1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:04,200 Speaker 1: Ronan Ian GM claims they're going to be all electric 2 00:00:04,240 --> 00:00:07,280 Speaker 1: by the year five, no internal combustion engines to sell, 3 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:09,880 Speaker 1: and I kind of find that hard to believe because 4 00:00:09,960 --> 00:00:11,840 Speaker 1: I don't know that we're ready for that technology. We 5 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:15,080 Speaker 1: can't fix the current technology, The Car Doctor, I just 6 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:17,040 Speaker 1: want to let you know, thanks to you, my wife 7 00:00:17,040 --> 00:00:19,279 Speaker 1: thinks I'm a bigger idiot than I am because I 8 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:21,520 Speaker 1: can just picture you falling off the stage and I 9 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:23,480 Speaker 1: was rolling on the floor laughing. When your head hit 10 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:26,840 Speaker 1: the floor, you dent the floor. No, actually I had 11 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:29,680 Speaker 1: to fix it afterwards. Welcome to the radio home of 12 00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:34,360 Speaker 1: ron Ananian, the Car Doctor. Since this is where car 13 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:38,120 Speaker 1: owners the world overturned to for their definitive opinion on 14 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:42,000 Speaker 1: automotive repair. If your mechanics giving you a busy signal, 15 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:45,400 Speaker 1: pick up the phone and call in. The garage doors 16 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:47,640 Speaker 1: are open, but I am here to take your fault 17 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:56,279 Speaker 1: at eight five and now running. You know, every time 18 00:00:56,320 --> 00:00:58,600 Speaker 1: I hear that story, it just makes me laugh. Not 19 00:00:58,680 --> 00:01:00,320 Speaker 1: so much to day. It happened when I fall off 20 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:02,960 Speaker 1: the stage, but uh, you know, it's funny the things 21 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:05,440 Speaker 1: in life that you uh you connect the dots, How 22 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:08,039 Speaker 1: did you get there? And Um, you know what what 23 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:09,800 Speaker 1: what became of this and what became of that? And 24 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:12,640 Speaker 1: it's fun too. So Tom, I enjoyed here and that 25 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:15,560 Speaker 1: Let's get on over. Honest, that wasn't the first time 26 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:18,800 Speaker 1: you were on the floor. Well, uh, you know, Tom, 27 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:23,919 Speaker 1: when you when you look at what makes up your life, 28 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:26,200 Speaker 1: and the best part about having a great life is 29 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:28,280 Speaker 1: being able to look back and seeing the components that 30 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:31,679 Speaker 1: filled it. You know, every once in a while, I 31 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:33,600 Speaker 1: think maybe I shouldn't have been a mechanic, and my 32 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:35,240 Speaker 1: wife looks at me, smacks me in the back of 33 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:38,560 Speaker 1: the head and said, are you kidding? She's you know, yeah, 34 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:40,360 Speaker 1: I said maybe I should have gone to work for somebody, 35 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:43,840 Speaker 1: And that's when I get smacked twice. Are you kidding? So, uh, 36 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:45,480 Speaker 1: you know, it's good. It's good in life when you 37 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:48,240 Speaker 1: recognize what what makes you tick. And uh, you know, 38 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:50,400 Speaker 1: falling off the stage that day in high school kind 39 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:53,280 Speaker 1: of set the stage and no pun intended, um, but 40 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:55,920 Speaker 1: just just good stuff. Just it's kind of neat that 41 00:01:55,960 --> 00:01:58,200 Speaker 1: we're able to do this. So let's do this, Tom. 42 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:01,080 Speaker 1: Let's get over and talk to Tom and wiscon waiting 43 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:03,160 Speaker 1: there very patiently, and see if we can help me 44 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:07,280 Speaker 1: here on the car doctor Tom. Welcome a board, sir. Yeah, 45 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:11,280 Speaker 1: how are you doing today? Good sir? What's going on? Um? 46 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:18,040 Speaker 1: Looking purchase uh new use super duty? And I've been 47 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:21,480 Speaker 1: looking at the little older ones with the V ten 48 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:26,280 Speaker 1: versus something in the early teens with the six two, 49 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:31,320 Speaker 1: And I don't know a lot about that six too. Um. 50 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:33,880 Speaker 1: I know a little bit of about the V tens 51 00:02:33,919 --> 00:02:37,040 Speaker 1: and the five fours and the four sixes, but that 52 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:40,320 Speaker 1: six too, I don't know anything about it. Six two 53 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:45,160 Speaker 1: gas six six two gas motor we're talking about? Yeah, yeah, okay, 54 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:47,480 Speaker 1: So how old is this? How old is this truck 55 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:52,799 Speaker 1: with the V ten? Uh? There there's multiple ones there 56 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:56,320 Speaker 1: in that oh five oh six so four area, so 57 00:02:56,639 --> 00:02:59,840 Speaker 1: naturally naturally. Part of my concern is, you know it 58 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:04,040 Speaker 1: now seventeen years old? And know five what kind of 59 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:05,839 Speaker 1: what kind of shapes the truck in? And I don't 60 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:09,640 Speaker 1: mean the outside, I mean underneath? You know, is there 61 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:12,480 Speaker 1: is there rust? Is their corrosion? You know? What are we? 62 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:15,919 Speaker 1: What are we? Yeah? I'm in Wisconsin, but I when 63 00:03:15,919 --> 00:03:19,359 Speaker 1: I'm looking at these are um in Florida or Texas 64 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:22,600 Speaker 1: or so I'm I'm going somewhere to Buyoh, and that 65 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:25,639 Speaker 1: has no rust? And then and then how many miles 66 00:03:25,639 --> 00:03:29,360 Speaker 1: are on them? Um? There were there ranged from like 67 00:03:30,040 --> 00:03:34,440 Speaker 1: one two fifty on both. And what kind of money 68 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:42,400 Speaker 1: do they want for him? Um? Seven to I mean, 69 00:03:42,440 --> 00:03:46,120 Speaker 1: I've got that big range, but I just it's a 70 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:48,520 Speaker 1: truck that I want to keep for ten twelve years, 71 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:53,040 Speaker 1: you know. But again, I don't know anything about those 72 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:57,120 Speaker 1: six twos. Um, I don't know anything about that trqu 73 00:03:57,160 --> 00:04:00,360 Speaker 1: shift transmission and the newer ones versus you know, yeah, 74 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 1: you know, it's yeah, everything breaks. I mean, it's it's 75 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:09,200 Speaker 1: that simple, Tom. You're not buying it, and you're not 76 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:11,760 Speaker 1: buying a newer vehicle. But then a newer vehicle breaks too. 77 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:14,280 Speaker 1: Why don't we try breaking it. Let's let's break it 78 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:18,120 Speaker 1: down like this. Okay, have you priced a new vehicle? 79 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:19,839 Speaker 1: And I'm not going to talk you into a new vehicle. 