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Speaker 1: thinking on that you put him to sleep? Yeah? Should

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Speaker 1: they just either that or the phone? The car Doctor,

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Speaker 1: I wanted to talk to you about the oil life

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Speaker 1: percentage um. How exactly is that percentage calculated? And is

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Speaker 1: there any point at all and using it. I'm not

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Speaker 1: a fan of the oil percentage monitors, Jeff, I'm just

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Speaker 1: not welcome to the radio home of Ron Andanian the

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Speaker 1: Car Doctor, since this is where car owners the world

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Speaker 1: overturned to for their definitive opinion on automotive repair. If

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Speaker 1: your mechanics giving you a busy signal, pick up the

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Speaker 1: phone and call in. The garage doors are open, but

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Speaker 1: I am here to take your calls at eight five

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Speaker 1: five five six, and he running, Hey, it's time to

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Speaker 1: start your rang and so well, and welcome Roninting the

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Speaker 1: Car Doctor here at five zero nine nine zero zero.

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Speaker 1: What if I could do that in my sleep? You know?

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Speaker 1: I bet you if I hear the music, I'd be like, hey, running,

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Speaker 1: any of the car doctor here a time to start

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Speaker 1: your rangsins. Ah, it's sort of become habit over the years. Um.

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Speaker 1: It is kind of weird though, because you drive around

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Speaker 1: during the course of the day, you're at work, and

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Speaker 1: you're listening to other radio stations, and you hear public

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Speaker 1: service announcements or you hear bits and pieces of Car

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Speaker 1: Doctor theme music, and right away your mind is going

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Speaker 1: three two, hey, running nating in the Car Doctor. You

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Speaker 1: kind of get into that. Yes, Tom, I know now

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Speaker 1: that Tony Tony and I can be expecting a phone

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Speaker 1: call from your wife at some point when you start

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Speaker 1: doing that in your sleep and something tells me we're

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Speaker 1: gonna show up for the show and you're gonna have

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Speaker 1: a black eye or two. Well, you never know it

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Speaker 1: would be. Um, I listened last night. Well that was

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Speaker 1: last night. That's a whole another story. I can't tell

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Speaker 1: you about that here on here it's family radio. But um,

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Speaker 1: in any event, Um, this is the Car Doctor that

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Speaker 1: this radio shows about about fixing your car. Card Doctor

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Speaker 1: show done. Come for more information Facebook podcasting however you

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Speaker 1: want to take it. Remember the nine zero number seven.

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Speaker 1: I know we have busy phones. You should know that

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Speaker 1: we're giving away a Wicks die cast car today because

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Speaker 1: I think I finally talked Tom and Tony to take

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Speaker 1: it out of their chubby little hands at the end

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Speaker 1: of this hour, So we're gonna be giving that away.

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Speaker 1: The thirty nine Ford Coop die Cast Car, the seventy

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Speaker 1: folks at Wicks Wicks Filters dot com. But I want

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Speaker 1: to tell you this story because it's important and it's

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Speaker 1: it's a matter of it could be a matter of

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Speaker 1: life and death. And I'll tell you the story this way.

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Speaker 1: We had to take Mom to the doctor yesterday. It

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Speaker 1: was time for mom's regular doctor check up. She's nine

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Speaker 1: years old. Um, she's in a home now, and you know,

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Speaker 1: we we got her an aid and the aide showed up,

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Speaker 1: picked her up, and I was Mom was a little nervous,

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Speaker 1: so I, you know, Ronnie, meet me at the doctor. Okay.

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Speaker 1: So I met Mom and the aid at the doctor

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Speaker 1: and the physical, you know, the physical was okay, she's

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Speaker 1: she's and um they came out and the eight said,

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Speaker 1: It was. It was eighty eight almost ninety degrees yesterday

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Speaker 1: of the key and the chip for the anti theft.

