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Speaker 1: Ron Andanian a future driverless car using holographic displays for

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Speaker 1: and all that you do. And UM, if you need

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Speaker 1: me during the week, Ron at Car Doctor Show dot com.

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Speaker 1: I've I've been known to reach out the email. Heck,

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Speaker 1: gotten back and there's that voicemail going and that was me.

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Speaker 1: So anyway, UM, we are here to talk about your car,

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Speaker 1: talk about your car and it's problems and um all

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Speaker 1: about that a little bit. I was reading an article

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Speaker 1: it's interesting. What's at the top of the list. Well,

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. The top five. That the the

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Speaker 1: I was looking at it during the pause. We just

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Speaker 1: And this is out of what magazine? Is this out

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Speaker 1: of Ratchett and Wrench. It's a mechanics journal. Um uh,

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Speaker 1: they're citing the ten most expensive cars. And let's see

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Speaker 1: number We'll start at the top. The number ten most

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Speaker 1: the midsize Chevy Malibu. Average cost UH to maintain at

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Speaker 1: by repair Pal. Repair pal conducted to study and the

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Speaker 1: average cost of common orto repairs. So the most popular

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Speaker 1: So that being said, on the scales, Chevrolet Malibu came

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Speaker 1: How can I help? Uh? I've replaced Okay, Well, I

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Speaker 1: with coil packs? Yes, sure, yes, sure, okay, we'll fix it.

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Speaker 1: Two thousand one. So a misfire? What what? What the

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Speaker 1: cylinder seven. It's not saying ignition coil. There's two parts

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Speaker 1: the cylinder that's mechanical. All three of those conditions would

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Speaker 1: it says misfire on cylinder seven, it's just saying that

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Speaker 1: people's interpretation. Could be the injector, it could be mechanical.

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Speaker 1: vacuum leak. It could be that a mouse chewed through

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Speaker 1: For number seven, there's a there's a ton of things here,

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Speaker 1: all right. So a big problem on changing pout cover

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Speaker 1: test which I saw the number five uh with spark plug,

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Speaker 1: is that it's sitting in a little bit of oil.

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Speaker 1: It's a little bit of work. But let's go let's

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Speaker 1: go back over and let's let's let's finish with this

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Speaker 1: number seven and number eight conversation. So you bought a

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Speaker 1: Now you swamp, you swap number seven with number eight,

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Speaker 1: which is the right move, start moving it around. If

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Speaker 1: you have no test equipment, that's where you're gonna go.

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Speaker 1: And now you've got a misfire on two cylinders. Okay,

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Speaker 1: hopefully you're marking these coils before you take them out

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Speaker 1: of the head. Just take a magic markers swap you perfect.

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Speaker 1: Then let's take that number seven coil that's now in

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Speaker 1: it somewhere else. Okay. If that coil shows a dead

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Speaker 1: hole on that cylinder, you know, let's say you move

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Speaker 1: that you know what news stands for. You know what

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Speaker 1: Was it a white box part? Was it the house brand?

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Speaker 1: motorcraft piece? Or what? What was it? Do you know? Yeah? Okay?

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Speaker 1: almost It was over too much. You don't remember what

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Speaker 1: That should have been a decent quality, but doesn't mean

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Speaker 1: it doesn't mean necessarily that's always the case. But you know,

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Speaker 1: But the fact that number eight cylinder is now in

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Speaker 1: in the hole doesn't mean it's getting triggered properly, doesn't

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Speaker 1: mean that it's got signal from the computer doesn't mean

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Speaker 1: that the injector is firing, doesn't mean you know, there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of what ifs here, So you know, first

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Speaker 1: injector problem? Do we have signal to the coil? All right?

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Speaker 1: And for that you're gonna need some test equipment. And

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Speaker 1: find a shop that does it has the ability to

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Speaker 1: can I just put a d M oh if you've

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Speaker 1: got to, if you've gotta, if you've gotta, if you've

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Speaker 1: got a digital volt domemeter. Yeah, we want to see

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Speaker 1: if you want it to be daring, and I've done

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Speaker 1: this is I will take a known good coil, plug

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Speaker 1: the coil, boot ground the spark plug, use a test

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Speaker 1: it if it fires, If it fires, then I know

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Speaker 1: at least I've got spark on that cylinder. I've got

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Speaker 1: the signal. Perhaps the driver in the PCM is bid.