80 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:21,840 Speaker 1: I just want to use it on a point. Right, 81 00:04:22,279 --> 00:04:26,240 Speaker 1: have you priced? Have you so a new Oh those 82 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:31,239 Speaker 1: trucks new or seventy thousand, uh f two fifty super duty, 83 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:36,840 Speaker 1: they're big bucks. They're huge dollars. So yeah, but I 84 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:40,760 Speaker 1: don't think the gas are that high. But yeah, the 85 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:44,159 Speaker 1: the gas, the gas trucks now are over sixty grand easily, 86 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:46,600 Speaker 1: and if you put any kind of option package in it, 87 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:49,520 Speaker 1: you know, all of a sudden, you're approaching seventy. So 88 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:52,160 Speaker 1: let's call it sixty grand. Let's use sixty grands are 89 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:54,360 Speaker 1: agreed upon base price for a new truck of whatever 90 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:57,919 Speaker 1: you're gonna buy, right, sixty grand. So you want to 91 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:01,720 Speaker 1: go buy a fifteen year old, hundred fifty thousand mile 92 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:04,839 Speaker 1: vehicle and keep it another ten years. I'm just trying 93 00:05:04,839 --> 00:05:07,000 Speaker 1: to state the facts, and you're gonna pay. Let's say 94 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:11,719 Speaker 1: you pay twelve grand, okay, if you If you bring 95 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:13,760 Speaker 1: that vehicle home and the body is in good shape 96 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:15,640 Speaker 1: and the drive lines in good shape, you know, there's 97 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:19,040 Speaker 1: no major rust. Fuel lines are good, break systems, good shocks, tires, 98 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:22,240 Speaker 1: et cetera. And three months from now, a grenades a 99 00:05:22,279 --> 00:05:25,480 Speaker 1: motor whatever. The engine is a six to uh, a 100 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 1: five four V ten whatever, and it's it's eight grand 101 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:34,560 Speaker 1: to put a motor in that truck. Do you care? Right? Well, 102 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:37,520 Speaker 1: you're gonna have to, right because now you're only into 103 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:42,640 Speaker 1: the truck for twenty right, And if when that if 104 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:46,479 Speaker 1: when that engine grenades, it's now you're looking at the 105 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:48,839 Speaker 1: trans and it's another five grand to stick a trans 106 00:05:48,839 --> 00:05:53,160 Speaker 1: in it. Right now you're into this truck. Now you're 107 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:58,400 Speaker 1: into this truck. For truck's a whole twenty five is 108 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:01,440 Speaker 1: a whole lot further away. I mean, it's just a 109 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:03,880 Speaker 1: whole lot away from sixty or seventy, right, So it's 110 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:08,719 Speaker 1: still cheaper. So so that being said, we've got to 111 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:11,080 Speaker 1: look at this as we know we're gonna spend money. 112 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:15,599 Speaker 1: The question is how much or how little? So to me, 113 00:06:16,360 --> 00:06:18,919 Speaker 1: I'm when I'm talking about this kind of mileage, I 114 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:22,160 Speaker 1: want to see service records, i want to see condition. 115 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:25,200 Speaker 1: I'd like to know how it was driven. I want 116 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:27,719 Speaker 1: to pull the oil dip stick, how cleans the engine 117 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:29,680 Speaker 1: oil dipstick? The guy can tell me he did oil 118 00:06:29,760 --> 00:06:32,520 Speaker 1: changes every five or three thousand miles, whatever the number is. 119 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:34,920 Speaker 1: But if the oil stick looks like sludge and it's 120 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:39,920 Speaker 1: all yellow paste, who cares? Right, if the transmission has 121 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:46,840 Speaker 1: a dipstick, you know what colors the trans fluid? Because right, 122 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:49,279 Speaker 1: you know, because not all of them do some of 123 00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:52,080 Speaker 1: them do, some of them don't. Does the air conditioning work? 124 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:56,240 Speaker 1: You know, it's not it's not the worst idea, but 125 00:06:56,320 --> 00:06:59,080 Speaker 1: you've got to approach this with the idea that you've 126 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:02,680 Speaker 1: got to play wood if all right, what if the 127 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:05,599 Speaker 1: engine failed? Are you is it still cheap enough? And 128 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:07,760 Speaker 1: you know what, take the one you want to buy. 129 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:12,000 Speaker 1: Call your local Ford dealer, you know, Main Street Forward, 130 00:07:12,040 --> 00:07:13,960 Speaker 1: whatever it is in Wisconsin, and say, hey, I've got 131 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:16,960 Speaker 1: alve f to fifty super duty with a V ten. 132 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:19,840 Speaker 1: It needs an engine. Can you price me an engine? 133 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:24,200 Speaker 1: And if they tell you, well, g Tom, we don't 134 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:26,920 Speaker 1: make that engine anymore, it's obsolete, well that kind of 135 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:29,320 Speaker 1: tells you don't want to V ten And I'm not 136 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:32,120 Speaker 1: saying it is, but because the other thing you have 137 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:34,960 Speaker 1: to consider is you're buying a fifteen to seventeen year 138 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:39,840 Speaker 1: old vehicle. Depending upon what you end up with, fifteen 139 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:44,400 Speaker 1: to seventeen years old parts are gonna be part part obsolescence. 140 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:46,760 Speaker 1: Things you have to buy from Ford is going to 141 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:49,600 Speaker 1: get to be an issue. Oh yeah, I've seen that 142 00:07:49,640 --> 00:07:54,680 Speaker 1: already with right ninety nine. So you know, does it 143 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:58,760 Speaker 1: pay for you to buy a two thousand twelve Now 144 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:02,600 Speaker 1: it's only nine years old, and now maybe you could 145 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:05,600 Speaker 1: drive that ten years and you've got less of issues 146 00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:10,559 Speaker 1: with parts obsolescence, So you don't see anything any issues 147 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:13,440 Speaker 1: with that six to it all or that transmission. UM 148 00:08:13,480 --> 00:08:15,960 Speaker 1: I've seen issues with all of them. Listen five four 149 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:19,040 Speaker 1: v ten six too. You know, if it if it 150 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:21,480 Speaker 1: if it's, if it's if it's got a gas engine 151 00:08:21,480 --> 00:08:24,239 Speaker 1: and wheels, it's a problem. It doesn't matter the brand 152 00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:27,520 Speaker 1: or the make. UM four trucks as a rule, pretty 153 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:30,880 Speaker 1: solid vehicle. That's not the issue. The issue has got 154 00:08:30,880 --> 00:08:33,520 Speaker 1: to be mindset, and you've got to look at cleanliness, 155 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:38,240 Speaker 1: and you've got to look at overall condition, so you 156 00:08:38,280 --> 00:08:42,679 Speaker 1: know it's it's got to be a case of condition 157 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:48,720 Speaker 1: will dictate price, age will dictate availability, and parts availability 158 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:51,000 Speaker 1: will dictate whether or not you buy