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Speaker 1: Ron and Nannian there were fifteen year olds in Europe

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Speaker 1: It's about three the car Doctor, I was wondering, does

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Speaker 1: Why have we converted from gasolene? And that's a fair question.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the radio home of Ron and Nanian 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: But I am here to take your calls at eight

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Speaker 1: five five five six and now he running. Hey, welcome

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Speaker 1: aboard Ronan any in the car doctor here at your service.

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Speaker 1: We've got a busy hour. I've got a bunch of

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Speaker 1: the comments upon the Facebook page from a previous hour,

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Speaker 1: comments about how are the gas prices affecting your driving

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Speaker 1: Where's your point of pain on the price of gas?

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Speaker 1: Where is it gonna be where you say, okay, enough,

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Speaker 1: We are just out of curiosity because we're just seeing

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Speaker 1: at a five zero nine zero. I'm le's start right

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Speaker 1: out of the gate with Jeff in New Jersey with

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Speaker 1: a two thousand Chevy Malibu. Jeff, Welcome aboard, sir. How

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Speaker 1: can I help? Yes? Run? Okay? Um? First off, I

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Speaker 1: But anyway, the check engine light came on back in August. Okay,

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Speaker 1: she came on for about three weeks, went out for

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Speaker 1: to you know, this disconnected battery and all that, and

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Speaker 1: So I said, gee, I'm gonna have to take it

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Speaker 1: to order zone to see what's going on. So I

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Speaker 1: I brought it there three times. The first time I

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Speaker 1: So let's back up. Um. First of all, AutoZone is

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Speaker 1: You know, like mom said, you get what you pay for,

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Speaker 1: So it's a higher mileage vehicle. It's just broken. And

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Speaker 1: but they've got to be applied. So they they ground

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Speaker 1: the torque converter clutch solenoid, which opens a passageway of

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Speaker 1: the torqu converter clutch. It expects to see a change

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Speaker 1: can tell you three grand thirty five bucks. That seems

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Speaker 1: you've also got to be concerned with quality of fluid,

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Speaker 1: dirt and sentiment that's built up in that vehicle over time.

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Speaker 1: And if the solenoid is clogged or restricted with particulate

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Speaker 1: if it's not the solenoid, could it be the trans

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Speaker 1: as long as the rest of it's in good shape.

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Speaker 1: They are good solid engines. As long as there's no

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Speaker 1: the brake lines and everything else looks okay. Three grands

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Speaker 1: it's cheaper than a new car right now, which you

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Speaker 1: I hope that cleared it up for you. Jeff. You

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Speaker 1: It sounds a lot like you. You take your cars away,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the car doctor, Sir, at your service, How

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Speaker 1: can I help hello ron. Uh yeah, two thousand two

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Speaker 1: this Welcome back. We're on naming the car Doctor here

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Speaker 1: Thanks for the patients. How can we help? I'm doing good, sir.

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Speaker 1: on this over the over the past fifteen eighteen years,

427
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Speaker 1: what I've seen with the hybrids, particularly Toyota. Toyota Engineer

428
00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:27,560
Speaker 1: is one of the better hybrids in the marketplace. I think.

429
00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:30,840
Speaker 1: I think they make a really solid hybrid vehicle, and

430
00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:35,199
Speaker 1: that their their vehicle is it's almost over engineered. You know.

431
00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:37,159
Speaker 1: Don't tell anybody this, but if I were if I

432
00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:39,520
Speaker 1: were to buy a hybrid, it would be a Toyota

433
00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:43,040
Speaker 1: because I think they make a real quality product. That

434
00:23:43,119 --> 00:23:48,760
Speaker 1: being said, they monitor that system by computer for more

435
00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:51,560
Speaker 1: than that, more than a few reasons of why and

436
00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:53,840
Speaker 1: if and what if there's a fault type of an issue,

437
00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:56,399
Speaker 1: and the fact that you don't have any dash lights on,

438
00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:59,919
Speaker 1: any warnings, any check engine light and so forth tells

439
00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:03,399
Speaker 1: me that provided there are no fault codes, that it

440
00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:05,960
Speaker 1: hasn't detected a fault. And the reason it may be

441
00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:10,159
Speaker 1: displaying incorrectly is because it's possible that the software that

442
00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:14,840
Speaker 1: runs the test needs to be updated. All right, So

443
00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:17,520
Speaker 1: what I'm gonna tell you to do is talk to

444
00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:20,240
Speaker 1: your Toyota dealer and explain it to them just the

445
00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:23,679
Speaker 1: way you explained it to me. And you know, if

446
00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:25,600
Speaker 1: you register it, if you walk in and say, hey,

447
00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:29,360
Speaker 1: you know, charging your battery system does not show under

448
00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:33,200
Speaker 1: any condition, in my mind, that should be a warranty visit.