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Speaker 1: So you know, listen, all mechanics have to have their

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Speaker 1: a roll of electrical tape. You can do a lot

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Speaker 1: it's meant to be a singular key. Stop putting. You know,

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Speaker 1: Good boy, all right, think about all the weight on

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Speaker 1: and I'm meaning to do this. Key maintenance is just

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Speaker 1: have a mechanic around. The funny part was she goes,

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Speaker 1: So and Mom just looked at me and I went, hey,

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Speaker 1: And I kind of let it go like that anyway,

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Speaker 1: So do key maintenance. It's important. Ed in Indiana, thank you.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to get that out on the air. More

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Speaker 1: in your seven one fifty, sir? What's going on? Transmission?

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Speaker 1: Fluid is shild close to a court over level and

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Speaker 1: Does it still look like trans fluid? D? Is it is? It?

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Speaker 1: Is it clean and pink? It's just got a high

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Speaker 1: a that's an A O D. So this will have

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Speaker 1: determined shift point this There may be a mechanical failure here,

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Speaker 1: thing that used to happen. Believe it or not, it's

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Speaker 1: gonna sound weird, is the governors would get loaded up

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Speaker 1: I hate to bring it up, but one of the

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Speaker 1: things you could try is find a big, giant empty

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Speaker 1: park a lot. And I say this very seriously, a

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Speaker 1: big empty parking lot. Try driving in reverse, you know,

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Speaker 1: reverse through the governor in that trans will backflush the

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Speaker 1: et cetera. UM. Beyond that, it's gotta it's got to

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Speaker 1: other question I've got as far as where that extra

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Speaker 1: there's a trans cooler issue related to the radiator cooler

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Speaker 1: um itself. But you're saying the fluid is still pinks,

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Speaker 1: so it's it's not this color. I can't believe that

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Speaker 1: it's being contaminated with coolant um as a result of

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Speaker 1: a trans cooler failure in the bottom of the radiator.

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Speaker 1: to talk to Brian and Butler right after this. Don't

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Speaker 1: to install them, and like every oil change, you just

427
00:20:56,840 --> 00:21:00,680
Speaker 1: unscrew it, dump it out, and put it back together. Yeah,

428
00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:02,240
Speaker 1: and I wonder if you know, if if you're gonna

429
00:21:02,280 --> 00:21:05,600
Speaker 1: do that to me? Okay, same same idea. I just

430
00:21:05,720 --> 00:21:08,160
Speaker 1: they're just they're just adding a step to it. Um.

431
00:21:08,280 --> 00:21:10,440
Speaker 1: I don't think you'll ever notice a difference. I think

432
00:21:10,480 --> 00:21:13,680
Speaker 1: for what they're going to do for you, I think

433
00:21:13,680 --> 00:21:16,399
Speaker 1: you're gonna find, you know, on a regular basis using

434
00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:18,840
Speaker 1: some sort of a top end engine cleaning or a

435
00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:22,199
Speaker 1: fuel system cleaning. I think you're going to Yeah, I

436
00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:24,680
Speaker 1: think I think you're gonna have the same benefit if

437
00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:27,760
Speaker 1: if I was interested in increasing longevity and a performance

438
00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:30,960
Speaker 1: application like yours, your vehicle is screaming for a super

439
00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:33,399
Speaker 1: chip flashback. Um, you know, I've got to tell you

440
00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:35,720
Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's it's looking for you know, dial

441
00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:38,920
Speaker 1: up some horsepower via the computer and performance and and

442
00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:41,280
Speaker 1: so on and so forth. That's where I would go

443
00:21:41,359 --> 00:21:44,119
Speaker 1: with that. I Mustang g T you know, put on

444
00:21:44,119 --> 00:21:47,280
Speaker 1: your Steve McQueen goggles and uh, you know, look cool.

445
00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:52,160
Speaker 1: Um you know? Um right, um, you know that's where

446
00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:53,760
Speaker 1: I would go. I would go out. I would go

447
00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:55,680
Speaker 1: out the super Chips dot com, do some reading and

448
00:21:55,880 --> 00:21:58,400
Speaker 1: find a flashpack for that car to go and put

449
00:21:58,440 --> 00:22:01,560
Speaker 1: a an oil separator on it. I don't know that

450
00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:03,159
Speaker 1: you really needed. I think there's other ways to go

451
00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:06,760
Speaker 1: about to accomplish what you want to accomplish. Um. Uh,

452
00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:09,800
Speaker 1: And you'd be good from there, all right, sir? Yep? Okay,

453
00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:12,960
Speaker 1: I take you take good care, yes, sir, okay, Let's

454
00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:19,400
Speaker 1: go and talk to Thomas in May No. Six Ford Expeditions. Yes, yes,

455
00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:23,240
Speaker 1: thank you for calling. I have that two thousand and

456
00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:27,720
Speaker 1: six for the expedition. And uh, I have a problem

457
00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:31,040
Speaker 1: with the the air bag light was on and the

458
00:22:31,080 --> 00:22:37,000
Speaker 1: horn didn't work. They told me to replace the air bag. Um.

