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Speaker 2: Oh it's my turn again. What a crazy day, right,

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Speaker 2: we're still kind of recovering from our lack of being

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Speaker 2: at PBA two eighty six Car Show and toml are

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Speaker 2: twelve talking about it. And you know what we're going

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Speaker 2: to find out this week when we call up and

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Speaker 2: talk to the software company and why this didn't talk

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Speaker 2: to that, and that didn't talk to this, and the

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Speaker 2: thingamagig didn't work. And you know, we're talking about pivoting,

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Speaker 2: and that's part of what allt to repair is, right,

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Speaker 2: it's it comes back to it. It teaches me the

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Speaker 2: lesson over and over again that life is about pivoting

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Speaker 2: and being flexible and making the change that you don't

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Speaker 2: want to make when you least expect it, but have to.

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Speaker 2: And I just keep thinking that's the lesson today because

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Speaker 2: we're frustrated, as you can tell that we didn't get

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Speaker 2: to stay the whole day at the show. On the

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Speaker 2: other hand, I did get to washing wax the hot rod,

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Speaker 2: something I haven't done in two years because I haven't

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Speaker 2: taken the cover off but three times. And I taught

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Speaker 2: me that I have to get out and drive it more.

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Speaker 2: And you know what, it was good in the sense

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Speaker 2: that I enjoyed driving the car. It's been a while.

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Speaker 2: I have to do more of that because you know,

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Speaker 2: there's only so many nice sunny days left in a

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Speaker 2: lot of ways, let's all r up the garage doors.

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Speaker 2: Eight five five five six zero nine nine zero zero

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Speaker 2: is the phone number. Let's go over to Donna down

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Speaker 2: in Tennessee a ten Chevy Equinox. Donna, welcome to the

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Speaker 2: car doctor. How can I help?

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Speaker 3: Hi? Thank you. I had my air compressor on my

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Speaker 3: air conditioning go out, okay, and so I had it replaced.

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Speaker 3: And it only blows cold air from one side. It

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Speaker 3: barely blows from the other side. And the guy who

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Speaker 3: did put it in had a transmission fall on him,

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Speaker 3: so he's not available. I checked the actuator, doors already

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Speaker 3: changed to cabin filter and no, luck.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Well, if if it's not getting any airflow, is

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Speaker 2: the air coming out anywhere or there's just yes? Is

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Speaker 2: there just no airflow?

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Speaker 3: No, the air is coming out on the passenger side,

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Speaker 3: and it's cool, very cool. And then on this passenger side,

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Speaker 3: did I just say that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know what you're meaning. The driver's side, right,

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Speaker 2: that's okay, that's a kid.

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Speaker 3: But on the passenger side, I'm getting very little blow

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Speaker 3: and it's not cool.

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Speaker 2: All right, So we've got minimal airflow and what's there

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Speaker 2: is not cool? And that was that since the ac

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Speaker 2: compressor was done, yes, and you're you never got back

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Speaker 2: to I mean, what did he do the air? I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna I'm gonna paraphrase it like this, The ac compressor

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Speaker 2: was done on Monday, the transmission fell on him on Tuesday,

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Speaker 2: and you went back on Wednesday and he wasn't there.

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Speaker 2: It was that quick, that kind of a.

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Speaker 3: Scenario, Well, I kind of. I think it was about

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Speaker 3: a week later.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, and you have no way to contact him.

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Speaker 2: Is it was it like this when you the first

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Speaker 2: time you turn the air on.

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Speaker 3: No, I can't say that. Well, it might have been

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Speaker 3: because I drive it, so I didn't realize the passenger

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Speaker 3: getting really warm outside, right, I started sweating in the

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Speaker 2: Because you're doing the right you're looking at the right things. Listen,

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Speaker 2: the first things that come to my mind is airflow.

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Speaker 2: Notwithstanding when I see a system that's warmer on one

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Speaker 2: side than the other and it's a split evaperator like

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Speaker 2: this one, is I always think about low system or

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Speaker 2: incorrect system charge. All right, So that's that's always on

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Speaker 2: the back of my mind. Do I have a system

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Speaker 2: charge issue to a charge level issue? But the fact

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Speaker 2: that there's no air blowing out of the one side

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Speaker 2: where's the air going? And I would get curious at that.

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Speaker 2: I would want to take a scan tool and do

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Speaker 2: a sweep test. You know, have to sit there, and

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Speaker 2: you know, you can actually take a good quality scan tool,

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Speaker 2: something more than OBD two and self test the actuators.

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Speaker 2: In other words, take the front door to your house.