449
00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:35,520
Speaker 1: Don't be afraid of going to the dealer and explaining

450
00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:38,800
Speaker 1: these things to them, and simply because I want you

451
00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:40,480
Speaker 1: to get it while it's under warranty, although you have

452
00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:42,800
Speaker 1: a long way to go. You know, if there's a

453
00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:46,200
Speaker 1: software update, great, If there isn't, I think the answer

454
00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:48,360
Speaker 1: they're going to tell you is that it's operating as

455
00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:51,399
Speaker 1: designed and that's okay because as you say, the vehicle

456
00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:56,760
Speaker 1: runs normal correct. Yes, you know, no issues, no problems.

457
00:24:57,240 --> 00:25:01,399
Speaker 1: So I have not right and now. And part of

458
00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:03,880
Speaker 1: this is based on I think it was probably eight

459
00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:05,720
Speaker 1: or nine years ago there was a there was a

460
00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:10,360
Speaker 1: version of Prius that had issues with how it displayed

461
00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:14,320
Speaker 1: battery charge rate whether it was fully charged or not,

462
00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:17,640
Speaker 1: and a software update resolved it. So we we look

463
00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:20,200
Speaker 1: at software updates a lot in a situation like this.

464
00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:22,399
Speaker 1: It's a great place to start because it may just

465
00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:29,840
Speaker 1: be a normal condition that's not being displayed properly. Makes sense, sure, yes,

466
00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:34,640
Speaker 1: well you know, I've got a couple of cordless lithium

467
00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:38,479
Speaker 1: I on drills at home, and I keep those on

468
00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:41,400
Speaker 1: charge all the time. As a matter of fact, when

469
00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:43,960
Speaker 1: the green light comes on and stays on on the charger,

470
00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:48,160
Speaker 1: I'll disconnect and plug it back in and it'll start

471
00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:51,359
Speaker 1: blinking again, showing that it's taken a charge. I'll do

472
00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:53,479
Speaker 1: that over a period of several days until the light

473
00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:57,400
Speaker 1: stays on endevor goes out. And uh, I don't heard

474
00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:01,280
Speaker 1: people say that you don't want to over charge or

475
00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:04,760
Speaker 1: prolonged a charge on a lithium ion battery, but I'm

476
00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:08,000
Speaker 1: not seeing that as as the uh, the real world.

477
00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:12,120
Speaker 1: I've had these batteries from my uh cordless drills. I've

478
00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:16,960
Speaker 1: had a hell over probably close to eight years anyways,

479
00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:20,600
Speaker 1: and uh, I still have the original batteries, right, what

480
00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:24,240
Speaker 1: what what brand battery? What bend really are using? I'm

481
00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:30,080
Speaker 1: using a craftsman and there kind of an oddball voltage.

482
00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:32,680
Speaker 1: I think it's eighteen point two. I think, yes, some

483
00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:38,120
Speaker 1: particular just maybe it's nineteen point two. But uh, yeah,

484
00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:42,480
Speaker 1: they've always worked very well. I wouldn't and and and

485
00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:45,080
Speaker 1: as much as and I understand, I think I understand

486
00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:47,760
Speaker 1: where your mind's going, Stephen, that you're comparing the one

487
00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:50,280
Speaker 1: to the other, even though they're both a lithium ion

488
00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:54,960
Speaker 1: um and not every toyota's a lithium ion. I think

489
00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:58,960
Speaker 1: there's also some metal nickel hydride batteries and some of

490
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:01,359
Speaker 1: these cars too. I thought I read that somewhere as well.

