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Speaker 1: different things to test impossible scenarios. Welcome to the radio

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Speaker 1: over and talk to Frank in New Mexico Olds six old, Cutless,

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Speaker 1: Supreme and a hydrocarbon problem. Frank, welcome to the car doctor.

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Speaker 1: How can I help? Oh? Yeah, great, last admissions test

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Speaker 1: my oil dirty? Wol. I'm gonna change the oil, take

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Speaker 1: you know, hydrocarbons. Let's establish a baseline. Hydrocarbons are raw fuel,

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Speaker 1: class to my oil, my excuse me, my air filter

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Speaker 1: Northern Minnesota series Chevy pick him up truck. What's going on, Jeffrey?

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Speaker 1: That switch could be a fixed. Well, the problem as

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Speaker 1: it couples to the box. Correct. Uh. I can't tell

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Speaker 1: because that could have rusted up, especially if you're snow plowing.

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Speaker 1: And I'll tell you what I have my two thousand

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Speaker 1: The truck was fixed. So all right, sir, thank you much.

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Speaker 1: You're very welcome. You let me know what happens. I'm curious,

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Speaker 1: so stay staying tough, Jeffrey, You're very welcome. Five zero

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Speaker 1: good afternoon. I had a question about car computers. Can

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Speaker 1: Nah not not in that technology is not there, you know,

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Speaker 1: Mark my words. It's going to happen. But you don't.

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Speaker 1: You don't think that. Not yet, not yet, No sir,

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Speaker 1: how you're gonna stop a rampaging automobile. The car manufacturers

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Speaker 1: and Blocks in Mississippi six. Christ there, Hey Jonathan, welcome

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Speaker 1: to the car doctor. How can happen? Yes? Yeah, from spine.

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Speaker 1: car doctor, sir, How can I help hi? Y Um.

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Speaker 1: The alternator in the past months started squeaking when I

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Speaker 1: it's one's emotion. One is a scientific explanation of it.

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Speaker 1: So how about the next time it does this makes

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Speaker 1: a little fush fush spray bottle. Yeah, why don't we

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Speaker 1: the belt, all right. You know. The other the other

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Speaker 1: it's up high. It's relatively easy to get to. Yeah, yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: all right, so let's yeah, easy enough. Let's let's let's

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Speaker 1: Water doesn't hurt a belt in the sense that when

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Speaker 1: and let's see does that change it? Obviously, be careful

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Speaker 1: But let's let's let's try that. That won't cost you anything.

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Speaker 1: And it's easy enough to try. And um, you know,

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Speaker 1: If it If that doesn't do it, and it continues

426
00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:08,240
Speaker 1: to make the noise, then the next step is gonna

427
00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:10,560
Speaker 1: be you're gonna have to, you know, shut the car off. Obviously,

428
00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:14,359
Speaker 1: take the belt off and start spinning things. What sounds like? What?

429
00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:16,560
Speaker 1: What sounds like? It's making noise? Does anything have a

430
00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:20,200
Speaker 1: squeak to it? Um? You don't have a mechanic stethoscope,

431
00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:22,760
Speaker 1: do you? Yeah? I do. I was just thinking that

432
00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:25,680
Speaker 1: maybe that might be helpful. Yeah, yeah, you know. And

433
00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:27,000
Speaker 1: what I would tell you to do is I would

434
00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:28,679
Speaker 1: tell you to go listen to the alternator when the

435
00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:33,280
Speaker 1: noise isn't there. That way, you know what good is

436
00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:37,560
Speaker 1: right or or better in this case. Uh, you know,

437
00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:39,240
Speaker 1: listen to it when it's not making the noise, and

438
00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:41,480
Speaker 1: then when it's making the noise, listen to it again.

439
00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:47,320
Speaker 1: You know, you gotta have known good to compare against bad.

440
00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:50,120
Speaker 1: And that's whether you're looking at an alternator or drive

441
00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:55,399
Speaker 1: ability problem, a brake pedal, or you know anything along

442
00:24:55,440 --> 00:25:01,119
Speaker 1: those lines. Alright, alright, you you do that. You give

443
00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:04,280
Speaker 1: me a call back, Marty. You give me a call

444
00:25:04,359 --> 00:25:07,639
Speaker 1: back and let me know what happens. Okay. Thanks, You're

445
00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:11,440
Speaker 1: very welcome the great information on this show. It's fantastic.

