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Speaker 1: Ron Ananian, everybody needs a pickup truck. You don't realize

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Speaker 1: The danger annoying a pickup truck is you. You know

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Speaker 1: You go with a pickup truck. It's like having a

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Speaker 1: go to the supermarket. Welcome to the radio home of

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Speaker 1: Ron and Nanian the Car Doctor, since this is where

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Speaker 1: car owners the world overturned to for their definitive opinion

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Speaker 1: on automotive repair. If your mechanics giving you a busy signal,

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Speaker 1: at eight five, five six and now he running so

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Speaker 1: many cars, so many conversations, so little time. Hello and

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Speaker 1: welcome Ron in any of the car Doctor at your service.

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Speaker 1: What do you want to start this week? Do you

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Speaker 1: want to talk about the the pink thing? That's what

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Speaker 1: it is, was a pink Volkswagen thing, right, we should

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Speaker 1: talk about the Chevy bolt. Uh. You know, we know

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Speaker 1: cars are hot, but this one's a little hotter than most.

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Speaker 1: And then again, maybe we should start here because I

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Speaker 1: Opus I v. S is the Cadillac of scan tools

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Speaker 1: me an oh wow moment every day that I use it,

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Speaker 1: best of us, you know, we'll get lost at times

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Speaker 1: because the problem seems a little overwhelming or convoluted or

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Speaker 1: Scan tool and the whole ideology of how they're doing

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Speaker 1: this is it it teaches you conformity. You are going

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Speaker 1: beginning of the diagnosis to gather information, which is just

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Speaker 1: so important, right you know what are we working on?

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Speaker 1: What's the problem. Too many times we sit there and

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Speaker 1: we all do it. We're human, We're trying to get

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Speaker 1: through the problem. What could be wrong? No, no, no.

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Speaker 1: What Opus teaches you to do is show us what's right,

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Speaker 1: show us what's good. Go in, connect to the car,

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Speaker 1: and you get to talk to a tech in that

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Speaker 1: table as they help reform the industry and make it better.

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Speaker 1: They're bringing the ability of of looking at a car

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Speaker 1: the same thing as saying manufacturer level. The same software

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Speaker 1: Why is the mindset? And I asked him, I said, Matt,

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Speaker 1: What they're doing. The ability to flash software. We flashed

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Speaker 1: You know that's how it's going to work, because it's

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Speaker 1: tomil research it for me and shoot shoot me a note.

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Speaker 1: and Queens, New York, twenty one BMW Ron, Welcome to

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Speaker 1: the Car Doctor, sir. How can I help? Hello, Ron

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Speaker 1: Norman Cone. I have I have a problem that I

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Speaker 1: How many fobs do you have, Norman? How many miles?

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Speaker 1: How many fobs? We tried both of the and they

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Speaker 1: system in it, and in general, I guess over the

427
00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:18,120
Speaker 1: last couple of years hasn't been as bad. I've only

428
00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:19,639
Speaker 1: kind of been able to fill it up to about

429
00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:23,119
Speaker 1: half capacity, so about seven eight gallons. But now that

430
00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:25,080
Speaker 1: it's been pretty hot down here over the last week

431
00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:27,200
Speaker 1: or so, I've only been able to get a couple

432
00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:28,840
Speaker 1: of gallons, you know, two or three gallons in it

433
00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:31,359
Speaker 1: before it shuts off. And I've even tried to baby

434
00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:32,840
Speaker 1: it a little bit, and you know, of course I

435
00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:34,720
Speaker 1: get the back overflow on him when I do that?

436
00:24:35,119 --> 00:24:36,879
Speaker 1: Do you think that would be something that could possibly

437
00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:39,760
Speaker 1: be connected, like a fuel filter or something that's clogged.

438
00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:44,199
Speaker 1: Only if you've got a fuel delivery issues such that

439
00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:50,560
Speaker 1: it's affecting performance. All right, But you know, let's where

440
00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:53,920
Speaker 1: where is fuel trim? Looking at? You know, numbers won't lie.

