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Speaker 1: to the car doctor, sir, How can I help you today. Hey,

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Speaker 1: you're talking about undercoting or that gentleman from Lanting, Michigan

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Speaker 1: there there there some of them are like that. Um.

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Speaker 1: But with a little bit of determination and rolling up

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Speaker 1: our sleeves, we're able to get this car back on

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Speaker 1: the road. And my point becomes, if your mechanics hanging

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Speaker 1: onto the car, ask them what they're doing. Is there

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Speaker 1: a reason why they're hanging on is it? Are they

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Speaker 1: waiting for parts? Are they waiting for more information. Are

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Speaker 1: they waiting for the car to take an active part

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Speaker 1: or do something as part of the repair process. I e.

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Speaker 1: Run the monitor at two o'clock in the morning to

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Speaker 1: see if the system has integrity. UM it did, it passed.

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Speaker 1: We're good. UM, so just not everything is as it

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Speaker 1: appears to be. UM. I want to talk about this

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Speaker 1: letter that that Stevie sent us. And you know Steve

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Speaker 1: full disclosure, he's a regular listener down Virginia Way. UM,

441
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Speaker 1: he's actually been to the shop a few times. And

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Speaker 1: um he wrote us a very nice card. Ron, thanks

443
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Speaker 1: for having me on the on air and for your

444
00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:14,200
Speaker 1: good advice. As always, if only out of necessity, I'll

445
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Speaker 1: be keeping the Civic for the indefinite future. There's a

446
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Speaker 1: little to bide. Newer used I wish I had I

447
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Speaker 1: wish I had looked into I wish I had looked

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Speaker 1: into it. A week ago a comment I didn't make

449
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Speaker 1: car shield has an F rating, and do we talk

450
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Speaker 1: about car shield? I don't remember that. Maybe it's an

451
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Speaker 1: extend warranty company with a better business bureau. Typical warranties

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Speaker 1: around a hundred and thirty a month, with a hundred

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Speaker 1: dollars deductible. Um, I'd like to see a hundred dollar

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Speaker 1: a year with a thousand dollars deductable. The same for

455
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Speaker 1: dental insurance. You don't see that either, you know, I don't.

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Speaker 1: We don't do dental insuran and do dental insurance here

457
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Speaker 1: in Jersey. UM, Steve from Roanoke, Virginia. PS. You won't recall,

458
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Speaker 1: but years ago on Sunday, I remember this. But years

459
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Speaker 1: ago on Sunday, I said I'm ditching church to listen

460
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Speaker 1: to you. And you said something like, Steve, don't do that.

461
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Speaker 1: And I did say that because I don't want you

462
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Speaker 1: to ditch church to listen to the car doctor. Pick

463
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Speaker 1: up a podcast and podcast to show for the record,

464
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Speaker 1: I've attended. I've attended church regularly now, including online during

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Speaker 1: the heights of the pandemic for the past two and

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Speaker 1: a half years. I wish I had been there for

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Speaker 1: the past fifty Steve, I am very happy for you

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Speaker 1: that you've you've you've taken to attending church on a

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Speaker 1: regular basis. And the back of the card, he wrote

470
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Speaker 1: me a little note. The cars may be printed maybe,

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Speaker 1: but maybe printed in China, but don't let them catch

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Speaker 1: you with one of these. Um uh just interesting, so

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Speaker 1: interesting printed in China, Steve always an interesting, always an

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Speaker 1: interesting pile of comments. Let's pull over and take a

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Speaker 1: pause five five zero zero run on any of the

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Speaker 1: may not be able to hear it live in your neighborhood,

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Speaker 1: maybe your a podcaster, maybe you stream it, maybe you're

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Speaker 1: in affiliate where they carry the show live. You can

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Speaker 1: call us and talk to us in the studio whether

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Speaker 1: or not you can hear us live two to four

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Speaker 1: pm Saturday, Eastern Time, because that's when we do the

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Speaker 1: show live. And uh, we can hook you up at

494
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Speaker 1: the five number. I want to talk real quick before

495
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Speaker 1: we go anywhere else, a little bit about cooling system service,

496
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Speaker 1: especially this time of year. Um, you know, it's it's

497
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Speaker 1: not a great economy. We're all trying to save a

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Speaker 1: couple of bucks. And maybe you're going to do some

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Speaker 1: kind of a cooling system service at drain and filler.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you've done a cooling system repair and you've had

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Speaker 1: to replace the coolant that you drained out of the system. UM,

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Speaker 1: I want to talk a little bit about refilling the

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Speaker 1: cooling system because in a lot of cases today, more

504
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Speaker 1: often than not, the vehicle requires a very specific coolant

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Speaker 1: refill and air bleed procedure. It's not something as simple

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Speaker 1: as just you know, pour it out, you know, drain

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Speaker 1: it out, put pour it in, and you're done. So,

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Speaker 1: you know, it would be nice if you could reference