459
00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:41,119
Speaker 1: I replaced the air bag and had it flashed and

460
00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:44,960
Speaker 1: you know, at another garage. And now they tell me

461
00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:49,480
Speaker 1: that the I'm getting juice up to the thing in

462
00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:52,040
Speaker 1: the air bag that makes the horn work, but it's

463
00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:55,520
Speaker 1: not going from there into the relay to make the

464
00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:59,320
Speaker 1: horn work. Okay, So The simple question is, so, so

465
00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:03,160
Speaker 1: somebody told the airbag pad itself was bad, the air

466
00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:06,840
Speaker 1: bag was bad, the the horn didn't work, the airbag

467
00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:12,159
Speaker 1: light was on. Do you know what fault code you had? No,

468
00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:14,920
Speaker 1: they didn't tell me. Okay, so this, you know, think

469
00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:17,280
Speaker 1: of the airbag as a horn button. It's just it's

470
00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:18,639
Speaker 1: the same thing that you've had in a car for

471
00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:22,000
Speaker 1: years and years and years. Right. So you know, the

472
00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:25,520
Speaker 1: simple test is that when the airbag was out, the

473
00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:27,960
Speaker 1: first thing I would have done is, you know, looking

474
00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:29,760
Speaker 1: at the wiring horns, I would have figured out what's

475
00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:33,560
Speaker 1: the ground connection for the air bag, and I would

476
00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:36,000
Speaker 1: have just grounded it at the connector minus the air

477
00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:38,000
Speaker 1: bag and see if the horn blew. You know, you're

478
00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:41,000
Speaker 1: just you're bypassing the contact and the in the air

479
00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:44,000
Speaker 1: bag at that step. Um, I'm gonna guess and say

480
00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:47,760
Speaker 1: you used the new airbag, correct, No, I didn't. I

481
00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:50,399
Speaker 1: used to use one, right, And that's why I always

482
00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:53,160
Speaker 1: test the horns the way I just described it, because

483
00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:55,800
Speaker 1: you know, there's no rule that says that that replacement

484
00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:57,520
Speaker 1: bag was any good. You got it out of a

485
00:23:57,560 --> 00:24:01,400
Speaker 1: salvage yard. So you know, now somebody's got to take

486
00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:03,720
Speaker 1: it back apart again and test the wiring harness going down.

487
00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:06,359
Speaker 1: They're telling you that the wiring harness from the bag

488
00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:09,040
Speaker 1: down to the relay has a problem. And if I

489
00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:15,520
Speaker 1: understand you correctly, Um, yes, yes, But they set was

490
00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:18,600
Speaker 1: getting juice up into the steering we go to the connector,

491
00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:21,399
Speaker 1: you know, plugs into the bag. They said they got

492
00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:27,240
Speaker 1: juice there, but they going to you know, from there. Okay, So,

493
00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:29,920
Speaker 1: so well, it doesn't make any sense if they're and

494
00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:32,959
Speaker 1: I believe it's ground. I believe we're looking for ground.

495
00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:35,399
Speaker 1: I believe the airbag grounds the horn relay in that

496
00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:39,000
Speaker 1: in that application. Um So, if you've got power coming

497
00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:42,080
Speaker 1: up but not going down, then where's the power coming from.

