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Speaker 1: Ron Andanian. That absolutely guarantee you cars are not going

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Speaker 1: I'm amazed at a body shop would release a vehicle

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the radio home of Ron Andanian the Car Doctor,

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Speaker 1: since this is where car owners the world overturned to

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Speaker 1: Ron and Any and the Car Doctor eight five five

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Speaker 1: each of you listening each and every week and being

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Speaker 1: this and being part of the Car Doctor Nation. I

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Speaker 1: think auto repairs is like a needle in a haystack.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes you're you're looking for just that, and it's always

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Speaker 1: that least little part that you think of when you've

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Speaker 1: exhausted all other solutions. It's sort of like that old saying,

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Speaker 1: it's always the last place you look for it, that's

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Speaker 1: where you find it. Auto repair is always the last

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Speaker 1: and sometimes it's very tiny. It's a very small inherent

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Speaker 1: it for granted. Your brain plays small tricks on you

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Speaker 1: happened to me twice this week. One was a two

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Speaker 1: bad air conditioning compressor. The A C compressor was bad.

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Speaker 1: It had a eighth inch gap almost almost I'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: It came back three days later and the compressor was

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Speaker 1: And the compressor was fine, there were no leaks in

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Speaker 1: the system. But I noticed that the high side service

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Speaker 1: not something I'm pretty automated in that I will sit

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Speaker 1: the valve stem. Right, the valve stem must have been leaking.

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Speaker 1: and it's caused it to happen with no rhyme or reason.

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Speaker 1: And it's always something mechanical, and it's always something high

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Speaker 1: and welcome Broughton, Ady and the car doctor here. Zero

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Speaker 1: We're gonna kick the curarage doors open right now and

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Speaker 1: to Tom again, Lacrosse, Wisconsin. A return call from last week,

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Speaker 1: the four fifty with vacuum leek, vacuum week problem yet, Tom,

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Speaker 1: what's going on this week? Well? I love your program around.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you taking my call. Thank you, sir. Here

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Speaker 1: it's not holding it at the reserve tank, that's correct.

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Speaker 1: a red trace on it, a red stripe on it,

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Speaker 1: And what what I've determined is, uh, it is definitely

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Speaker 1: But but that thing is actually allowing vacuum to suck

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Speaker 1: I didn't think to do that, but I wish I had.

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Speaker 1: I just made the assumption that I got to find

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Speaker 1: But I thought maybe this device is supposed to or something,

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Speaker 1: allow vacuum to be pulled so that the engine manifold

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Speaker 1: bleed off quickly. All right, it's either a delayer or

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Speaker 1: So when you're in that type of situation uphill under

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Speaker 1: all right. Or or it's a check valve in the

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Speaker 1: to occur inside the hoses. It's a safety device for

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Speaker 1: the system. What I would tell you to do is

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Speaker 1: eight ZF something uh dash for Apple, Bob Baker or

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Speaker 1: And I actually do have a number. It is a

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Speaker 1: P A like Paul Apple six six, and after that

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Speaker 1: But um, you know you're looking for that. If you

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Speaker 1: take that out of the system and run direct vacuum.

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Speaker 1: thank thank you very much. You're very welcome. I'm Ron

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Speaker 1: and in the card doctor eight five zero nine zero zero.

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Speaker 1: che e, Ron and Nanien. Hey, welcome back, ran the

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Speaker 1: Clyde Lewis and Idaho. Clyde, welcome back with the details

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Speaker 1: here one jet O one point eight with a surging

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Speaker 1: IDOL last week. What sort of results do we have? Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: you told me to do three things. You said, check

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Speaker 1: the holdage between pins three and four on m F

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Speaker 1: that is an all likelihood a bad mass airflow sensor.

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Speaker 1: Now you said you replaced the mass air flow, didn't you.

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Speaker 1: I No, I hadn't last week. But this week I

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Speaker 1: me the seventeen digit VIN off this car claude something.

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Speaker 1: The wiring diagram doesn't match up then, But you know

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Speaker 1: pin pin two is always one point two vault and

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Speaker 1: the two censor signal and it was okay, right, Well,

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Speaker 1: all right. It varied in the range it's supposed to. Okay.

