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Speaker 1: I remember very well because this happened three times, and

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Speaker 1: and Anian the Car Doctor, since this is where car

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Speaker 1: call at eight five five five six, And now he running. Hey,

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Speaker 1: Let's go right to the Phone's over to Jeremy in Washington,

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Speaker 1: d C Chevy Silver Rodo. Jeremy, Welcome to the doctor, sir.

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Speaker 1: How can I help? Just too quickie here wondering what

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Speaker 1: I think you know I got Paulson having turned in

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Speaker 1: their brand new drums are just or drums and rotors

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Speaker 1: drums in particular. Yeah, you know, I've got to tell you, Jeremy,

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Speaker 1: And I agree it's and it's a valid question that

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Speaker 1: And that's the one that you gotta You end up

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Speaker 1: um drums are an issue. I'll tell you the other

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Speaker 1: Use anybody's break rotors other than Subaru and not have

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Speaker 1: And I've had, dude, I have had conversations with engineers

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Speaker 1: the day. Let's get over to Larry in Iowa eleven GMC. Yes, Larry,

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Speaker 1: how can I help? Hi? Ryan, Thanks for taking my call. Um.

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Speaker 1: I keep getting a p O four four six um

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Speaker 1: it keeps coming back. It seems correct on the Skian tool,

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Speaker 1: just review it. Right. You've got an engine, You've got

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Speaker 1: the vacuum cleaner line. All right. When the computer says, hey,

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Speaker 1: drawn into the engine to be burned. Right. They have

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Speaker 1: So we don't want to do that, all right, So

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Speaker 1: usually a flow meter or a little p in the line,

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Speaker 1: All right, So is that does that make sense for you? Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: fuel trim is up in the fifteen eighteen percentile and

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Speaker 1: short term is ten twelve fiftcent it's climbing. This car

427
00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:35,880
Speaker 1: has got a vacuum leak, all right, And and it's

428
00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:38,600
Speaker 1: back to those you know, those those numbers in algebra

429
00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:42,280
Speaker 1: class zero plus one plus two. The plus means it's

430
00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:47,000
Speaker 1: adding fuel. It's trying to compensate for a lean running condition. Uh,

431
00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:50,800
Speaker 1: it's it's it's off it's base computer setting of it

432
00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:54,040
Speaker 1: expects to see this much air volume or this much

433
00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:58,280
Speaker 1: um oxygen sensor content based on the sensor input that

434
00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:00,800
Speaker 1: type of thing, all right, it's looking mass airflow and

435
00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:03,280
Speaker 1: O two censor and it's comparing and deciding what it

436
00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:07,000
Speaker 1: should be based off its programming. But if you see

437
00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:10,720
Speaker 1: higher than normal numbers, it's off base. That means where's

438
00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:14,399
Speaker 1: it coming from. Maybe we've got a bad mass airflow sensor.

439
00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:17,199
Speaker 1: Maybe we've got a bad mass airflow duct. Some of

440
00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:19,320
Speaker 1: the things we can look at visually, but we've got

441
00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:21,320
Speaker 1: to think about looking for a vacuum week. So let

442
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Speaker 1: me tell you this procedure real quick before we run

443
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Speaker 1: out of time. Um. If you do have a scan

444
00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:29,480
Speaker 1: tool and you think it's a vacuum leek, pop the

445
00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:31,720
Speaker 1: PCV valve out of the out of the valve cover,

446
00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:34,040
Speaker 1: seal it with a piece of seal that port with

447
00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:36,480
Speaker 1: a piece of duct tape so it's sealed, and then

448
00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:40,560
Speaker 1: seal the PCD port where it goes into the engine.

449
00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:45,480
Speaker 1: Pulled the dipstick tube started up. If you've got a

450
00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:49,440
Speaker 1: higher vacuum reading running and as you crease engines, beat

451
00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:53,159
Speaker 1: vacuum goes up, you've got a vacuum week somewhere. You're

452
00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:57,159
Speaker 1: pulling it probably my guess is from under the intake planum,

453
00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:01,000
Speaker 1: and you'll you won't see it all right. Um. Now

454
00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:03,320
Speaker 1: you could also try this if you want to take

455
00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:05,440
Speaker 1: a little bit of water and an atomizer bottle or

456
00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:08,159
Speaker 1: a stream of water and start shooting around the intake

457
00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:11,640
Speaker 1: ports and see if anything there changes engine speed. All right,

458
00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:14,040
Speaker 1: I'm not as accurate, not as fast. A bottle of

459
00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:16,080
Speaker 1: propane with a pinched off brake line in the end

460
00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:18,639
Speaker 1: of it, with the propane and Richmond tool I always

461
00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:21,119
Speaker 1: talk about does help. This is where you're looking for.