446
00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:13,760
Speaker 1: I appreciate it, Marty. I'm glad to be here for you.

447
00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:17,159
Speaker 1: So you take good care. Eight five five zero nine

448
00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:19,199
Speaker 1: zero zero. The Car Doctor is coming back right after this.

449
00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:29,159
Speaker 1: That's right. If you call and we're not live, you

450
00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:31,000
Speaker 1: can leave a message and we'll call you back to

451
00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:34,040
Speaker 1: get you on the air with Ron. Eight five five

452
00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:39,440
Speaker 1: zero nine nine zero zero. Speaking of Ron here he is. Hey,

453
00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:41,479
Speaker 1: let's get on over and talk to Ron from Sohmer

454
00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:43,119
Speaker 1: in New York. Ron, Welcome to the car doctor. How

455
00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:46,840
Speaker 1: can I help? Hey? How are you doing today? What's cooking?

456
00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:52,879
Speaker 1: Two thousand TENE Liberty had a hundred and ten thousand miles.

457
00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:55,359
Speaker 1: Never really had much of a problem with it. Just

458
00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:59,560
Speaker 1: broken in, baby, I mean just broken in. So no, no,

459
00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:02,679
Speaker 1: it's uh, it's well taken care of. Yeah, good car,

460
00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:07,280
Speaker 1: I said, just broken in, just just then. Issue I

461
00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:12,000
Speaker 1: ever had was the transmission lines rusted out. That's it. Um,

462
00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:15,320
Speaker 1: I have an issue where I can only get ventilation

463
00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:18,439
Speaker 1: through the defroster underneath the windshield. I can't get it

464
00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:20,760
Speaker 1: through the vents, and I can't get it through the floor.

465
00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:23,800
Speaker 1: I can get hot, I can get cold. I just

466
00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:29,560
Speaker 1: can't redirect the air. Um. As anybody trying any diagnosis, Yeah,

467
00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:34,080
Speaker 1: well I've I'm fairly familiar. I'm a techno electronics technician,

468
00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:36,960
Speaker 1: so I'm fairly I'm pretty decent with a meter and

469
00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:40,040
Speaker 1: and some logical assessment. I went down to that. I

470
00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:44,439
Speaker 1: think it's the mixing celenoid. Checked it. It works, It

471
00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:47,560
Speaker 1: changes when I call for different heat. Um um. I

472
00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:51,080
Speaker 1: put it back together again. It seems everything's fine. One person,

473
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:52,920
Speaker 1: my daughter took it in when she was a college,

474
00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:57,760
Speaker 1: said basically that there's a redirect event or a damper

475
00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:02,240
Speaker 1: that probably had has ended up getting stuck in a

476
00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:05,720
Speaker 1: position where the glue melted and has you know, jammed

477
00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:09,400
Speaker 1: up that particular damper, right, and we see that a lot.

478
00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:12,520
Speaker 1: You know, the easy way to go about this ron

479
00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:16,840
Speaker 1: would would be to, you know, just just get your

480
00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:20,240
Speaker 1: hands on a on a on a specific level scan tool,

481
00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:23,400
Speaker 1: not an O B D two, but manufacturer level scan

482
00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:25,880
Speaker 1: tool that has the ability to a here's a case

483
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:27,600
Speaker 1: where you've got to go in and scan for fault

484
00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:29,920
Speaker 1: codes on the on the body computer or the heating

485
00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:33,880
Speaker 1: ventilation module, just to see if there's anything there. And

486
00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:36,960
Speaker 1: then if it's a well equipped tool, it will have

487
00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:40,919
Speaker 1: the ability to do bidirectional controls and you can you know,

488
00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:45,040
Speaker 1: manually move the actuators. Uh, you know, if you apply

489
00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:47,480
Speaker 1: command to the actuator to move and it doesn't move.

