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Speaker 2: Now, start your engines. The Car Doctor is in the

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Speaker 2: garage and ready to take your call. Hey, it looks

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Speaker 2: like a busy hour shaping up. The phones are kind

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Speaker 2: of backed up, so let's get right into it. Frank

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Speaker 2: and Illinois fifteen Chevy Suburban and some break questions. Frank,

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Car Doctor, Sir, How can I help?

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Speaker 3: Frank? Is Frank there? Frank going once? Frank, Frank there,

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Speaker 3: he is Okay, hey, Frank, we knew you had to

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Speaker 3: be there somewhere. So how can I help you today, sir?

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Speaker 3: What's going on?

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Speaker 4: Well, the daughter and her husband had bought a twenty

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Speaker 4: fifteen suburban about eight months ago, and unfortunately they're about

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Speaker 4: a thousand miles from me, so this is a long

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Speaker 4: distance repair.

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Speaker 3: Everything from me, listen, Frank, everything for me is a

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Speaker 3: long distance repair, so it won't matter.

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Speaker 4: So and about three weeks ago she called and said,

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Speaker 4: part of the time and then she goes to stop

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Speaker 4: breaks and everything worked perfect. Sometimes she goes to stop

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Speaker 4: the pedal is super hard. Okay, So I asked her

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Speaker 4: a few questions. Well, do you hear any noise from

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Speaker 4: the breaks or anything?

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 4: Any days saw no. Is it pulling left or right?

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 4: I said, okay, so let me just scratch my head

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Speaker 4: do a little research. Well, we were visiting three months ago,

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Speaker 4: and being an old teenager in the sixties and a

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Speaker 4: hot rodder, I just pulled the wheels, looked at all

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Speaker 4: the brakes, pads, had plenty of pad, they were wearing evenly,

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Speaker 4: the slides were moving all right. I started it up,

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Speaker 4: and then I got out and spun the wheels to

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Speaker 4: make sure that you know that there was no hang

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Speaker 4: up on the calipers or anything, or a brake hose.

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Speaker 4: So I, well, okay, So when I kind of went

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Speaker 4: to look and I seen that that unit heady vacuum

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Speaker 4: come driven off the front of the motor yep. So

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Speaker 4: I said, well, I told her husband there, so I

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Speaker 4: can see if that hostlessly can eat where. I said.

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Speaker 4: It probably runs up to the dash and everything, and

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Speaker 4: so anyway, then I got to think in there. I said, well, okay,

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Speaker 4: it's got a vacuum leak. I don't know about an

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Speaker 4: abs well, speed answered to be act her up. So

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Speaker 4: when I talked to her again, I said, now run

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Speaker 4: that by me again. She said, well, when I go

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Speaker 4: to the stops, sometimes it's normal. Sometimes it's super hard.

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Speaker 4: But she said it only push is super hard when

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Speaker 4: I'm going slow. I said, oh, you know, like twenty

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Speaker 4: So I'm thinking, ooh, that sounds like that's vacuum related

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Speaker 4: on that unit, and I said, well, told her husband

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Speaker 4: to check that belt, try to find any leaks in

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Speaker 4: that hose going up. It probably goes to the firewall.

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Speaker 4: So I'm just suspicious. What you would suggest, take.

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Speaker 3: The take the vacuum line off at the break booster, okay,

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Speaker 3: and see if there's any oil in it.

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Speaker 4: Okay, And if.

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Speaker 3: There is, change the pump and the booster.

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Speaker 3: Get your hands on. Get your hands on GM GM

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Speaker 3: bulletin Pit fifty three sixty one. Dasn't David fifty three

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Speaker 3: sixty one, David. If you've got a repair shop that's

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Speaker 3: make model Pit fifty three sixty one sort of stands out.

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Speaker 3: On those trucks, they've had known problems with the vacuum

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Speaker 3: booster and or the pump itself. Rather the vacuum pump.

