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Speaker 1: this one to the tan, this one to the light green,

426
00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:47,320
Speaker 1: and the third one is ground. Have you tried wiring

427
00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:52,000
Speaker 1: it like that? Oh? I was just what I had done,

428
00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:54,159
Speaker 1: as I had stripped the wires off the back of

429
00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:57,399
Speaker 1: the new connector and stuck them in the socket on

430
00:22:57,520 --> 00:23:01,800
Speaker 1: the on the old low beam and messed around with

431
00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:04,840
Speaker 1: it and got got power. I could get it to

432
00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:06,640
Speaker 1: come on low beam, but when I turned the high

433
00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:09,600
Speaker 1: beams on, it would go off. Right. But because right

434
00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:12,440
Speaker 1: if you're if no, you're gonna have to you're gonna

435
00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:15,840
Speaker 1: have to physically find the light green wire, the tan

436
00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:19,480
Speaker 1: wire and the black on the on the car. Okay,

437
00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:21,600
Speaker 1: I've got it. I've got it all right, actually at

438
00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:24,560
Speaker 1: the car now, all right, So the black is ground,

439
00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:26,840
Speaker 1: the tan is going to be your feed for the

440
00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:28,760
Speaker 1: low beam side and the light green is going to

441
00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:32,560
Speaker 1: be your feed for the high beam side. Okay, all right,

442
00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:34,880
Speaker 1: I got you, all right, but it's a lot easier

443
00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:38,719
Speaker 1: than it's. Yeah, it's it's and I mean you can

444
00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:40,720
Speaker 1: verify that they have a vaoltmeter or a test light

445
00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:43,440
Speaker 1: or something that you can verify power and ground. Yeah,

446
00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:46,679
Speaker 1: and then I got one of those. Okay, then you

447
00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:49,000
Speaker 1: know what, Take the wire that you think is ground,

448
00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:51,120
Speaker 1: put your put the negative lead. If you have a voltmeter,

449
00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:54,439
Speaker 1: take your negative lead or negative side of your voltmeter.

450
00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:56,040
Speaker 1: Put it to what you think is ground. That way,

451
00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:59,200
Speaker 1: you're testing the ground side. Then turn the low beam.

452
00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:02,000
Speaker 1: Turn the low beam is on, take the positive probe.

453
00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:05,480
Speaker 1: Go to the tan wire. You should show voltage. If

454
00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:08,720
Speaker 1: you do, then you're right in your sequence, in your order.

455
00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:12,439
Speaker 1: That's low beam, and then the other one that's remaining,

456
00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:15,200
Speaker 1: the light green, that's high beam. And then repeat that,

457
00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:17,800
Speaker 1: you know, go into the new lamp assembly. You know

458
00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:21,560
Speaker 1: where ground is, and then either the high beam is

459
00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:24,200
Speaker 1: gonna be the red or the high beam is gonna

460
00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:25,879
Speaker 1: be the other color. Effect with the other color was

461
00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:30,560
Speaker 1: and vice versa for low beam. All right, Almost almost

462
00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:33,080
Speaker 1: feel guilty about calling after I heard your story. About

463
00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:38,880
Speaker 1: that Cadillac. Now, now you know, well, and how much

464
00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:41,760
Speaker 1: were the headlight bulbs for the cavalier? John, I mean,

465
00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:45,960
Speaker 1: this will really put it in perspective, right, So we

466
00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:49,760
Speaker 1: went from six or seven dollar headlights to and that's

467
00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:53,400
Speaker 1: thirteen hundreds of piece. You know, I made the customer.

468
00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:55,440
Speaker 1: I made the customer field better. I said, hey, listen,

469
00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:57,159
Speaker 1: be glad it's not leaking on both sides. Can you

470
00:24:57,160 --> 00:25:02,920
Speaker 1: imagine two headlamp assemblies their dollars plus labor. So so

471
00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:09,239
Speaker 1: three thousand dollars to put headlights in a Cadillac. Thank you?