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Speaker 1: And my notes are pretty accurate. Um, It's been a

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Speaker 1: And something's wrong with the test on your end. Maybe

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at the Bentley manual now and it shows

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Speaker 1: I checked it. Yeah that should Yeah, get me the VN.

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Speaker 1: Throttle plate is clean, yeah okay. And the throttle switch works.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah. The throttle switch is closed when uh, when

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Speaker 1: it's supposed to be when the when the throttles closed,

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Speaker 1: the switch isn't doing what it's supposed to do. Right.

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Speaker 1: As soon as you're off off, off, close throttle, the

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Speaker 1: Claude Ron at Car Doctor showed Ron at Car Doctor

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Speaker 1: show dot com. Write your results down stick him in

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Speaker 1: the email. I'll get back to you midweek. Very good.

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Speaker 1: All right, welcome hanging there. We'll fix it. No worries.

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Speaker 1: All let's get over to damn Middletown, Connecticut. Dan, what

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Speaker 1: do you got here? Can do? Yes? Sir? How can

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Speaker 1: I help? Yes, sir? Hey Danny and the car doctor.

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Speaker 1: How can I help? Oh? Um, I have a two

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Speaker 1: And then he broke down all the codes and there

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Speaker 1: engine light. Well, yeah, I'm not I'm not so much

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Speaker 1: worried about the lights the seventeen codes. Have any of

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Speaker 1: no no misfire codes. I have the descriptions of all

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Speaker 1: yeah okay, um, no communication fault codes here, Yeah, there is.

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Speaker 1: There is. There's a high speed can communication bus code

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Speaker 1: right right, there's a communication bus performance code and there's

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Speaker 1: a lost communication with body control module there it is. Yeah, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: disconnect the battery cables. Jump for them together. All right,

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Speaker 1: thirty to sixty seconds? Okay, lead everything out, make sure

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Speaker 1: then let's begin that conversation next week. What is that

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Speaker 1: Even if you left it tied together like that for

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Speaker 1: give me some codes and we'll talk about it. Then.

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Speaker 1: All right, sir, I'm runing any of the car doctor

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Speaker 1: We're back right after this. Hey, run any of the

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Speaker 1: Let's fix your problem. Let's get together and talk about it.

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Speaker 1: Let's get on over and talk about it with Gordon

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Speaker 1: down in Lakeland, Florida. Caravan Gordon welcome to the car doctor, sir,

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Speaker 1: How can I help? Hey, thank you Ron for taking

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Speaker 1: my call. Anyhow, my station is kind of odd. It

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Speaker 1: I'm just guessing. Well, there's there's, there's there's three components. Here.

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Speaker 1: There's there's the real wiper motor, there's the real wiper switch,

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Speaker 1: and then and here's the biggie. There's the rear wiper

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Speaker 1: But that's a question unto itself. And my point is

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Speaker 1: Why not? Yeah? Sure? Why not just bypass the module?

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Speaker 1: Let's go talk to Joe Nanuet, New York. Joe, Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the car doctor, Sir, How can I help us

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Speaker 1: and I can't see the locate right land strut assembly.

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Speaker 1: What do you mean you can't locate the right lane

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Speaker 1: A part stealer, right? Well? I ordered them from ay

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Speaker 1: it's nineteen, but I can't go by that. I come

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Speaker 1: to the conclusion that every one, every manufact is roughly

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Speaker 1: when you're when you're measuring the height, Joe, you're measuring

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Speaker 1: from what to what? You're measuring from the tip of

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Speaker 1: I'm measuring it from the flames with the three studs

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Speaker 1: it enough. They say this, uh connect sub assembly, which

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Speaker 1: I really don't want to do because dnngine everything is

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Speaker 1: you're trying to clear it over the knuckle right because

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Speaker 1: and you have to get it down really low in

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Speaker 1: order to gain clearance right. Otherwise on bottoms out and

429
00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:46,240
Speaker 1: it's as far as it can go. I'm still like

430
00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:50,639
Speaker 1: the winches away. Then I'm going to tell you that

431
00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:55,080
Speaker 1: as long as the structs are proper by application, it's

432
00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:59,080
Speaker 1: it's not the struct manufacturer, it's your method of installation.

