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Speaker 1: Ron Andanian. You're looking for a repair shop, you're looking

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Speaker 1: for a way to Yeah, how much is this going

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Speaker 1: to cost? How much is that going to cost? And

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Speaker 1: the mistake is you're putting emphasis on how much, not

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Speaker 1: how right and how good of a shop is this?

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Speaker 1: Big cars like one that ronvol yards, they don't make

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Speaker 1: a lock down no more. Get let's heavy car, Yeah, car,

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Speaker 1: the car Doctor. It sounds like it's the antenna in

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Speaker 1: the back window from what you're telling me. But doing

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Speaker 1: it that way using the alligator clip, the wire and

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Speaker 1: the cable lead that will help you narrow with them.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the radio home of Ron Andanian the Car Doctor,

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Speaker 1: since this is where car owners the world overturned to

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Speaker 1: for their definitive opinion on automotive repair. If your mechanics

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Speaker 1: giving you a B signal, pick up the phone and

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Speaker 1: call in. The garage doors are open, but I am

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Speaker 1: here to take your calls at and now he running.

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Speaker 1: Do you ever wonder when fixing a card doesn't require parts, Well,

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Speaker 1: it happens quite often. And I've got a story for

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Speaker 1: you today that'll just you'll just scratch your head and go, huh.

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Speaker 1: Had Volkswagen Jetta in the shop this week, and the

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Speaker 1: customer complaint was odd. It was hard to pin down.

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Speaker 1: It was described to me as a low power stumble

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Speaker 1: or hesitation. The car didn't pick up, is the way

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Speaker 1: she described it to me. I looked at the car,

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Speaker 1: and you know, it was interesting, right. It's a case

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Speaker 1: of you have to prove what's bad. And the only

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Speaker 1: way I could prove what was bad on this car

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Speaker 1: was by looking at what's good. Because there were no

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Speaker 1: fault code. There was barely a symptom. If you got

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Speaker 1: in this Volkswagen Jetta with a hundred ninety thousand miles

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Speaker 1: on it, that's right, a hundred and eighty eight thousand

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Speaker 1: fifty two. I call it a buck ninety, all right,

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Speaker 1: you'd sit there and they'd say, well, is it bad

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Speaker 1: or isn't it? So I went out and I did

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Speaker 1: a road test, and you know, I did some preliminary,

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Speaker 1: the usual preliminary, you know, no fault diagnosis, looking for codes,

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Speaker 1: no codes. You know, things looked okay under the hood,

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Speaker 1: nothing obvious. I gotta take a road test. Road test

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Speaker 1: is part of this. And I drove it, and I

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Speaker 1: drove it the way I drive a car. I tend

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Speaker 1: to have a little bit of a heavy foot sometimes

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Speaker 1: and I didn't notice anything. And then I said, you know,

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Speaker 1: let me go into you know, little old lady mode

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Speaker 1: for lack of my way to put it. And you know,

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Speaker 1: I noticed that this is a six speed trans there's

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Speaker 1: in fifth gear under mild acceleration at thirty four miles

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Speaker 1: an hour. It went boom boom boo boo boo. But

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Speaker 1: shift shift, shift, shift, shift, shift shift, watching the tech, well,

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Speaker 1: that can't be right, I said to myself, I said,

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Speaker 1: that's crazy. I said, we're in fifth gear at thirty

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Speaker 1: four miles an hour, and then by thirty nine miles

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Speaker 1: an hour it was in sixth gear. And then if

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Speaker 1: you step on the gas to go, yeah, then I

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Speaker 1: got the hesitation rolled it down to twenty miles an hour.

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Speaker 1: It was it was in fourth I believe at that point,

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Speaker 1: and it would be the equivalent of driving a manual transmission.

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Speaker 1: And and you know, running it down low and gear.

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Speaker 1: Take a manual trans car and don't shift it and

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Speaker 1: drive it at twenty miles an hour, what happens when

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Speaker 1: you go to accelerate? Wa right, So I said, gee,

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Speaker 1: this is a this is a direct shift gear gearbox.

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Speaker 1: Let me shift this normally, or let me shift this manually.

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Speaker 1: And I took it and I I moved it over

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Speaker 1: to the right, and then I manually shifted it and

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Speaker 1: I didn't, I didn't, you know, kill it. I rounded

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Speaker 1: out to about three thousand rpm and the car shifted great.