498
00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:44,520
Speaker 1: Somebody's not. Somebody's not you know, it's like the power

499
00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:46,320
Speaker 1: can't show up in the middle of the wire and

500
00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:49,600
Speaker 1: then not go back down. You know, somebody's somebody's not

501
00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:52,600
Speaker 1: explaining this properly or looking at the circuit properly. So

502
00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:55,520
Speaker 1: let's start over. Okay, let's go back to the shop

503
00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:59,239
Speaker 1: that did the airbag. Tell them, let's rediagnose this and

504
00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:02,320
Speaker 1: ask them when you take the air bag out, if

505
00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:06,679
Speaker 1: you find the ground leg of the relay. You should

506
00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:08,800
Speaker 1: be able to ground it and get the horns to blow,

507
00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:11,480
Speaker 1: all right. Think of it like, do you know do

508
00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:14,240
Speaker 1: you know what a relay does? Tom us? Do you

509
00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:18,000
Speaker 1: know the purpose? Okay? A relay is a switch. When

510
00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:19,960
Speaker 1: you walk into her. When you walk into your house

511
00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,440
Speaker 1: tonight and you flick the light switch, that's a relay,

512
00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:25,520
Speaker 1: all right. You took you took electrical energy from one side,

513
00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:27,359
Speaker 1: you transferred it to the other side to turn the

514
00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:30,399
Speaker 1: lights on. The the relay action was the movement of

515
00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:34,560
Speaker 1: the switch itself that that flipped the context. An automotive

516
00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:38,360
Speaker 1: relay typically a typical automotive relay will have four posts.

517
00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:41,480
Speaker 1: It will feed power in on one leg, all right.

518
00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:44,280
Speaker 1: It will have and then it'll have a switch side.

519
00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:47,199
Speaker 1: It will be power coming in a ground. When you

520
00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:50,920
Speaker 1: apply ground, the voltage flows from the one side across

521
00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:54,040
Speaker 1: the coil closes the contact and takes that high voltage

522
00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:56,520
Speaker 1: source and feeds it out to the other. In this case,

523
00:25:56,560 --> 00:26:00,600
Speaker 1: the horns and the horns blow. So that ground trigger

524
00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:04,119
Speaker 1: that closes the relay contacts, or like the light switch

525
00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:06,920
Speaker 1: in your house, is what's going to allow the horn

526
00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:11,200
Speaker 1: to blow. You can duplicate that horn trigger that ground

527
00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:13,920
Speaker 1: by just applying the ground, or if the air bag

528
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:17,280
Speaker 1: is working properly, pushing the air bag that makes ground

529
00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:20,400
Speaker 1: that makes the horn circuit work. They can test that

530
00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:22,760
Speaker 1: when it's apart. And that's what they need to do,

531
00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:26,120
Speaker 1: all right, because somehow the way somebody's explaining that doesn't

532
00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:29,800
Speaker 1: make any sense to me. Okay, So have them take

533
00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:32,399
Speaker 1: the air bag out and test it out of the car, right,

534
00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:35,840
Speaker 1: test the circuit we want to test, not the air bag.

535
00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:38,800
Speaker 1: We want to test the air bag circuit that feeds

536
00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:40,600
Speaker 1: the horns with the air bag out of the car.

537
00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:41,560
Speaker 1: And the reason it has to be out of the

538
00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:43,879
Speaker 1: cars because they have to get to it. It's underneath

539
00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:48,040
Speaker 1: the air bag. That's where it plugs in circuit. Bag

540
00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:50,119
Speaker 1: circuit we want to check. We want to have somebody

541
00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:52,960
Speaker 1: test the air bag horn circuit, and the air bag

542
00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:54,320
Speaker 1: has to be out of the car in order to

543
00:26:54,359 --> 00:27:00,520
Speaker 1: do that. All right, it lcome you let me know

544
00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:12,680
Speaker 1: what happens. Zero zero. We're back right after this. What's

545
00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:14,600
Speaker 1: more fun than listening to Ron and Ay in the

546
00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:17,320
Speaker 1: car doctor and getting that car fixed? Right A five

547
00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:21,439
Speaker 1: five five zero zero zero, Give Ron a call. Now

548
00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:24,640
Speaker 1: back to Ron, Ron and new Hampshire, Europe. Next, what's

549
00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:30,080
Speaker 1: going on? How you doing? Ron I have a ninety

550
00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:36,080
Speaker 1: four Explorer motor in a ninety Bronco too. The the

551
00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:39,640
Speaker 1: whole truck has been completely modified, so it's really hard

552
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:44,560
Speaker 1: to diagnose a is according to the UH. But at

553
00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:48,480
Speaker 1: any rate, this just started to happen going down the

554
00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:55,120
Speaker 1: road at minimum throttle and it, jerk said, lunches, not badly.