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Speaker 2: You know where closed, you know where closed is right,

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Speaker 2: and you know where you know where full open is right. Well,

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Speaker 2: you can do that with a scan tool and the

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Speaker 2: computer will log that, it will see you all you

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Speaker 2: know whatever it is one hundred and eighty two steps

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Speaker 2: and if it only gets up to one hundred and sixty,

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Speaker 2: it will report that as a problem. Now, is it

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Speaker 2: possible for some reason this is out of calibration? Sure

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Speaker 2: it could. It could think one's sixty is a maximum

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Speaker 2: opposite end position. But that's kind of odd, right that

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Speaker 2: he did a compressor and all of a sudden you've

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Speaker 2: got this problem. So, you know, instead of looking for

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Speaker 2: what's bad, I really want to go back to what

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Speaker 2: I always say. I want to look for what's good.

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Speaker 2: Does it pass a sweep test, does it have a

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Speaker 2: good system charge in it? Is air coming out anywhere

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Speaker 2: on this vehicle? Other than the vents. When you've got

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Speaker 2: it in the vent position, if you put it on

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Speaker 2: the frost, can you well, let's say you can't do that, right,

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Speaker 2: you can. You're split side to side temperature wise, but

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Speaker 2: you can't change position. If you put this into frost,

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Speaker 2: the frost probably over rides. Well wait a minute, how

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Speaker 2: are you? How are you split on this? You're split

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Speaker 2: temperature wise, not position wise.

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Speaker 3: Well, it does, like I said, it barely blows out

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Speaker 3: the passenger side, and it's not cool. I did just

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Speaker 3: hit the defrost button and I can feel it on

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Speaker 3: my feet. So oh, but that's good.

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Speaker 2: Let's see, right, turn the air conditioning off. Does the

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Speaker 2: defrost come out through the top?

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Speaker 3: Sounds like it is, but I can't reach them.

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Speaker 2: And then and then why were you feeling it on

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Speaker 2: your feet in the defrost position with the AC on?

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Speaker 2: You should be feeling it in your face? Or is it?

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Speaker 2: Is it coming? Is it coming out the bottom?

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Speaker 4: See?

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Speaker 2: I think you've got a stuck door. I really do.

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Speaker 4: Well.

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Speaker 3: I did change the middle one. I forget what it's called,

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Speaker 3: but I kind of checked out the one on each

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Speaker 3: side and those seemed fine, right, Actually your doors? Yeah,

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Speaker 3: and the middle one did not look like it was

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Speaker 3: operating well, So it went ahead and just changed it.

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Speaker 2: Right when you when you had that one off, were

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Speaker 2: you able to freely move the door?

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Speaker 3: I didn't. I just put a new one on.

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Speaker 2: You didn't try You didn't try moving it? Right?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess I should.

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Speaker 2: I still have the part, right? Is it?

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Speaker 4: Is it?

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Speaker 2: Because? Is it binding? And then if you put a

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Speaker 2: new one on, did you calibrate it because sometimes they

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Speaker 2: require calibration?

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Speaker 3: Thank you? No? I did not?

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Speaker 2: All right, So you got a bunch of things to

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Speaker 3: Yep, I need a high low UH pressure gauge for

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Speaker 3: checking the high low right.

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Speaker 2: Well, you do need You do need gauges.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 2: You will need some kind of a recovery system too,

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Speaker 2: if you're going to do this on your own, you know.

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Speaker 2: And I can get into an argument with AC guys

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Speaker 2: about this all day long. Everybody says, well, you look

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Speaker 2: at ambient temperature, and if ambient temperature is eighty degrees

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Speaker 2: and it's it's showing eighty five pounds on the low

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Speaker 2: side gauge at rest or eighty five pounds across the

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Speaker 2: system at rest, that means you've got correct charge. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I disagree with that. I don't find ambient temp and

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Speaker 2: a relationship to pressure in the system really exists anymore

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Speaker 2: as being accurate. I've had far too many systems with

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Speaker 2: new one thirty four refrigerants show me just the opposite

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Speaker 2: to be incorrect. And I really like if I'm dealing

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Speaker 2: with a mystery system, I really like to be the

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Speaker 2: guy that pull it out, measure it, recharge it. You

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Speaker 2: know what kind of oil comes out, what kind of

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Speaker 2: refrigerant comes out, and you know go from there.

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Speaker 3: So well should I? And my other thought was should

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Speaker 3: I waste the money to do a die test on it?

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Speaker 2: Well? Why you're thinking maybe it's low?

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Speaker 3: Well I think that I always like to start with

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Speaker 3: the easiest stuff, which I've done.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know the well, the problem is you

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Speaker 2: can listen, you can add die to this, all right,

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Speaker 2: you can surely do that. But you know how low

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Speaker 2: is it? You're you're about You're on step four. I

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Speaker 2: think it's great, I really do, but you're on step four.

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Speaker 2: I think step one is the things we talked about.

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Speaker 2: Can you can you manually move the door? How much

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Speaker 2: refrigerants in it? You know, if you if you play

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Speaker 2: it stuck in one position that it's always going to

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Speaker 2: be blowing out at your feet, right, you know, right,

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Speaker 2: so it's it's you know, and then does it need

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Speaker 2: calibration and then yeah, okay, if it's low on charge,

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Speaker 2: did he not charge the system properly? And you know,

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Speaker 2: maybe he made a mistake, maybe he read the wrong amount.