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Speaker 1: The car had tons of power, and all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: I realized what she was talking about. You know, it's

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Speaker 1: funny in your in your mind's eye, you start to

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Speaker 1: one of the worst mistakes you can make as a mechanic,

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Speaker 1: and I guess as a person, and we start to

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Speaker 1: prejudge things. And in my eye, I said, well, it's

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Speaker 1: seven eight years old. It's got almost two or thousand

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Speaker 1: guess if it runs, that's okay. But that wasn't the case.

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Speaker 1: It really had more zip in its hip, It really

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Speaker 1: had more to go. So I came back, well, what

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Speaker 1: but I've got no faults. There's no codes engine trans

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Speaker 1: good is always a great way to diagnose any problem.

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Speaker 1: Tell me what's working, Tell me what you got, tell

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Speaker 1: me what exists. That's okay? Um a lot like Apollo

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Speaker 1: of the first things they said was what's working on

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Speaker 1: the spacecraft? What's working on the car? Fuel trim was

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Speaker 1: absolutely perfect. I love fuel trim. Fuel trim, and I

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Speaker 1: won't go into the detailed explanation here unless somebody needs

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Speaker 1: it and calls up and says so, But I'm glad

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Speaker 1: to do it. But fuel trim to me is like

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Speaker 1: heart rate and blood pressure. It just tells you so much.

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Speaker 1: It's the first thing a doctor checks. It's it's become

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Speaker 1: the one of the first things we check every time

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Speaker 1: how it relates. If fuel trim is right short term,

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Speaker 1: long term on a no fault diagnosis, that tells me

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Speaker 1: a lot. I looked at map sensor, you know, indicating

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Speaker 1: engine manifold vacuum, and that was spot on eighteen to

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Speaker 1: sixteen inches of vacuum cruising along when I put my

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Speaker 1: foot into a drop, just like I would expect it to.

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Speaker 1: And in short, every parameter I could think of out

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Speaker 1: of the engine calculated load was right, and take air

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Speaker 1: temp was right, cooling temp came up right. It was

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Speaker 1: enclosed loop operation. This car was just the non technical

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Speaker 1: parlance would be after you drove it enough, you realized

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Speaker 1: this car was a pig. It just wouldn't get out

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Speaker 1: of its own way. And let's go through basics. I

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Speaker 1: started to look for things that codes won't show up.

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Speaker 1: I started to look at misfire counts, and I started

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Speaker 1: to look at mode six data, which is the behind

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Speaker 1: the scenes peak at what's going on with this vehicle.

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Speaker 1: It was developing a misfire on cylinder five, not a

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Speaker 1: lot four counts, five counts, seven counts, ten counts and

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Speaker 1: you could feel number five starting to break down. Let's

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Speaker 1: go look at five pulled the coils out. We'll attempted

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Speaker 1: to pull the coils out, and you know, do a

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Speaker 1: visual because it looked like somebody had been in there.

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Speaker 1: The wiring harness looked like the connector clamshell has were

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Speaker 1: was an off brand. It was in Volkswagen. It wasn't Bosh,

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Speaker 1: all right, regardless of why the trans shifts like it is.

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Speaker 1: Let's put a coil in this car. And I explain

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Speaker 1: that to Genie and she she understood a d percent.

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Speaker 1: She said, yeah, go ahead, get a nice, you know,

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Speaker 1: Volkswagen piece of BOSH piece and let's do that. We

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Speaker 1: did that, and that got rid of the misfire counts.

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Speaker 1: But I still had a vehicle that, you know, shifted early.

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Speaker 1: It was almost like in the old days when a

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Speaker 1: been there at some point in the cable stretched out

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Speaker 1: and it just it just shifted early. So I did

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Speaker 1: some more basics. I looked at the throttle body, thinking

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Speaker 1: that throttle body angle can definitely have an effect on

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Speaker 1: trans shift point, especially if it's off, and just let's

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Speaker 1: let's go through basics, let's cover the obvious stuff. Sure enough,

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Speaker 1: the throttle body was really disgustingly dirty and I gave

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Speaker 1: it a good scrubbing, and then we had to go

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Speaker 1: and do something on Volkswagen. On a lot of cars,

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Speaker 1: Volkswagen does it a different way. We have to use

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Speaker 1: use vatcom because it works well and it's got a

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Speaker 1: And we had to do a throttle body adaption, which

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Speaker 1: tells the computer, hey, we cleaned everything. The throttle angle

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Speaker 1: now sits a little different. Let's let's tell it, hey,

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Speaker 1: here's your new starting point. I did that. It passed

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Speaker 1: with flying colors, Okay, reset adaptive, learned, move on. I

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Speaker 1: started thinking about that throttle body and the way they

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Speaker 1: do adapt is there, and I said, you know, I

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Speaker 1: wonder what the trans adaptives are like trans learned bad habits.