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Speaker 3: Oil's getting in there and it's causing things to corrode

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Speaker 3: You know, sometimes these trucks will have abs sensor issues

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Speaker 3: as they're slowing down under seven miles an hour, and

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Speaker 3: a legitimate, hey, I've got a hard break pedal, like

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Speaker 3: there's no power assist. But the pedal is consistent in

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Speaker 3: height all the time. It just feels like there's lack

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Speaker 3: of assist. That I'm with you. I think she's got

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Speaker 3: a failing pump. And if there's oil in those lines,

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Speaker 3: as per that bulletin, as per fifty three sixty one,

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Speaker 3: it will tell you if there's oil in the lines,

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Speaker 3: you're going to change all the parts. If there's oil

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Speaker 3: only in the booster, you're going to change the hose

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Speaker 3: and any accompanying parts you know, booster, hose, line, et cetera,

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Speaker 3: that goes with that pump. So but yeah, that's a

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Speaker 4: So yeah, she did mention sometimes I guess when it

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Speaker 4: does pushes hard, she said, it almost feels like it

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Speaker 4: almost wants to grind this a little. I said, you sure,

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Speaker 4: there's not like a shudder, Well, she said it could be.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, listen, I'm not saying it can't be.

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Speaker 3: But if there was something grinding, if there was a

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Speaker 3: brake pad metal on metal, if there was a shim

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Speaker 3: out of place, you would think it would be more consistent.

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Speaker 3: I always tell everybody, fix the first known problem. If

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Speaker 3: we can prove a bad vacuum pump and you know,

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Speaker 3: and replace that and that solves the bigger issue, then

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Speaker 3: we'll go and diagnose round two. Never diagnose a broken car,

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Speaker 3: as crazy as that sounds. You know, if you can

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Speaker 3: prove the first problem, fix the first problem. Dad always

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Speaker 3: told me. He said, Ron, you're always going to fix

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Speaker 3: what you know is bad. Move on to the next thing,

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Speaker 3: because there'll always be something else, you know, right it's

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Speaker 3: it's because half the time you'll spin your wheels and

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Speaker 3: you'll chase something that isn't really there, or you don't

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Speaker 3: know it's there. You don't know it's there until you

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Speaker 3: fix a You don't know if you've got to deal

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Speaker 4: So right now, if they pull line up there by

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Speaker 4: then I'm gonna get.

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Speaker 3: Then I'm still gonna get my hands on fifty three

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Speaker 3: bet she's got a she's got a problem with the

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Speaker 3: with the vacuum pump, all right, okay, you know, and

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Speaker 3: she's gonna You know, that vacuum pump is mounted to

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Speaker 3: the engine block indicated by engine oil. So the reason

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Speaker 3: you're gonna see oil in the booster line is because

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Speaker 3: somewhere in the somewhere in the in the process, you're

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Speaker 3: gonna see oil coming out of a hose where it's

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Speaker 3: not supposed to be because the pump diaphragm starts to

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Speaker 3: get porous and it bleeds oil through, and then that

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Speaker 3: vacuum follows its way through the rest of the vacuum

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Speaker 3: pump up the line and up over to the booster.

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Speaker 3: So you know, it would be logical. And you know, jeezus,

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Speaker 3: if I've seen this fifty times, I've seen it two

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Speaker 3: hundred times and one hundred and fifty times it's been

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Speaker 3: a vacuum pump. You know, it's just it's just very common.

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Speaker 3: I'm not saying automatically replace it, but I would say

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Speaker 3: I would say give it a good give it a

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Speaker 3: good look over, because I think you're going to find

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Speaker 3: oil there and it's it's bleeding through the vacuum pump itself.

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Speaker 4: Okay, well that I was kind of suspicious of that,

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Speaker 4: but I wanted to get your opinion.

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Speaker 3: No, you're you're, you're, you're on points, sir. What kind

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Speaker 3: of hot rod did you drive in the sixties?

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Speaker 4: Fifty Chevy? There you go, I wish I had it back.

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Speaker 3: You know, nobody nobody ever said I'm so glad I

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Speaker 3: got rid of my try five Chevy. You never hear

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Speaker 3: anybody say that, right, It's it's I always wish I

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Speaker 3: same thing. A lot of them anyway. Well, the Chevy people,

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Speaker 3: I know, they're all like, you know, I wish I

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Speaker 3: to think about. So but uh yeah, yeah it was.

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Speaker 4: It was. It was great times back then.

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Speaker 3: It was a different world, every different world. So what

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Speaker 3: I got to ask this to Frank what engines you

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Speaker 4: Seven that had a two eighty three, but a fellow

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Speaker 4: that did drag racing at a local strip. It needed

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Speaker 4: just put in a three twenty seven cam and take

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Speaker 4: in a single feed. Holly and I had a four

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Speaker 4: we put a four fifty six gear in it, and boy,

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Speaker 4: would that thing ever take off?