this, because you 159 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:54,480 Speaker 1: could be buying the next guy's headache. By the time 160 00:08:54,559 --> 00:08:58,280 Speaker 1: any truck's got a hundred and sixty thousand miles on it, 161 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:00,400 Speaker 1: it's usually been road hard, put away a wet and 162 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:03,560 Speaker 1: it's beat all right, And it's one step from if 163 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:05,040 Speaker 1: it was a horse. We'd send it to that we 164 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:07,720 Speaker 1: we we send it out to pasture. So be careful 165 00:09:07,760 --> 00:09:11,280 Speaker 1: of what you're buying. I appreciate what you're trying to do, 166 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:14,480 Speaker 1: but it could be costly. You might be better off 167 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:18,400 Speaker 1: buying something a little newer with less mileage. Parts are 168 00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:22,320 Speaker 1: more readily available, and you know what, it'll be easier 169 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:25,400 Speaker 1: to track service records on a shorter vehicle, on a 170 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:28,480 Speaker 1: nine year old vehicle, and perhaps a fifteen to seventeen 171 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:31,280 Speaker 1: year old vehicle. Food for thought. I wish you well, Tomp, 172 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:33,360 Speaker 1: good luck. I'm Ron any in the car doctor. We'll 173 00:09:33,400 --> 00:09:45,480 Speaker 1: be back right after this. That's right. If you call 174 00:09:45,559 --> 00:09:47,800 Speaker 1: and we're not live, you can leave a message and 175 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:49,440 Speaker 1: we'll call you back to get you on the air 176 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:55,240 Speaker 1: with ron Zo nine zero zero. Speaking of Ron here 177 00:09:55,240 --> 00:09:57,160 Speaker 1: he is. Hey, let's get over and talk to Derek 178 00:09:57,200 --> 00:10:00,320 Speaker 1: in Illinois thirteen Mini Cooper. Derek, Welcome aboard, sir, Canna 179 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:04,600 Speaker 1: help ron How you doing today? What's going on? Um? 180 00:10:04,679 --> 00:10:08,400 Speaker 1: Just a quick question? You know, I bought a Mini 181 00:10:08,440 --> 00:10:12,600 Speaker 1: Cooper and maybe in let's say, and it was the 182 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:17,240 Speaker 1: first car I bought that the oil consumption that I 183 00:10:17,280 --> 00:10:19,960 Speaker 1: was told by the dealer should be a quart per 184 00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:24,480 Speaker 1: thousand miles, you know, I mean, And then then we 185 00:10:24,559 --> 00:10:29,679 Speaker 1: bought a sixteen hun Day and they told me that 186 00:10:29,720 --> 00:10:32,880 Speaker 1: I should be putting in a quart per thousand miles. 187 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:36,280 Speaker 1: And they're all real squirrely about it when you talk 188 00:10:36,400 --> 00:10:40,240 Speaker 1: to him, nobody really gives you this straight answer. Um. 189 00:10:40,280 --> 00:10:42,280 Speaker 1: You know, one of my first cars was a seventy 190 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:45,720 Speaker 1: nine Cutlass with a six cylinder, and I carried around 191 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:49,240 Speaker 1: a case of oil in that car because that car 192 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:53,240 Speaker 1: went through oil. Um. I thought there was a period 193 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:56,720 Speaker 1: about like thirty years right where you didn't have to 194 00:10:56,760 --> 00:10:59,400 Speaker 1: do this, and it seemingly like now you're having to 195 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:01,840 Speaker 1: do it again. And I'm just trying to get some 196 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:05,679 Speaker 1: light shed on that. And that's and that seventy nine 197 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:10,120 Speaker 1: Cutlass was a much cheaper car, right in comparison, right, Yeah, 198 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:17,600 Speaker 1: it was by my parents. But yeah, yeah, I'm I'm 199 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:21,880 Speaker 1: really amazed, Derek at the oil consumption thing because it 200 00:11:21,920 --> 00:11:26,000 Speaker 1: just gets worse every year. And you know, if I 201 00:11:26,040 --> 00:11:28,120 Speaker 1: was a conspiracy theory guy, I would tell you that 202 00:11:28,160 --> 00:11:30,560 Speaker 1: they're out to get us. But it doesn't. It just 203 00:11:30,640 --> 00:11:32,800 Speaker 1: a lot of it doesn't make a lot of sense 204 00:11:32,840 --> 00:11:36,520 Speaker 1: to me, and I blame you know. Some of this 205 00:11:36,760 --> 00:11:40,000 Speaker 1: is functionality and fits. Some of this is nobody's services 206 00:11:40,040 --> 00:11:41,600 Speaker 1: the car. You know a lot of people don't service 207 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:46,240 Speaker 1: the car properly. They're using incorrect oil, incorrect viscosity, incorrect 208 00:11:46,520 --> 00:11:50,959 Speaker 1: spec oil. But We've got to assume the dealer as 209 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:53,559 Speaker 1: well as other repair shops, you know, where the majority 210 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:56,440 Speaker 1: do use correct oil correct spect You know, not all 211 00:11:56,480 --> 00:11:59,200 Speaker 1: ten thirties or five thirties or five twenties are the 212 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:03,400 Speaker 1: same Summer act for Forward product, Chrystler product, Honda, Toyota, Honda, 213 00:12:03,520 --> 00:12:08,640 Speaker 1: Hyundai Mini, et cetera. So you know, oil correctness has 214 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:12,080 Speaker 1: got to be mentioned somewhere along the way. I think 215 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:16,000 Speaker 1: the biggest reason we see oil consumption on a lot 216 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:20,000 Speaker 1: of vehicles today is the manufacturers, and I blame them 217 00:12:20,040 --> 00:12:24,040 Speaker 1: for this. Had extended the oil drain intervals so long 218 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:28,600 Speaker 1: and so far out that they created issues with um. 219 00:12:28,760 --> 00:12:33,600 Speaker 1: The piston rings themselves, sludge piston rings, gasoline direct injection 220 00:12:33,679 --> 00:12:38,920 Speaker 1: systems creating carbon, and rings on pistons were starting to 221 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:41,640 Speaker 1: they don't float as as well as they once did, 222 00:12:41,679 --> 00:12:45,080 Speaker 1: and they create a consumption problem. You know, it's it's 223 00:12:45,160 --> 00:12:47,920 Speaker 1: documented we see g d I engines that have oil 224 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:51,840 Speaker 1: consumption issues because in the old days, uh, you know, 225 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:54,640 Speaker 1: it used to be the injector sprayed at the back 226 00:12:54,640 --> 00:12:57,680 Speaker 1: of the valve, which prevented carbon from forming on the valve, 227 00:12:57,720 --> 00:13:00,320 Speaker 1: which put fuel in the cylinder and had better usin. 228 00:13:00,440 --> 00:13:03,400 Speaker 1: Now we've got g d I words going into the 229 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:06,839 Speaker 1: cylinder bypassing the valve, carbon forms on the intake valve 230 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:10,120 Speaker 1: um carbon, you know, the fuel comes into the into 231 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:14,559 Speaker 1: the engine itself. Um, it's hitting the piston top. They're 232 00:13:14,679 --> 00:13:17,840 Speaker 1: having issues with carbon deposits forming as a result because 233 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:19,480 Speaker 1: of the design of the g d I and lack 234 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:21,760 Speaker 1: of service to a PCV system. And then you get 235 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:25,120 Speaker 1: into oil inconsistencies. I mean, all of these things build 236 00:13:25,160 --> 00:13:29,400 Speaker 1: into that. Why do we have oil consumption? But we're 237 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:32,640 Speaker 1: worried about emissions, right, We're worried about the environment. We're 238 00:13:32,640 --> 00:13:35,280 Speaker 1: worried about you know, clean air, the Green New Deal 239 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:38,040 Speaker 1: and everything else. They're trying to you know, push upon 240 00:13:38,120 --> 00:13:41,680 Speaker 1: us that a lot of it makes no sense. And 241 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:44,160 Speaker 1: trust me, I'm not I'm