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Speaker 1: All right, sir, try those things. I don't want to

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Speaker 1: Car Doctor, Sir. How can I help. Thanks for having me. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I have this that's I'm in college and this is

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Speaker 1: And I have a scan too, and I scanned it

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Speaker 1: So does your scan tools show data stream? Tyler? No,

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Speaker 1: Where'd you get that one from? Riley? Okay? UM, nothing

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Speaker 1: But when it's cold, there's just no chance do this.

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Speaker 1: when it goes into this no start condition. Have you

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Speaker 1: I actually haven't. No, not when it's hasn't started. So

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Speaker 1: do you have the spark plug with a little uh alligator? Um? Okay?

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Speaker 1: What we're looking for is something that's either gonna look

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Speaker 1: it's an adjustable gap and there's a scale on it.

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Speaker 1: really I want to look at fuel pressure. You know,

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Speaker 1: All right? Am I gonna have to take that to

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Speaker 1: It's not you know, it's it's maybe an hour shop

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Speaker 1: eventually start? Well? Like I said, Uh, I mean if

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Speaker 1: um after I would you know, I didn't want to

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Speaker 1: I can play that game all day long. The problem

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Speaker 1: set a code, it's got to be outside the speck

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00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:51,159
Speaker 1: of what the vehicle manufacturer finds to be bad. But

424
00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:56,480
Speaker 1: if it's if it's right on the borderline, then you know,

425
00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:59,040
Speaker 1: until it actually passes that that point in the in

426
00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:01,680
Speaker 1: the scale chart, it's not gonna flag and set a code,

427
00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:05,879
Speaker 1: all right, sir, But there are no there are no

428
00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:10,960
Speaker 1: codes in this vehicle, no no codes. All right. It

429
00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:13,359
Speaker 1: runs great once it's going, and it never you know,

430
00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:18,120
Speaker 1: bogs down or anything like that. But you gotta getting

431
00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:21,199
Speaker 1: it started in the cold Morning's gotta gotta look at

432
00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:24,320
Speaker 1: fuel pressure next and listen. It may not be fuel pressure,

433
00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:27,280
Speaker 1: but you know, what One of the things I learned

434
00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:30,560
Speaker 1: a long time ago is fuel pressure is the most

435
00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:33,760
Speaker 1: overlooked and it's the It's just it's just the necessary

436
00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:35,800
Speaker 1: part of the process. You just gotta know what it is.

437
00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:40,040
Speaker 1: Um Other than that, you're just guessing. All right, sir,

438
00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:42,680
Speaker 1: all right, thank you, you're very welcome. Good luck to

439
00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:44,439
Speaker 1: in your studies, and you give us a clue you

440
00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:48,159
Speaker 1: need anything else. Fuel pressure is critical, and you know,

441
00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:51,159
Speaker 1: even though it's tough on that car to check fuel pressure,

442
00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:56,000
Speaker 1: it's not the easiest. I'm still floored by mechanics would

443
00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:58,560
Speaker 1: call me. They've got problems with cars straighter test valves

444
00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:00,600
Speaker 1: right on the top fuel rail. It's to really three

445
00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:03,879
Speaker 1: minutes to plug gun and hook up. They haven't. They

446
00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:07,080
Speaker 1: haven't checked fuel pressure because they know it's not fuel pressure.