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Speaker 3: That thing screamed, right, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.

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Speaker 3: Cool stuff. Well, good memories, Frank. I appreciate the call, sir,

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Speaker 3: Thanks for playing along.

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Speaker 4: Okay, thank you very much.

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Speaker 3: You're very welcome, sir. You'd be well. I'm running any

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Speaker 3: in the car doctor eight five five five six nine

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Speaker 3: let's go on over to stan in Iowa.

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Speaker 5: Stand.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to the Tardoxers, sir. How can I help?

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Speaker 5: Hey? Ron, I appreciate your show, Thank you, sir.

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Speaker 3: What's going on?

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Speaker 5: Okay? So, in seventy four I bought a twenty nineteen

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Speaker 5: fourd Escape se seventy one thousand miles on it, right,

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Speaker 5: I probably put on maybe two thousand miles and those

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Speaker 5: are basically long, you know, like from Iowa to Chicago,

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Speaker 5: maybe Iowa to Nebraska. Yep. Didn't do a lot of

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Speaker 5: intel driving. I took it in in November of twenty

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Speaker 5: five because I like to have the oil changed every year,

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Speaker 5: whether I have five thousand miles on it or not.

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Speaker 5: They said, hey, your coolant is just a little bit low,

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Speaker 5: and they marked it and they also did a pressure

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Speaker 5: check and they said, well, the pressure check is fine.

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Speaker 5: They said, bring it back in a you know, a

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Speaker 5: week or two or a month, and and we'll check

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Speaker 5: it again. Well, it was about two months and I

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Speaker 5: took it back Wednesday and the coolant was half empty.

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Speaker 3: And they said, and they said.

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Speaker 5: What they are thinking as probably as a gasket leak,

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Speaker 5: that it's leaking into a cylinder or something.

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Speaker 3: Right, probably do you know what engine this is?

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Speaker 6: Stan?

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Speaker 3: Is this the one point five? One point five? Okay,

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Speaker 3: one point five right?

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Speaker 5: Right? I guess some of those are notorious for having

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Speaker 5: this point problem.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, bulletin twenty one, Dish twenty two, uh twenty one,

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Speaker 3: Dish twenty two sixty nine, if I remember right, talks

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Speaker 3: about it low coolant, white exhaust smoke. They had a

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Speaker 3: bunch of them with porosity in the block. The block

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Speaker 3: was poors and Ford wants the block replaced.

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Speaker 3: Who's the extended warranty with Ford or private company?

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Speaker 3: Okay. If it's a block, is it under warranty? Yes? Okay?

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Speaker 3: Well, then guess what it's it's not external. What do

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Speaker 5: Let me ask you something now. Under this accepted coverage

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Speaker 5: Okay, I just want to know where to go next,

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Speaker 3: But if I can prove it's not extra journal that

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Speaker 3: Like we we well, we hope the sun's going to

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Speaker 3: so I don't or was it seven years and eighty

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Speaker 3: You know, I applaud the car companies that do that.

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Speaker 5: It's one final thing. If yeah, it first stumps to shove,

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Speaker 3: Say against Stanta, tell you what sit tight? You're breaking up?

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Speaker 3: Let me come back to you after the pause. So

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Speaker 3: If you read needs out brother, keep you right.

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Speaker 3: Hey, let's uh stand. You're there. We're back to stand.

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Speaker 3: So you had one last question there, Stan, I don't

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Speaker 5: You know?

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Speaker 3: You know this isn't you know? This is like, well,

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Speaker 3: And it's one of the reasons why it's funny. This

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Speaker 3: That's my position. Prove me wrong. I've been doing this

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Speaker 3: are there tests we can do to prove that it's

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Speaker 5: Okay, right, I haven't called, I haven't done anything yet. Okay,

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Speaker 3: And you know it's it's because there's a lot of

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Speaker 3: just say this one last thing. I want to leave

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Speaker 3: Be logical. If I can prove it's not an external

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Speaker 5: Gotcha? You know?

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Speaker 3: Because that's the other thing, right, they take it apart?

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Speaker 3: Hey gee, Stan, you need an engine?