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Speaker 1: I wonder if I wonder if the misfire was enough

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Speaker 1: that it would cause this car to go into some

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Speaker 1: sort of early shift operation enough to limit performance so

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Speaker 1: that it wouldn't hurt the rest of the vehicle. Should

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Speaker 1: that misfire get or you wonder if it has that strategy?

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Speaker 1: And I don't know that answer, And you know what,

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Speaker 1: You're never gonna find out that answer unless you talk

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Speaker 1: to an engineer or maybe somebody that's seen this a

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Speaker 1: you know, if it misfires, it changes trans adapters hooked up.

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Speaker 1: Vad Com again went into trans adaptives and they do

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Speaker 1: it in two steps. You have to go through and

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Speaker 1: there's there's there's two sets of adapters on this car,

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Speaker 1: which I was glad there was only two because in

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Speaker 1: the research for it, some of the DSG transmissions have

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Speaker 1: five different adaptive resets. They can do all sorts of

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Speaker 1: crazy things and learn all sorts of bad habits, and

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Speaker 1: you can do all sorts of resets. Went through and

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Speaker 1: did the trans adaptive resets. Both of them took the

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Speaker 1: car out. Wow. Wow from a from a software learned

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Speaker 1: right from changing trans adaptive no parts. This car was fixed.

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Speaker 1: Now the question is for how long? And I said

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Speaker 1: that to Genie. I said, you know it's fixed. Go

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Speaker 1: take it for a ride. She said, wow, the car

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Speaker 1: has run like that in a long time. And because

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Speaker 1: this was my first time with this vehicle, I said,

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Speaker 1: you know, I can't tell you how long this is

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Speaker 1: gonna last. I can't tell you. Maybe it's related to

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Speaker 1: the misfire on five, maybe it's not. You know, you're

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Speaker 1: at a hundred and eighty eight thousand and change on mileage.

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Speaker 1: The trans has never been serviced, which, by the way,

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Speaker 1: I looked up I did some more research on that.

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Speaker 1: Folkswagen says trans never needs to be serviced. The fluid

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Speaker 1: is lifetime. There isn't even a check procedure for fluid level.

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Speaker 1: If you want to check fluid level, you have to

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Speaker 1: drain it all out and refill it. That was the procedure.

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Speaker 1: That's what they said. They didn't even have fluid listed.

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Speaker 1: Folks Wagon is saying if you need to change the fluid,

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Speaker 1: they really make it that you don't need to do this.

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Speaker 1: We want you to use seven speed trans fluid, not

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Speaker 1: six speed because but you're never gonna need to do that, okay,

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Speaker 1: and maybe you don't. I mean, bottom line, the cars fixed,

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Speaker 1: the cars running right now will learn bad habits again.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Well it needed transmission. Maybe I explained

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Speaker 1: to her that, you know, in looking up the odds,

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Speaker 1: she you typically we see vote swagon trans is in

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Speaker 1: the forty range. She's at one nine almost, so she

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Speaker 1: How can I help? Yes, sir, thanks for taking my

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Speaker 1: this and this, and we'll take a look at it.

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00:23:23,119 --> 00:23:25,480
Speaker 1: And sometimes the fixes they do a head gasket replacement.

426
00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:30,760
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's an engine, sometimes it's a car. They had

427
00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:32,760
Speaker 1: her car. This is going back last summer. I think

428
00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:34,840
Speaker 1: I talked about this on air. They had her car

429
00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:38,240
Speaker 1: last summer. Um they got it, I think mid June.

430
00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:40,280
Speaker 1: They had the car all the way through the end

431
00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:44,800
Speaker 1: of September or early October. And what they ended up

432
00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:46,560
Speaker 1: doing was they said, you know what, we're not going

433
00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:49,600
Speaker 1: to fix this. There's problems getting parts. We're gonna They

434
00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:51,439
Speaker 1: had her in a loaner, so she was in another

435
00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:55,480
Speaker 1: car identical to the one she purchased, all right, and

436
00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:58,120
Speaker 1: they said, go pick out a car. She picked out

437
00:23:58,119 --> 00:24:00,800
Speaker 1: a car. She picked out something comparable to what she had.