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Speaker 2: Is there a rear evaporator in the car and he

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Speaker 2: didn't realize it, so he charged it for a front

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Speaker 2: only evaporator system. It is right, okay, as long as

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Speaker 2: as long as it is. But you know, you'll answer

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Speaker 2: the question if you're using a machine that recovers, and

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Speaker 2: if it's supposed to have two pounds in it, you

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Speaker 2: take out you know, one pound fourteen ounces close enough.

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Speaker 2: If you take out one pound, that's fifty percent. That's

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Speaker 2: that's that's very low. And then that's a problem. Now

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Speaker 2: you want to recharge it. Hey, the system works perfect,

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Speaker 2: except I got to figure out way the air is

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Speaker 2: not blown because I I made a mess of my

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Speaker 2: mode door when I did the actually trying to you know,

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Speaker 2: shotgun this. You know, now you want to add a

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Speaker 2: die to it. So if in two weeks, it's low

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Speaker 2: on charge again. Now you got a place to go.

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Speaker 2: But to start to start adding things to the pot.

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Speaker 2: You know, there's always ten steps. I like. I like

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Speaker 2: to encourage people to sit down and follow the ten

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Speaker 2: in order. Don't hopscotch. Oh all right, So not scolding,

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Speaker 2: just saying, you know, I don't. I don't like to

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Speaker 2: play hopscotch. It's painful for me too, believe me, because

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Speaker 2: I want to get to the solution. You know what

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Speaker 2: order repairs like life. Here, I am saying that again.

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Speaker 2: You got to enjoy the ride in the process. You

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Speaker 3: So yeah, well I'm not enjoying the ride too hot.

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Speaker 2: Well I get that one hundred percent. One hundred percent.

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Speaker 3: So you're giving me some tips to think about because

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Speaker 3: I had no idea about the calibration on.

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Speaker 2: The door, right, Sometimes there's a calibration. You have to

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Speaker 2: And that's probably a good chance of what you're going through.

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Speaker 2: So you got some steps to do here, Donna, you

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Speaker 2: fifty Jamie, Welcome to the Car Doctor. What's going on?

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Speaker 4: Hi?

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Speaker 5: Ron? Yes, well, I've got this truck and it's been

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Speaker 5: running perfectly except the other last weekend. I pulled it

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Speaker 5: don't have spark. So I checked the coil and the

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Speaker 5: right multimeter. It shows that the coil is good. Okay,

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Speaker 5: Well I checked the coil.

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Speaker 2: You didn't. You did an om reading on the coil

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Speaker 5: And then I went and checked the fuse for the

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Speaker 2: All right, you had power at the positive side.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, oh yeah, okay, And I actually replaced the fuse.

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Speaker 5: But anyway, then I disconnected the Duras spark where it

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Speaker 5: all clean and not coroded, put it back together, and

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Speaker 5: it wouldn't start. So then I thought, well, I have

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Speaker 5: been having trouble with the selenoid on the firewall there

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Speaker 5: it'd stop cranking. So I thought, well, I need to

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Speaker 4: So I got a other before.

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Speaker 2: We go, before we go too far, Jamie. So you know,

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Speaker 2: you know you don't have spark. Do you have fuel pressure?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: There was gas?

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 5: I pumped the carburetor and it was his.

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Speaker 2: Right, and and okay, so you have fuel pressure, okay, right.

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Speaker 5: I put another selenoid on it, that was a new one,

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Speaker 5: and then I cranked it over and it started and

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Speaker 5: it was running perfect, and then it just all of

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Speaker 5: But it's cold, you know, just started up.

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Speaker 2: You put another you put another ignition module in.

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Speaker 5: No, I haven't.

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Speaker 6: I put a selenoid for the starter okay, right, it

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Speaker 6: was sticking. Okay, I know I need it anyway, Okay,

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Speaker 6: maybe it was on it.

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Speaker 2: What what kind of what kind of ignition solenoid is this, Jamie?

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Speaker 2: Is it Is it the square rectangular piece mounted to

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Speaker 5: Well, yeah, it's the round little deal with the two leads.

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Speaker 6: And then on the middle of it, it's got the

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Speaker 2: Right, and it's it sits on the fender.

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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, all right.

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Speaker 2: How are the grounds? How are the how are the

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Speaker 4: They're good? Okay?

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Speaker 2: How did you check them back up?

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Speaker 5: How'd you check them unscrewed them?

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Speaker 2: And okay? How about can we do a vaulted drop test?

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Speaker 2: Do you understand the concept?

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Speaker 4: Not really?

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Speaker 2: Okay, let's let's let's learn it then. So you know,

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Speaker 2: in New Jersey, if you want to go to the shore,

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Speaker 2: you take the parkway. The parkway goes down the length

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Speaker 2: Route one and nine. All right, that's the bypass. So

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Speaker 2: a very bad term. I don't like the term voltage drop.