not trying to get political here. 242 00:13:44,679 --> 00:13:47,280 Speaker 1: Um yeah, I understand. And all this oil just gets 243 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:51,480 Speaker 1: burned either in the engine or through the click catalytic converters. Right, 244 00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:53,440 Speaker 1: And that's where I was going, because now all this 245 00:13:53,520 --> 00:13:55,560 Speaker 1: oil goes through the engine, it gets burned out through 246 00:13:55,559 --> 00:13:58,200 Speaker 1: the catalytic converters. So the thing that we designed, you know, 247 00:13:58,240 --> 00:14:02,120 Speaker 1: catalytic converters. In my mind probably the number one revolutionary 248 00:14:02,440 --> 00:14:05,880 Speaker 1: emission control device in the last fifty years that helped 249 00:14:05,880 --> 00:14:08,480 Speaker 1: reduce emissions. And now we're clogging it and forcing it 250 00:14:08,520 --> 00:14:11,480 Speaker 1: to eat oil. So consequently, what happens now the car 251 00:14:11,559 --> 00:14:13,520 Speaker 1: goes through a cat sooner, So now the car needs 252 00:14:13,520 --> 00:14:15,559 Speaker 1: a cat, a cat, you know, a real cat and 253 00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:19,560 Speaker 1: manufacturer's cat anywhere from eight hundreds the three thousand dollars, 254 00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:22,480 Speaker 1: depending upon the vehicle. You know, some of the higher 255 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:25,880 Speaker 1: line luxury European cars will have four cats and there 256 00:14:25,920 --> 00:14:30,840 Speaker 1: could be two thousand dollars apiece. Hello, um, uh, is 257 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:34,200 Speaker 1: there anything? Is there anything besides using spec oil? You know, 258 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:37,720 Speaker 1: like in the Mini Cooper, I'm using Mini Cooper oil 259 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:41,400 Speaker 1: or the BMW oil that they suspect, you know, Um, 260 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:45,280 Speaker 1: and I have forever, I mean, and I'm still burning oil. Um, 261 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:49,800 Speaker 1: is there anything else to look other than other than 262 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:51,960 Speaker 1: if there's any bulletins? And I know there's a few 263 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:55,360 Speaker 1: that talk about because the other issue is and a 264 00:14:55,360 --> 00:14:58,600 Speaker 1: lot of the manufacturers had issues with you know, they 265 00:14:58,640 --> 00:15:00,480 Speaker 1: also wanted to go and this is the other part 266 00:15:00,520 --> 00:15:02,840 Speaker 1: of the equation. A lot of the manufacturers went to 267 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:07,840 Speaker 1: a lower tension piston ring, a lower tension oil control ring, 268 00:15:07,920 --> 00:15:10,720 Speaker 1: a lower tension piston ring the amount of drag that 269 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:13,880 Speaker 1: the ring has on the cylinder wall. So now you 270 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:19,280 Speaker 1: combine that low tension ring with poor oil control or 271 00:15:19,320 --> 00:15:23,240 Speaker 1: poor spect oil or poor poor oil train drain interval 272 00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:27,200 Speaker 1: a g d I engine that might be creating carbon deposits. 273 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:29,680 Speaker 1: And I'm not saying they're all like this. Now, all 274 00:15:29,680 --> 00:15:32,280 Speaker 1: of a sudden, you've got rings that it doesn't take. 275 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:34,800 Speaker 1: You know, It's sort of like you ever have a 276 00:15:34,880 --> 00:15:38,800 Speaker 1: spider build a web across your barbecue where it won't 277 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:40,640 Speaker 1: flow gas and you can't figure out why it won't 278 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:42,760 Speaker 1: flow through a spider web, but you can blow through it. 279 00:15:43,560 --> 00:15:46,400 Speaker 1: You know. It's just that little bit of drag that 280 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:48,960 Speaker 1: creates the problem that all of a sudden, now you 281 00:15:48,960 --> 00:15:51,600 Speaker 1: don't get the ring doing what it's supposed to do. 282 00:15:52,720 --> 00:15:55,240 Speaker 1: Um you ever? You ever here? I mean, I can't 283 00:15:55,280 --> 00:15:57,000 Speaker 1: tell you how many times I hear the story. Somebody 284 00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:59,760 Speaker 1: goes to the airport, parks there Honda for a week. 285 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:03,520 Speaker 1: They come back and the car doesn't start because a 286 00:16:03,560 --> 00:16:05,920 Speaker 1: lot of the Hondas have low tension rings. The rings 287 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:08,640 Speaker 1: take a set in one position, it sits for a week. 288 00:16:08,840 --> 00:16:11,440 Speaker 1: Things are are bound up they go to start it, 289 00:16:11,520 --> 00:16:14,360 Speaker 1: it cranks over like it's got no compression. They bring 290 00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:16,920 Speaker 1: it to the shop, will either put something in the 291 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:18,920 Speaker 1: cylinder to unstick the ring, or we'll let us sit 292 00:16:18,920 --> 00:16:21,080 Speaker 1: inside the shop where it's warm overnight. Come back in 293 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:23,480 Speaker 1: the next morning. The car starts fine, and they never 294 00:16:23,520 --> 00:16:27,160 Speaker 1: have the problem again. Right, Well, you know, all in 295 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:31,400 Speaker 1: the interest of I don't know, maybe I'll create a riot, 296 00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:33,120 Speaker 1: and they'll say, maybe, all in the interest of getting 297 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:35,640 Speaker 1: us disgusted with gas engines, so we all accept the 298 00:16:35,640 --> 00:16:37,960 Speaker 1: electric cars. Um. Now, I don't want to. I don't 299 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:39,760 Speaker 1: want to say that. That would be too political. People 300 00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:43,400 Speaker 1: would yell at me. Um. But you know, you wonder, 301 00:16:43,440 --> 00:16:46,080 Speaker 1: are we shooting ourselves in the foot on purpose? And 302 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:51,400 Speaker 1: it's yeah, well, you know, I did the math on it, 303 00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:54,120 Speaker 1: and it comes out to over a hundred thousand miles. 304 00:16:54,120 --> 00:16:57,040 Speaker 1: It's roughly a hundred and fifty gallons of oil that 305 00:16:57,080 --> 00:17:00,160 Speaker 1: are getting burned. Um, if you're truly burned in a 306 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:03,680 Speaker 1: court for thousands. So you know, I'll guess I'll just 307 00:17:03,880 --> 00:17:06,480 Speaker 1: stick the couple of quartz oils in the trunk and 308 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:10,760 Speaker 1: check it at you know, every other fill up. But but, but, 309 00:17:10,760 --> 00:17:12,800 Speaker 1: but the catch is you know, Derek, and I'll leave 310 00:17:12,840 --> 00:17:17,320 Speaker 1: it here is it's accepted. We just accept that. We 311 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:23,160 Speaker 1: go okay, you know, okay, you know, I the newer 312 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:27,200 Speaker 1: cars are just you know, listen, one of these days 313 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:29,400 Speaker 1: I'm gonna have a political show and talk about politics 314 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:32,919 Speaker 1: and auto repair. So and uh, you know, probably my 315 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:36,040 Speaker 1: last broadcast. They'll probably ban me from the airways. But 316 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:38,920 Speaker 1: believe me, there's a lot of politics in the automobile. 317 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:40,800 Speaker 1: And you guys only see the tip of it. Well 318 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:42,359 Speaker 1: I think you see more than the tip of it. 319 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:46,119 Speaker 1: But the consequences are yet to be seen. So, um, 320 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:48,960 Speaker 1: you know, from the service back and tell you that, uh, 321 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:52,520 Speaker 1: it's it's it's long term in terms of the damage 322 00:17:52,520 --> 00:17:54,679 Speaker 1: that I think it's doing or will do to the 323 00:17:54,960 --> 00:17:57,840 Speaker 1: to the industry itself. So I appreciate the call, Derek, 324 00:17:57,920 --> 00:18:00,800 Speaker 1: I really do. Um, you know, and I feel for you. 325 00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:02,280 Speaker 1: I know what you're going through. Yeah, a lot of 326 00:18:02,280 --> 00:18:05,119 Speaker 1: it doesn't make any sense, It really doesn't. Um. You know, 327 00:18:05,160 --> 00:18:07,000 Speaker 1: you look at the technology, you look at the changes. 