441
00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:57,639
Speaker 1: Where's fuel trim? Where's the bank O two? Where's the

442
00:24:57,680 --> 00:24:59,960
Speaker 1: downstream O two at? And if you've got a black

443
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,000
Speaker 1: had our problem as much as you you know, spending

444
00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:05,040
Speaker 1: the money as a back breaker, maybe it's time to

445
00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:07,840
Speaker 1: you know, replace that tank and deal with it because

446
00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:10,560
Speaker 1: it's only gonna get worse some time. Um, you know

447
00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:13,119
Speaker 1: those cars will listen, those cars will go three hundred

448
00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:14,639
Speaker 1: thousand miles on it. How many miles you got in

449
00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:19,920
Speaker 1: that car? Ar? Yeah? Say those cars will go three

450
00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:22,159
Speaker 1: four thousand miles. And if you have to put a

451
00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:23,880
Speaker 1: battery in it, you put a battery. And if those

452
00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:26,840
Speaker 1: cars are so over engineered, it's amazing. You haven't done

453
00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:30,159
Speaker 1: rear brakes on that car yet, have you? Nope? Have

454
00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:33,520
Speaker 1: you done? Have you done exhaust yet? Nope? Nope, nope.

455
00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:35,440
Speaker 1: All you do is you put front brakes on it.

456
00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:39,560
Speaker 1: How many sets of front brakes. Have you put on it? One? One? Yeah?

457
00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:42,480
Speaker 1: I got one when I first got it with about

458
00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:46,840
Speaker 1: seventy or eighty thousand miles and I haven't touched some sin. Yeah.

459
00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:49,200
Speaker 1: The only thing I have had go on it other

460
00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:52,399
Speaker 1: than uh, the headlight bulbs which are pretty expensive, and

461
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:55,399
Speaker 1: then I had to do a wiel bearing on the

462
00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:58,000
Speaker 1: front passengers side on it. But other than that, it's

463
00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:00,480
Speaker 1: been pretty good to me. Yeah, it had. They wears

464
00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:04,879
Speaker 1: out tires right, Um, Yeah, it's pretty good as a

465
00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:08,320
Speaker 1: good Yeah. I drive a lot of work, so sometimes

466
00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:10,720
Speaker 1: I skimp a little on the tires just because I

467
00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:12,320
Speaker 1: never make a seem to make a whole life out

468
00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:15,640
Speaker 1: of them. Listen, there's nothing like getting into a car

469
00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:19,240
Speaker 1: with high mileage and having the confidence that it's gonna

470
00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:22,560
Speaker 1: get there. My advice would be fixed the bladder problem,

471
00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:26,360
Speaker 1: then dive into the fuel trim issue, because that car

472
00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:29,119
Speaker 1: will go. That car will give you years. Yet, you know,

473
00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:30,680
Speaker 1: if you continue to take care of it like I

474
00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:34,199
Speaker 1: suspect you are, that car will will give you, you know,

475
00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:37,000
Speaker 1: a couple of two, three, four or five more years.

476
00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:39,879
Speaker 1: It really depends how you take care of it, so

477
00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:42,120
Speaker 1: you know it's gonna be cheaper than a new car.

478
00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:47,840
Speaker 1: I can tell you that, Yeah, what's your gas? I mean,

479
00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:49,879
Speaker 1: do you think it's I'm leaning towards like an O

480
00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:52,000
Speaker 1: two center or something like that. Is that kind of

481
00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:55,200
Speaker 1: where you think you might end up? Oh? No, it

482
00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:57,760
Speaker 1: depends on the fuel trim. The most the most common

483
00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:00,960
Speaker 1: failure on that, believe it or not, is really mass

484
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:05,480
Speaker 1: airflow sensors that are at a calibration. But you won't

485
00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:08,080
Speaker 1: know that. You know, cleaning it's a good step, but

486
00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:12,239
Speaker 1: that's you know again, we're playing stickball in the Major League. Uh,

487
00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:16,680
Speaker 1: you know where is future? I don't want you to either.