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Speaker 3: couldn't get the sensors to display on the dash. The

435
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Speaker 3: X thirty one smart sensors, we had a heck of

436
00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:48,160
Speaker 3: a problem with them, and we ended up finally after time,

437
00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:51,320
Speaker 3: we switched over to the Hotel sensors. And part of

438
00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:56,000
Speaker 3: my logic was, I think Autel being a scan tool company,

439
00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:59,080
Speaker 3: their tooling has to work better to talk to that

440
00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:02,920
Speaker 3: vehicle comes. You know, it's who they are, right. Their

441
00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:04,720
Speaker 3: tools have to be able to talk to the vehicle

442
00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:09,119
Speaker 3: in order for their tools to work. So the shop

443
00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:11,399
Speaker 3: called me and said, hey, we put thirty one smart

444
00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:14,359
Speaker 3: sensors in and it's not We're not able to program.

445
00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:15,680
Speaker 3: We can get the light to go out, we can't

446
00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:17,840
Speaker 3: get a display on the dashboard. What do you think

447
00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:19,399
Speaker 3: is going on? And I took them through some testing

448
00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:22,119
Speaker 3: and finally I said, you know, listen, I've had this

449
00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:25,760
Speaker 3: happen twice with the smart sensors, two different vehicles. It's

450
00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:27,720
Speaker 3: it's kind of put a bad taste in my mouth.

451
00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:32,920
Speaker 3: I think I would probably try some hotels. Well they didn't.

452
00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:35,200
Speaker 3: They didn't have any hotels. They came over. We took

453
00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:38,560
Speaker 3: an hotel out of the box, programmed it well. First

454
00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:42,040
Speaker 3: we took the left front sensor through the tire because

455
00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:44,160
Speaker 3: we have we have wireless program and we can do that.

456
00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:46,920
Speaker 3: We made the left front sensor read ABCD one two

457
00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:50,119
Speaker 3: three four, So we gave it a completely different, weird number.

458
00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:53,919
Speaker 3: Now the computer is looking for it's one Charlie Baker

459
00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:56,760
Speaker 3: Edward four ninety eight number whatever is written in there,

460
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Speaker 3: and we took the hotel. We took a hotel out

461
00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:02,719
Speaker 3: of the box and programmed it to that one Baker

462
00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:05,760
Speaker 3: Charlie Edward four ninety t TET whatever the number is.

463
00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:08,320
Speaker 3: We made it that that strange serial number that you

464
00:24:08,359 --> 00:24:12,200
Speaker 3: see on TPMs sensors. Stood next to the truck. Waited

465
00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:16,119
Speaker 3: about two minutes point the light goes out and the

466
00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:21,840
Speaker 3: left front tire displays showing zero pressure. So we just

467
00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:25,919
Speaker 3: proved that the hotels would display. Still couldn't get the

468
00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:29,520
Speaker 3: X thirty ones to work. Sent the shop back, go

469
00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:31,760
Speaker 3: put four hotels in it. They put four hotels in it.

470
00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:34,840
Speaker 3: They couldn't get it to program. They still couldn't get

471
00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:37,600
Speaker 3: it the program. So Danny and I looked at each

472
00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:39,439
Speaker 3: other because we knew what we had seen. Had we

473
00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:41,880
Speaker 3: had seen it work. We know it works. It's it's

474
00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:46,080
Speaker 3: proof positive it works. Bring the truck over. They brought

475
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Speaker 3: the truck over. We looked at it. Yeah, we can,

476
00:24:50,359 --> 00:24:53,600
Speaker 3: oh wait, look at this now. This was a Monday

477
00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:55,399
Speaker 3: Tuesday thing where they brought the first truck to his

478
00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:57,720
Speaker 3: first on Monday. And I should also throw this in here.

479
00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:01,600
Speaker 3: Every time we work on time pressure, do a tire

480
00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:03,879
Speaker 3: pressure sensor car every time. We replace sensors and out

481
00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:07,479
Speaker 3: of the program every time we go out, and we

482
00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:09,200
Speaker 3: make sure that that tool is up to the most

483
00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:13,520
Speaker 3: current software. That's how fast TPMs software is changing. Tire

484
00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:17,800
Speaker 3: pressure monitoring system software seems to change daily. You have

485
00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:21,199
Speaker 3: to check on a daily basis with your tool. We

486
00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:23,800
Speaker 3: had just done an update overnight Monday into Tuesday, or

487
00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:26,719
Speaker 3: Tuesday into Wednesday, whenever the heck this was. Now we

488
00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:28,719
Speaker 3: go out with the Hotel tool on the truck they

489
00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:30,679
Speaker 3: had just brought over, and we find that the tool

490
00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:34,600
Speaker 3: is asking for access to Chrysler's website auto off their

491
00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:38,080
Speaker 3: security website. Oh boy, this is going to get really great.