328 00:18:07,040 --> 00:18:09,480 Speaker 1: I mean, some of the simplest things today just make 329 00:18:09,560 --> 00:18:11,679 Speaker 1: no sense when it comes to the automobile. Up on 330 00:18:11,720 --> 00:18:15,320 Speaker 1: the Facebook page, Carston writes in Hey, who's the moron 331 00:18:15,440 --> 00:18:17,560 Speaker 1: that designed Toyota's oil filters? And I know what he's 332 00:18:17,560 --> 00:18:19,960 Speaker 1: talking about. He's got a seventeen camera and he's trying 333 00:18:19,960 --> 00:18:21,600 Speaker 1: to get the oil filter off it. Who made it 334 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:24,600 Speaker 1: so hard? You know? Carston? I don't know, but I 335 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:27,280 Speaker 1: bet you that guy has an oil change facility that 336 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:29,080 Speaker 1: he was just trying to drive all the business towards 337 00:18:29,080 --> 00:18:31,600 Speaker 1: his place. And it makes you wonder something so simple 338 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:34,760 Speaker 1: now so complicated. I'm runing adian the car doctor. I'm 339 00:18:34,800 --> 00:19:05,879 Speaker 1: back right after this. Why your service? Jeff in Wisconsin? Jeff, 340 00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:09,560 Speaker 1: welcome a board, sir. How can I help? Hey? Uh, 341 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:11,600 Speaker 1: I listened to your show all the time, and I 342 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:13,960 Speaker 1: think it was probably last week's show by the time 343 00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:17,239 Speaker 1: our radio station all here plays it that you had 344 00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:20,520 Speaker 1: a gentleman called in that had a twenty nineteen showing 345 00:19:20,560 --> 00:19:25,439 Speaker 1: me pickup truck that had a vibration in it. And um, 346 00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:29,359 Speaker 1: I work for a specially truck manufacturer here, and I 347 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:32,920 Speaker 1: work in the new product development, test and development area, 348 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:35,880 Speaker 1: and when we have a problem truck and nobody else 349 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:38,840 Speaker 1: can solve it, it it gets drunk back here and we've 350 00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:42,480 Speaker 1: got to put instrumentation on the thing. And in order 351 00:19:42,520 --> 00:19:45,119 Speaker 1: to solve a lot of these issues, you may have 352 00:19:45,280 --> 00:19:49,719 Speaker 1: to get GM and I know you've said this before, 353 00:19:49,920 --> 00:19:52,879 Speaker 1: kick screen, whatever you need to do to get some 354 00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:56,320 Speaker 1: support from the factory. Um I know. We usually have 355 00:19:56,440 --> 00:19:59,800 Speaker 1: to put like anywhere from three to five three actual 356 00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:05,600 Speaker 1: accelerometers on components to actually isolate which circuits the vibration 357 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:11,960 Speaker 1: is coming from. Interesting, Who's who's the specialty truck Jeff, 358 00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:18,720 Speaker 1: who's the specialty truck manufacturer you work for? A little hesitant? Oh, 359 00:20:18,760 --> 00:20:21,160 Speaker 1: come on, I used you know, I used to listen. 360 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:23,399 Speaker 1: I'll share with you. I used to I cut my 361 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:28,600 Speaker 1: teeth forty years ago working on Hessan Eisenhardt on Brewster Stageway. 362 00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:31,879 Speaker 1: Um uh, A lot of the a lot of the 363 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:37,040 Speaker 1: RVs that came out of Illinois, you know. That's that's 364 00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:39,400 Speaker 1: sort of how I you know, when things were slow, 365 00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:41,879 Speaker 1: that was the work I did, you know, back in 366 00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:44,800 Speaker 1: the day. So I'm always interested to hear what specialty 367 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:50,080 Speaker 1: truck manufacturer somebody's working for. Is it a national firm? Well, 368 00:20:50,119 --> 00:20:54,120 Speaker 1: I worked for Pierce Manufacturing and we build fire apparatus 369 00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:58,199 Speaker 1: and which is the get the division of Ostas Truck Corporation, 370 00:20:58,359 --> 00:21:02,760 Speaker 1: which is big in the defense and whatnot. Right cool, So, uh, 371 00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:08,240 Speaker 1: you know, our trucks are pretty complicated with the drive 372 00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:11,040 Speaker 1: through water pumps and t t O s and whatnot. 373 00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:16,639 Speaker 1: We we've seen trucks vibrate from a PTO and it 374 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:19,800 Speaker 1: doesn't seem like that p PO should have enough mass 375 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:23,920 Speaker 1: or inertia to like this truck up. But sometimes they 376 00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:26,640 Speaker 1: do well. And I'll and I'll tell you, I hope 377 00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:29,000 Speaker 1: the gentleman and I appreciate the call, Jeff, I really do. 378 00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:31,920 Speaker 1: I hope the gentleman that uh called in last week. 379 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:34,679 Speaker 1: I believe it was Delaware or Maryland. My my parting 380 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:37,919 Speaker 1: comment to him was, you know, go back to the 381 00:21:37,960 --> 00:21:40,480 Speaker 1: dealer and asked to drive another nineteen, and if the 382 00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:43,639 Speaker 1: next nineteen is the same as his, then maybe what 383 00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:45,760 Speaker 1: he's experiencing is common. I don't think it is. I 384 00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:47,320 Speaker 1: think he's got a problem with that. And I'm waiting 385 00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:50,200 Speaker 1: to hear back from him, hoping he calls in, um, 386 00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:52,640 Speaker 1: you know, just just out of curiosity, because I think 387 00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:56,439 Speaker 1: that uh uh, you know, I've got a nineteen and 388 00:21:56,480 --> 00:22:00,480 Speaker 1: my truck is dead smooth from zero to five miles 389 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:03,200 Speaker 1: an hour. I don't have any issue with it. Um, 390 00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:06,760 Speaker 1: you know, so, but um. In any event, Jeff, yesterday, 391 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:11,159 Speaker 1: you're gonna say, yeah, Now, we work with a really 392 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:14,199 Speaker 1: good drive shaft company up here in our neck of 393 00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:17,600 Speaker 1: the woods, and they do a lot of work for 394 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:21,399 Speaker 1: for dealers, uh, sort of on the quiet here, and 395 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:25,000 Speaker 1: they say, this guy that sort of runs this drive 396 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:28,680 Speaker 1: shaft department, he said, when these dealers get these long 397 00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:32,080 Speaker 1: wheel based pickup trucks that have a vibration, one of 398 00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:34,680 Speaker 1: the first things they do to them is they'll take 399 00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:37,080 Speaker 1: the drive shafts out of them. They'll bring them in 400 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:40,639 Speaker 1: and they'll balance them. Because I know in the heavy industry, 401 00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:45,960 Speaker 1: like a data aspect on a say a yoke for example, 402 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:50,960 Speaker 1: is I think like twelve or fourteen thousands, um run out. Now, 403 00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:54,359 Speaker 1: we've had problems in this drive shaft companies back his 404 00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:59,479 Speaker 1: four thousands. We've seen problems with four thousands runouts. So 405 00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:02,719 Speaker 1: just be because it's new doesn't mean it's not causing 406 00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:06,600 Speaker 1: your problem or whatnot. Oh. Sure. As a matter of fact, 407 00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:09,080 Speaker 1: I've got to tell you universal joints and drive chefts, 408 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:11,760 Speaker 1: and we'll leave it here, Jeff, is universal joints and 409 00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:14,359 Speaker 1: drive shafts. It's to the point now where if a 410 00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:17,600 Speaker 1: vehicle needs a you joint. I don't think because the 411 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:21,520 Speaker 1: tolerances are so tight, I don't think a repair shop 412 00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:24,679 Speaker 1: is doing the customer service by changing just the joint. 