438
00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:03,040
Speaker 1: And then she said, well, you know, I want this option.

439
00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:05,199
Speaker 1: I want that option. And I thought this was a

440
00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:07,399
Speaker 1: great way to handle it. And they said, well, the

441
00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:09,879
Speaker 1: car you bought was thirty grand. The car you picked

442
00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:12,679
Speaker 1: this thirty grand, but you want, you know, three thousand

443
00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:16,239
Speaker 1: dollars worth of extras. So we're gonna take because she

444
00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:18,720
Speaker 1: was still making lease payment or car payments while they

445
00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:21,000
Speaker 1: had her car on the shop, We're gonna give We're

446
00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:24,800
Speaker 1: gonna give you credit for everything you've paid for up

447
00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:28,360
Speaker 1: to this point against that new cars. If you were

448
00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:32,439
Speaker 1: making payments on this new car. Wow, and then you're

449
00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:35,000
Speaker 1: gonna get then you're gonna pay us the three thousand

450
00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:38,160
Speaker 1: dollars extra for the options. So she and Essence got

451
00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:42,400
Speaker 1: a brand new car for the price of the seventeen

452
00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:46,760
Speaker 1: less its payments plus the options she wanted. And I

453
00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:49,840
Speaker 1: you know, every once in a while, car companies get

454
00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:52,720
Speaker 1: it right. And you know, I saw something like that,

455
00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:55,080
Speaker 1: and I said, how come nobody's talking about that. You know,

456
00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:57,680
Speaker 1: we always talk about the negative. We always talk about

457
00:24:57,680 --> 00:25:01,080
Speaker 1: the bed. And I guarantee you there's there's there's fifty

458
00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:03,080
Speaker 1: people out there that are cursing at me right now,

459
00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:04,800
Speaker 1: saying Ron, but I had a problem with Ford and

460
00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:06,960
Speaker 1: the dealer in this. Yeah, I get it, there's bad

461
00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:09,480
Speaker 1: out there, but you gotta look at the good too.

462
00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:14,919
Speaker 1: Why Ford? Okay, why Ford? Because I've seen them stand

463
00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:18,960
Speaker 1: up like that time and again. All right, UM, I

464
00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:24,359
Speaker 1: can get service information. My wife's in an explorer, all right.

465
00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:29,720
Speaker 1: I've got two daughters and escapes, all right. Um, you

466
00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:33,320
Speaker 1: know it's I've got tons of customers and escapes, and

467
00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:39,160
Speaker 1: yet Consumer Reports doesn't rate it. You know. My answer

468
00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:42,400
Speaker 1: is I'm glad they don't rate it because it's bad

469
00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:45,720
Speaker 1: for business. People buy escapes. They don't break. That's the problem.

470
00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:50,560
Speaker 1: And you know so you know, but but understand now

471
00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:53,119
Speaker 1: that and they've revamped the escape for twenty it's a

472
00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:56,440
Speaker 1: completely different body style. I have serviced a few of them,

473
00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:59,160
Speaker 1: you know, oil changes and stuff. Nothing really more than that.

474
00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:01,960
Speaker 1: I think they made working on it easier. The engine

475
00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:04,359
Speaker 1: compartment is laid out a little bit better. I would

476
00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:07,920
Speaker 1: definitely go for the two leader. Um. Obviously since your

477
00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:10,679
Speaker 1: a problem with the sub brew last time was air conditioning.

478
00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:13,800
Speaker 1: I would I would definitely, you know, I would go

479
00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:16,359
Speaker 1: with a lighter color in Arizona. I wouldn't get it.

480
00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:20,399
Speaker 1: I wouldn't get a sun roof. Um. Yeah, I'm not

481
00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:24,159
Speaker 1: a sunroof guy. I think it's like a greenhouse effect. Um.

482
00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:26,719
Speaker 1: Also from a security point of view. And you know,

483
00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:29,480
Speaker 1: do dads that break sun roofs break? I don't like that,

484
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:33,040
Speaker 1: but and leak and you know when they get older.

485
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:36,480
Speaker 1: But I would, you know, I would go drive one.