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Speaker 2: It confuses people. I like the term voltage bypass. So

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Speaker 2: to see I'd love to see a twelve vault headlight

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Speaker 2: using one leg of ground as the ground for whatever

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Speaker 2: drop testing, you'll come up with about forty thousand different

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Speaker 6: So it's like having an intermitt in voltage drop because

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Speaker 6: then it started up and raising.

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Speaker 2: Sure it could be, sure could be. Especially listen, I

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Speaker 2: remember thirty years ago when these trucks were only twenty

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Speaker 2: because we're talking about a forty six almost forty seven

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Speaker 2: check it off, check the box and move on, right, Okay, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: the other thing that was more common with these in

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Speaker 2: terms of failure was if you take the distributor cap off.

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Speaker 2: I did that, okay, and you looked at it. Is

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Speaker 2: there any oil on the inside of the distributor? No,

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Speaker 2: all right, And this distributor has this distributor has two

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Speaker 2: pigtail leads leading out of it. Yeah, right, no ignition

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Speaker 2: module on the distributor. Sit tight, all right, Sit tight, Jamie,

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Speaker 2: don't go anywhere. I'll come back. We'll finish up, and

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Speaker 2: then we'll get on to Greg and New York. I

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Speaker 2: appreciate everybody's patience today. Just a lot of little tedious

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Speaker 2: things we got to talk about. I'm ronning Andy and

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Speaker 2: the car doctor. We'll be back right after this at

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Speaker 2: eight five five five six zero nine nine zero zero.

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Speaker 2: Don't go anywhere. Let's go back to Jamie and Iowa. Jamie,

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Speaker 2: you're still there. Yeah, I was thinking about this car.

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Speaker 2: There's a black wire coming off the ignition module, correct, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: that goes to ground. I want you to voltage drop

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Speaker 2: test that or if you have any doubts, tap into

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Speaker 2: that and run on an auxiliary ground to them right

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Speaker 2: Do you see all that? Is that still intact?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, okay, all right, just just to be sure

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Speaker 2: this could just flat out be a bad ignition module,

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Speaker 2: and then the problem becomes getting a good one. Right,

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Speaker 2: because it's forty five years old, and it got to

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Speaker 2: these there was there were limited methods of testing them.

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Speaker 2: Then that this was the originator in my mind of

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Speaker 2: swapping hope, right, it was substitute known good part. So

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Speaker 2: this very well could be. Is it that the vehicle

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Speaker 2: and what's that?

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Speaker 5: No, just it'll start up right away, just like I'd

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Speaker 6: The block and go perfectly fine, and you know I

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Speaker 6: when I got in front of a house, practically it

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Speaker 6: just all said dried. When I cranked it over, it

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Speaker 6: cranked a little bit and it would start. Then I

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Speaker 6: turn it off and started it again, start up and

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Speaker 6: go right up in the driveway.

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Speaker 2: Right, So you've got an intermittent, random, it sounds like

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Speaker 2: something is getting hot. The other thing is do you

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Speaker 2: have a hair dryer in the house, Oh yeah, portable

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Speaker 2: hair dryer.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Heat yeah, if it.

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Speaker 2: Were a heat gun, if you if you heat the

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Speaker 2: common thing that nobody really thinks about or thought about

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Speaker 2: even then forty years ago, was the pickup coil the

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Speaker 2: test it would take a labscope and to look to

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Speaker 2: look at it and look at a wave and see

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Speaker 2: what the voltage is doing. You know, but there's but

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Speaker 2: there's no oil inside the distributor, right, it's bone dry.

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Speaker 5: No, there's no way I looked at it. So is

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Speaker 5: a way like on the old with the point they

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Speaker 5: would replace the distributor with one of those electronic ignitions

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Speaker 5: in it.

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Speaker 2: Well, you have a distributor with electronic ignition. Do you

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Speaker 2: want to put a different system in? Is that what

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Speaker 2: you're asking?

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Speaker 4: Well?

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Speaker 5: Is that a way I could eliminate the duras spark?

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Speaker 2: You could? Or but before you do that, this is

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Speaker 2: a this is a carburetor. This is an EKE to vehicle,

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Speaker 2: is it not?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's gotta yeah, just a little two.

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Speaker 2: Barrel on it, right, But there's some electronic elements to

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Speaker 2: this vehicle. I'd have to honestly, I'd have to look

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Speaker 2: think this is either EKE one or EKE too, and

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Speaker 2: I want to see what the computer. I want to

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Speaker 2: see what the computer authority is on this. You know, Frankly,

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Speaker 2: if I can still find a Duraspark module and to

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Speaker 2: pick up oil, I can get him right. Well, but

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Speaker 2: what's what's the quality and what's the brand?

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Speaker 5: Well, they were standard brand.

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Speaker 2: I would have no problem with the standard module absolutely.

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Speaker 2: If you could find a standard module for this what

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Speaker 2: is it fifty bucks?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, they were like seventy dollars, sixty eight dollars right change.