472
00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:11,479
Speaker 1: Not a better idea from the folks at General Motors,

473
00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:14,600
Speaker 1: Like what are they thinking? So yeah, I'll write the

474
00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:16,720
Speaker 1: bus first. Yeah, it's you know what, I'll strap a

475
00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:20,800
Speaker 1: flash defender. Thank you very much for the information. You're

476
00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:23,840
Speaker 1: welcome you now, you're very welcome. If you if you

477
00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:25,479
Speaker 1: need us, you know where we are. Let's get over.

478
00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:28,280
Speaker 1: You know it's it's listen, I gotta go back on that.

479
00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:30,840
Speaker 1: Imagine that thirteen dollars for a head lamp for a

480
00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:34,919
Speaker 1: I take a mag light and glue it to the fender,

481
00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:39,000
Speaker 1: and you know, I just is that the future? Is that?

482
00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:41,240
Speaker 1: What it's gonna come down to so you know, you

483
00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:43,760
Speaker 1: look at technology, it's going completely. I gotta tell you

484
00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:46,800
Speaker 1: how bad technology is getting. I found my Monte Carlo.

485
00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:50,400
Speaker 1: All right, it's it's it's in Texas and they're working

486
00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:53,000
Speaker 1: on trucking and bringing it up. And we were talking

487
00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:55,359
Speaker 1: about this and somebody said to me, but why is

488
00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:57,600
Speaker 1: seventy two monty Carlo? When I said, because it's got

489
00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:01,240
Speaker 1: zero technology in it? All right, it's it's the last

490
00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:05,000
Speaker 1: year before electronic ignition. In in seventy three they went

491
00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:07,720
Speaker 1: electronic ignition. It was sort of a split ear, and

492
00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:09,200
Speaker 1: you know, it was the car I went to college

493
00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:12,920
Speaker 1: and all the reasons. But it's basic. It's points, it's carburetor.

494
00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:15,119
Speaker 1: I hope I remember how to work on it. I

495
00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:17,040
Speaker 1: started thinking about that the other day. Can I remember

496
00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:19,520
Speaker 1: how to work on something purely mechanical? It's what I

497
00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:21,320
Speaker 1: cut my teeth on And now well I remember, well

498
00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:24,560
Speaker 1: able to go back forty years and remember all over again.

499
00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:27,159
Speaker 1: So plus I got to find all those tools. This

500
00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:29,960
Speaker 1: could be a problem. Anyway. Before I go over and

501
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:32,399
Speaker 1: talk to Gerard and Green Bay, Wisconsin, le's blow over

502
00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:36,479
Speaker 1: and take the Pausitzo zero. When we come back. We're

503
00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:38,840
Speaker 1: gonna find out. Can I fix an eighty nine olds

504
00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:41,199
Speaker 1: cutless Sierra? Gerard, stay tuned and the rest of it

505
00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:43,040
Speaker 1: don't go away? I'm running any of the car Doctor.

506
00:26:43,080 --> 00:27:11,480
Speaker 1: We're back right after this. Welcome back when I meaning

507
00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:14,640
Speaker 1: the car doctor at five zero nine nine zero zero.

508
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:17,159
Speaker 1: Let's get over and talk to Gerard, Green Bay, Wisconsin. Gerard,

509
00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:18,640
Speaker 1: welcome to the car Doctor. How can I help, sir?

510
00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:23,320
Speaker 1: I have an Oldsmobile cuple of Sierra with a three

511
00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:27,000
Speaker 1: point three letter B six um starts runs good, It's

512
00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:30,880
Speaker 1: only got a hundred fifty miles on it just broken in. Yeah,

513
00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:32,480
Speaker 1: I know it's got a long life and it will

514
00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:37,800
Speaker 1: last met'll retirement. Okay, So the problem is is it's uh.