490
00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:50,600
Speaker 1: You know, then at least you've been then eliminated the

491
00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:53,440
Speaker 1: possibility that it's the control head and wiring in between

492
00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:55,879
Speaker 1: you've or I guess it could be wiring in between

493
00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:57,560
Speaker 1: the p c M or the b c M and

494
00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:01,880
Speaker 1: the and the actuator. But you've eliminated half have the system. Um,

495
00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:03,560
Speaker 1: you know, and then at that point you know it's

496
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:05,680
Speaker 1: the actuator. Now you've got to go find it, probably

497
00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:08,960
Speaker 1: accessing it through the glove box door, if memory serves me,

498
00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:12,919
Speaker 1: correct um, by pulling the glove box out. But because

499
00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:15,440
Speaker 1: actually I've got I've actually gone in there and manually

500
00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:17,639
Speaker 1: moved that small damper up there to see if I

501
00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:21,720
Speaker 1: could just redirect. Um. Nothing nothing works. I get no

502
00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:25,200
Speaker 1: nothing moves. I get no change in the airflow at all. Well,

503
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:28,000
Speaker 1: when you say, when you say you've manually moved the damper,

504
00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:31,200
Speaker 1: what you take the actuator off? No? No, I just

505
00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:33,399
Speaker 1: I just the damper actually moves. It's loose, there's nothing,

506
00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:39,080
Speaker 1: there's nothing that actually, um uh, it's very easily moved movable. Well,

507
00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:41,560
Speaker 1: what where's the actuator for it? I don't, I don't.

508
00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:43,880
Speaker 1: Where are you where are you going that you're moving

509
00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:49,320
Speaker 1: that actuator or that blo Okay, well, then where's the

510
00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:54,560
Speaker 1: actuator for it to be in that location. I didn't

511
00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:56,480
Speaker 1: even I wasn't even thinking about looking for the actuator

512
00:28:56,560 --> 00:28:58,760
Speaker 1: there right, Well, if you can move, if you can

513
00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:02,400
Speaker 1: move the if you can move the door that controls

514
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:06,959
Speaker 1: position to defrost vent or feet something is physically broken

515
00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:09,760
Speaker 1: or missing, okay, but it doesn't change the flow of

516
00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:12,600
Speaker 1: air though, even when I do move it, right, But

517
00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:15,680
Speaker 1: what do you think you're moving? Are you physically moving

518
00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:19,520
Speaker 1: the door, are you moving the shaft? I'm actually moving

519
00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:24,560
Speaker 1: the door itself. Something's broken, there's there's there's something broken.

520
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:26,840
Speaker 1: I mean, if you close the front door to your house,

521
00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:28,640
Speaker 1: and if if if, if the wind's coming in and

522
00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:30,720
Speaker 1: you close the door to your house, the air has

523
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:32,840
Speaker 1: got to stop right or it's got to change the direction.

524
00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:36,400
Speaker 1: Correct So, if I understand what you're saying correctly, and

525
00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:39,920
Speaker 1: I think I do, um, it's if if you're changing

526
00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:43,479
Speaker 1: position of that door, then it's it's got to come

527
00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:46,000
Speaker 1: out from a different spot. Either there's a block edge

528
00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:48,360
Speaker 1: which I don't see how it would block both middle

529
00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:52,160
Speaker 1: and bottom, or that blend door. Actually, that blend door

530
00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:56,560
Speaker 1: pivot is physically broken. But I don't understand. I've never

531
00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:58,720
Speaker 1: seen a case where you can move the door if

532
00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:01,360
Speaker 1: the actuator wasn't play. If the actuator is in place,

533
00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:05,000
Speaker 1: it should you should be able to move it. So

534
00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:08,200
Speaker 1: is the actuator missing and there's there's there's more pieces

535
00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:10,320
Speaker 1: to this puzzle than we know at this point. I

536
00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:12,080
Speaker 1: wouldn't know if it's missing because I've never been in

537
00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:15,040
Speaker 1: this part of the car before. So I would tell

538
00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:17,440
Speaker 1: you to get some information and match up where's that

539
00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:20,600
Speaker 1: actuator supposed to be. If that actuator is missing, then

540
00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:22,480
Speaker 1: we've got to go find it. But that doesn't sound

541
00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:24,960
Speaker 1: like it's going to fix the car. Uh fix the

542
00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:27,480
Speaker 1: problem because you can move the door and there's no change,

543
00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:30,720
Speaker 1: So you could have you could have a broken door internally.