447
00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:08,480
Speaker 1: You know what, I never know what it is not

448
00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:10,280
Speaker 1: is you know what, I know what it is when

449
00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:12,119
Speaker 1: it's fixed. Until I know what until I fix it,

450
00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:13,960
Speaker 1: I don't know what it not is. So I'm gonna

451
00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:16,840
Speaker 1: test everything because that's how you get to know where

452
00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:19,440
Speaker 1: things are and what they what they what they appear

453
00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:21,880
Speaker 1: to be. Let's pull over and take the pause. Five

454
00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:25,440
Speaker 1: zero nine zero zero. When we return. We're gonna go

455
00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:27,600
Speaker 1: talk to Maureen in New York City. Oh three Pontiac

456
00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:29,800
Speaker 1: Grand Damn. So you guys stay tuned. I'll be back

457
00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:57,440
Speaker 1: right after this. I'm Ronaldinni in the car. Doctor. Hey,

458
00:25:57,520 --> 00:25:59,600
Speaker 1: it's my turn to talk Ronni in the car doctor

459
00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:02,919
Speaker 1: eight five five zero zero. Let's get back to the

460
00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:05,000
Speaker 1: busy phones and go talk to Maureen a New York City,

461
00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:07,640
Speaker 1: O three Ponty at Grandamn, Marie. Welcome to the car.

462
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:12,280
Speaker 1: How are you good? You're welcome? How can I help? Yeah?

463
00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:16,400
Speaker 1: How should I put this? I got two opinions on this. Actually,

464
00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:22,760
Speaker 1: the first opinion of the car needs a intake guests,

465
00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:26,600
Speaker 1: and I uh uh an intake and it was quite high,

466
00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:31,160
Speaker 1: the price over well over a thousand dollars. The second

467
00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:36,160
Speaker 1: opinion was more like a local mechanic who I've been

468
00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:39,360
Speaker 1: going to for a long time and night sort of trust.

469
00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:42,720
Speaker 1: He said, well, yeah, you have that verified it. He

470
00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:46,720
Speaker 1: verified it and intake guests, and I think that's what

471
00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:51,080
Speaker 1: it's called. He said, well, just leave it because it's

472
00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:56,320
Speaker 1: gonna be too too much of too too difficult to

473
00:26:56,480 --> 00:27:01,160
Speaker 1: correct or something. I think those worries words. My question is, well,

474
00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:06,440
Speaker 1: can I leave it because um or is there another alternative?

475
00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:11,640
Speaker 1: Like I was looking on the internet about feeling feeling well,

476
00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:14,119
Speaker 1: let me let me ask you this, Maureen. What what

477
00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:18,000
Speaker 1: started this? You needed intake manifold conversation? Were you complaining

478
00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:20,320
Speaker 1: about something or did you go in for you No,

479
00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:23,320
Speaker 1: I wasn't complaining. I just brought it in for a

480
00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:27,440
Speaker 1: simple diagnostic check. Oh yeah, I did feel heat onto

481
00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:29,879
Speaker 1: my feet, but that was after I was running the

482
00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:36,120
Speaker 1: heat it for a while. Um. I wasn't really complaining

483
00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:40,560
Speaker 1: about anything. Okay. Oh, well, after I popped the car

484
00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:44,320
Speaker 1: and got out, I smelled gasoline in the back, but

485
00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:48,320
Speaker 1: I I think would cause that age. That's normal. Well, no,

486
00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:51,679
Speaker 1: no car, you should have gasoline smell anywhere. So okay,

487
00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:54,000
Speaker 1: so let's let's let's back up the truck a minute.

488
00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:56,840
Speaker 1: But the endorsed system is safe in that car. I

489
00:27:57,200 --> 00:27:59,800
Speaker 1: did have a check. Okay, but let's let's let's let's

490
00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:03,480
Speaker 1: have this conversation. It's an O three cars fourteen years old.

491
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:07,480
Speaker 1: Before you spend any real money on this. The place

492
00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:09,800
Speaker 1: that told you you needed the intake gask at first,

493
00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:14,639
Speaker 1: and it was or whatever it was, UM dealership. Do

494
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:16,560
Speaker 1: you trust them? Do you know who they are, do

495
00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:19,280
Speaker 1: you know what they are? No? The second one said

496
00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:22,200
Speaker 1: that it was just to leave it, okay. But the

497
00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:25,000
Speaker 1: one that the one that gave you the higher price,

498
00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:29,879
Speaker 1: who is they the dealer? Is that the the first

499
00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:33,720
Speaker 1: one who said didn't say to leave it? He said,

500
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:37,840
Speaker 1: he said you should get it fixed, right eventually? Right?