433
00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:03,160
Speaker 1: And yeah you might you might have to on bolt

434
00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:06,159
Speaker 1: that lower control arm and wedge it in and then

435
00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:08,240
Speaker 1: bolted in before you bolt the rest of the strut.

436
00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:10,920
Speaker 1: And I have fought with those, but now understand I'm

437
00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:12,640
Speaker 1: doing it on a lift four feet in the air,

438
00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:16,320
Speaker 1: and I've got a three foot pride bar at the shop.

439
00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:18,920
Speaker 1: I can make anything fit. Well, I've got a six

440
00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:24,800
Speaker 1: foot fide board. But you're on the ground. Um, here's

441
00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:26,760
Speaker 1: here's the question I've got. If you take your if

442
00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:29,199
Speaker 1: you take your old strut out and line it up

443
00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:31,960
Speaker 1: with the new strut, are the physical dimensions the same?

444
00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:36,520
Speaker 1: Is the spatiality the same between between where that pinch

445
00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:40,160
Speaker 1: bolt sits in the bottom of the strut, the lower

446
00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:43,400
Speaker 1: perch and the top struct mount. And keep in mind

447
00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:46,640
Speaker 1: your struts also fifteen years old and it's been beat

448
00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:48,520
Speaker 1: up by New York roads, So it's gonna be a

449
00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:51,640
Speaker 1: little bit more compressed in certain areas. I'm not saying

450
00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:53,959
Speaker 1: it's overall length is going to be different, but it's

451
00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:57,160
Speaker 1: gonna be a little bit more compressed in spring area,

452
00:25:57,320 --> 00:25:59,359
Speaker 1: and then in the area between the seat and the

453
00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:03,080
Speaker 1: top of the strut. Right, I've never seen this or

454
00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:06,400
Speaker 1: had this as a problem, So I've got to think

455
00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:08,560
Speaker 1: it's something in the way you're either measuring or something

456
00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:11,880
Speaker 1: in the way you're installing. Trust me, if if if

457
00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:15,119
Speaker 1: strutt manufacturers were making them all the wrong length, and

458
00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:17,800
Speaker 1: again you wanted my answer, I'm gonna give it to you.

459
00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:21,240
Speaker 1: If strut manufacturers were making them all the wrong length,

460
00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:24,840
Speaker 1: there's more than a few two thousand two Mercury Sable

461
00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:28,480
Speaker 1: and four tour same car out on the road. I

462
00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:30,240
Speaker 1: would have been getting a lot more phone calls a

463
00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:36,399
Speaker 1: lot sooner than this. It's it's fifteen years ago, you know.

464
00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:38,520
Speaker 1: So you've got to take a look at how you're

465
00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:41,399
Speaker 1: installing that. I will tell you that when I do this,

466
00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:43,840
Speaker 1: I always both the strutting at the top first, which

467
00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:47,760
Speaker 1: I'm sure you're doing all right, and then I will

468
00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:50,879
Speaker 1: get it down low, line it up and sort of

469
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:55,400
Speaker 1: cannon lever the two together and it just pops in well.

470
00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:58,640
Speaker 1: And my problem is I could bend the knuckle over

471
00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:02,760
Speaker 1: until it hits stay universe and join on a hack

472
00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:06,680
Speaker 1: and I'm down as far as I can and I'm

473
00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:10,000
Speaker 1: still like winches. So something else? Are you? Are you

474
00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:13,800
Speaker 1: on bolting the ball joint from the lower portion of

475
00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:17,800
Speaker 1: the knuckle. I haven't done it yet, but I assume

476
00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:21,280
Speaker 1: that that would help. Yeah, that would help. That's what

477
00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:24,040
Speaker 1: you're fighting. Because the distance from the top of the

478
00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:26,080
Speaker 1: stud of the ball joined to the top of the

479
00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:30,359
Speaker 1: knuckle is two inches two and a half inches versus

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00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:33,560
Speaker 1: the four inches you're trying to compress it to clear

481
00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:37,120
Speaker 1: the strut back into the knuckle. Right, that's the difference.