492
00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:40,920
Speaker 3: Now we have to go through Chrysler security in order

493
00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:45,880
Speaker 3: to program tire pressure monitoring systems. So we did that.

494
00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:48,560
Speaker 3: Long story short, we were able to get the autels

495
00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:52,880
Speaker 3: to program. We fix the truck. But you know, it's

496
00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:56,159
Speaker 3: how fast things change, is my point. It's how fast

497
00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:59,879
Speaker 3: things change. Never assume, never be emotional, be the man

498
00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:02,600
Speaker 3: that steer of your domain, as they said on Seinfeld

499
00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:06,320
Speaker 3: good episode, by the way, and just be sure of

500
00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:10,080
Speaker 3: what you're doing and just plod along, you know it.

501
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:12,760
Speaker 3: Just it just seems to be the reasonable thing. It's

502
00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:15,120
Speaker 3: you want to end up backing into a corner. If

503
00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:18,800
Speaker 3: you're careful, we fix that truck. Stan, I'm sure your

504
00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:21,320
Speaker 3: car can be fixed with this cooling problem. It sounds

505
00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:23,240
Speaker 3: like we've got people behind the phone, and that's why

506
00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:26,000
Speaker 3: I say this story because there's always an answer. Stan.

507
00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:28,520
Speaker 3: It sounds like there's people behind the phone here that

508
00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:31,119
Speaker 3: just don't understand how cars work. They're reading from a

509
00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:33,920
Speaker 3: script and that's why you're getting nowhere. So go talk

510
00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:36,320
Speaker 3: to your selling dealer and see what it comes back to.

511
00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:38,560
Speaker 3: I hope that all made sense. A five five five

512
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Speaker 3: six zero nine nine zero zero running any of the

513
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Speaker 3: Car Doctor coming back right after this. Hey, hey, hey,

514
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Speaker 3: let's running of the Card Doctor at eighty five five

515
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Speaker 3: five six on nine nine zero zero. Should point out

516
00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:02,680
Speaker 3: that number is twenty four to seven. By the way,

517
00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:06,199
Speaker 3: please feel free call leave a message an executive producer,

518
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Speaker 3: chief cook and bottle washer Tom Ray. I'll get you

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525
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526
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527
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528
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Speaker 3: who you are and tell us what you want. Let's

529
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Speaker 3: go over to Robin, Delaware twenty one jeep Wrangler and

530
00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:35,560
Speaker 3: some questions. Robert, how can I help you? Sir? What's

531
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Speaker 3: going on?

532
00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:38,000
Speaker 5: Thanks? Thanks for taking my call.

533
00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:38,639
Speaker 3: Welcome sir.

534
00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:41,800
Speaker 5: Your health, yes, sir called you before, and I appreciate

535
00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:44,240
Speaker 5: your health. And I have a twenty twenty on Wrangler

536
00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:47,880
Speaker 5: and starting to it's got sixty one sand when it's

537
00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:52,320
Speaker 5: cold out and the car's not warmed up. When it

538
00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:55,560
Speaker 5: shifts into third gear and more so and fourth gear,

539
00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:58,399
Speaker 5: it shifts kind of hard. It almost like the engine

540
00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:02,280
Speaker 5: was raised a little bit like a bouncers in the seat. Nothing, whipla.

541
00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:05,680
Speaker 3: And this is this is an automatic? Correct?

542
00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:06,800
Speaker 5: Yes?

543
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:13,840
Speaker 6: Yes, okay, exactly yeah. Any service, Yeah, it's got sixty one.

544
00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:17,760
Speaker 6: I serviced it about fifty thousand, chased the fluid until

545
00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:22,480
Speaker 6: or any any check engine lights?

546
00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:25,160
Speaker 5: No, no, nothing on that.

547
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:28,639
Speaker 3: Okay, go look at Chrysler bulletin twenty one dish double

548
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:30,120
Speaker 3: O ninth dish twenty five.

549
00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:32,439
Speaker 5: Again.

550
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:37,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, sure, twenty one dish double O nine dish twenty five.

551
00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 3: And I believe it's revision CE. It may be revision

552
00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:45,040
Speaker 3: D by now that was dated I think two years

553
00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:48,720
Speaker 3: ago July July of twenty four, July of twenty five.