515
00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:39,879
Speaker 1: When I'm driving down the road I get a service

516
00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:42,160
Speaker 1: engine line will come on and it'll start like it's

517
00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:46,960
Speaker 1: uh getting too much gas. So I had it ready,

518
00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:49,960
Speaker 1: h I had my mechanic look at it. He cleaned

519
00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:54,560
Speaker 1: the mass air flow sensor and the same problems. He

520
00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:59,959
Speaker 1: hasn't gone. He hasn't improved at all. I went online

521
00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:02,520
Speaker 1: and it's a code thirty three is the failure code,

522
00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:07,280
Speaker 1: and that that says it's a map sensor which I

523
00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:09,040
Speaker 1: thought if it had a mass airflow one have a

524
00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:13,080
Speaker 1: map censor one or the other. But apparently that era

525
00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:18,119
Speaker 1: they were putting bolt on as a fail safe. If

526
00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:22,520
Speaker 1: that's true or not. Um, there there was something about that.

527
00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:25,879
Speaker 1: There's something about that that rings true in my mind now. Also,

528
00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:28,439
Speaker 1: thirty three I remember as an e g R fault

529
00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:30,679
Speaker 1: back in the day, but I think that was at

530
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:34,600
Speaker 1: the two point eight leader engine, not the three three. Okay,

531
00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:41,160
Speaker 1: So first of all, are you certain it's a thirty three? Yes? Um,

532
00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:45,640
Speaker 1: Beyond beyond the fault code itself, what has the mechanic

533
00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:48,880
Speaker 1: done as anybody tried to diagnose it beyond what you're

534
00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:52,520
Speaker 1: describing to me. Yeah, I thought it was more moisture related,

535
00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:54,400
Speaker 1: like when it was snowing and raining out that it

536
00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:57,520
Speaker 1: would seem I could act more. But no, he had

537
00:28:57,560 --> 00:28:59,840
Speaker 1: it running sprayed water all over the inside of it.

538
00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:01,440
Speaker 1: See if you get it to act up. But all

539
00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:03,520
Speaker 1: I couldn't get attacked up. I mean, and it doesn't

540
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:07,000
Speaker 1: do it all the time. It's only occasionally, you know,

541
00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:09,200
Speaker 1: it doesn't miss all the time. It's it's not doing

542
00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:11,520
Speaker 1: that all the time. It's only sporadic. I mean, it

543
00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:14,360
Speaker 1: might run good for ten miles and then it might

544
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:18,400
Speaker 1: run crappy for you know, three misses, and then it

545
00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:21,719
Speaker 1: runs good for another five miles, and that's a real

546
00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:24,400
Speaker 1: erratic problem. Can you get a code definition out of

547
00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:34,360
Speaker 1: the scan tool? Map center voltage too high? Okay, So

548
00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:37,440
Speaker 1: what it's saying is, and I'm questioning whether this code

549
00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:42,680
Speaker 1: is applicable to this car. I'm a little um, um,

550
00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:46,040
Speaker 1: there's something about this that there was also a lot

551
00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:49,080
Speaker 1: of ghost codes in this era vehicle. Um. Yeah, that's

552
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:51,840
Speaker 1: that's why mechanics said to this is just really hard

553
00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:56,160
Speaker 1: to read. This is um, this is not this. This

554
00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:58,720
Speaker 1: was the era when General Motors said, well, you're gonna produce,

555
00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:01,840
Speaker 1: because this was back when they were making scan tools,

556
00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:04,400
Speaker 1: and it became a game of well, we think this

557
00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:06,240
Speaker 1: will work, we think that will work. This is like

558
00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:09,520
Speaker 1: Windows launching different versions of the operating system and then

559
00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:12,280
Speaker 1: coming out a year later saying, yeah, I created some problems,

560
00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:14,160
Speaker 1: so we made a new operating system and here it is.

561
00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:18,120
Speaker 1: And this is exactly like that. So let's treat it

562
00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:21,560
Speaker 1: like the code definition. If if this is truly a

563
00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:26,320
Speaker 1: thirty three, then this is a problem. Map signal too high.