501
00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:40,000
Speaker 1: And they said you should get it fixed? Was that

502
00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:42,080
Speaker 1: it was that the dealer? Was that a mechanic you

503
00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:45,000
Speaker 1: go to? That That wasn't the mechanic that I've been

504
00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:48,360
Speaker 1: going to for years? Okay? Who was that? Was that

505
00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:56,280
Speaker 1: the dealership or was that an independent? That's fine? So

506
00:28:56,440 --> 00:29:00,600
Speaker 1: my my my point is that these particular engines did

507
00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:04,840
Speaker 1: go through intake gaskets, all right, It wasn't uncommon. The

508
00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:07,840
Speaker 1: issue is at what point and where and when does

509
00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:12,480
Speaker 1: it fail? All right? And yes, an intake gasket is

510
00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:15,480
Speaker 1: very important. It's it's the hand between the two slices

511
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:17,840
Speaker 1: of bread, all right. If you don't put hand between

512
00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:19,959
Speaker 1: the two slices of bread, it's no longer a sandwich.

513
00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:21,160
Speaker 1: If you don't have an If you don't have a

514
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:24,440
Speaker 1: gasket between the intake manifolding the cylinder head, you don't

515
00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:28,760
Speaker 1: have an engine. And the point becomes that at some

516
00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:33,200
Speaker 1: point that gasket will fail. Is it is it worth doing?

517
00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:36,160
Speaker 1: I'd have to look at this from a mechanical perspective,

518
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:39,680
Speaker 1: not because, as your mechanics said, it's too difficult to job.

519
00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:42,720
Speaker 1: Degree of difficulty has no bearing on whether or not

520
00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:44,720
Speaker 1: something needs to be done in the laws of physics

521
00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:47,959
Speaker 1: or the laws of physics. If the gasket is deteriorating,

522
00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:51,280
Speaker 1: and my suspicion as it is, it's probably starting to

523
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:55,960
Speaker 1: leak coolant and oil, which would not be uncommon, then

524
00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:59,000
Speaker 1: you know at some point the commitment or the decision

525
00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:02,240
Speaker 1: to replace the vehicle has to be made. My concern

526
00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:04,400
Speaker 1: is when you say you smell gasoline at the rear

527
00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:07,840
Speaker 1: of the car, are you saying gasoline or are you

528
00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:15,640
Speaker 1: saying you smell exhaust? Um, I know I'm smelling exhaust. Okay,

529
00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:19,520
Speaker 1: big difference. All Right, You're gonna smell exhaust from the

530
00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:22,800
Speaker 1: rear of the car. All right. So so here's here's

531
00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:26,959
Speaker 1: the answer. All right. The answer is that you know,

532
00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:30,479
Speaker 1: your mechanic or somebody that you trust has to do

533
00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:34,000
Speaker 1: an evaluation on the vehicle. What kind of overall shape

534
00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:36,680
Speaker 1: is this fourteen year old car? And how are the

535
00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:42,040
Speaker 1: brake lines, How are the front suspension rubber bushings? How

536
00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:45,240
Speaker 1: are and what if? And are there any major oil leaks,

537
00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:51,800
Speaker 1: transmission fluid leaks, things like that, because yeah, absolutely they don't.

538
00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:54,360
Speaker 1: They all know the problems with the car. I never

539
00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:56,400
Speaker 1: had a problem with this car. I was shocked to

540
00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:58,920
Speaker 1: hear this diagnosing, Okay, how many miles around the car?

541
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:05,320
Speaker 1: Sixty If it's sixty five miles and it's got a

542
00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:09,600
Speaker 1: leaky intake gasket, at some point, it will fail, plain

543
00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:12,200
Speaker 1: and simple. And you've got to decide do you wanna

544
00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:14,880
Speaker 1: do you want to replace it and avoid the problem,

545
00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:16,280
Speaker 1: or do you want to just drive it and take

546
00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:19,840
Speaker 1: the gamble. It's there's no magic pill here. Well, what

547
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:22,280
Speaker 1: would happen if I drive it and take a gamble?