544
00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:34,880
Speaker 1: Does this does this system when it's working properly, does

545
00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:39,000
Speaker 1: it have split hot and cold left to right? Uh?

546
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:41,080
Speaker 1: There's no, there's no options on the on the dash

547
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:43,640
Speaker 1: to to have love for the passenger to control his

548
00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:49,200
Speaker 1: own heat and ventilation. Um, so just just I would

549
00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:52,680
Speaker 1: start there, I'm sorry, I would start there finding out

550
00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:56,280
Speaker 1: why you can move that. It makes sense. I was

551
00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:59,000
Speaker 1: told that the center that the where, the where the

552
00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:02,240
Speaker 1: blend the the the I guess whatever. The paddle for

553
00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:06,480
Speaker 1: the blend um door may have been stuck in one position.

554
00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 1: Now I know the blend Or actuator works, and it

555
00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:11,760
Speaker 1: works and it moves as you change the switch on

556
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:15,160
Speaker 1: the dashboard because I've watched it. I've watched it move

557
00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:17,560
Speaker 1: right well, and it's easy enough. If you can go

558
00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:20,360
Speaker 1: from hot to cold in that the frost position, then

559
00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:23,000
Speaker 1: we know that the blend or is working. So that

560
00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:24,360
Speaker 1: was my that was the first thing I went to

561
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:26,200
Speaker 1: look for. Right, But if you could, like you're saying,

562
00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:30,960
Speaker 1: if if you're moving the the the air position or

563
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:34,959
Speaker 1: the air mixed door position where it's where it's supposed

564
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:38,480
Speaker 1: to be going the deflector and it doesn't change air

565
00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:41,320
Speaker 1: coming out the vents or the bottom, you've either got

566
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:44,480
Speaker 1: something broken inside the case, you're missing something, or you've

567
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:47,400
Speaker 1: got some combination of the two. So anyway, so I

568
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:49,320
Speaker 1: gotta get that result before I can go forward, because

569
00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:52,239
Speaker 1: I can't diagnose without having everything else working right. You've

570
00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:54,080
Speaker 1: gotta be sure that all the parts are there. Something

571
00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:57,320
Speaker 1: doesn't sound right, it sounds like you're missing something. Yeah,

572
00:31:57,360 --> 00:31:59,800
Speaker 1: Well that's listen, I'm closer than it was twenty minutes ago.

573
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:02,280
Speaker 1: You go, all right, brother, keep me posted, let me

574
00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:04,640
Speaker 1: know what happens. I love your show men. Thanks for

575
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:06,640
Speaker 1: loving me. You're very welcome on Glad to do it

576
00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:10,320
Speaker 1: for you. Five zero nine zero the car doctors coming back?

577
00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:17,480
Speaker 1: Don't you go away? Wow? How do we get here?

578
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:20,200
Speaker 1: That was the quickest two hours of of my life.

579
00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:22,200
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you we're almost We're almost at the end.

580
00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:24,520
Speaker 1: Let's get over red one more. Tom Wisconsin, how can

581
00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:27,320
Speaker 1: I How can I help you today? Tom? He run

582
00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:30,520
Speaker 1: some time listener And uh yeah, I don't always agree

583
00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:32,440
Speaker 1: with your philosophy, but you and I are in the

584
00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:35,200
Speaker 1: same feed. That's okay. You know what it's. It's it's

585
00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:37,760
Speaker 1: it's it's okay for disagreement as long as we can

586
00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:41,440
Speaker 1: do it in a peaceful and uh calm manner. So

587
00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:45,080
Speaker 1: there you go. Especially shooting did trouble shooting elect trying,

588
00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:47,840
Speaker 1: So I become Johnny Electrying. You showing me a schemetic

589
00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:49,480
Speaker 1: and I'll tell you where to go to the problem,

590
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:52,280
Speaker 1: so and and and I'll just tell you where to go.