554
00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:51,240
Speaker 3: Maybe it's a less than a year ago. And it

555
00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:55,120
Speaker 3: talks about problems with the third year clutch pack, third

556
00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:59,040
Speaker 3: year clutch assembly. It'll start to if it if it

557
00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:02,720
Speaker 3: sets ap P zero seven thirty three gear three incorrect

558
00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:07,040
Speaker 3: shift ratio fault, it'll cause it to shift hard. And

559
00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:09,240
Speaker 3: they talk about some internal trans repairs and a d

560
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:13,600
Speaker 3: clutch repair and all you know, it gets ugly. You

561
00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:15,880
Speaker 3: have to be careful with this because a lot of

562
00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:19,000
Speaker 3: what Chrysler does, if they start to set fault codes,

563
00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:21,880
Speaker 3: they in a lot of cases they won't do internal

564
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:25,120
Speaker 3: trans repair, whereas they'll just replace the trans or call

565
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:28,720
Speaker 3: for the trands to be replaced. So you know, you'd

566
00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:31,320
Speaker 3: you'd like to have as much information as possible before

567
00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:34,880
Speaker 3: you just make a decision. I've seen this more than

568
00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:37,640
Speaker 3: a few times. So is there is there any sort

569
00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:39,320
Speaker 3: of powertrain warranty on this yet.

570
00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:41,280
Speaker 5: No, No, it's six.

571
00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:46,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I figured. You know, Now I got.

572
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:50,000
Speaker 5: Your number twenty one double nine twenty five. What was that?

573
00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:55,560
Speaker 3: Appreciating that revision? C If you if you go, if

574
00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:57,360
Speaker 3: you go look for twenty one dish double O nine

575
00:29:57,360 --> 00:29:59,480
Speaker 3: desh twenty five, it'll it'll come up if you're looking.

576
00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:01,200
Speaker 3: You know, if you're going to your mechanic and he's

577
00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:04,480
Speaker 3: got Mitchell or all Data you know, or Chrysler early information,

578
00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:07,560
Speaker 3: he'll find it. But I tend to whenever I get

579
00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:12,040
Speaker 3: into this scenario, I will look through bulletins, do any

580
00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:15,600
Speaker 3: of the bulletins apply? Am I updated to the latest software?

581
00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:19,520
Speaker 3: And believe it or not, I have? And Chrysler I

582
00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:21,320
Speaker 3: can say, I've seen this with Chrysler. I've seen this

583
00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:25,040
Speaker 3: with Ford, and I've seen this with Toyota, where they

584
00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:29,800
Speaker 3: will do software updates to the transmissions and solve hard

585
00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:33,280
Speaker 3: shifting problems. It's really crazy, you know the way they

586
00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:36,560
Speaker 3: do things. But you know it might behoove you to

587
00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:39,320
Speaker 3: go to your local mechanic and you know, ask him

588
00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:43,280
Speaker 3: to do a code scan for ear make model. Is

589
00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:46,880
Speaker 3: there anything pending? Just because the light's not on yet

590
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:48,880
Speaker 3: you know it's you don't feel good on Monday, but

591
00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:51,080
Speaker 3: you get the sore throat in the head cold by Wednesday.

592
00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:54,400
Speaker 3: Monday there's no check engine light, but your body's thinking

593
00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:57,240
Speaker 3: about it. Tuesday it's debating it, and Wednesday it feels

594
00:30:57,280 --> 00:30:59,760
Speaker 3: like garbage. So it turns the light on. So you

595
00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:01,880
Speaker 3: know it's this. This truck would be two days away

596
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:03,960
Speaker 3: from turning the light on. I'd rather see, you know,

597
00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:07,280
Speaker 3: sooner rather than later, because the more you drive it,

598
00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:09,600
Speaker 3: if there is a fault internal trends, the more you

599
00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:17,680
Speaker 3: drive it, the more you're hurting it. Right. So anyway,

600
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:19,600
Speaker 3: that's that's what I got for you, Robbie, call me

601
00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:21,880
Speaker 3: if you need more. Eight five five five six nine

602
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:37,800
Speaker 3: nine zero zero. We're back right after this. Let's go

603
00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:42,400
Speaker 3: right to James and Delaware. James, what's going on, James?