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Speaker 2: Yep, I have no problem with a standard module. To

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Speaker 2: tell you the truth, I know the engineer that designed

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Speaker 2: that standard module back in seventy nine, Doug. His first

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Speaker 2: name was Doug. I can't think of his last name.

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Speaker 2: I haven't talked to him in thirty years, but I

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Speaker 2: was I was actually involved with the testing of those

438
00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:38,359
Speaker 2: modules out of the Long Island facility or the facility

439
00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:42,360
Speaker 2: in Long Island City forty years ago.

440
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Speaker 5: Would you say, if I do the voltage drop test, if.

441
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Speaker 2: You do the voltae drop test, when you're having the

442
00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:49,879
Speaker 2: problem and it passes, and you've got good ground at

443
00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:52,840
Speaker 2: the module and you still have no spark, and you've

444
00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:56,639
Speaker 2: got you've got positive you've got twelve volts at the

445
00:21:57,560 --> 00:22:01,480
Speaker 2: ignition coil, and then crank it and it maintains better

446
00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:05,600
Speaker 2: than ten and a half vaults. I say you've got

447
00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:07,200
Speaker 2: a problem on the trigger side, and I'm going to

448
00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:09,400
Speaker 2: tell you to look very closely at the ignition module

449
00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:12,879
Speaker 2: and the pickup coil, all right, And the pickup coil,

450
00:22:13,119 --> 00:22:14,879
Speaker 2: like I said, unless you have a labscope, is a

451
00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:18,879
Speaker 2: little bit more difficult to test. But replacement requires some

452
00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:21,040
Speaker 2: special tooling to press it on and off to get

453
00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:25,080
Speaker 2: the shaft out. So process of elimination on the older

454
00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:29,680
Speaker 2: vehicle and eliminating known good or known bad trying a

455
00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:32,920
Speaker 2: module is a whole lot easier. So okay, all right,

456
00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:35,040
Speaker 2: but look at all the grounds, all right, and then

457
00:22:35,119 --> 00:22:38,480
Speaker 2: go from there. All right, kiddo, thank you, You're very welcome.

458
00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:40,479
Speaker 2: You keep me posted. Let's go to Greg Upstate, New York.

459
00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:42,360
Speaker 2: I'm sorry to keep you waiting, Greg, I wanted to

460
00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:44,600
Speaker 2: make sure I covered the bases with with Jamie. So

461
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Speaker 2: how can I help sir?

462
00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:46,680
Speaker 4: Hello.

463
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Speaker 7: Let's see, I was listening to your show about an

464
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Speaker 7: hour ago.

465
00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:53,119
Speaker 4: You had a guy with a BMW.

466
00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:54,320
Speaker 2: Right Brad from Florida.

467
00:22:55,160 --> 00:23:01,720
Speaker 7: Yeah, Florida strip tramloads right, yep, yep. So I have

468
00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:05,400
Speaker 7: a friend that's the number one mechanic in Sacramento, California

469
00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:10,400
Speaker 7: area who does BMW's Maseratis, Lamborghinis and all that, right,

470
00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:12,639
Speaker 7: and I asked him about it. You said, there is

471
00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:16,480
Speaker 7: a Tula coil kit available from BMW Right.

472
00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:19,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's and that's what I suggested, you know,

473
00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:21,879
Speaker 2: it's it's not an uncommon I'm not sure why the

474
00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:24,000
Speaker 2: dealer is telling him you've got to take the engine

475
00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:27,320
Speaker 2: out six to eight thousand dollars. Either it's either it's

476
00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:30,800
Speaker 2: lack of knowledge or there's actually a bulletin that talks

477
00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:33,240
Speaker 2: about it. And BMW has actually come out with a

478
00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:37,600
Speaker 2: special service tool that allows even in tight fits depending

479
00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:40,600
Speaker 2: upon body style and configuration, that you can, you know,

480
00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:42,960
Speaker 2: cut the threads in the oil pen instead of having

481
00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:43,920
Speaker 2: to pull the engine out.

482
00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:47,000
Speaker 7: So yeah, you know, it's definitely a thing.

483
00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:49,000
Speaker 2: Yea, yeah, it happens.

484
00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:50,080
Speaker 7: It can be done in one day.

485
00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:52,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's it's well and you know, the bulletin

486
00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:57,359
Speaker 2: is dated twenty eighteen talks about the issue. Partly is

487
00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:00,360
Speaker 2: because it's only a twelve millimeter plug. It's soft aluminumreds,

488
00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:03,120
Speaker 2: you know, and it also stems and goes back in here.

489
00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:05,159
Speaker 2: I'm going to get on the drum and bang the

490
00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:07,440
Speaker 2: drum Greg about you know, when you do an oil

491
00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:10,200
Speaker 2: change on a lot of these vehicles, you need to

492
00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:13,000
Speaker 2: change the drain plug gasket if the vehicle is so equipped.