486
00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:38,800
Speaker 1: I would go get lost in one for twenty minutes

487
00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:40,600
Speaker 1: and and and see how you like it. But I

488
00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:43,760
Speaker 1: have no problem with the escape with the Explorer, And um,

489
00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:48,000
Speaker 1: I think they're doing away with the edge. UM. I

490
00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:50,119
Speaker 1: don't know that they're continuing to make the edge. But

491
00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:53,239
Speaker 1: I I think Ford and GM are probably top one

492
00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:54,960
Speaker 1: of the top two cars to go and look at today,

493
00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:57,600
Speaker 1: vehicles to look at today. I will, I will do

494
00:26:57,640 --> 00:26:59,679
Speaker 1: that and I appreciate that. And I did take your

495
00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:04,760
Speaker 1: a about the time versus time and miles and took

496
00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 1: my two thousand nine f one and had him change

497
00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:12,719
Speaker 1: all uh the fluids in it. And while they were

498
00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:16,159
Speaker 1: inspecting that, they found that my back brakes were razor thins.

499
00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:20,480
Speaker 1: I got back brakes, and that that truck runs like

500
00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:23,800
Speaker 1: you and it's got a hundred you know, there's something

501
00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:27,800
Speaker 1: about doing repairs in bunches Gill that we had a vehicle.

502
00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:29,119
Speaker 1: We had an edge in the shop this week with

503
00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:31,359
Speaker 1: a hundred and sixty thousand miles on it. It smoked

504
00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:34,320
Speaker 1: the right rear wheel bearing at one sixty and and

505
00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:36,199
Speaker 1: I said to Frank, I said, Frank, the breaks are

506
00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:37,840
Speaker 1: getting close from what I can see. Why don't we

507
00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:39,960
Speaker 1: do breaks? He says, yeah, do breaks, do both wheel

508
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:42,080
Speaker 1: bearings and so on. You know what, it was a

509
00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:43,800
Speaker 1: good thing we did because when I took the left

510
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:46,000
Speaker 1: side apart, the inner pad on the left side that

511
00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:48,840
Speaker 1: I couldn't see, I was getting a luck was a

512
00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:51,200
Speaker 1: lot closer than the other two because rust had taken

513
00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:53,639
Speaker 1: it and it's starting to bind it up. So you know,

514
00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:56,439
Speaker 1: doing things as systems and as component related in an

515
00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:59,800
Speaker 1: area of repair just makes a lot of sensor it really,

516
00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:02,920
Speaker 1: it definitely does. And something that my father in law

517
00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:05,680
Speaker 1: just have to mention. My late father in law who

518
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:09,440
Speaker 1: absolutely loved Ford, and he just said this about cards

519
00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:13,480
Speaker 1: in general. He'd always say, you save your money because

520
00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:16,000
Speaker 1: if there isn't anything wrong with the car right now,

521
00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:19,879
Speaker 1: there will be right well, you know, I think I

522
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:21,760
Speaker 1: think Henry Ford said it best as long as we're

523
00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:24,280
Speaker 1: talking about Ford, and then I'm gonna go. Henry Ford said,

524
00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:25,720
Speaker 1: you know what, I'll give you the car for free

525
00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:28,000
Speaker 1: because in in in two years, the parts are gonna

526
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:29,800
Speaker 1: be falling off. It's so fast you need a wheelbarrel

527
00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:32,040
Speaker 1: behind it. So uh, you know, And that was what

528
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:35,760
Speaker 1: the twenties. So it's it's they've gotten better obviously, but

529
00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:38,240
Speaker 1: you know he understood cars break, parts go bed, and

530
00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:40,400
Speaker 1: you're gonna need to repair it. That's why I say

531
00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:42,440
Speaker 1: the car gets to be three years old. Put away

532
00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:45,000
Speaker 1: Hunter and a month and your maintenance fund whether you

533
00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:47,360
Speaker 1: need it or not, because sooner or later you will. Gil.

534
00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:48,840
Speaker 1: I enjoyed the call. Good luck to you, and I

535
00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:50,680
Speaker 1: hope you enjoy your new car. Let us know what

536
00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:55,120
Speaker 1: you end up buying ron and ating the car doctor zero.