555
00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:58,320
Speaker 1: You can just feel it like it's it's shifting gears.

556
00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:03,359
Speaker 1: But it's not shifting gears. It's something's going on, either

557
00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:07,560
Speaker 1: electronically or fuel wise. So I changed the fuel filter

558
00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:12,080
Speaker 1: and I even opened went into the tank and checked

559
00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:14,640
Speaker 1: all the circuit try for the pump, for the fuel

560
00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:16,719
Speaker 1: pump in the center unit and all that sort of thing.

561
00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:21,400
Speaker 1: Everything checked out. Well, drove it and miraculously it disappeared.

562
00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:24,960
Speaker 1: But it's back. Okay, So let me ask you this.

563
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:28,080
Speaker 1: You got a fuel pressure tap on this engine? Yes?

564
00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:30,200
Speaker 1: I do. Can we hook up a fuel pressure gage

565
00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:32,240
Speaker 1: and go for a ride and see if pressures dropping off?

566
00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:35,760
Speaker 1: I haven't done that, but that has been on my

567
00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:37,840
Speaker 1: mind to do. Just yeah, I would. I would do that,

568
00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:39,320
Speaker 1: and then the other thing I would think about is

569
00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:41,160
Speaker 1: even though I know this is a modified vehicle, and

570
00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:43,440
Speaker 1: I'm you know, I can imagine the detail, you know,

571
00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:46,080
Speaker 1: the care that was taken to do the do the swap. UM,

572
00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:48,320
Speaker 1: it's New Hampshire. I always, you know, whenever I get

573
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:51,800
Speaker 1: calls from you know, state, New Hampshire, Vermont, et cetera,

574
00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:55,160
Speaker 1: New Jersey, New York. You know we're in the rust belt. UM.

575
00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:57,920
Speaker 1: I always think about cleanliness of grounds on older, older

576
00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:00,920
Speaker 1: vehicles and how it can affect warmans and you know

577
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:02,320
Speaker 1: some of those things. So I want to just be

578
00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:05,479
Speaker 1: aware of that. UM, that is an EKE four system.

579
00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:08,680
Speaker 1: That's an older four E four system. That ground at

580
00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:12,280
Speaker 1: the battery cable, that negative battery cable is everything to

581
00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:15,760
Speaker 1: that car. UM. What I've done is I've gone around

582
00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:20,080
Speaker 1: the vehicle, so I've with super heavy gauge wire. I've

583
00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:25,000
Speaker 1: grounded engine to frame, body to frame. UM. You know,

584
00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:29,920
Speaker 1: just basically doing what you're talking about is normally you

585
00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:32,240
Speaker 1: get a problem like that, it's a ground somewhere right. Well,

586
00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:35,040
Speaker 1: but but the issue or something, you know, if ground

587
00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:36,880
Speaker 1: one oh three and I don't know this on this

588
00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:39,080
Speaker 1: vehicle now anymore, but if G one oh three was

589
00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:41,000
Speaker 1: the ground at the left rear corner of the cylinder

590
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:46,000
Speaker 1: head and it's corroded. The computer needs to see a

591
00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:50,280
Speaker 1: clean G one oh three, um, because if you grounded

592
00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:52,160
Speaker 1: the front corner of the cylinder head with a good

593
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:54,640
Speaker 1: quality ground going to the frame reel, that made good

594
00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:57,160
Speaker 1: ground contact. But if ground one oh three, which is

595
00:29:57,160 --> 00:29:58,840
Speaker 1: the ground for the PCM at the back of the

596
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:02,040
Speaker 1: cylinder head, is still corrode it, it's still it's still corroded.

597
00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:04,600
Speaker 1: It's not it's not getting through it. You know, in

598
00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:08,320
Speaker 1: terms of the resistance value, it doesn't change anything. So

599
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:11,480
Speaker 1: you know, having good grounds is important, but cleaning the

600
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:14,840
Speaker 1: existing grounds is more so if you follow what I'm saying.