462
00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:24,080
Speaker 1: This also all the time. If you're shooting propane into it,

463
00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:27,040
Speaker 1: you can also take a look at and be aware

464
00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:29,359
Speaker 1: that you know, um, you can look at it on

465
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Speaker 1: a scan tool. If you shoot some propane into the engine,

466
00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:35,840
Speaker 1: you can watch the scan tool fuel trim change. That's

467
00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:40,080
Speaker 1: you know, use the tools you've got. You don't think

468
00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:43,399
Speaker 1: it might be maybe a chlo pack breaking down on

469
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Speaker 1: me or why why would you think that prove prove

470
00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:53,280
Speaker 1: your theory to me? Brother? Uh in La, it's getting

471
00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:56,960
Speaker 1: colder and and and I know those those col packs

472
00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,120
Speaker 1: do break down. They do. Why aren't you say, why

473
00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:03,959
Speaker 1: aren't you getting a misfar? Are full? Well? That's very true. Okay,

474
00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:06,560
Speaker 1: does your scan tool? Does your scan tool have Mode

475
00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:09,800
Speaker 1: six data in it? It does not. It's it's one

476
00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:13,560
Speaker 1: of the cheaper version. So and listen, you know what

477
00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:17,320
Speaker 1: you call a surge maybe a misfire, but I'm interpreting

478
00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:21,560
Speaker 1: it as a surge valid points. But I'll tell you what,

479
00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:25,920
Speaker 1: UM looking at fuel trim doing what I said. If

480
00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:31,399
Speaker 1: fuel trim looks normal, James absolutely spot on. Like you know,

481
00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:34,160
Speaker 1: like I said, the short term is you know three

482
00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:37,080
Speaker 1: or four or five. Long term is to three. It's

483
00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:39,399
Speaker 1: it's nothing out of the ordinary. Guess what it's not

484
00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:42,560
Speaker 1: a vacuum leak. Then we can talk about something else.

485
00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:48,320
Speaker 1: Sometimes sometimes diagnosing instead of looking for what's bad, prove

486
00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:53,399
Speaker 1: what's proof, Prove what's right, and eliminator. You know, and

487
00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:55,600
Speaker 1: I do understand that. You know, when when you go

488
00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:57,640
Speaker 1: to the doctor, what's the first thing they always do?

489
00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:02,840
Speaker 1: Heart rate? Blood pressure? Um, you know, maybe an X ray, fluids,

490
00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:05,919
Speaker 1: blood right, They look at everything. You don't go in

491
00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:07,720
Speaker 1: there and say, you know, doc, my stomach krts. He

492
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:10,240
Speaker 1: doesn't cut your stomach out right away, right. He looks

493
00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:15,480
Speaker 1: at everything, Um, same thing, different model does the uh.

494
00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:19,040
Speaker 1: Once in a while, I get a code for the

495
00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:23,040
Speaker 1: downstream O two. Okay, I don't think that would cause

496
00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:24,879
Speaker 1: that with that, well, it depends how you're getting a

497
00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:27,440
Speaker 1: performance fault, the heat or circuit fault. What do you

498
00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:29,520
Speaker 1: you know? Which which code do you get? It's it's

499
00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:34,359
Speaker 1: a it's a performance fault. You know what downstream downstream

500
00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:37,199
Speaker 1: OH two does on some vehicles, and I believe this

501
00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:41,720
Speaker 1: one too. Um, it does have an influence on fuel strategy,

502
00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:47,600
Speaker 1: so it could Does the vehicle have an exhaust leak? Well,

503
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:50,040
Speaker 1: the mufflers bad on it? All right, yeah, but that's

504
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:52,280
Speaker 1: downstream of the O two. Unless we're getting a reversion issue,

505
00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:54,399
Speaker 1: which I don't think you are. It's too far back.

506
00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:58,200
Speaker 1: So listen, diagnosis begins with the first step. First step,

507
00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 1: let's look at fuel trim and let's see what's going on. So, um,

508
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:05,240
Speaker 1: you know, we'll kind of go from there. All right, kiddo, good,

509
00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:07,720
Speaker 1: all right, all right, thanks James. We appreciate the call.

510
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523
00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:51,400
Speaker 1: Good sir, what's going on? Oh? I got n S

524
00:28:51,400 --> 00:29:00,880
Speaker 1: ten Blazer uh V six two point eight. Uh well,

525
00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:02,600
Speaker 1: this one I got. I got a couple of them.