413 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:26,960 Speaker 1: I think the proper way to do with you joint 414 00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:30,520 Speaker 1: is change the joint and have the shaft balanced and 415 00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:32,480 Speaker 1: check for straight or just send it out to the 416 00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:36,040 Speaker 1: drive shaft shop and let them do it, because the 417 00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:40,320 Speaker 1: tolerance for the chafts to run straight and true is, 418 00:23:40,359 --> 00:23:43,520 Speaker 1: as you say, getting so much tighter. Jeff. I appreciated 419 00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:46,719 Speaker 1: the call. I enjoyed the chat. Bob and Yonkers, New York. Yes, 420 00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:51,960 Speaker 1: sir Bob, how can I help a good Well? We spoke? 421 00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:54,880 Speaker 1: We should go. My son in law has a two 422 00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:58,280 Speaker 1: thousand seven Chevy trail Blazer and it's fun differential, will 423 00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:06,600 Speaker 1: have it gone out on him. Okay, okay, go ahead, Bob, Bob, 424 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:09,920 Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. Let's pull over, take a pause 425 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:12,680 Speaker 1: and maybe Tom can find Bob again. I'm running any 426 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:14,479 Speaker 1: of the car Doctor. We'll be back right after this. 427 00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:29,640 Speaker 1: Welcome back the car Doctor at eight five five five 428 00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:32,640 Speaker 1: six zero nine zero zero. I understand Bob from Yonkers 429 00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:36,680 Speaker 1: is back. Bob. You're there, sir, Yeah, Ron I'm here. Ahead, 430 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:40,040 Speaker 1: give me that question against sir good. Yeah, Ron, we 431 00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:42,800 Speaker 1: spoke several weeks ago. My son in law has a 432 00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:49,640 Speaker 1: two thousand seven Chevy Trailblazers. It's a rare trailblazer. There's 433 00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:53,160 Speaker 1: something about that vehicle that made it rare. Correct, right, 434 00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:56,360 Speaker 1: that's correct. And anyway, his front to French went out 435 00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:59,240 Speaker 1: on him. And this is the differential where the axles 436 00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:03,080 Speaker 1: go through the drive through the oil pan and well, 437 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:06,199 Speaker 1: to make a long story short, we've been unable to 438 00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:10,720 Speaker 1: locate a differential. So UM, I've been on Facebook. There's 439 00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:13,160 Speaker 1: a trailblaze the group over there and a lot of 440 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:18,600 Speaker 1: the other owners of trailblazes. I recommended UH to change 441 00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:22,120 Speaker 1: the transfer case and convert the vehicle into a real 442 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:25,160 Speaker 1: real drive by putting a four wheel drive transfer case 443 00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:28,760 Speaker 1: in and lock it in two wheel drive to real only. 444 00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:31,800 Speaker 1: So I was wondering what your opinion is of doing 445 00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:34,560 Speaker 1: such a modification. Who have you called trying to find 446 00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:40,080 Speaker 1: a differential? Um? There was a group that you had 447 00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:44,240 Speaker 1: told me about. I can't think of a name, um Jasper, 448 00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:48,000 Speaker 1: but they didn't have anything in stock. It's is it 449 00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:49,919 Speaker 1: that they don't have anything in stock or is it 450 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:53,879 Speaker 1: that they don't build the unit. Um, I'm not sure, 451 00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:56,000 Speaker 1: but they didn't have one available at the time when 452 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:59,159 Speaker 1: I made the call. Um, there are a lot of available, 453 00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:01,800 Speaker 1: you know at Junkyards, but we didn't want to put 454 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:05,000 Speaker 1: it in you know, another used part. So we were 455 00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:07,960 Speaker 1: thinking of, uh, you know, going to modifying to a 456 00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:11,200 Speaker 1: rear wheel drive by just changing the transfer case. Well 457 00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:13,000 Speaker 1: for the price of what it's gonna caust you to 458 00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:15,439 Speaker 1: modify and make that a rear wheel drive, which I 459 00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:18,680 Speaker 1: kind of don't like the idea, Bob, just because there's 460 00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:21,159 Speaker 1: something about this truck that makes it rare. I forget 461 00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:22,919 Speaker 1: what it was this a V eight or this is 462 00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:27,080 Speaker 1: an SS version or this yes, that's version with the 463 00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:31,040 Speaker 1: Corvett engine. Right, yeah, okay, so there's some value here. 464 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:35,720 Speaker 1: So you know what about this? Would Jasper rebuild a 465 00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:39,840 Speaker 1: differential if you sent it to them? Could you buy it? 466 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:44,440 Speaker 1: Could you buy a Junkyard unit and send it out 467 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:47,560 Speaker 1: to Jasper and let them go through it? Right, I 468 00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:50,480 Speaker 1: guess I could. I could you know, ask them about that. 469 00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:54,080 Speaker 1: It's an option, you know, or Um, I'm trying to 470 00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:56,160 Speaker 1: think of who else I know that those drive line 471 00:26:56,200 --> 00:26:59,440 Speaker 1: work to that capacity. Uh. The problem is a lot 472 00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:02,840 Speaker 1: of rebuild. There's a remanufacturers are gone now there's there's 473 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:04,360 Speaker 1: not a lot out there. You know what. Let's put 474 00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:07,600 Speaker 1: it out to the listenership. If anybody can help Bob, 475 00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:10,359 Speaker 1: if they dropped me a note ron at Car Doctor 476 00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:12,000 Speaker 1: Show dot com, if they give us a qual at 477 00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:16,399 Speaker 1: eight five zero zero, we're looking for a front differential 478 00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:20,000 Speaker 1: for an OH seven Trailblazer, is it, Bob, that's correct? 