493
00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:15,560
Speaker 2: But everybody wants to be jerky les and just pull

494
00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:17,920
Speaker 2: on the chain so hard. They are pulling the wrench

495
00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:21,280
Speaker 2: so hard that it just you know, crushes the gasket

496
00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:25,560
Speaker 2: and you know, pulls the threads and it becomes an issue.

497
00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:28,560
Speaker 2: So you know, it's just it's just a problem. Yep,

498
00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:31,679
Speaker 2: that's very much aware, sir. Hey, listen, I appreciate you

499
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Speaker 2: taking the time. Most people, you know, I don't think

500
00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:35,959
Speaker 2: a lot of people would take the time to research

501
00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:37,440
Speaker 2: it and give us a call and try and help,

502
00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:39,280
Speaker 2: So kudos to you, brother.

503
00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:43,000
Speaker 4: All Right, the phone call, so yep.

504
00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:44,679
Speaker 2: Listen, it's all we can do is be kind to

505
00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:46,280
Speaker 2: each other and try to help. And that's the whole

506
00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:49,480
Speaker 2: point of this radio show most days. All right, Kitto,

507
00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:51,280
Speaker 2: you'll be well. Thank you so much. You have a

508
00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:53,919
Speaker 2: great rest of the weekend. Eight five five five six

509
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Speaker 2: zero nine nine zero zero. I'm running any in the

510
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Speaker 2: car Doctor. I'll be back right after this. Welcome back.

511
00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:04,600
Speaker 2: By the way, a couple additions to the YouTube channel

512
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Speaker 2: this week. Get out to ron An Innie and the

513
00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:08,560
Speaker 2: Car Doctor. Look us up on YouTube, and of course

514
00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:11,160
Speaker 2: always just to make a mention, and I get questions

515
00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:13,119
Speaker 2: and people ask about it. If you go out to

516
00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:15,879
Speaker 2: the website cardoctorshow dot com, you will find under the

517
00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:18,880
Speaker 2: merchandise button, yes, hats, t shirts and all the rest

518
00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:21,560
Speaker 2: of the great stuff is still there. So by all means,

519
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Speaker 2: feel free help yourself. Let's go out to Ben and

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Speaker 2: Tennessee ninety nine one fifty and some heat and AC problems.

521
00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:29,840
Speaker 2: A lot of heat and AC problems today. I guess, uh,

522
00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:32,440
Speaker 2: the weather change or something. I'm not sure. Ben, ron

523
00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:34,120
Speaker 2: An Inian at your service, sir, How can I help?

524
00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:40,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks for taking my call. You're welcome. We're having

525
00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:43,439
Speaker 4: an issue with the van. When we start to go

526
00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:49,159
Speaker 4: up hills. It was not about six months ago. But

527
00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:53,399
Speaker 4: anytime we get just a gradual hell, the AC or

528
00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:56,600
Speaker 4: the heat will kick out, and then when we go

529
00:25:56,680 --> 00:26:01,120
Speaker 4: back down to hell, it's it kicks back on it.

530
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:03,880
Speaker 4: But we're we're turning it off because we don't want

531
00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:06,000
Speaker 4: to burn up the unit, you know, we don't.

532
00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:09,720
Speaker 2: Is it is it that the unit turns off or

533
00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:11,720
Speaker 2: the airflow changes position.

534
00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:16,520
Speaker 4: We're we're also getting a noise when we when after

535
00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:19,520
Speaker 4: we go back down a hill or get on flat land,

536
00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:26,560
Speaker 4: the under our passenger side, under the floorboard there it

537
00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:30,280
Speaker 4: starts to do like a compression noise, almost like a

538
00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:35,200
Speaker 4: like a diaphragm or filling up it.

539
00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:37,600
Speaker 2: Almost it almost been. It almost sounds like you've got

540
00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:41,280
Speaker 2: a problem with door position. If when you say no heat,

541
00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:44,600
Speaker 2: no AC, you're talking no air coming out of like

542
00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:46,320
Speaker 2: for example, if you've got to set to a C

543
00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:48,320
Speaker 2: and the air should be coming out the center events,

544
00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:51,560
Speaker 2: you're saying it it doesn't come out from the center events.

545
00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:53,800
Speaker 2: If you if you're if you're going uphill and you're

546
00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:54,639
Speaker 2: putting your foot in it.

547
00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:58,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's either way. Yeah. I thought it was

548
00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:00,840
Speaker 4: the AC at first, and we did like we put

549
00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:05,520
Speaker 4: some you know, some fluid in it.

550
00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:09,080
Speaker 2: I forget the word, right, yeah, no refrigerate no, but

551
00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:12,120
Speaker 2: but hear me out. My question is you know when

552
00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:15,000
Speaker 2: you lose when you lose airflow at the center vents,

553
00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:18,199
Speaker 2: do you still have airflow at the defrost position or

554
00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:18,960
Speaker 2: on the floor.

555
00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:22,199
Speaker 4: Uh no, it completely goes out, all of it.