482
00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:40,480
Speaker 1: So it's not that the strut is too long. The

483
00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:42,800
Speaker 1: distance is too long and you've got to offset it

484
00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:48,040
Speaker 1: going the other way in one's probably the right distance,

485
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:53,120
Speaker 1: but would never fit well. And again I'm not gonna

486
00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:55,240
Speaker 1: argue no, no, I'd have to see. I'd have to

487
00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:58,160
Speaker 1: line them up to see how they you know, what's

488
00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:01,040
Speaker 1: what's one version of what's you know, what are the

489
00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:05,240
Speaker 1: distances between the critical points. Keep keep in mind too

490
00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:07,080
Speaker 1: that you know, you've got to be careful with some

491
00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:10,200
Speaker 1: of the aftermarket struts. A lot of them are Chinese junks,

492
00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:14,760
Speaker 1: so you want to make sure of what you're buying. Well, well,

493
00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:18,800
Speaker 1: well Monroe is a good struck as long as long

494
00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:22,280
Speaker 1: as it's Monroe. UM. I would look at Monroe. I

495
00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:25,800
Speaker 1: would take a look at Um. I would talk to them.

496
00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:28,520
Speaker 1: I would see what motorcraft has, just for giggles and

497
00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:34,360
Speaker 1: just just you know what they say they're useless. Well,

498
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:38,640
Speaker 1: they tell me they at eleven different springs and they

499
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:41,800
Speaker 1: don't know what sprinks give me. And then I said, well,

500
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:46,239
Speaker 1: what about well, the reason they the reason they tell

501
00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:49,080
Speaker 1: you there's eleven different springs, Joe, is because the car

502
00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:52,720
Speaker 1: probably had options for suspension and different spring rate. There's

503
00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:54,920
Speaker 1: a tag on that old spring that if he gave

504
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:58,520
Speaker 1: them that tag number, I know it should be exactly right,

505
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:00,960
Speaker 1: it would give you. Now, the cost is going to

506
00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:03,480
Speaker 1: be more. But if you're looking to maintain the ride quality,

507
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:06,440
Speaker 1: then you know Fords the way to go. If not

508
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:08,840
Speaker 1: use Monroe. But I'm both the bottom portion of the

509
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:10,960
Speaker 1: knuckle and that'll do it for you. Ate five five

510
00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:13,040
Speaker 1: five six zero nine nine zero zero. The car doctor

511
00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:26,040
Speaker 1: is coming back right after this razing. That's no place

512
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:42,240
Speaker 1: to go. It's hey, go go go run on any

513
00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:43,760
Speaker 1: of the car doctor on the go this hour and

514
00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:46,320
Speaker 1: five five five zero nine nine zero zero. It's gotta

515
00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:47,840
Speaker 1: be it's like a full moon show. There must be

516
00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:49,880
Speaker 1: a full moon coming up. I've come to that conclusion.

517
00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:53,440
Speaker 1: Just what a rough hour. Holy account. Let's uh, let's

518
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:55,080
Speaker 1: motor run down the road here. Let's go talk to

519
00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:58,800
Speaker 1: Richard Milford, Connecticut. See what's going on Toyota Highland. Richard,

520
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:00,080
Speaker 1: how can I help you? Sir? Run on Ny? That

521
00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:03,000
Speaker 1: your service? Hey? Run, how you doing what's going on

522
00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:08,360
Speaker 1: this tander three V six UM coming back from a

523
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:11,840
Speaker 1: way for the weekend, about ten miles from home. The

524
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:15,080
Speaker 1: check engine light comes on. I pulled the code on it.

525
00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:21,000
Speaker 1: It was T zero zero fifteen UM. Shortly after pulling

526
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:23,680
Speaker 1: the code, the light went off. It's been off ever since. UM.

527
00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:27,200
Speaker 1: The only other thing was the traction control system light

528
00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:30,000
Speaker 1: came on saying the traction was off along with the

529
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:32,000
Speaker 1: check engine light, and that went off when the light

530
00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:35,160
Speaker 1: went off. The nonsense and the reason they do that. Toyota,

531
00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:37,000
Speaker 1: like a lot of the manufacturers, if it sets an

532
00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:41,080
Speaker 1: engine FAULD code, they'll limit operation of vehicle stability control,

533
00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:45,360
Speaker 1: traction control systems ABS, whatever your name to jur is,

534
00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:48,520
Speaker 1: so that that's normal fixed to PCM fault and you'll

535
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:52,120
Speaker 1: an all likelihood because the VSC or the A B

536
00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:54,160
Speaker 1: S or any other lights to go off as well,

537
00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:57,240
Speaker 1: so the first focus becomes check engine. They always do that.