488
00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:18,959
Speaker 1: I want you to go buy a scan tool, all

489
00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:21,520
Speaker 1: right for five hundred bucks, you know what. Go to

490
00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:25,200
Speaker 1: the Autel website, all right, go to you know, doc

491
00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:28,080
Speaker 1: Google search Autel scan Tools A U T. E. L.

492
00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:30,920
Speaker 1: Go to their website and you can look at some

493
00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:32,919
Speaker 1: of their d I Y stuff. They've got things on

494
00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:36,320
Speaker 1: their five thousand bucks And you're gonna have to spend

495
00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:38,399
Speaker 1: that kind of money to get what you need. But

496
00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:40,679
Speaker 1: you know what, you'll like that car. You're gonna get

497
00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:43,360
Speaker 1: a good couple of years out of it. Scan tools

498
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:47,159
Speaker 1: today are becoming you know, it's a consumable. It's like

499
00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:49,840
Speaker 1: your cell phone. Right. We change our cell phones every

500
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:53,360
Speaker 1: three to five years. Some people change them every two years. Uh,

501
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:56,679
Speaker 1: you know, you can take an hotel, they'll update it,

502
00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:59,760
Speaker 1: they'll keep you in software. And you should get three

503
00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:01,680
Speaker 1: to five years out of that scan tool before you're

504
00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:03,399
Speaker 1: ready for the next one. And what's gonna drive you

505
00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:06,000
Speaker 1: having to replace that is going to be the hardware

506
00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:09,000
Speaker 1: requirement that the manufacturers impose on us. If you stay

507
00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:11,440
Speaker 1: with that, oh seven prius for a while, that will

508
00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:14,040
Speaker 1: tell scantool will work for a good long time. All right,

509
00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:17,600
Speaker 1: kidd okay, thank you very much. You're very welcome. Eric,

510
00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:19,760
Speaker 1: let us know, let let us know what fixes that,

511
00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:22,480
Speaker 1: and thank you for being part of the car doctor family.

512
00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:26,560
Speaker 1: Six zero zero run any car doctor coming back right

513
00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:36,840
Speaker 1: after this, Welcome back right on the end of the

514
00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:39,320
Speaker 1: car Doctor. Let's see if he's there. Is Ellison there

515
00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:42,400
Speaker 1: in Virginia. We understand he might be on the line.

516
00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:45,920
Speaker 1: Ellison turns eighty this week, and uh, there he is.

517
00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:51,440
Speaker 1: How are your brother? Yeah, I got ruin that are

518
00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:53,840
Speaker 1: you probably don't even want to hear, But I've been

519
00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:57,960
Speaker 1: owning car since I was a sixteen and and uh,

520
00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:01,720
Speaker 1: I'll be eighty next week. And I had the quickest

521
00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:03,960
Speaker 1: fixed out of the head in my life. I thought

522
00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:07,560
Speaker 1: I had a problem my eighties seven food three fifty.

523
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:09,600
Speaker 1: I used around on the place because I don't drive

524
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:13,600
Speaker 1: anymore on the road. But I thought I had a

525
00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:15,840
Speaker 1: big pile that was missing and skipping. I hadn't drove

526
00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:19,320
Speaker 1: it about a money and a half, and come to

527
00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:22,600
Speaker 1: find out a dirt dovel had made the miss on

528
00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:25,800
Speaker 1: my I called it the deskbout the side, the outside

529
00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:28,200
Speaker 1: the copyright, the one around the thing that took back

530
00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:31,480
Speaker 1: in place, and I took the dirt dover next off

531
00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:34,040
Speaker 1: and I'm running fine. Now, Allison, let me ask you

532
00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:37,200
Speaker 1: a question. You can't drive on the road anymore. No,

533
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:40,240
Speaker 1: I'm legally black, right, that's right. But you've got all

534
00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:42,160
Speaker 1: these cars on the farm that I got the mac

535
00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:44,920
Speaker 1: with degeneration, right, And you've got all these cars on

536
00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:47,840
Speaker 1: the farm that you drive around on the fields, right, trucks.