556
00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:25,840
Speaker 2: Okay, all gone. So the blower physically stops, right, But

557
00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:28,080
Speaker 2: have you checked to see if you have air coming

558
00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:31,080
Speaker 2: out of the ducks at the defroster or at the floor.

559
00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:34,280
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, yeah, we h. I'll put my hand in

560
00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:37,600
Speaker 4: it there and nothing comes out. And then it'll do

561
00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:41,159
Speaker 4: like I'll release almost like like you're holding your breath

562
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:44,000
Speaker 4: and then somebody ex house that's what it feels like,

563
00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:46,560
Speaker 4: and it'll it'll take about ten seconds when you go

564
00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:50,480
Speaker 4: down the hill and then it'll just go then release

565
00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:51,960
Speaker 4: and then.

566
00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:56,320
Speaker 2: Okay, if you're if you're if you're going down the

567
00:27:56,400 --> 00:27:59,240
Speaker 2: hill and you take your foot off the gas.

568
00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:02,199
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's uh so you go up the hill and

569
00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:03,640
Speaker 4: it just everything cuts out.

570
00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:05,960
Speaker 2: Okay, if you're going downhill and you take your foot

571
00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:09,440
Speaker 2: off the gas and coast in neutral, does it all

572
00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:09,960
Speaker 2: come back?

573
00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:11,960
Speaker 4: It all comes back Okay.

574
00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:16,199
Speaker 2: You've got a vacuum problem. You It sounds this sounds

575
00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:20,000
Speaker 2: like a vacuum problem. The classic the vacuum reservoir tank

576
00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:23,320
Speaker 2: is either is either ruptured, broken or the host fell

577
00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:28,120
Speaker 2: off that supply that feeds supply. All right, so we've

578
00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:30,000
Speaker 2: got to look at that. It sounds like there's just

579
00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:33,560
Speaker 2: a good size hole in that and you're just not

580
00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:36,960
Speaker 2: getting enough airflow to control the doors in the proper position.

581
00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:40,600
Speaker 2: That would be that would be the first step. All right,

582
00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:43,640
Speaker 2: you know that that would not be uncommon. Could we

583
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:47,240
Speaker 2: have an actuat or issue door position, door blend issue position? Sure,

584
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:50,920
Speaker 2: but you know, let's go with let's go with simple first.

585
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:53,440
Speaker 2: Has it had any recent work? Has anybody worked on

586
00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:54,080
Speaker 2: this recently?

587
00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:57,600
Speaker 4: Yeah? I did. I did a tune up on it myself.

588
00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:02,880
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, uh spark plugs and wires about eight months ago,

589
00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:03,800
Speaker 4: eight nine months ago.

590
00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:05,880
Speaker 2: And did the problem happen right after that or has

591
00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:06,560
Speaker 2: it been a while?

592
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:11,640
Speaker 4: It was? Yeah, right right around that time. I didn't

593
00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:14,320
Speaker 4: think I was touching any of the hoses, but I

594
00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:16,440
Speaker 4: probably I might have when I pulled one of the wires.

595
00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:16,840
Speaker 4: I could have.

596
00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:21,280
Speaker 2: Okay, because of the vacuum tubing, for that if I'm

597
00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:25,000
Speaker 2: if memory serves me correct, comes down around the passenger

598
00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:27,640
Speaker 2: side corner of the engine and then feeds into under

599
00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:30,520
Speaker 2: the dash to feed the canister which is attached to

600
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:33,720
Speaker 2: it just under the passenger side portion of the dashboard.

601
00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:37,080
Speaker 4: Okay, right, okay, so.

602
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:40,320
Speaker 2: I would be paying attention there. It will. It will

603
00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:45,360
Speaker 2: confuse you because they actually feed manifold vacuum to those reservoirs.

604
00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:48,680
Speaker 2: But that's just the way they are. They're just trying

605
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:52,360
Speaker 2: to get mass maximum vacuum apply to that if they can.

606
00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:54,960
Speaker 2: But I would go back and look at those hoses.

607
00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:57,960
Speaker 2: Did you somehow break something not realizing it? Do you

608
00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:02,280
Speaker 2: have a vacuum leak of some magnitude affecting door operation?

609
00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:05,040
Speaker 2: And if not, just make sure that the door for

610
00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:08,520
Speaker 2: the system where the doors and the vacuums apply line

611
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:11,080
Speaker 2: is intact doing what it's supposed to do. But that's

612
00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:14,520
Speaker 2: where I think you're headed for this, all right.

613
00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:17,480
Speaker 4: I appreciate it that that narrows it down, because I

614
00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:20,320
Speaker 4: was going to pull the whole No.

615
00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:22,200
Speaker 2: No, no, no no, let's let's go back and try and

616
00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:24,560
Speaker 2: be sequential, all right, Kittle, you call me back if.

617
00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:26,760
Speaker 4: You need more, Okay, I appreciate it that.