479 00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:25,520 Speaker 1: All wheel drives SS model right. Um, we're looking for 480 00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:29,520 Speaker 1: something along the way of a reman or a rebuilt unit. Uh. 481 00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:31,520 Speaker 1: You know who's out there, and let's let's see what 482 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:33,920 Speaker 1: comes up. Let's give it a couple of weeks. Bobby, 483 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:38,639 Speaker 1: all right, sir, sounds good. You'll be well. You're very welcome, 484 00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:42,360 Speaker 1: You'll be well. Take care, You're welcome. Bye bye. Let's uh, 485 00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:45,640 Speaker 1: let's go on over to Uh. Is that van alle 486 00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:50,800 Speaker 1: Am I saying that right in Maine? Yeah? Tom, I 487 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:53,239 Speaker 1: have to get I have to get Tom to type better. So, 488 00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:56,639 Speaker 1: but how can I help you today? Vinyl? I have 489 00:27:56,760 --> 00:28:03,240 Speaker 1: ayta venger. I've experience seeing maintenance lights coming on all 490 00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:10,080 Speaker 1: of them, everything including vs C, A B S. Take 491 00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:12,400 Speaker 1: it to a dealer right away. Have it looked at 492 00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:15,439 Speaker 1: and this has been going on for a couple of 493 00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:21,159 Speaker 1: years now, and yesterday I had it into the shop. 494 00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:26,119 Speaker 1: They pulled all kinds of codes here, But at the 495 00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:27,919 Speaker 1: end of all of it, they said that they couldn't 496 00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:31,080 Speaker 1: tell me what was going on, and that I'd have 497 00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:37,440 Speaker 1: to just keep driving it until something more substantial happened, 498 00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:39,120 Speaker 1: or bring it in and leave it and let them 499 00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:42,320 Speaker 1: drive it and see if they could make it duplicate 500 00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:45,960 Speaker 1: the problem we were any were any of the fault 501 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:51,640 Speaker 1: codes related to communications issues? Well, I've got the I've 502 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:54,920 Speaker 1: got the service arder right here? Are there any? Are 503 00:28:54,920 --> 00:29:02,400 Speaker 1: there any U codes? All kinds of them U codes? Okay, 504 00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:06,920 Speaker 1: so let me explain. Do you want me to give 505 00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:10,000 Speaker 1: your son? Now? Listen, let's let's have a general conversation. 506 00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:16,360 Speaker 1: So are you fault code is a communication fault? All right? 507 00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:20,800 Speaker 1: It means that it means that the data bus um 508 00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:22,960 Speaker 1: trying to think. How many phones do you have in 509 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:29,400 Speaker 1: your house? Yeah? Uh? Okay. Do you remember the days 510 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:31,120 Speaker 1: where if you left one phone off the hook, the 511 00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:33,040 Speaker 1: rest of the phones wouldn't work, They wouldn't talk to 512 00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:40,280 Speaker 1: each other. Okay, So I can, um, I I can, 513 00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:41,920 Speaker 1: I can recall that you know, if if you have 514 00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:43,960 Speaker 1: one phone that's giving a problem, that will pull down 515 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:45,840 Speaker 1: the rest of the phones in the house. Or if 516 00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:48,040 Speaker 1: you have one bad computer, it pulls down the rest 517 00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:50,800 Speaker 1: of the computers on the office network. Same thing in 518 00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:53,800 Speaker 1: the car. The reason you've got dashlights, the reason the 519 00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:57,760 Speaker 1: spiometer stops working, the reason you're having a radic operation 520 00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:03,120 Speaker 1: is somebody is dropping out. Somebody on the line isn't communicating. 521 00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:06,120 Speaker 1: So let's go back. Has the car ever been in 522 00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:12,160 Speaker 1: an accident? Okay? Do you have INSI? Okay, so you're 523 00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:17,200 Speaker 1: the second owner, all right, So that's something they've got 524 00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:20,240 Speaker 1: to look at. Could this car possibly have an accident 525 00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:25,400 Speaker 1: repair that was done three years ago? And now the 526 00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:29,600 Speaker 1: wiring harness, you know, now the wiring harness is creating 527 00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:32,400 Speaker 1: an issue that's pulling it down. Could we have a 528 00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:37,600 Speaker 1: ground connection problem? That's number one? Number two? You know, 529 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:41,280 Speaker 1: what have they done? Do they catch it? When they 530 00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:43,520 Speaker 1: catch it in the act? Is everything working? So this 531 00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:49,080 Speaker 1: is a momentary glitch. Everything is working when I take 532 00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:55,600 Speaker 1: it in, so so this is a momentary occurrence. Okay, 533 00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:59,440 Speaker 1: does does the Toyota dealership have any record of that 534 00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:02,400 Speaker 1: vehicle being serviced by another Toyota dealer. You know, maybe 535 00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:04,800 Speaker 1: on lift the cars out of the area, that perhaps 536 00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:07,440 Speaker 1: this was a reoccurring problem long term, And now you 537 00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:10,120 Speaker 1: know why the person got rid of it. And I'm 538 00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:13,800 Speaker 1: not saying that solves your problem. The previous owner, I believe, 539 00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:18,600 Speaker 1: was an employee at this dealership in Brewing, Maine. And 540 00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:21,800 Speaker 1: it only had I think about fourteen thousand miles on 541 00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:25,440 Speaker 1: it when I bought it in, so it was a 542 00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:31,600 Speaker 1: salesman's vehicle probably. Okay, Well, but you got the idea. 543 00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:34,760 Speaker 1: She was an employee. So what's wrong with letting them 544 00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:39,120 Speaker 1: drive it? Vinyl not a thing? So why don't we 545 00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:42,840 Speaker 1: give him a week? Okay? Because they are dealing it 546 00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:45,959 Speaker 1: is a difficult It is a difficult repair, all right. 547 00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:50,680 Speaker 1: Communication faults are not are not simple and easy. They're 548 00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:53,880 Speaker 1: trying to pick the proverbial needle out of the haystack. 