538
00:30:57,360 --> 00:31:00,760
Speaker 1: They limit operation of other hang ons systems if you will,

539
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:03,800
Speaker 1: based on what the PCM is reporting, and you had

540
00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:09,480
Speaker 1: a what fault code it was zero zero, So p

541
00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:14,760
Speaker 1: double O fifteen is the variable valve timing. Solenoid UM

542
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:18,720
Speaker 1: is creating a problem at saying that the camshaft position

543
00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:22,720
Speaker 1: is over retarded on bank one. So what they're doing

544
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:24,360
Speaker 1: is they're back in the old days when we were

545
00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:25,920
Speaker 1: hot rotters need to take the front of the engine

546
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:28,600
Speaker 1: apart and we would offset the key way to advance

547
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:31,720
Speaker 1: or retard the cam mechanically, depending upon you know, the

548
00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:36,280
Speaker 1: racing application. Now they're now they're doing that mechanically, I'm sorry, electronically.

549
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:39,960
Speaker 1: So what they're saying is they've commanded it to go

550
00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:42,400
Speaker 1: back to go to a position and then they're not

551
00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:45,560
Speaker 1: seeing it respond. They're not seeing it hit that position.

552
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:48,960
Speaker 1: So that's what v VT is, variable valve timing. It

553
00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:53,720
Speaker 1: it's constantly changing based on engine load, demand and so forth.

554
00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:59,360
Speaker 1: So what's common They do have issues with the actual

555
00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:04,240
Speaker 1: with the actual actuator itself. There's a bulletin out from Toyota.

556
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:08,960
Speaker 1: You got a penhandy, take a look. Take a look

557
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:11,640
Speaker 1: at Toyota Technical bullet in double oh ninety four Day

558
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:14,480
Speaker 1: Show nine. It's been out there since March of two

559
00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:18,880
Speaker 1: thousand nine, and it references uh P double O fourteen

560
00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:22,920
Speaker 1: fift and a couple others, and they talk about if

561
00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:25,440
Speaker 1: you've got that light on and or a ticking noise

562
00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:29,240
Speaker 1: out of the engine on an intermittent basis. They take

563
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:32,520
Speaker 1: you through a test procedure I how to determine itt Um.

564
00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:34,440
Speaker 1: I've had a few of these go through the shop myself.

565
00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:36,600
Speaker 1: Both of them been under extended warranty. They're going back

566
00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:40,160
Speaker 1: to the dealer and getting done. My feeling and I

567
00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:43,840
Speaker 1: can't prove this by any scientific method yet, but what

568
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:46,480
Speaker 1: I've noticed is it seems like it's happening more on

569
00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:51,000
Speaker 1: the vehicles that are following. Watch this. The manufacturer's oil

570
00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:56,000
Speaker 1: change interval, like you know the five, the six, the

571
00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:58,320
Speaker 1: ten thousand mile interval that you never need to change

572
00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:01,320
Speaker 1: the oil and the particulate builds up over time. Typically

573
00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:03,600
Speaker 1: it happens in the forty to fifty thousand mile range,

574
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:05,520
Speaker 1: which makes you kind of snap your neck because you go,

575
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:07,920
Speaker 1: really fifty tho miles and already I've got a problem.

576
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:12,479
Speaker 1: How many miles? Yeah? There you go? Um what's your

577
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:16,760
Speaker 1: oil change interval? Just out of curiosity? Ten? Um? I

578
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:20,600
Speaker 1: do I do five? Or six? Right? Yeah? With synthetic?

579
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:23,680
Speaker 1: Tried doing four and uh, you know, if the light

580
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:25,280
Speaker 1: comes back on, I would tell you. I would tell

581
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:26,760
Speaker 1: you the short and the oil change interval up a

582
00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:28,200
Speaker 1: little bit if you curious to see what the inside

583
00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:29,600
Speaker 1: of the engine looks like, how clean it is. It

584
00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:32,440
Speaker 1: could just be a bad actuator too, But get your

585
00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:35,680
Speaker 1: hands on that TSB and you probably need that actuator.