618
00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:29,280
Speaker 2: You're very welcome. You're very welcome, ben A five five,

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Speaker 2: five six zero nine nine zero zero. We'll be back

620
00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:36,959
Speaker 2: to wrap it up right after this. I want to

621
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:40,120
Speaker 2: finish out the hour today and talk about the the

622
00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:46,160
Speaker 2: massive amounts of misinformation that's out there in the world

623
00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:49,160
Speaker 2: of water repair. Some of it's perpetuated by the repair

624
00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:50,720
Speaker 2: shops that I think are wrong. Some of it is

625
00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:55,200
Speaker 2: perpetuated by the Internet Library, the University of the Internet,

626
00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:58,200
Speaker 2: and some of the conversations that people have and talking

627
00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:01,080
Speaker 2: about the way procedures are done in proper SSSS are done.

628
00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:04,320
Speaker 2: There's a lot of engineering that goes into a modern car.

629
00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:06,200
Speaker 2: And if you find somebody saying, well, that's not how

630
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:08,040
Speaker 2: we used to do it on my dad's car, which

631
00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:12,040
Speaker 2: was thirty years ago, you know, it's a bad example.

632
00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:14,680
Speaker 2: Because there are some places where the laws of physics

633
00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:17,800
Speaker 2: are the same, but you know what, on a modern vehicle,

634
00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:22,440
Speaker 2: the laws of physics have changed the game, and just

635
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:24,440
Speaker 2: in the way we approach repair, just in the way

636
00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:26,720
Speaker 2: we approach maintenance, just in the way that we think

637
00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:31,640
Speaker 2: about it, and these these misnomers that are out there

638
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:34,440
Speaker 2: on the Internet, where people start and I think they

639
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:36,320
Speaker 2: just want to be heard and they don't know what

640
00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:39,160
Speaker 2: they're talking about, and they start talking about oil change intervals,

641
00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:42,600
Speaker 2: entire rotation time and why repair shop does this or that.

642
00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:45,520
Speaker 2: I think they're wrong, and I think the proof is

643
00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:47,360
Speaker 2: in the putting. I think it's you know, what's the

644
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:49,680
Speaker 2: longevity of the vehicle, And I think that's the bigger

645
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:52,440
Speaker 2: picture and that's really what it's all about. So I

646
00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:54,720
Speaker 2: want to just plant that seat in your head. Maintenance

647
00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:57,920
Speaker 2: is still the single most important thing you can do

648
00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:00,880
Speaker 2: to a vehicle to keep it running longer. It really is.

649
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:04,840
Speaker 2: It kind of comes back to that. I've gotten a

650
00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:07,480
Speaker 2: couple of emails of the last two or three weeks

651
00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:09,960
Speaker 2: of people looking at different cars, and I want to

652
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:12,760
Speaker 2: just comment on that I see without commenting to any

653
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:15,440
Speaker 2: specific one, but just the four that I've gotten on

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Speaker 2: my desk in front of me. Some of them talk

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Speaker 2: about they want to buy a Toyota Hybrid or a

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Speaker 2: Kia Hybrid. Which hybrid should we buy one? Fella says,

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Speaker 2: you know they both fit as extremely well. We're of

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Speaker 2: this age. We're not quite sure. You know, what are

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Speaker 2: your thoughts? I think you're still buying a car. Company

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Speaker 2: and I think the difference between buying a Toyota or

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Speaker 2: a Kia. If those are my two choices, I'm probably

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Speaker 2: going to lean towards the Toyota. I think the Key

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Speaker 2: is a great five to six year vehicle. I just

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Speaker 2: haven't seen Kiya Hyundai because I lump them both together

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Speaker 2: evolve into the same state where they're better than that.

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Speaker 2: They're a five year vehicle, six year vehicle, and a

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Speaker 2: real one. But then they just seem to fall apart.

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Speaker 2: They don't seem to hold up. If my choice is

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Speaker 2: Keye Hunda for a hybrid or Toyota for a hybrid,

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Speaker 2: I've got to think the Toyota's got to win hands

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Speaker 2: down every time, because I think the engineering is better.

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Speaker 2: I think the quality control I'd have to give them

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Speaker 2: not to Toyota, And I think it becomes a case

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Speaker 2: of you're buying again the culture of repair. What does

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Speaker 2: that company say it's going to take to maintain that

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Speaker 2: car and keep it on the road? Now, first and foremost, absolute,

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Speaker 2: first and foremost. When you're looking at cars, what's Ron's rule?

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Speaker 2: Drive it during the day, drive it at night? Are

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Speaker 2: all the buttons in the right place? Does everything have

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Speaker 2: a good tactile feel to it. Can you find what

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Speaker 2: you're looking for fairly easy? It's really that important. And

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Speaker 2: you know, those are the things you have to look for,

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Speaker 2: and those are the things you have to keep in

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Speaker 2: mind because you're going to have this car for five

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Speaker 2: or six, seven or eight or nine or ten years

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Speaker 2: till the next time. I'm ronnin Andy and the car Doctor.

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Speaker 2: The mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. See you