601
00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:19,320
Speaker 1: I took the dash out, um because I was getting

602
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:21,680
Speaker 1: so frustrated with this thing and just started That's what

603
00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:23,160
Speaker 1: I do. I chear things apart and I put them

604
00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:27,920
Speaker 1: back together and when they came out, uh you know. Anyway,

605
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:29,920
Speaker 1: I got in there and I checked all the grounds.

606
00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:33,080
Speaker 1: I checked the PCM ground on the passenger side. I've

607
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:36,960
Speaker 1: gone through everything in the backside of the dash. Make

608
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:38,680
Speaker 1: sure you know, I didn't have any chasing and the

609
00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:40,840
Speaker 1: grounds are right and all the rest of it, and

610
00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:43,600
Speaker 1: I've cleaned them off. But you're talking about a ground

611
00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:47,840
Speaker 1: that's by the battery. Well, well the main ground, the

612
00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:51,760
Speaker 1: main EAG four ground. All right, that's an EQUE four system.

613
00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:54,840
Speaker 1: There should be a pigtail coming off the negative battery cable.

614
00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:58,400
Speaker 1: There is, okay, and that pigtail it would look like

615
00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:03,920
Speaker 1: a press pull um quick disconnect and that that that

616
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:05,640
Speaker 1: should go to the frame or that should go to

617
00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 1: that was chassis ground for the E four computer. If

618
00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:11,920
Speaker 1: that's dirty, loose corroded battery sid worked its way up

619
00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:15,040
Speaker 1: the wire, creates high resistance across it, all sorts of

620
00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:17,680
Speaker 1: weird things will happen with that car. You know it was.

621
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:20,120
Speaker 1: It was bad ten years ago when those cars were

622
00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:22,440
Speaker 1: twenty years old. Now they're thirty years old, it's got

623
00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 1: to be worse. So that four ground was one of

624
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:29,080
Speaker 1: the first grounds we always tested. Now, can you still

625
00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:31,480
Speaker 1: do eeke for self test on this car with a

626
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:36,720
Speaker 1: scan tool? I don't have a really sophisticated stand tool.

627
00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:39,840
Speaker 1: It don't b D O, b D one and two.

628
00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:42,080
Speaker 1: But it's not really sophisticated. I don't know if I

629
00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:44,280
Speaker 1: can or not. Well, you know it. Do you still

630
00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:46,959
Speaker 1: have the connector in the harness? Yeah, that's right here

631
00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:48,720
Speaker 1: I'm looking at it. Okay, you know, and if you

632
00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:50,360
Speaker 1: look at it, is it is it corroded? Or is

633
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:54,440
Speaker 1: the cover still on the connector? Oh? No, that it's

634
00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:57,000
Speaker 1: it's in really good shape. Okay. I would you know

635
00:31:57,040 --> 00:31:59,120
Speaker 1: what before you beat your brains in because it sounds

636
00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:01,560
Speaker 1: like this is your hot raw, I would get out

637
00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:03,840
Speaker 1: on eBay or somewhere and I would find I would

638
00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:07,000
Speaker 1: find a decent quality used or something new, you know

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Speaker 1: at O B D one. That's what this is quality

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Speaker 1: scan tool. I go see if I can find one

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00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:15,120
Speaker 1: of the OTC monitors, the OTC monitor family of scan tools.

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00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:16,600
Speaker 1: Back in the day. They were state of the art.

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00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:19,040
Speaker 1: With the plug in cartridges. You'll find it real. You'll

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00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:21,880
Speaker 1: find them real cheap on eBay. I'm sure find something

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00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:24,600
Speaker 1: in good shape and I would scan this for codes.

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00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:26,960
Speaker 1: I would hook a fuel pressure to this car. I

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00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:29,680
Speaker 1: would see what fuel pressure is. Keep in mind with

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00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:32,160
Speaker 1: this car, you may not be able to find what's

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00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:35,160
Speaker 1: right what's bad until you figure out what's wrong. Knowing

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Speaker 1: what's good helps eliminate and you can focus on and

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00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:40,600
Speaker 1: find what's bad. Do the do those tests for me.