537
00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:50,920
Speaker 1: I got the two trucks, and uh, well, my son

538
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 1: drive my cars. Yeah? How many? How many? How many

539
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:58,920
Speaker 1: cars do you have? Now? Oh? Oh, you cut the

540
00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:01,440
Speaker 1: they took some away from huh. The last time I talk.

541
00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:03,560
Speaker 1: The last time I talked to you. I got a

542
00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:08,840
Speaker 1: pickup truck. Yeah, yeah, the last time, getting ready to

543
00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:11,800
Speaker 1: get my nephew help me work on it on Sunday morning,

544
00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:13,880
Speaker 1: and I come find I got to stick it around,

545
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:15,440
Speaker 1: and I said, let me stick it around here and

546
00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:18,600
Speaker 1: see what I can steal and hit a dirt doubleness,

547
00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:21,800
Speaker 1: and that was my problem. You know what, animals and

548
00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:26,040
Speaker 1: cars sure makes some interesting stories. Right, What are you

549
00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:29,240
Speaker 1: gonna do? I call you and heard it a long time,

550
00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:31,920
Speaker 1: and I'm glad to talk to always good to talk

551
00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:33,520
Speaker 1: to you, Elison. What are you gonna do? Anything special

552
00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:38,000
Speaker 1: for your birthday? Not lay back and stay off the road.

553
00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:41,160
Speaker 1: Having so many accidents in all around here. I like

554
00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:43,840
Speaker 1: to lay back in my lands. Chick on. Let's listen

555
00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:46,840
Speaker 1: at ridio. So let me see you're you're gonna be eighty.

556
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:54,120
Speaker 1: So you were born nineteen one, So what do you do?

557
00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:56,680
Speaker 1: You remember the end of World War two in forty

558
00:30:57,360 --> 00:31:02,440
Speaker 1: as as as you were four? No, I remember that right, Um,

559
00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:04,520
Speaker 1: But you saw a lot of you saw you saw

560
00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:09,240
Speaker 1: the country go through a lot of change, right, the forties,

561
00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:13,240
Speaker 1: the fifties, the sixties, the seventies. Um, you're like a

562
00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:18,640
Speaker 1: walking history book. Ellison. Yeah, yeah, I don't want to run,

563
00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:21,080
Speaker 1: but the bad understand. I don't want to make the

564
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:23,720
Speaker 1: paper bad. Understand. I don't want you to get hurt. Listen,

565
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:25,520
Speaker 1: you go do what you gotta do. You'll be you.

566
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:27,400
Speaker 1: You light up birthday candles. You don't want you to

567
00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:30,560
Speaker 1: get lit up by the lightning. So all right, you'd

568
00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:33,800
Speaker 1: be well, have a good birthday, Ellison, Happy birthday, brother,

569
00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:36,640
Speaker 1: You're very welcome. He's you know, you know how long

570
00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:39,960
Speaker 1: I've been talking to Ellison. It goes back to let

571
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:45,200
Speaker 1: me think where, uh, well, it's at least been since

572
00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:50,160
Speaker 1: we took this show self syndicated. It's it's it's before that. Tom.

573
00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:54,800
Speaker 1: Remember do you remember Ira from w R Okay, he

574
00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:58,760
Speaker 1: was my call screener at o R. And yeah, that's

575
00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:02,160
Speaker 1: this is twenty years and I remember, I remember when

576
00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:04,720
Speaker 1: he first called up. He told us some funny stories

577
00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:07,920
Speaker 1: he had, like I think, oh, I don't know, thirty

578
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:10,480
Speaker 1: or forty cars sprinkled around the cornfield. He lives on

579
00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:13,880
Speaker 1: a farm in Virginia and he's got all these cars.