526
00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:06,680
Speaker 1: Uh uh. It's an automatic and the problem is I

527
00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:09,400
Speaker 1: put a new gas tank in it, new new pumping

528
00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:14,160
Speaker 1: it um and it worked for a while and then

529
00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:17,880
Speaker 1: it shut down. And I was told that the three

530
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:20,560
Speaker 1: modules on the left hand side of the firewall, some

531
00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:24,680
Speaker 1: have to some have one, some have three. I got

532
00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:28,360
Speaker 1: a couple of them. I I find a whole car

533
00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:30,160
Speaker 1: if I can find them. So let me let me

534
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:31,680
Speaker 1: ask you this, rich because we don't have a lot

535
00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:34,640
Speaker 1: of time. So the car doesn't start right. The car

536
00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:37,880
Speaker 1: doesn't run right now, not now, not after I did

537
00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:40,880
Speaker 1: all that, it was running fine. So here hear me out.

538
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:44,080
Speaker 1: So what is it missing? Does it have spark? Does

539
00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:47,479
Speaker 1: it have fuel pressure? Does it crank normal? Put your

540
00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:50,520
Speaker 1: hand on the gas tank and if it's running, it

541
00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:55,600
Speaker 1: wants to turnover, wants to turnover, and uh, that doesn't

542
00:29:55,640 --> 00:30:00,160
Speaker 1: go dead. They're spark. But I think one of those modules,

543
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,560
Speaker 1: it's something to do it with the gas type. Well,

544
00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:09,200
Speaker 1: do you have fuel pressure? Yes, so you have fuel pressure? Okay, no, no, No,

545
00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:11,360
Speaker 1: the pumps not working because you can hear it if

546
00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:13,480
Speaker 1: you put your hand on a gas type and underneath

547
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:15,680
Speaker 1: the ask you can hear it. You can feel it

548
00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:20,120
Speaker 1: if it's working. Okay, So the fuel pumps not turning on?

549
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:24,760
Speaker 1: Right right, right, there's something like that. Okay, Well we

550
00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:29,240
Speaker 1: have a time time time time, brother, Um, it can't

551
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:31,880
Speaker 1: be something like that. Either fuel pumps working or it's not.

552
00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:34,280
Speaker 1: So then the next question is, and I think what

553
00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:36,800
Speaker 1: you're talking about when you're saying modules, I think you're

554
00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:41,320
Speaker 1: talking about relays up on the passenger side of the firewall,

555
00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:44,800
Speaker 1: because that's where the relay bank was. So do we

556
00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:47,320
Speaker 1: have you know, listen, this is this is basic. Let

557
00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:48,840
Speaker 1: me let me leave here because we're gonna run out

558
00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:51,400
Speaker 1: of time. Um, this is basic. Do we have spark?

559
00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:53,400
Speaker 1: If we have spark at a at a at a

560
00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:57,280
Speaker 1: plug wire, we've got spark. If we don't have fuel pressure,

561
00:30:57,520 --> 00:31:00,680
Speaker 1: then we've got a pump issue. Okay, let's go back

562
00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:04,719
Speaker 1: to the tank. Do we have power, power and ground

563
00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:09,760
Speaker 1: at the connector for the fuel pump? Yes? Or no? Okay? Um,

564
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:11,680
Speaker 1: if we have a scan tool and we plug in

565
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:15,000
Speaker 1: a scan tool, can we read cranking our PM while

566
00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:19,600
Speaker 1: you're trying to start it. If we can, then we

567
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:22,360
Speaker 1: can be pretty confident that we're getting proper signal out

568
00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:26,640
Speaker 1: of the ignition module to the PCM. It sees crank

569
00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:31,240
Speaker 1: and it should be energizing, grounding the fuel pump relay

570
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:34,920
Speaker 1: causing the truck to run. If we have power at

571
00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:38,320
Speaker 1: the fuel pump connector in the back, power and ground,

572
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:42,880
Speaker 1: right electrical motor. If we have power and ground and

573
00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:45,480
Speaker 1: the pump doesn't run, why can't we just have a

574
00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:49,680
Speaker 1: bad new pump. So let's, you know, let's get away

575
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:52,160
Speaker 1: from here. Say let's get away from what a coulda shoulda,

576
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:54,760
Speaker 1: and let's think about how this circuit works. I don't

577
00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:59,400
Speaker 1: care if it's a car, a motorcycle, a boat, or

578
00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:04,600
Speaker 1: a lawnmower, spark fuel mechanical. If it doesn't have fuel,

579
00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:07,520
Speaker 1: how does that fuel pump circuit work. You've got to

580
00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:10,640
Speaker 1: get a wiring diagram and I'm more than glad to

581
00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:12,720
Speaker 1: send you once. Send me an email Ron at Car

582
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:16,280
Speaker 1: Doctor show dot com include the seventeen digit vin. I'm

583
00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:18,080
Speaker 1: sure I can come up with a wiring diagram for

584
00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:20,440
Speaker 1: this and take you through this before you just start

585
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:23,240
Speaker 1: buying modules on the right side of the firewall. That

586
00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:28,560
Speaker 1: doesn't work. But just just think your thought process through, brother, Um.