491
00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:05,720
Speaker 1: But my point becomes, don't compare the two completely because

492
00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:10,480
Speaker 1: they are different technologies, different systems, obviously different applications. So

493
00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:13,560
Speaker 1: but but I respect what you're what you're thinking. I get,

494
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:15,040
Speaker 1: I get your line of thought. If this show is

495
00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:18,600
Speaker 1: a percent, why doesn't that show and you know it's

496
00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:20,800
Speaker 1: a brave new world. It's time to ask the question because,

497
00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:22,800
Speaker 1: like I said, it may just be a software update

498
00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:26,440
Speaker 1: that reflects and changes. You know, they when they design cars,

499
00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:29,080
Speaker 1: and I'm amazed if you think about it, how well

500
00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:31,600
Speaker 1: engineers designed cars. You ever think about the fact that

501
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:33,880
Speaker 1: they've got to design a car that works the way

502
00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:39,240
Speaker 1: it does in Maryland, Florida, Southern California, Texas, Alaska, and

503
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:41,760
Speaker 1: you know, in all points in between the temperature variation,

504
00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:46,119
Speaker 1: the climate, the environment, the the operating characteristics, they actually

505
00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:47,760
Speaker 1: do a pretty good job. And then they come across

506
00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:50,880
Speaker 1: a guy like you who's put you know, less than

507
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:54,360
Speaker 1: what six thousand miles a year on a three year

508
00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:56,959
Speaker 1: old car, and maybe it's not enough to charge the battery,

509
00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:59,239
Speaker 1: maybe it displays wrong, maybe it doesn't, and they need

510
00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:02,520
Speaker 1: to do a software update. Makes sense, you know, it's

511
00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:05,000
Speaker 1: just it's just it's it's so it's just time to

512
00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:07,399
Speaker 1: go back and ask some questions, all right, kid U, Alright,

513
00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:09,639
Speaker 1: well I'm definitely gonna do that, and if you have

514
00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:12,440
Speaker 1: any other issues, you give me a call. You'd be well,

515
00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:14,880
Speaker 1: thank you, sir. You take care. You're welcome. I'm running

516
00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:16,560
Speaker 1: naming the car doctor. We are back right after this.

517
00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:30,160
Speaker 1: Don't go away, welcome back. We're name of the car Doctor.

518
00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:32,159
Speaker 1: Let's get down to Florida and talk to Stanley. Oh

519
00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:34,960
Speaker 1: seven Mustang and a blower motor problem. Stanley, you around

520
00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:38,600
Speaker 1: with the car doctor. What's going on? Good afternoon. Um.

521
00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:40,800
Speaker 1: I bought this car about month ago. I had a

522
00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:42,480
Speaker 1: lot of work done to it. A C. I do

523
00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:44,520
Speaker 1: mechanic work for a living. Hate tell you this if

524
00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:48,920
Speaker 1: I do it. Um, the a C blower motor, there's

525
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:52,560
Speaker 1: no shoes or electric going to the switch. I checked

526
00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:55,960
Speaker 1: the fuses, I've checked the relays, and that whole system

527
00:28:56,000 --> 00:29:00,000
Speaker 1: now is nothing's working on the heater or the fans. Nothing.

528
00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:05,040
Speaker 1: The whole system is no longer. Okay. But but the

529
00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:07,520
Speaker 1: a C. The compressor comes on and and so it

530
00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:11,320
Speaker 1: goes through the motions. Okay, so you can you can

531
00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:14,640
Speaker 1: get to the blower motor. All right. You got two

532
00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:17,640
Speaker 1: wires at the blower motor. Yes, all right. You gotta pink.

533
00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:21,200
Speaker 1: You gotta pink white and an orange black. Right, I

534
00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:24,240
Speaker 1: take your word where I'm in the house, right, So

535
00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:26,120
Speaker 1: so write this down. The pink white is gonna be

536
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:30,160
Speaker 1: hot keion engine hunt it's not. So then you gotta

537
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:33,680
Speaker 1: you gotta go back and trace that. That's power. That's

538
00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:35,400
Speaker 1: that's back to the fuse. You gotta go find the

539
00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:38,040
Speaker 1: fuse for the blower, which should be in the I

540
00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:41,400
Speaker 1: believe it's in the under instrument panel fuse block. I

541
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:42,720
Speaker 1: don't know the fuse off the top of my head.