580
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:15,200
Speaker 1: And he says I'd have to stash him out in

581
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:17,960
Speaker 1: the weeds so my wife wouldn't find him because she

582
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:19,320
Speaker 1: wants me to get rid of him. And he would

583
00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:21,720
Speaker 1: go out there and you know, pretend he was, you know,

584
00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:25,120
Speaker 1: doing you know, gardening or you know, doing the farm work,

585
00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:26,760
Speaker 1: and he go take cars for a ride around the

586
00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:30,200
Speaker 1: fields and here and there and everywhere, and he's just

587
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:33,720
Speaker 1: just funny stuff. The guy loves cars. So we love Ellison.

588
00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:37,479
Speaker 1: Great job, Ellison, Happy birthday, Congratulations on making eighty eight

589
00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:41,080
Speaker 1: five zero zero run nating the car doctor coming back

590
00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:49,760
Speaker 1: right after this, welcome back or on any of the

591
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:52,600
Speaker 1: card doctually. Let's get over to Tom in Massachusetts. Tom,

592
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:57,520
Speaker 1: you're on what's going on? Good sir? What can I do?

593
00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:00,360
Speaker 1: What can I do to help you? I just I

594
00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:03,400
Speaker 1: just want to see if it's possible to uh take

595
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:08,400
Speaker 1: a non power hatch release and make it power. If

596
00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:12,680
Speaker 1: there's a retro six ship or something? What what kind

597
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:19,280
Speaker 1: of cars this? Uh do you know? Was it ever

598
00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:24,680
Speaker 1: offered as an option on the vehicle? Yeah, some of

599
00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:27,520
Speaker 1: them do have them, and it has to cutouts and

600
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:31,960
Speaker 1: whatnot far it. So you know, there's a couple of

601
00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:34,440
Speaker 1: thoughts I've got. Is it possible? Sure? We can do anything,

602
00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:37,080
Speaker 1: you know, it's listen, they can put ls l S

603
00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:39,520
Speaker 1: Chevy l s motors into fifty five Chevys and make

604
00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:41,680
Speaker 1: it look like they're factory So anything can be done.

605
00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:44,000
Speaker 1: You know, how much money do we have to spend,

606
00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:47,400
Speaker 1: you know, from a practical point of view, um electrically

607
00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:49,880
Speaker 1: to make the solnoids and the latches work. Yes, I

608
00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:52,840
Speaker 1: think that's a no brainer, and it would probably involve

609
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:55,600
Speaker 1: the Obviously, the easiest way would be to find a

610
00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:58,240
Speaker 1: donor vehicle, something that was in an accident where the

611
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:01,120
Speaker 1: back hatch is intact and you could swap parts from

612
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:04,000
Speaker 1: that onto yours. It's also going to have to have

613
00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:06,600
Speaker 1: different arms, you know, to support the hatch because when

614
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:08,600
Speaker 1: you hit the button, you want the arms to be

615
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:12,480
Speaker 1: strong enough to push the hatch up. The rub is

616
00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:15,520
Speaker 1: going to come from does your vehicle or is your

617
00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:21,480
Speaker 1: vehicle equipped electrically for the rear hatch such that if

618
00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:23,839
Speaker 1: the kit were installed, it would be a matter of

619
00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:28,640
Speaker 1: a software install to get it to match up to

620
00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:32,359
Speaker 1: allow it to function and work. So, yes, it could

621
00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:34,839
Speaker 1: be done. You'd have to do some research as far

622
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:38,080
Speaker 1: as functionality. How do they make it work at at

623
00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:40,720
Speaker 1: the manufacturing level when they put it together. My feeling

624
00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:43,239
Speaker 1: is it's there on the car you just have to

625
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:46,160
Speaker 1: find the components and a donor vehicle at what price

626
00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:48,920
Speaker 1: that I don't know. Appreciate the call, Tom, I'm not

627
00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:50,719
Speaker 1: an aiding the car doctor saying it's time to go.

628
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:53,319
Speaker 1: We'll talk about the pink thing another time. Until the

629
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:57,200
Speaker 1: next time, Remember, good mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. Let's

630
00:34:57,200 --> 00:35:06,040
Speaker 1: see you. She was star