604
00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:47,080
Speaker 7: Yeah? Yeah, My son Logan is getting ready to buy

605
00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:49,360
Speaker 7: his first car, and we were shopping around and we

606
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:52,360
Speaker 7: think we found something in its price range. It's a

607
00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:57,400
Speaker 7: two thousand and nine Chevy Silverado. We pulled a car

608
00:31:57,520 --> 00:32:01,920
Speaker 7: backs report and everything looks good with that. I just

609
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:04,280
Speaker 7: wasn't sure what other things we might need to look

610
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:07,560
Speaker 7: for when we go to do the touch drive and.

611
00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:09,440
Speaker 3: How many miles? How many miles around it?

612
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:13,720
Speaker 7: One hundred and sixty three thousand, right, so.

613
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:15,960
Speaker 3: It's one hundred and sixty thousand miles on a fifteen

614
00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:19,560
Speaker 3: year old vehicle. How much are they asking for this thing?

615
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:24,320
Speaker 7: By the way, they haven't listed for nine ninety or

616
00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:25,920
Speaker 7: nine ninety nine.

617
00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:30,959
Speaker 3: Dollars, so ten grand, so you know, listen, I get it.

618
00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:33,800
Speaker 3: I'm going to be concerned about rust and corrosion, so

619
00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:36,240
Speaker 3: I'm going to crawl underneath it. How salty does the

620
00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:39,400
Speaker 3: back of this thing look? Is there signs of you know,

621
00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:42,360
Speaker 3: was there a snowplow on the front of it? Right?

622
00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:45,880
Speaker 3: Are there? Are there mounts there? Or worse? Are there

623
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:49,000
Speaker 3: notches in the lower front spoiler where the mounts were?

624
00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:51,200
Speaker 3: But somebody took them off because they don't want you

625
00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:53,400
Speaker 3: to know that it was a plow truck? Is this

626
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:55,760
Speaker 3: a used car deal Is this a used car dealer?

627
00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:57,480
Speaker 3: New car dealer's got to be a used.

628
00:32:57,280 --> 00:33:00,520
Speaker 5: Car dealer, used car dealer, Yeah, yeah.

629
00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:02,480
Speaker 3: Because a new car dealer wouldn't have something that old

630
00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:06,040
Speaker 3: on the lot. So pull the dipstick. How clean is

631
00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:09,120
Speaker 3: the engine oil? How clean is the dipstick? Any varnish,

632
00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:11,480
Speaker 3: any crud on it. You know, what do the brake

633
00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:15,680
Speaker 3: pedals look like? You know, listen, I go as far

634
00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:18,400
Speaker 3: as what radio stations are on the thing. If it's

635
00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:22,680
Speaker 3: heavy metal, death rock, I'm thinking, well, you know, if

636
00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:25,400
Speaker 3: it's if it's if it's classic or oldies, well maybe

637
00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:28,360
Speaker 3: the person was a little more genteel. But you've got

638
00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:30,160
Speaker 3: to have some money in the budget to go through

639
00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:33,760
Speaker 3: that truck front to back, change every fluid, do some pull,

640
00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:36,640
Speaker 3: some basic service, unless they've got records, unless you know,

641
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:39,600
Speaker 3: this is the one that they've got documentation that it

642
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:42,960
Speaker 3: had all major services. It had you know, reasonable cleanings,

643
00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:47,000
Speaker 3: it had reasonable oil change, maintenance. You know it's going

644
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:49,520
Speaker 3: to come down to maintenance on something that old. Whenever

645
00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:51,720
Speaker 3: I look at something that age, I look at maintenance,

646
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:55,000
Speaker 3: I look at rust, I look at overall condition, because

647
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:57,479
Speaker 3: I have to look at that truck as if the

648
00:33:57,520 --> 00:34:01,560
Speaker 3: engine in that truck blew up in two months, you've

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Speaker 3: got to fix it, right, You'd have to put an

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Speaker 3: engine in it. There's no debating it, because you're buying

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Speaker 3: this thing to have it for at least, in my opinion,

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Speaker 3: the next five to seven years. So if the engine

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Speaker 3: doesn't go that distance. If the trans doesn't go that distance,

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Speaker 3: you've got to be ready to spend four to six

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Speaker 3: to eight grand on that and keep it going, because

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Speaker 3: it's not like you're gonna go out and replace it,

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Speaker 3: not for that kind of money, not for that age.

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Speaker 3: Good luck to you, James, I hope it works out.

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Speaker 3: I'm ronning Andy in the car doctor till the next time.

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Speaker 3: Good mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. See ya, hey, car

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Speaker 3: doctor Carr Advice don't write