542
00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:46,320
Speaker 1: But why is that fuse blown? All right, I'll check

543
00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:49,240
Speaker 1: into I've checked the fuses under the hood. I'll also

544
00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:52,120
Speaker 1: check him on the two thousand, on the seven it's

545
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:59,600
Speaker 1: on the passenger side panel. Okay, perfect box, well picked

546
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:03,680
Speaker 1: feases well. Pink White actually goes back to wait a minute, now,

547
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:07,360
Speaker 1: Pink White, if I recall correctly thinking about it goes

548
00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:10,720
Speaker 1: back to there's actually a blower motor relay in the

549
00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:13,680
Speaker 1: electrical center, in the battery electrical center under the hood.

550
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:17,840
Speaker 1: All right, So you've got a relay which is a

551
00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:20,520
Speaker 1: standard six and a thirty relay. You know what the

552
00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:24,640
Speaker 1: pins Pink White is controlled, and that request comes from

553
00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:29,000
Speaker 1: the blower motor request control out of the climate control assembly.

554
00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:31,760
Speaker 1: So we've got to find out if that relay is

555
00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:35,360
Speaker 1: working and be if the thirty and fuse that powers

556
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:39,240
Speaker 1: the relay is working all the fuses under the hood

557
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:43,240
Speaker 1: or I mean with the box or fine, I checked

558
00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:46,560
Speaker 1: them a test light and the huge what you're talking

559
00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:48,800
Speaker 1: about that relay, they said, the one in front of

560
00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:51,200
Speaker 1: it hits the high beings or your high being words,

561
00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:55,400
Speaker 1: swap them out, swapped them and that things. Nothing's working, okay,

562
00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:57,720
Speaker 1: So then we've got to find out is that relay

563
00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:00,600
Speaker 1: getting a ground request? Well, is only one of the

564
00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:05,960
Speaker 1: possibility that relay that blower motor relay is off the

565
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:09,800
Speaker 1: smart junction box all right, is powered through the ten

566
00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:14,320
Speaker 1: AM fuse. Fuse three, all right? Do you have if

567
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:17,200
Speaker 1: you went to that electrical relay for the blower motor.

568
00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:20,560
Speaker 1: You should have a hot You should have the pink white.

569
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:22,080
Speaker 1: You can tell where that is. You should have a

570
00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:24,120
Speaker 1: hot coming in. You should actually have a hot coming

571
00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:25,760
Speaker 1: in on two. You should have a hot coming in

572
00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:28,440
Speaker 1: on two legs should be hot, which is the main

573
00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:31,600
Speaker 1: thirty M fuse and eight six should be hot because

574
00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:34,880
Speaker 1: that's coming off a fuse three. So you should have

575
00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:37,120
Speaker 1: you should have two hots. You should have the pink

576
00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:40,160
Speaker 1: white coming up, and you should have a ground signal

577
00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:42,720
Speaker 1: which is the blower request coming out of the switch

578
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:47,000
Speaker 1: under the dash well. The switch underneath the dash around

579
00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:50,840
Speaker 1: where the your radio goes in that area, that's whole

580
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:54,880
Speaker 1: everything on it. Like you're not being repeating, but it's

581
00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:59,920
Speaker 1: just nothing's coming up voltage. So the climate control of

582
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:04,360
Speaker 1: Simbly doesn't even light up. Okay, now you've got a

583
00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:06,480
Speaker 1: separate problem. Now you got to go and find out

584
00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:09,720
Speaker 1: why that's not lit up. Your Your problem isn't in

585
00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:11,720
Speaker 1: the blower motor. Your problem is why isn't the climate

586
00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:13,720
Speaker 1: control And that's going to be a matter of do

587
00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:16,120
Speaker 1: you have power and ground. If you've got power and

588
00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:20,120
Speaker 1: ground inputs that climate control assembly, then you've got to

589
00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:24,960
Speaker 1: have a big climate control assembly. There's nothing left. So

590
00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:27,880
Speaker 1: the climate control assimbly you're talking about for the three

591
00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:30,640
Speaker 1: gauges or your temperature, fan heat and all that you're

592
00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:32,720
Speaker 1: a see and all that little box right there below

593
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:35,640
Speaker 1: the radio, that's what you're talking about. Well, I'm talking

594
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:39,400
Speaker 1: about the climate control assembly is the assembly that has

595
00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:41,880
Speaker 1: the fan switch in it, right, I know where you're

596
00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:47,720
Speaker 1: talking about. Yes, that's whole systems dead power. Focus on that.