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00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:42,560
Speaker 1: I'm up against the clock today, ron do those tests

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00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:44,480
Speaker 1: for me and we can talk next week. By the way,

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00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:47,240
Speaker 1: stay on the line. You'll be getting the nine Ford

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Speaker 1: coupe from the cope from the folks at Wicks courtesy

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00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:52,560
Speaker 1: of Wicks Wiks Filters dot com. Tom and Tony say

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Speaker 1: you are the winner either that they're done playing with it,

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00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:56,600
Speaker 1: so make sure that when they send you works that

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00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:58,440
Speaker 1: Tom and Tony haven't taken parts off it like they

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Speaker 1: did the last time. But day on the line. That's

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Speaker 1: courtesy the folks over at Wicks Works Filters dot com.

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00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:05,280
Speaker 1: Run and maybe that'll help alleviate some of your pain.

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Speaker 1: I'm roning ay in the car doctor. We are back

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Speaker 1: right after this suck back. Let's wind it up with

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Speaker 1: Mike from Dnella, New Jersey. Mike, Welcome back, sir. What's

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Speaker 1: going on right? I was thinking about this the other

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Speaker 1: day and I was talking about stop start technology. Have

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Speaker 1: you worked doing any cars that employee that? Yeah? Just

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Speaker 1: but normal maintenance stuff yet Michael, we haven't seen, you know,

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Speaker 1: any real failures. Maybe I think we've done a couple

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Speaker 1: of batteries, but nothing more than that. But you know,

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Speaker 1: what are your thoughts? Yeah? Because what I understand is,

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Speaker 1: you know the accessory built you know, runs everything when

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00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:44,720
Speaker 1: the engine runs, but after the engine shuts off to

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Speaker 1: there's a couple of motors that run the accessories, like

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Speaker 1: the eighth C and all that. And they say that

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Speaker 1: the batteries are quite a bit bigger. Yep, the batteries

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Speaker 1: are bigger, the starters are more expensive. Here's the here's

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Speaker 1: the part that that that bothers me about start stop Michael.

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Speaker 1: And you know it's funny. We're we're we're probably going

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Speaker 1: to replace the Malibu this year because it's it's you know,

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00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:09,839
Speaker 1: it's got a buck seventy five on it and needs. Yeah,

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00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:11,799
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's time and Mama wants a new car.

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Speaker 1: And I get that happy wife, happy life. And and

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Speaker 1: I can say that she never listens to the show. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know she'll say, well, you know it's you know

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Speaker 1: what you do on the show today, nothing, honey. Um.

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Speaker 1: So you know, we're looking at start stop technology. We're

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Speaker 1: looking at Ford edges as a matter of fact. And

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Speaker 1: I've told her, no, we don't want to start stop vehicle.

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Speaker 1: And and part of that reason is simply because you

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Speaker 1: know what that car has to go through. You know,

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Speaker 1: the average car cranks, you m right to start. The

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Speaker 1: start stop technology cars crank at a minimum of a

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Speaker 1: thousand rpm. It's instant, it's bang, it's right there. And

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Speaker 1: you know that bothers the heck out of me. I

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Speaker 1: can't imagine where that vehicle is gonna be. You know,

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Speaker 1: we've we've put a hundred seventy five miles on that Malibu.

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Speaker 1: It's fifteen years. Where is that stop start car going

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Speaker 1: to be in a hundred and seventy five thousand miles?

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Speaker 1: How many starters will we have had to put in it?

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Speaker 1: Because and that starter is not cheap, that starts well

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Speaker 1: over a thousand bucks. The batteries are not cheating. You know,

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Speaker 1: the price of that technology for what it's trying to achieve,

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Speaker 1: I can't see it. I think there's got to be

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Speaker 1: an alternative. And I think there's safety concerns. I think

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Speaker 1: there's places and moments where you don't want to start

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Speaker 1: stop you should be given a switch. I appreciate your thoughts, Michael,

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Speaker 1: I gotta go. I'm run any of the car. Doctor.

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Speaker 1: The mechanics aren't expensive that price. Let's see you