549 00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:57,520 Speaker 1: And there's there's two things that they said that they 550 00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:00,640 Speaker 1: checked yesterday and that they told me before I even 551 00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:04,120 Speaker 1: committed the shop. They were very emphatic about this that 552 00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:11,000 Speaker 1: more than likely mice aitudes partly i'm a lot is 553 00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:17,320 Speaker 1: aitude wires or they had been some water intrusion well, 554 00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:22,280 Speaker 1: when they get done yesterday, they said they they found 555 00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:27,560 Speaker 1: none of that apparent and what they looked at yesterday. 556 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:30,160 Speaker 1: So I think I think you've got to give him 557 00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:31,640 Speaker 1: a crack at it. I think you got to give 558 00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:33,440 Speaker 1: him a week. And you might have to give them too, 559 00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:37,360 Speaker 1: because what they're looking for is a roverbial needle in 560 00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:39,640 Speaker 1: the haystack. You could read me all fault codes that 561 00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:41,120 Speaker 1: you have there, and I'm sure you've got more than 562 00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:46,200 Speaker 1: a few. But the problem becomes that you know until 563 00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:49,200 Speaker 1: you catch it in the act. Go and plug a 564 00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:51,760 Speaker 1: computer on a on a on a seventeen computer network 565 00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:54,280 Speaker 1: and watch all the faults that occur. That's the best 566 00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:56,880 Speaker 1: example I can give you. I say you got to 567 00:32:56,880 --> 00:32:59,480 Speaker 1: give them some diagnostic time and let them sort their 568 00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:01,920 Speaker 1: way through it, because they can't do and fix something 569 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:04,560 Speaker 1: like that on a weight basis. Let me know what happens. 570 00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:06,600 Speaker 1: Good luck. I'm Ronady in the car Doctor. I'll be 571 00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:14,960 Speaker 1: back right after this. Welcome back the car Doctor. Let's 572 00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:16,680 Speaker 1: real quick. Go to Seawan show and I got about 573 00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:19,560 Speaker 1: a minute and a half. Brother, what's going on? Okay, 574 00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:23,120 Speaker 1: just quickly run. I think this uh edict debt, the 575 00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:26,880 Speaker 1: GM is going to go to all electric in their 576 00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:31,200 Speaker 1: car line. I think it's just personally it's hogwash, uh, 577 00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:36,080 Speaker 1: And just simply because I'm in northern Minnesota right now, 578 00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:39,000 Speaker 1: and if I want to go from International Falls, and 579 00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:41,920 Speaker 1: right now we're up to what eleven degrees below zero 580 00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:44,160 Speaker 1: with a thirty three miles an hour wind show, I 581 00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:46,560 Speaker 1: want to go to International Falls to the southern part 582 00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:49,640 Speaker 1: of the state. If I look at the shifty volt 583 00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:51,680 Speaker 1: which I just did a little while ago, there's up 584 00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:54,760 Speaker 1: to two hundred thirty eight miles of travel distance this 585 00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:57,800 Speaker 1: kind of weather. I don't know if you get a 586 00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:00,760 Speaker 1: how am I going to go from a northern part 587 00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:02,880 Speaker 1: of the state to the southern part of the state. 588 00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:08,160 Speaker 1: I don't see this ever happening or fifteen years ago. 589 00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:10,920 Speaker 1: If you want to go from New Jersey out to California, 590 00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:13,560 Speaker 1: maybe you've got a four mile range on that battery, 591 00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:16,439 Speaker 1: maybe don't very much, but how many times you're gonna 592 00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:18,879 Speaker 1: have to stop along the way to go from New 593 00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:22,200 Speaker 1: Jersey out to California can twelve? And where are you 594 00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:25,200 Speaker 1: going to charge these vehicles up? Are well? And you 595 00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:28,200 Speaker 1: know we're gonna charge the vehicles and what's the safety factory? 596 00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:30,600 Speaker 1: You know? I just came back from Pittsburgh, New Jersey, 597 00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:32,640 Speaker 1: to Pittsburgh and my my wife and I were out 598 00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:35,239 Speaker 1: of the Pennsylvania Turnpike ten o'clock on a Saturday night. 599 00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:40,960 Speaker 1: It's dark, it's cold, it's lonely brother, all right? Uh, 600 00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:44,239 Speaker 1: you know, and if if you have an issue with 601 00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:48,480 Speaker 1: that electric vehicle just getting a charge, where is that 602 00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:51,520 Speaker 1: going to happen? Here? Let me lay at a simpler scenario. 603 00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:53,200 Speaker 1: And I know everybody's gonna say, well, we'll have the 604 00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:56,120 Speaker 1: technology in fifteen years. Yeah, I know we're supposed to 605 00:34:56,160 --> 00:34:58,440 Speaker 1: be on Mars by one. That was the last thing 606 00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:02,200 Speaker 1: I heard back in the back, you know, twenty years ago. Right. Um, 607 00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:04,600 Speaker 1: what if you're in New Jersey, simple thing, You're in 608 00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:10,120 Speaker 1: the Lincoln Tunnel. Have you ever been through the Lincoln Tunnel? Sewan? Okay, 609 00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:13,600 Speaker 1: the Lincoln Tunnel. G they have this thing called traffic, 610 00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:16,880 Speaker 1: all right. And if you ever have the thrill of 611 00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:18,880 Speaker 1: sitting in the Lincoln Tunnel trying to get into New 612 00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:21,359 Speaker 1: York City for two hours and you have to turn 613 00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:24,080 Speaker 1: the air conditioning on because otherwise you'll just you'll just 614 00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:27,759 Speaker 1: you'll die, I'll suffocate. And it's hot, and you've got 615 00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:29,839 Speaker 1: an elderly person with you, and you've got to run 616 00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:33,120 Speaker 1: the air conditioning, and your electric vehicle now has forty 617 00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:36,240 Speaker 1: five minutes of juice left, but you're stuck for two hours. 618 00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:38,759 Speaker 1: What are you gonna do? Then? Are they gonna run 619 00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:42,000 Speaker 1: extension cords down the tunnel to plug into everybody? Makes 620 00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:44,759 Speaker 1: no sense? Wait to be seen, yet to be seen. 621 00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:47,160 Speaker 1: Appreciate the call. I'm running any of the card, doctor 622 00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:48,920 Speaker 1: reminey of this time, each time, every time, for a 623 00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:52,799 Speaker 1: great time. Good mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. See you. 624 00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:03,560 Speaker 1: She was star super bo