597
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:51,800
Speaker 1: That's why that's why the blower is not working all right,

598
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:53,719
Speaker 1: And that's gonna be a matter of do you have

599
00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 1: power going into that assembly and you have ground. You

600
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:58,480
Speaker 1: should have ground at G two O one if I

601
00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:01,880
Speaker 1: remember right, and that's a that's a simple ground location.

602
00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:03,680
Speaker 1: If you've got if you've got power and ground, then

603
00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:07,840
Speaker 1: it doesn't light up, you've got a bad assembly. Well, there's,

604
00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:11,120
Speaker 1: like I said, the one that controls the fan speed

605
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:14,240
Speaker 1: for the fan. That switch I've got that I'm play

606
00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:17,680
Speaker 1: that was outside checking it right. Then again, all four

607
00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:22,320
Speaker 1: of those connectors are we don't get. We don't get,

608
00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:25,040
Speaker 1: but we don't we don't care about those stanleys. Those

609
00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:28,320
Speaker 1: don't those have nothing that you know, if if if

610
00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:33,320
Speaker 1: the if the climate control assembly doesn't light up all right,

611
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 1: it has no power to it, then it has no control.

612
00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:39,520
Speaker 1: It has to provide. That climate control assembly has to

613
00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:43,400
Speaker 1: apply ground to the relay to energize the blower. If

614
00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:46,000
Speaker 1: that climate control assembly is not working, the blower is

615
00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:49,120
Speaker 1: never gonna work. Focus on the climate control assembly powering

616
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:51,760
Speaker 1: ground in and start from there. Call me back with more.

617
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:53,480
Speaker 1: I'm running any of the car Doctor. We'll be back

618
00:33:53,560 --> 00:34:01,520
Speaker 1: right after this the back round. Any of the Car Doctor.

619
00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:03,720
Speaker 1: Helen Foley writes it on the Facebook page. Hey, Ron,

620
00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:06,120
Speaker 1: just curious were you saying? This is a response to

621
00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:08,200
Speaker 1: a recent comment I made this show this hour. Were

622
00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:09,840
Speaker 1: you just curious? Were you're saying that if there's a

623
00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:12,760
Speaker 1: warning light appearing, it prevents other warning lights from appearing,

624
00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:15,320
Speaker 1: like the vehicle is capable of showing only one warning

625
00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:17,880
Speaker 1: advisory light at one time. I'm just curious about this,

626
00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:19,960
Speaker 1: You know what, Helen, great question. You're paying attention, and

627
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:23,600
Speaker 1: I really, I really admire that. Um. What I'm saying

628
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:26,799
Speaker 1: is that if a check engine light is set for

629
00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:31,680
Speaker 1: one particular fault, depending on the fault, other tests that

630
00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:34,960
Speaker 1: the computer normally runs to test all of its systems

631
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:38,319
Speaker 1: may not run. It may prevent it because it can't

632
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:41,360
Speaker 1: get an accurate reading. For example, if a vehicle sets

633
00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:44,839
Speaker 1: an oxygen sensor fault code, the car may not run

634
00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:47,880
Speaker 1: its catalytic converter self test because it uses the oxygen

635
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:50,920
Speaker 1: sensor to evaluate the cat So if you let the

636
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:53,759
Speaker 1: O two censor fold go and then finally fix it,

637
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:56,360
Speaker 1: you may find out six eight months after you hadn't

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Speaker 1: fixed it and ran the vehicle ragged, that you've created

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Speaker 1: and done damage to the catalytic converter. Other warning lights.

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Speaker 1: For other systems are likely to work. It doesn't interfere

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Speaker 1: with that. I hope that cleared it up. Helen, you

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Speaker 1: keep them coming. I'll keep answering them until the next time.

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Speaker 1: I'm Ronandandy in the car. Doctor, thanks for being here.

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