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Speaker 1: You may find information in your owner's manual, in the

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Speaker 1: glove box, you may find information online. It would be

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Speaker 1: nice if you could reference something like an all Data

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Speaker 1: or perhaps a Mitchell Information System, something that will give

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Speaker 1: you access to information, so you know, procedure, how much

514
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Speaker 1: do you put in? Um? You know, how do you

515
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Speaker 1: bleed the air? Because there's always gonna be a cause

516
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Speaker 1: or a need to have to UH to have to

517
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Speaker 1: bleed air out of the system. UM. It might even

518
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Speaker 1: be that, being is this time of year, perhaps you

519
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Speaker 1: want to get that or purchase for that person that

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Speaker 1: you're UM, you know, purchasing for maybe they do their

521
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Speaker 1: own maintenance and service. Be a good time of the

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Speaker 1: year to take a look at a cooling system. UH

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00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:15,560
Speaker 1: refil machine will attach to a radiator capito hose. It

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Speaker 1: will extract and pull a vacuum on the system. It's

525
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:22,040
Speaker 1: also returned to sometimes as a cooling system film machine

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Speaker 1: that will pull vacuum out of the system and then

527
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Speaker 1: automatically suck cooling in through another hose on the other

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Speaker 1: side of it. It's a little hard to explain, but

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Speaker 1: if you saw it, you'd get it. UM, it's building vacuum.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna open a valve and suck coolingt in and

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Speaker 1: it goes in very quick and easy. But don't assume

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Speaker 1: that unless it's an older vehicle, that every vehicle has

533
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Speaker 1: a quick and easy cool and filled procedure, is my point. UM.

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Speaker 1: You also want to make sure you're putting the right

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Speaker 1: kind of coolingt in. UM. You can get a frame

536
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Speaker 1: of reference, go out to a Rileyoto dot com. They'll

537
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Speaker 1: list coolant by your vehicle. There are several other ways

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Speaker 1: to do it as well online different sources. But you

539
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Speaker 1: want to make sure you're putting the right stuff in.

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Speaker 1: Don't just go by color. What if last guy put

541
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Speaker 1: the wrong stuff in and you bought the car? Use

542
00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:06,240
Speaker 1: were the last guy? Um? You know, just the cooling

543
00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:09,640
Speaker 1: and so dirty that you can't um uh tell what

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Speaker 1: color the cooling is supposed to be. So don't just

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Speaker 1: assume that everybody did something right, because I've learned that

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Speaker 1: over time, it just kind of happens that way. Let's

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Speaker 1: let's go over to Seth in Louisiana. I'm sorry to

548
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Speaker 1: keep you waiting there so long, Seth, I just wanted

549
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Speaker 1: to get that stuff out. Oh eight, Malibu in the

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Speaker 1: a C is not blowing cold, Seth, welcome a board.

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Speaker 1: How gonna help? Uh? Every Saturday, I listened to the

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Speaker 1: channel every day. Um the first time caller. Uh, so

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Speaker 1: I do have a problem. I have Malibu. I was driving.

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Speaker 1: All of a sudden, the temperature on the motor slam

555
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Speaker 1: the code and my a C went hot, so both

556
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Speaker 1: of them stopped working. Um at the same time. Okay,

557
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Speaker 1: So let's talk about the engine first. Do you have heat?

558
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Speaker 1: Do I have? Right? Did you try heat to see

559
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:09,320
Speaker 1: if the engine will produce heat? Okay? You have heat?

560
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Speaker 1: All right? Um? Is there any other warning lights on

561
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Speaker 1: the dashboard, check engine or anything like that. Yeah, they

562
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Speaker 1: do have a check engine that I did hook up

563
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Speaker 1: at O'Reilly and it did call for a catalytic converter

564
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Speaker 1: or like a COOT sensor. So they gave me, umtata

565
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Speaker 1: clean okay, and I just I just put that in

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Speaker 1: there too, Uh, clean that out. They said they are

567
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Speaker 1: some people swear by and it can work. We used

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Speaker 1: some we we've had cases where we've had to use

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Speaker 1: similar products like that, you know, on an older vehicle

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Speaker 1: with higher mileage, where perhaps that you know, you can't

571
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Speaker 1: justify the two thousand dollars to replace a cat, so

572
00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:52,800
Speaker 1: you've got to, you know, you've got to do something

573
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Speaker 1: to try and get the light out to get the

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Speaker 1: cat back to efficiency. Truth be told. I keep hearing

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Speaker 1: stories about that most cats do fail as a result

576
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Speaker 1: of being coded in terminal internally, either from coolant or

577
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Speaker 1: oil consumption oil loss. The engine itself burns oil and

578
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:11,560
Speaker 1: then it builds up, it gets onto the cat and

579
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Speaker 1: then becomes a hard, crusty substance such that it can't

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Speaker 1: allow the cat. The cat just doesn't work right. It

581
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Speaker 1: doesn't react correctly storing oxygen and releasing it and so forth. UM.