586
00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:38,600
Speaker 1: It's probably going to happen again, and it will lead

587
00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:41,719
Speaker 1: you down to that diagnostic point, all right, sir? I mean,

588
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:44,040
Speaker 1: should I wait for them to light to come back? Honest,

589
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:47,120
Speaker 1: I go see Toyota first. Well, i'd probably go see

590
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:49,120
Speaker 1: Toyota first and explain it to them. Of course, if

591
00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:50,720
Speaker 1: the light's not on, there's not much they're gonna be

592
00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:52,240
Speaker 1: able to do for you. They're gonna take you through that,

593
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:54,520
Speaker 1: you know. If the light's not there, we can't do anything.

594
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:57,000
Speaker 1: But it doesn't hurt to get it on record. Just

595
00:33:57,080 --> 00:33:59,000
Speaker 1: be careful. They'll probably end up charging you for you

596
00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:01,600
Speaker 1: unless you have tended warranty since the light's not on

597
00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:04,040
Speaker 1: at this particular moment. If anything else, Rich, you know

598
00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:07,720
Speaker 1: where to find me. Eight zero gotta go. I'm up

599
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:10,120
Speaker 1: against the clock and I'll talk to you again. I'm

600
00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:12,040
Speaker 1: run a nating in the car. Doctor back right after this.

601
00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:38,920
Speaker 1: What this car is automatic, it's systematic, it's hard, dramatic,

602
00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:49,160
Speaker 1: what's breest lightning, get some four Welcome back. Weren't any

603
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:50,839
Speaker 1: of the car Doctor here? As we wind things down

604
00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:52,719
Speaker 1: this hour, there's another hour of Car Doctor and to

605
00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:54,439
Speaker 1: come by the way if you're an affiliate, that takes

606
00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:57,960
Speaker 1: both hours. Quick comment from Tony Amelia, retired police retired

607
00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:01,120
Speaker 1: Chicago police officer and the Amilio sent me an article

608
00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:03,720
Speaker 1: about self driving cars. He says, ron f y about

609
00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:06,160
Speaker 1: self driving cars. Your comments on the subject or spot on,

610
00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:09,480
Speaker 1: say hi to the boys, stay safe, Tony Amelia, park Ridge, Illinois.

611
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:12,239
Speaker 1: We appreciate that, Tony Um. The article goes on is

612
00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:14,920
Speaker 1: out of Chicago Tribune on Sunday seven thirty one. It

613
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,200
Speaker 1: talks about self driving cars and the risk to self

614
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:19,320
Speaker 1: driving cars is really you. That's the whole point of

615
00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:22,200
Speaker 1: the story. The driver, the human brain, the article states,

616
00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:25,080
Speaker 1: continually seeks stimulation. If the mind isn't engaged, it will

617
00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:27,879
Speaker 1: wander until it finds something more interesting to think about.

618
00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:30,080
Speaker 1: The more reliable the system, the more you like, more

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00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:33,239
Speaker 1: likely it is that attention will wane. Automakers are in

620
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:37,480
Speaker 1: the process of adding increasingly automated systems that effectively drive

621
00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:40,440
Speaker 1: cars in summer most circumstances. But still require the drivers

622
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:44,000
Speaker 1: a backup in case the vehicle encounters a situation anticipated

623
00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:47,320
Speaker 1: by its engineers. That's kind of scary, right, technology is

624
00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:49,120
Speaker 1: gonna drag us to the brink of automation, and then

625
00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:51,800
Speaker 1: we've got to count on the engineer that he didn't fail,

626
00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:55,520
Speaker 1: that he did his homework, that he didn't have a

627
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:58,680
Speaker 1: problem and a software glitch that puts us at peril

628
00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:01,359
Speaker 1: and risk. And the article then goes on to talk

629
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:04,120
Speaker 1: about how someone was unfortunately killed in a self driving

630
00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:06,520
Speaker 1: car in a Tesla when they weren't paying attention. They

631
00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:10,040
Speaker 1: were watching a Harry Potter video of all things. So technology,

632
00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:12,080
Speaker 1: you gotta watch out for it each and every day.

633
00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:14,960
Speaker 1: I'm mony in the car, doctor. The mechanics aren't expensive,

634
00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:16,400
Speaker 1: they're priceless. See you