564
00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:29,520
Speaker 1: It's seeing the map signal return voltage. So there's three

565
00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:32,640
Speaker 1: wires to a map sensor. In English, there's there's a ground,

566
00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:35,920
Speaker 1: there's a five vault reference, and there's a signal return

567
00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:40,640
Speaker 1: all right. So it's saying that at any given time

568
00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:44,520
Speaker 1: it saw that return voltage, the signal back to the

569
00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:50,200
Speaker 1: PCM exceed practical limits. So if, for example, you're cruising

570
00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:52,440
Speaker 1: along at fifty miles on the highway and it saw

571
00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:54,600
Speaker 1: it saw two vaults, all of a sudden, it spiked

572
00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:58,479
Speaker 1: to five and a half six or more. Alright, it's

573
00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:01,880
Speaker 1: saw an erratic sign will change and that's what's and

574
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:03,600
Speaker 1: that's what's and then it reacted to that and so

575
00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:06,680
Speaker 1: I and you know made that determination, and it sees

576
00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:08,600
Speaker 1: that as a fault and sets the turns on the

577
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:11,560
Speaker 1: light and creates a code. Does it turn on the light?

578
00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:15,520
Speaker 1: I didn't hear you say that it does sometimes not always.

579
00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:19,520
Speaker 1: What kind of scan? What kind of scan tool are

580
00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:23,040
Speaker 1: you using to scan this drawid um o'reiley is a

581
00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:25,440
Speaker 1: scandit and my mechanic scandit and I'm not sure what

582
00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:29,800
Speaker 1: my mechanic used. Whatever o'reiley uses, Okay, I'd be curious

583
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:33,640
Speaker 1: if they're both using the same scan tool. I would

584
00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:36,840
Speaker 1: almost I would almost want to go back, you know,

585
00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:39,600
Speaker 1: if they're using an O b D two because here's

586
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:43,040
Speaker 1: the problem, all right, and I have seen this if

587
00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:46,640
Speaker 1: you're using a modern, for lack of a better term,

588
00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:50,120
Speaker 1: modern O b D two scan tool. But if you

589
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:52,040
Speaker 1: rolled into the shop and I had a scan in

590
00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:54,840
Speaker 1: eighty nine olds Cutles Sierra, I wouldn't use any of

591
00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:57,800
Speaker 1: my O B D two stuff I've got. I've got

592
00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:01,880
Speaker 1: my The only reason I've got COOTC monitor four thousand

593
00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:05,560
Speaker 1: sitting out on the bench collecting dust, it's because that

594
00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:08,080
Speaker 1: was the tool for that era, and it was a

595
00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:11,200
Speaker 1: it was a proven brick. It was as reliable as

596
00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:12,960
Speaker 1: they came. And if it told me it was a

597
00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 1: thirty three, I believe it, all right. So I would

598
00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:19,080
Speaker 1: want to go back and ask the mechanic, hey, scan

599
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:24,120
Speaker 1: this with something old, not something new, and see what

600
00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:26,840
Speaker 1: we're really getting, all right now, if I want to

601
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:31,920
Speaker 1: diagnose this without using a scan tool and it's an intermittent,

602
00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:35,160
Speaker 1: one of the things, one of the things I would

603
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:37,800
Speaker 1: do is I would ask your mechanic to look for

604
00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:41,320
Speaker 1: the PCM, look for the powertrain control module, look to

605
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:44,040
Speaker 1: see look to see where it is, if memory serves

606
00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:48,240
Speaker 1: me right, it's gonna either be behind the glove compartment

607
00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:52,400
Speaker 1: on the right side inside the vehicle. I think that's

608
00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:55,440
Speaker 1: where it is, or it's gonna be out front in

609
00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:59,600
Speaker 1: the driver's side wheelhouse somewhere. If the if the last

610
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:03,960
Speaker 1: three digits of that PCM or seven eight, seven twenty

611
00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:08,080
Speaker 1: nine or seven thirty, I bet it's a bad PCM.

612
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:11,800
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you why, because this was the era

613
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:15,120
Speaker 1: when General motors had problems with the solder joints on

614
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:18,600
Speaker 1: the circuit boards and they would create all kinds of

615
00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:22,520
Speaker 1: intermittent running and hiccup issues. And I bet if you

616
00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:26,480
Speaker 1: took that PCM down and I think it's I think

617
00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:28,480
Speaker 1: it's by the glove box. I hope I can remember

618
00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:30,360
Speaker 1: how to work on the seventy two Monty Carlos. This good.