587
00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:31,920
Speaker 1: Power at the fuel pump? Yes, no, yes? Uh? You

588
00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:34,000
Speaker 1: know do we have a bad pump just because you

589
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 1: put it in the truck. It was new when you

590
00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:38,760
Speaker 1: put it in new means, as we all know, never

591
00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:41,080
Speaker 1: ever worked. I'm running ending the Car Doctor back to

592
00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:45,320
Speaker 1: round it up right after this, Hey, Ron, any of

593
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 1: the Car Doctor um quick? Two hours? Right? They last

594
00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:50,240
Speaker 1: hour just kind of flew by a couple of things,

595
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:54,760
Speaker 1: little housekeeping. So what next week, Um of November, if

596
00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:57,040
Speaker 1: you are happen to be in Virginia Beach and Virginia

597
00:32:57,040 --> 00:32:59,240
Speaker 1: Beach Convention Center, the Car Doctor is gonna be there

598
00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:02,520
Speaker 1: live the Saturday, UM doing a live broadcast as we

599
00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:05,160
Speaker 1: you know, bring next week's show right from the floor

600
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:07,880
Speaker 1: of the convention center looking at all the uh antiques,

601
00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:11,160
Speaker 1: hot rods, classics, motorcycles, trucks, customs and all the hot

602
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:13,000
Speaker 1: rods that are gonna be down there a Virginia Beachway,

603
00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:15,120
Speaker 1: so we're looking forward to that. The car doctors putting

604
00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:17,040
Speaker 1: the wheels on the garage and taking it on the road.

605
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:18,719
Speaker 1: So we're gonna be doing that with getting out of here.

606
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:20,040
Speaker 1: So you may be able to, you know what, show up.

607
00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:21,840
Speaker 1: You may be able to ask me a live question

608
00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:24,320
Speaker 1: right from the floor and watch me do this instead

609
00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:27,080
Speaker 1: of having us surrounded by a booth and warm friendly faces,

610
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:30,120
Speaker 1: well sort of warm friendly faces. Um, you get to

611
00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:31,840
Speaker 1: see me do this thing live. We wonder if it

612
00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:34,480
Speaker 1: wonderf it will actually work. I get my beauty sleep

613
00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:37,560
Speaker 1: face made for radio. This could be rough, um, but anyway,

614
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:40,000
Speaker 1: we're doing that next weekend and I'll miss Tom and Mikey.

615
00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:42,320
Speaker 1: They'll be back here at home base making it work

616
00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:44,479
Speaker 1: as they do their magic on that side of the glass.

617
00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:46,959
Speaker 1: So um, let's do it. Because quick piece of email. Hey,

618
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Speaker 1: ron Kadia, my wife has equinox. One family trip to

619
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Speaker 1: Yosemite this past summer. My wife says, hey, You're acy

620
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:55,680
Speaker 1: doesn't work as well as mine. I know, I said,

621
00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:58,120
Speaker 1: but he catches up. This comes to us from Craig,

622
00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:00,720
Speaker 1: I've always had both cars dealers service. They don't trust

623
00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:02,440
Speaker 1: the quick oil changed places to do the right thing.

624
00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:05,160
Speaker 1: I understand that this fall I brought snow tires. Very

625
00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:07,640
Speaker 1: nice place, clean waiting room, polite, smile, greetings. So I

626
00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:09,319
Speaker 1: mentioned that the frost was taking too long in a

627
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:12,279
Speaker 1: fan sound it's low, feeling foolish. But the owner asked me,

628
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:14,560
Speaker 1: you know, after all this time and I've had the

629
00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:17,279
Speaker 1: car service on a regular basis, when I changed the

630
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:21,000
Speaker 1: cabin filter, I said, I have one. All this time

631
00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:22,880
Speaker 1: at the dealer, they tried to sell me break jobs

632
00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:25,600
Speaker 1: that weren't needed, struts that weren't needed. Engine air filter

633
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:27,920
Speaker 1: is not needed, but never checked the cabin air filter.

634
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:30,040
Speaker 1: Oh well, makes a big difference. Now I have to

635
00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:31,759
Speaker 1: keep the fan at half position. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: and boy sure smells good inside my acadia. Craig, You know, Craig,

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Speaker 1: sometimes it's the simple things that make it work right.

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Speaker 1: I always say, show me what's good, and I'll tell

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Speaker 1: at all levels. It's sometimes it starts with, Hey, I

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Speaker 1: It's been a great time being here this week. Until

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Speaker 1: the next time. Good mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. See

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