591
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:56,880
Speaker 1: What can I do for you here? I recommend that

592
00:32:57,040 --> 00:33:00,880
Speaker 1: right recommendation you get at highly speak hum products that

593
00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:06,280
Speaker 1: come to delve injector cleaner. Okay, how would you stand

594
00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:08,960
Speaker 1: this up against c foam? You know, I get this

595
00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:12,720
Speaker 1: question a lot, and the answer is that, you know,

596
00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:16,000
Speaker 1: I can only base it on what my experience has been.

597
00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:18,760
Speaker 1: I've heard of guys using c foam. I've used I

598
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:21,280
Speaker 1: think I've used c foam once a while back away

599
00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:24,680
Speaker 1: while back, and I've used Berryman more of recent And

600
00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:28,480
Speaker 1: the explanation becomes that I think buying a fuel system cleaner,

601
00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:31,560
Speaker 1: you're buying technology, and you're buying their relevance to how

602
00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 1: current they are, to the current fuel um uh composition,

603
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:39,960
Speaker 1: the way gasoline is put together now. And that being said,

604
00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:42,760
Speaker 1: I like what I see from Berryman. I have done

605
00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:45,520
Speaker 1: tests with Berryman where I will take a board scope,

606
00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:49,960
Speaker 1: look at carbon deposits on certain vehicles beforehand use Berryman,

607
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,600
Speaker 1: either use their injector cleaner poor in the tank or

608
00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:55,080
Speaker 1: some of the other heavy duty stuff, and over time

609
00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:57,960
Speaker 1: go back and reboard scope that vehicle and I will

610
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:01,760
Speaker 1: see some amazing cleanups, some absolutely amazing clean up and

611
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:04,960
Speaker 1: turn around. And to base it on that, I can't

612
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:06,880
Speaker 1: see any other way or a better way to do it?

613
00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:09,440
Speaker 1: You know? Have I done that with cfoam, haven't had

614
00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:12,120
Speaker 1: the opportunity, But I can tell you I've used I've

615
00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:14,560
Speaker 1: used a lot of fuel system cleaners in the past,

616
00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:18,280
Speaker 1: and Berryman to date does the best job period done.

617
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:22,600
Speaker 1: You know. Um, and the story absolutely right? No, no, no no,

618
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:26,279
Speaker 1: good explanation and everything. Ah. My biggest question, however, I

619
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:29,440
Speaker 1: don't have a computer, don't want one, don't need one. However,

620
00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:34,040
Speaker 1: you know of any retailer that carries the Berryman products?

621
00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:38,239
Speaker 1: Sure you've got an O'rileyota Parts near you, certainly does. Yeah,

622
00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:40,440
Speaker 1: o'reillyota Parts will have it. And I mean you can

623
00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:42,080
Speaker 1: find well you don't have a computer to find it?

624
00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:44,440
Speaker 1: On how can I? How can an electronics guy not

625
00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:47,000
Speaker 1: have a computer? Come on now, we're gonna have to

626
00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:51,399
Speaker 1: drag you into this century. Um please, but anyway, Tom,

627
00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:54,239
Speaker 1: only kiln um you know, get out thro an o'rillyota

628
00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:56,640
Speaker 1: parts anywhere near you or o'rileyoto dot com if you

629
00:34:56,680 --> 00:34:58,880
Speaker 1: can borrow one from a friend, and you'll find Barryman

630
00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:01,400
Speaker 1: B twelve there. And um, you don't find a lot

631
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:03,680
Speaker 1: of great products at a riot of parts, Pariament among them.

632
00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:05,640
Speaker 1: So I appreciate the call, and anytime you want to

633
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:08,880
Speaker 1: chew the fat and talk about diagnostic theory, glad to

634
00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:11,160
Speaker 1: do it, Tom, and glad to count you among the

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Speaker 1: car doctor family. Why where this where we're the last

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Speaker 1: two hours ago? I don't get it. I'm runing any

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Speaker 1: of the card doctor until the next time. Good mechanics

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Speaker 1: aren't expensive, they're priceless. See you