619
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:34,240
Speaker 1: So I think I think it's by the glove box.

620
00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:38,160
Speaker 1: And I think if you have flat palm PCM, just

621
00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:42,040
Speaker 1: give it up. I bet you it shuts off, all right,

622
00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:44,040
Speaker 1: Give that a try. Give those two things to try.

623
00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:47,800
Speaker 1: Call me back next week, Okay, cool bean's DRAWID I'm

624
00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:49,800
Speaker 1: ronan any of the card document back right after this.

625
00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:25,279
Speaker 1: Welcome back. When I need the car Doctor. Let's get

626
00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:27,759
Speaker 1: over real quick and talk to Lee and weston Vermont. Lee,

627
00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:30,120
Speaker 1: welcome to the car Doctor. How can I help? Well,

628
00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:33,319
Speaker 1: I sent you that email on how do you check

629
00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:37,520
Speaker 1: tire pressure when one day it's ken below zero, the

630
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:39,640
Speaker 1: next day it's twenty, and who the hell knows what

631
00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:41,800
Speaker 1: it's going to be the third day. Well, short of

632
00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:44,319
Speaker 1: moving to Vermont, I mean short of moving to from

633
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:48,000
Speaker 1: Vermont to Florida, Lee, The answer becomes, here's an example

634
00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:53,120
Speaker 1: where maybe nitrogen in the tires might help nitrogen. You

635
00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:55,000
Speaker 1: know the reason the industry has gone to nitrogen. And

636
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:57,160
Speaker 1: I'm not a proponent of nitrogen. I think it's I

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Speaker 1: think it's an expensive alternative that I I just can't

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Speaker 1: justify in my mind. But perhaps using nitrogen in the tires,

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Speaker 1: because nitrogens doesn't react to temperature swings as radical as

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Speaker 1: you know, normal normal air, that it might maintain a

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Speaker 1: more even pressure. Would it be able to deal with

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Speaker 1: sixty degrees on Monday and twenty degrees on Tuesday? I

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Speaker 1: don't know that answer all right, and I'm sure one

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Speaker 1: of the chemists out in the audience will be glad

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Speaker 1: to send me an email and explain it to me

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Speaker 1: with Mr Wizard technology, But you know, it just becomes

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Speaker 1: a giant pain in the petuity alright, with these temperature swings.

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Speaker 1: But the question I've got is, how do we all

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Speaker 1: deal with this as a nation thirty years ago? We're

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Speaker 1: thirty five years ago, because right now the temperature swings

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Speaker 1: are drive entire pressure monitoring systems crazy and exactly like

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Speaker 1: you're describing it here and here, and even in northern

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Speaker 1: New Jersey. One day it's sixty five degrees where we're

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Speaker 1: in t shirts and sweatshirts walking around the shop, and

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Speaker 1: the next day it's it's fifteen degrees out and we're

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Speaker 1: bundled up wearing jackets and sweaters, and you know it's

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Speaker 1: not doing the tire pressure monitoring systems any good. They're

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Speaker 1: seeing that temperature change. The laws of physics don't change.

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Speaker 1: It's one degree for it's one pound for every ten

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Speaker 1: degree of change. So the best answer I've got perhaps

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Speaker 1: nitrogen might be a cure because it won't be as

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Speaker 1: reactive to the temperature swings. But then you're subject to

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Speaker 1: every time you go to put air in those tires.

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Speaker 1: You've got to find somebody that's got a nitrogen filled

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Speaker 1: station because you can't contaminate it, and use sometimes oxygen,

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Speaker 1: regular air, sometimes nitrogen because it depletes the efficiency of

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Speaker 1: the nitrogen. So good luckily, and I hope you find

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Speaker 1: an answer. I'm runningading the car doctor. Wow, what a

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Speaker 1: quick hour. Good mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. Let's see

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Speaker 1: you