1: drive and no more than thirty thousand miles on it,

566
00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:34,760
Speaker 1: and within five years I'll run it up to one

567
00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:37,120
Speaker 1: fifty and then I want to be done because I've

568
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:40,800
Speaker 1: got to have reliability driving those conditions. But man, would

569
00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:43,480
Speaker 1: I like a car with better ground clearance And it

570
00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:46,320
Speaker 1: seems like they're just not making them with as much

571
00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:50,240
Speaker 1: ground clearance as a Jeep Liberty since the Jeep Liberties. Yeah,

572
00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:54,000
Speaker 1: the Jeep Liberties are gone what nine years now if

573
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:58,760
Speaker 1: I'm thinking right, quite, Yeah, they've gone a while. Uh

574
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:01,719
Speaker 1: and like an avalanche is closed. But they don't make

575
00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:05,720
Speaker 1: those either. Pickup won't do it because I don't have

576
00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:08,840
Speaker 1: the driving skills with a pickup. They're not usually front

577
00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:11,840
Speaker 1: will drive there all will drive, or four wheel which

578
00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:15,120
Speaker 1: is not my thing. And they're expensive, and they're gas guzzlers.

579
00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:18,560
Speaker 1: That's not going to meet my western Minnesota snowy blowy

580
00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:21,800
Speaker 1: prairie needs well. And you know, to the point you're

581
00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:24,640
Speaker 1: actually you're really doing it right because you're trying to

582
00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:26,880
Speaker 1: find a vehicle that you fit in, that you're comfortable in,

583
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:30,120
Speaker 1: you know, And that's and and that's just so important

584
00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:31,720
Speaker 1: because a lot of people rush out to buy the

585
00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:33,480
Speaker 1: car and then you know, two weeks later to decide

586
00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:35,000
Speaker 1: this isn't the right car for me, and then that's

587
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:37,800
Speaker 1: a whole that's a whole different problem. So he's just

588
00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:41,080
Speaker 1: making a lot of cute cars these days, but most

589
00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:43,840
Speaker 1: of them don't have the safety feature. They think it's

590
00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:45,800
Speaker 1: for off roading, so they don't give it the backup

591
00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:48,600
Speaker 1: cam or the blind spot, got to have those. Well,

592
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:51,880
Speaker 1: they're wondering, you know, I've looked at the Honda CRV

593
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:54,840
Speaker 1: in the Toyota four Runner. They're just not quite tall enough.

594
00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:57,000
Speaker 1: Is there anything out there? Or am I going to

595
00:30:57,080 --> 00:30:59,360
Speaker 1: have to wait until they start making something again. The

596
00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:01,560
Speaker 1: only thing I can think of, and I say this

597
00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:03,240
Speaker 1: all the time, I like the car. I don't know

598
00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:05,560
Speaker 1: if it has the ground clearance but I know it has.

599
00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:08,040
Speaker 1: I know it has the blind spot mirrors, and I

600
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:10,160
Speaker 1: know it has the backup cam. Is the Ford escape

601
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:11,680
Speaker 1: if you look at that? Or is that just too

602
00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:17,520
Speaker 1: small for you? Um, it's the ground clearance issue because

603
00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:22,280
Speaker 1: in addition to you know, driving through prairie roads, I

604
00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:25,040
Speaker 1: want to be able to drive onto my local lake

605
00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:27,880
Speaker 1: which gets buckles and heaves, so you've got to have

606
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:30,000
Speaker 1: the ground clearance to get over that. Some of the

607
00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:33,560
Speaker 1: roads I have to drive on are not paved, so

608
00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:36,360
Speaker 1: the ground clearance is really an issue. There. Are you

609
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:40,920
Speaker 1: sure you don't want just a Jeep Wrangler awfully big,

610
00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:44,440
Speaker 1: awfully expensive, And maybe I'll just say for a few

611
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:49,000
Speaker 1: more years and wind up getting that because they are attractive.

612
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 1: But I'm trying to remember, does the Wrangler half both

613
00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:54,160
Speaker 1: the backup cam and the blind spot warnings? I'm not

614
00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:56,960
Speaker 1: sure about the blind spot warnings, but the backup cam

615
00:31:57,040 --> 00:31:59,240
Speaker 1: can be installed in just about any vehicle today, so

616
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:01,280
Speaker 1: if it's not fact three, it can be installed as

617
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:06,920
Speaker 1: an add on. Yeah, that's a fair question. I would

618
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:10,800
Speaker 1: have to say likely, only because it seems like we

619
00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:13,400
Speaker 1: can do anything nowadays. We can we can add anything

620
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:16,840
Speaker 1: we want to a vehicle, any any decent aftermarket manufacturer.

621
00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:19,440
Speaker 1: Maybe the way to approach this is pick a vehicle

622
00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:22,880
Speaker 1: you like and then then go Google search. Can I

623
00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:26,320
Speaker 1: add blinds? Backup cameras? No brainer that you can. You

624
00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:28,120
Speaker 1: can go to crutch Field dot com and look up

625
00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:30,479
Speaker 1: we're backup cameras just about any vehicle and they'll tell

626
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:32,760
Speaker 1: you what they have what they don't have. But as

627
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 1: far as a blind spot, safety mirrors, I'm sure that

628
00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:37,400
Speaker 1: can be added. That's a matter of searching out on

629
00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:39,600
Speaker 1: the net and finding that they make it for whatever

630
00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:42,080
Speaker 1: vehicle you eventually settle on. The Other thing to keep

631
00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:46,120
Speaker 1: in mind is watch what you're buying, because mechanically you're

632
00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:48,760
Speaker 1: dealing with, you know, ten twelve year old vehicles and

633
00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:51,200
Speaker 1: they're getting older every day. So perhaps you want to

634
00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:54,760
Speaker 1: try and find maybe a fourteen fifteen vehicle, Spend a

635
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:58,480
Speaker 1: little more money, get a little bit better technology, and

636
00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:00,760
Speaker 1: then you're not gonna have a parts issue, you know,

637
00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:02,760
Speaker 1: two years from now, three years from now, should you

638
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:04,600
Speaker 1: need it, let me know what you end up doing.

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Speaker 1: I know this has been going on for years, but

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Speaker 1: drove about a year, no problem, and now sometimes I

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Speaker 1: can fill it up with gas and some days I

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Speaker 1: can't put four gowns in it. Okay, how many miles

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Speaker 1: on this thing? Three? And it's kind of early. So

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Speaker 1: here's the deal, because the clock is gonna grab us.

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Speaker 1: Have your mechanic look all right, coming off the fuel

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Speaker 1: the film neck, there's gonna be what we call a

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Speaker 1: recirculation too, but it's basically a hose that runs down

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Speaker 1: the filler neck and plugs into the top of the tank.

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Speaker 1: the charcoal canister. All right, unplug both of them. Go

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Speaker 1: try and put gas in it. If it still won't

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Speaker 1: take fuel, you've now eliminated the emission system, that the

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Speaker 1: events system, and you've eliminated the research tube. All right,

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Speaker 1: You've eliminated the chance of spider webs and any other

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Speaker 1: You've now made the tank a singular tank by itself.

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Speaker 1: If the tank still doesn't take fuel, it's a tank

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Speaker 1: and it's not uncommon. They do fail, they do have

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Speaker 1: the only source for it that I'm aware of. Do

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