537
00:28:55,200 --> 00:29:06,520
Speaker 1: We're back right after this, but not gonna hey running

538
00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:08,160
Speaker 1: any of the car. Doctor. Let's get over to Marvin

539
00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:10,920
Speaker 1: in Michigan eight six f one fifty. Marvin, how are

540
00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:13,800
Speaker 1: you today? Doing pretty good? So what's going on here?

541
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:19,480
Speaker 1: I have for one fifty it's got the cylinder in

542
00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:23,120
Speaker 1: it carburetted, right, yes it is? Yeah? Okay, carter Y,

543
00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:26,800
Speaker 1: if think ahead yep, and ask you driver for about

544
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:28,760
Speaker 1: ten minutes. You know what, it gets warmed up, it

545
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:33,360
Speaker 1: sits and sputters and dies on you. Okay, and does

546
00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:37,680
Speaker 1: it does it restart or does it stay dead? It'll restart,

547
00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:39,840
Speaker 1: but not very well. But if you let it sit

548
00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:42,560
Speaker 1: for an hour or so and cool off, he'll start

549
00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:44,880
Speaker 1: right start, right up, fine, run great for a bout

550
00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:49,440
Speaker 1: ten minutes. Any any diagnosis done anywhere? Well, what I

551
00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:53,560
Speaker 1: did was, you know, I changed the coil in the

552
00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:58,200
Speaker 1: plug wires. You're trying to getting old anyway. But when

553
00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:01,640
Speaker 1: I pulled the wire off the oil uh you know,

554
00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:05,880
Speaker 1: but your dust came out and with the oil wire

555
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:09,560
Speaker 1: passing it down to the coil, that point was really

556
00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:13,640
Speaker 1: pitted and worn. I want to head and replace the coil. Okay,

557
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:16,600
Speaker 1: So let's do some diagnosis. This is this is a

558
00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:19,760
Speaker 1: fairly simple vehicle that diagnosed. It's carburetted. It's carburetted with

559
00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:23,720
Speaker 1: you know, for durs spark ignition. So when it goes

560
00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:27,920
Speaker 1: into this you know when it dies, Um, take the

561
00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:30,880
Speaker 1: air cleaner off, look down the throat of the carburetor,

562
00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:33,720
Speaker 1: crack the throttle, give it a shot, give it like

563
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:36,240
Speaker 1: wide open throttle. Do you get a good healthy spray

564
00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:40,880
Speaker 1: of fuel. U. Not that I've noticed. No, Okay, so

565
00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:44,600
Speaker 1: you've done this, yes, so so this is out of fuel.

566
00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:49,440
Speaker 1: It appears like it's out of fuel, right, yes, either

567
00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:53,920
Speaker 1: the fuel or since issue problem. Okay, so, but that's

568
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:55,800
Speaker 1: what we're trying to get to. Listen, it's it's a

569
00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:58,920
Speaker 1: low it's a lawnmower engine. Brother, it's sparker fuel. It's

570
00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:01,959
Speaker 1: not mechanical, right, And this is a real basic you know.

571
00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:04,200
Speaker 1: This is the farmers fixed these out in the middle

572
00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:06,680
Speaker 1: of the cornfields. All right, So this isn't a this

573
00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 1: isn't a big deal engine, all right, And no slight

574
00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:11,240
Speaker 1: to the farmers, right. I hold the highest respect for farmers.

575
00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:14,440
Speaker 1: There the most inventive people in the world. So what

576
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:15,640
Speaker 1: I want you to do is, do you have a

577
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:21,440
Speaker 1: Do you have a rally out to parts store local? Uh? Yeah, okay,

578
00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:23,520
Speaker 1: why don't you jump down to one of them, go

579
00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:25,440
Speaker 1: in and tell them you want a spark tester? Do

580
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:29,320
Speaker 1: you have a spark tester? I should ask you that question. Okay,

581
00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:32,160
Speaker 1: go by a spark tester. All right. You're gonna spend

582
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:35,000
Speaker 1: somewhere thirty dollars or less, and it's either going to

583
00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:37,120
Speaker 1: be the style that's a it looks like a spark

584
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:39,920
Speaker 1: plug with an alligator clip attached to it, all right,

585
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:43,080
Speaker 1: or it's gonna be about two inches long. It's black,

586
00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:45,640
Speaker 1: it's got an alligator clip, it's got graduations on it

587
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:49,640
Speaker 1: for approximate sparked. Uh, you know a gap and you'll

588
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:52,840
Speaker 1: see it. You'll understand. The idea is it's it's more

589
00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:55,200
Speaker 1: accurate than taking a screw driver, sticking in the spark

590
00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:57,080
Speaker 1: plug wire and trying to ground it to the head.