548
00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:25,080
Speaker 1: When I get like a fire an engine by it?

549
00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:28,000
Speaker 1: You could You could also you could also lose all

550
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:32,480
Speaker 1: the coolant, you could develop an oil leak, you could

551
00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:36,800
Speaker 1: do serious engine damage without a fire, you could. I mean,

552
00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:40,160
Speaker 1: there's a couple of different scenarios. You're you're you're basically

553
00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:43,320
Speaker 1: you're you're basically asking me, you know, if you walk

554
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:46,720
Speaker 1: across this this this tight rope without a safety net

555
00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:50,280
Speaker 1: in a high wind, What are the chances you're gonna

556
00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:51,960
Speaker 1: make it? And what could happen to you on the

557
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:55,320
Speaker 1: way down? A lot of things. So you suggest that

558
00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:59,640
Speaker 1: I get it repaired, right, provided the rest of provided

559
00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:04,000
Speaker 1: the best of the car justifies the repair. It's fourteen

560
00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:10,640
Speaker 1: years old, you know, Yeah, well, okay, thirteen, let's not

561
00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:13,720
Speaker 1: split hairs, all right, but it's it's it's close enough

562
00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:18,520
Speaker 1: that it's it's it's just something to think about, all right. Again,

563
00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:22,120
Speaker 1: it depends upon degree of severity. All right. If your

564
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:24,680
Speaker 1: mechanic could come back to you and said it's not

565
00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:27,520
Speaker 1: that bad, all right, I could. I could buy that.

566
00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:29,239
Speaker 1: But for your mechanic to come back to you and

567
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:32,960
Speaker 1: say it's not worth doing because it's too difficult to do,

568
00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:37,000
Speaker 1: that's that's kind of a scary statement. So I would ask.

569
00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:43,160
Speaker 1: And this is a mechanic that I trusted, so everything

570
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 1: else is working on the cart, right, I understand that.

571
00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:47,160
Speaker 1: But you know what this is like? This is like

572
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:49,120
Speaker 1: who you want to vote for to become president. Not

573
00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:51,680
Speaker 1: that this is a good analogy. You can't. You can't.

574
00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:54,800
Speaker 1: You can't believe what everybody says and just vote for

575
00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:56,360
Speaker 1: him on that basis. You've got to look at the

576
00:32:56,400 --> 00:33:00,040
Speaker 1: overall picture and that's the bottom for a couple of

577
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:03,320
Speaker 1: months and like two or three months, and then I'll

578
00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:06,480
Speaker 1: consider repairing it. Right, But if you want to be

579
00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:09,680
Speaker 1: safe in that car, especially in the warmer weather, you

580
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:13,280
Speaker 1: want to get that repaired. Zero mart on any of

581
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:35,440
Speaker 1: the car doctor. I'll be back right after this. What

582
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:46,600
Speaker 1: this car is automatic, it's systematic, it's hard, dramatic. What's breeze? Lightning?

583
00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:51,880
Speaker 1: Welcome back? Aren't any of the car doctor? Let's get

584
00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:54,280
Speaker 1: over and talk to Art in Maine. Oh seven Nissan

585
00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:56,400
Speaker 1: or Mata? Hey? Art? How are you sir? How can

586
00:33:56,440 --> 00:34:00,760
Speaker 1: I help? How you doing good? What's going on? Okay?

587
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:04,720
Speaker 1: I have an old seven at eight thousand miles. I've

588
00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:08,040
Speaker 1: had it for about three years. Has always been a

589
00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:11,840
Speaker 1: deal of service until I bought it. Besides fluid changes,

590
00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:15,200
Speaker 1: what would you recommend to extend the life of the car?