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Speaker 1: I want to talk a little bit though about the engine,

583
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Speaker 1: you know, showing cold. If you were to get out

584
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Speaker 1: when the engine is running, and with the engine running,

585
00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:33,520
Speaker 1: lift the hood, if you feel that upper radiator hoses

586
00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:38,800
Speaker 1: it's still warm, Um, I'd have to start it up

587
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Speaker 1: in look at a real quick Just curious because what

588
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Speaker 1: I'm what I'm thinking about is the reason the gauge

589
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Speaker 1: is showing cold is perhaps that warning system has a problem.

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Speaker 1: Sounds like it does. If the engine never seems to

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Speaker 1: warm up, is it possible, you know? And that's why

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Speaker 1: I want to know. If the upper radiator hoses hot

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Speaker 1: to the touch after the vehicle has been run to

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Speaker 1: timp butture almost uncomfortable where you you know, like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I can't hold it really for longer than five or

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Speaker 1: six seconds, then I'm gonna say engine temp is okay.

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Speaker 1: The sender or the control device is reporting a failure

598
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Speaker 1: that may or may not be there. It may just

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Speaker 1: be a bad sender and Is it possible because it's

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Speaker 1: based on cooling temp. I'd love to pull codes. Is

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Speaker 1: there a computer commands keeping the A C compressor from

602
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Speaker 1: coming on as a result of the cooling system issue?

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Speaker 1: That's what I was. It's possible. You know you're this.

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Speaker 1: This is a strategy question, whether you realize it or not. There, Seth, Um,

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Speaker 1: this is all about um. One quick question. Let's say,

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Speaker 1: all right, I have the hood open, he said, the

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Speaker 1: hose was which was hot? The upper the upper radiator

608
00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:52,800
Speaker 1: host on that Malibu. It's gonna come across the front

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00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:55,160
Speaker 1: of the radiator and reach into the thermostat housing over

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Speaker 1: on the driver's side. How long is that? How long

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Speaker 1: is the enginemen running? And has been running for almost

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Speaker 1: all day? Okay, so I have tell you what, Seth.

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Speaker 1: Sitting tight over and take a pause. You stay right there,

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Speaker 1: keep your hand off the host till I get back,

615
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Speaker 1: and we'll talk about it. I'm running any in the

616
00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:16,320
Speaker 1: car doctor, don't go anywhere. We're back right after this.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back run name of the car doctor. Here we're

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Speaker 1: on with Seth and Louisiana zoeh Chevy Malibu. Seth, I

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Speaker 1: gotta be quick. I got a couple of minutes this

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Speaker 1: Malibu V six or four V six or four cylinder

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Speaker 1: V six. So the upper radiator hose runs across the

622
00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:41,680
Speaker 1: top of the radiator coming out of the water neck

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Speaker 1: on the driver's side of the vehicle, has been running

624
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:47,320
Speaker 1: longer than twenty minutes, that host should be warm, hot,

625
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Speaker 1: almost to the point it's uncomfortable to hang onto with

626
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Speaker 1: your bare hand, is it. It's not that hoses cold

627
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Speaker 1: cool you're saying, the one that's coming off of the radiator,

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Speaker 1: the bottom, the top, on the top, the top of

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Speaker 1: if I put my hand on it, yeah, it gets

630
00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:15,280
Speaker 1: it gets uncomfortable, right, Yeah, be careful, all right, be careful,

631
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Speaker 1: but it gets uncomfortable. So the engine's got good temperature.

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Speaker 1: There's your there's your free scan tool analysis. Right. Um.

633
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Speaker 1: So now you're saying that the temperature gauge on the

634
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Speaker 1: dashboard is showing that the engine is always cold. Right,

635
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Speaker 1: So my next step, my next step would be and

636
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Speaker 1: the reason I believe that's withholding the A C compressor

637
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:42,000
Speaker 1: is because if the vehicle computer sees cold air, if

638
00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:44,720
Speaker 1: it sees less than thirty five degrees on that vehicle,

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Speaker 1: it's not going to turn on the A C compressor.

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Speaker 1: Why wouldn't it Why wouldn't it thinks it's cold, right right,

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Speaker 1: And it's also it's also going to do this. It's

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Speaker 1: also going to do the same thing from the ambient

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Speaker 1: air temperature sensor. Right, It's gonna think that the vehicle

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Speaker 1: is cold. So now we've got to get a scan

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Speaker 1: tool hook up, see what ambient and cooler temperature sensor

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Speaker 1: readings are and diagnosed accordingly if they're less than thirty

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Speaker 1: five degrees. Let's fix the temperature problem first and maybe

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Speaker 1: the A C problem goes away on its own. Do that.

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Speaker 1: Call me back next week if you need more. Until then,

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Speaker 1: I'm running any of the card Ift're reminding you good

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Speaker 1: mechanics aren't expensive. They're priceless. See you