591
00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:20,719
Speaker 1: My financial situation also my location, uh hips me from

592
00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:24,200
Speaker 1: going to a dealer, right, you know, it's all about

593
00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:27,640
Speaker 1: fluids at this stage and age or um. The biggest

594
00:34:27,640 --> 00:34:29,239
Speaker 1: thing I see this is a this is what a

595
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:33,360
Speaker 1: V six are MODA? No, that's the five point six eight? Okay,

596
00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:37,560
Speaker 1: this is the V a there's a timing chain motor though, correct. Uh, No,

597
00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:39,640
Speaker 1: I was gonna ask you that. Yeah, I think this

598
00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:41,360
Speaker 1: is a chain motor. This is I think all the

599
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:44,719
Speaker 1: Nissans of this generation are I'm always I'm always suspect

600
00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:48,680
Speaker 1: of Nissans as they age about chains, guides, intentioners, big

601
00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:52,000
Speaker 1: buck job and it can it can break the bank,

602
00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:54,759
Speaker 1: but it does have to be considered for longevity. Uh.

603
00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:57,399
Speaker 1: The issue is on a Nissan. The reason I'm very

604
00:34:57,400 --> 00:35:01,359
Speaker 1: cautious is their motor in the last fifteen years, if

605
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:05,880
Speaker 1: not longer, are interference fit and if something breaks, you're done.

606
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:08,680
Speaker 1: So you know you've got to look into that. And

607
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:10,719
Speaker 1: probably the best way to know whether or not it

608
00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:13,319
Speaker 1: needs to change, the simplest way other than the name

609
00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:15,600
Speaker 1: badge on the side is when you started up and

610
00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:18,799
Speaker 1: drive it. How loud? Is it doesn't howl, doesn't have

611
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:21,080
Speaker 1: a wind to it? Does it sound like a supercharger

612
00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:23,880
Speaker 1: like you're behind a New York City commuter bus? For

613
00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:26,520
Speaker 1: lack of a better way to explain it. If if

614
00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:30,040
Speaker 1: it's got that wine to it, then chance, then chances

615
00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:34,160
Speaker 1: are the chain, the chains and the tensioners are a problem. Um.

616
00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:38,799
Speaker 1: Do you have access to Facebook? Art. Yes, go out

617
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:41,440
Speaker 1: to the car Doctor Facebook page and it's probably a

618
00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:43,880
Speaker 1: couple of posts back. But I put up some pictures

619
00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:46,960
Speaker 1: about a about an extra. I just did a set

620
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:50,560
Speaker 1: of chains intentioners on and um, it's just amazing when

621
00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:53,080
Speaker 1: you look at how the the shoe or the guide

622
00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:56,160
Speaker 1: is worn down the better part of a quarter of

623
00:35:56,160 --> 00:35:58,120
Speaker 1: an inch, it's just like wow, because they make it

624
00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:02,160
Speaker 1: a cheap nylon. Uh, I was gonna ask you this nylon. Okay,

625
00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:04,920
Speaker 1: I don't. I used to have Suzuki dealership a long

626
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:07,600
Speaker 1: time ago, and you know they all had chain drown

627
00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:10,960
Speaker 1: camp chafts and you could tell how they how loosely

628
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:13,960
Speaker 1: were by rotating the clank and watching the end of

629
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:17,120
Speaker 1: the camp Okay, if you've got more than uh, you know,

630
00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:21,120
Speaker 1: I don't know, a couple of degrees uh lost motion there,

631
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:22,920
Speaker 1: you know that it was bad, you know. And in

632
00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:25,439
Speaker 1: this case it's just you can tell by the howl

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Speaker 1: and the wine. But other than that, um, you know,

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Speaker 1: I would be aware of the radiator. Nissans had their

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Speaker 1: radiators radiator issues. These aren't as bad, but some of

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Speaker 1: the Nissans go through trans coolers inside the radiator and

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Speaker 1: creates any freeze and transmission issues. Other than that catalytic

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Speaker 1: converters be aware. But other than that you should be

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Speaker 1: good to go. I gotta go. I'm on any of

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Speaker 1: the car doctor. The mechanics aren't expensive their prices, and

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Speaker 1: see you