591
00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:00,760
Speaker 1: All right. Plus, because you're gonna be doing this alone

592
00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:03,640
Speaker 1: when the truck break, probably you can attach it to

593
00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:06,880
Speaker 1: a plug wire. All right. Set your gap to thirty

594
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:09,120
Speaker 1: thousands or thirty thousand vaults. Lets see if this coil

595
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:11,840
Speaker 1: will put out thirty thousand vaults when it has When

596
00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:14,400
Speaker 1: it does, does it have spark? If it jumps to

597
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:18,040
Speaker 1: thirty thousand volt gap, it's got spark. It's not spark related.

598
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:21,440
Speaker 1: Now we can focus on fuel, all right, and then

599
00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:23,600
Speaker 1: we can talk about do we have a fuel pump failing.

600
00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:25,200
Speaker 1: Do we have a problem in the tank because of

601
00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:27,720
Speaker 1: the age of the truck. Is there dirt somewhere in

602
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:30,520
Speaker 1: the system, So you do that You can also look

603
00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:33,160
Speaker 1: it up on o'reillyoto dot com. You do those things

604
00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:36,040
Speaker 1: this week, call me back next week, spark or fuel brother.

605
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:38,640
Speaker 1: Pretend it's a one cylinder, one more engine. How would

606
00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:40,120
Speaker 1: you fix it? And we can talk about it the

607
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:42,720
Speaker 1: fact that it's broken. You gotta be able to diagnose

608
00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:44,680
Speaker 1: it in fifteen minutes. I don't care. All right, you

609
00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:46,600
Speaker 1: call me back, let me know what happens, Morvin, take

610
00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:48,360
Speaker 1: good care. Iring any of the car doctor. We'll be

611
00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:59,880
Speaker 1: back right after this. Want any of the car doctor.

612
00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:02,280
Speaker 1: You can always tell the gear heads of the car

613
00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:05,760
Speaker 1: people in the room, right you know, you say to somebody, Hey, um,

614
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:09,040
Speaker 1: you know, what do you remember about your youth or

615
00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:12,160
Speaker 1: what do you recall? What's what was a better time

616
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:14,280
Speaker 1: to you? And you go around the room and some

617
00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:17,680
Speaker 1: people will talk about when their kids were small, when

618
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:21,680
Speaker 1: they traveled to the Grand Canyon, or maybe they were,

619
00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:24,040
Speaker 1: you know, living in a different part of the country.

620
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:27,080
Speaker 1: A car person. I got an email from Fixing All

621
00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:29,680
Speaker 1: twenty three. He says, I was listening to the podcast

622
00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:32,960
Speaker 1: the other day and the words Rochester Quadratete brought a

623
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 1: big smile and warm feelings over me of a younger

624
00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:39,640
Speaker 1: more innocent day, be well, thank you for the experience.

625
00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:43,360
Speaker 1: That's a car person because you say Rochester Quadraget and

626
00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:45,720
Speaker 1: everybody's ears perk up if you're a car guy or

627
00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:48,600
Speaker 1: a car person, and they go, oh, yeah, I had

628
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:51,200
Speaker 1: one of those ones. And it just gives you a warm,

629
00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:54,200
Speaker 1: fuzzy feeling, and you start to have memories of you know,

630
00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:56,720
Speaker 1: what a flooded carburetor would do, and when the choke

631
00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:59,120
Speaker 1: pull off went bad, and when the choke got stuck,

632
00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:01,720
Speaker 1: and when the riser went bed and melted out the

633
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:03,560
Speaker 1: bottom of the car buretor and wiped out the two

634
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:06,640
Speaker 1: center exhaust valves on the side of a small block Chevy,

635
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:09,239
Speaker 1: and you start to have all these memories come rushing back.

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Speaker 1: That's a car person, right, simpler, easier times. Danny was

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Speaker 1: working on a Zy this week, and you know, I'm

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Speaker 1: trying to teach him how to make it a little

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Speaker 1: bit more bulletproof. He's got a seventy Z with a

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Speaker 1: three fifty four barrel factory car, a nice original car,

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Speaker 1: and he said, what do I need in terms of ignition?

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Speaker 1: You need a module, a pickup coil and ignition coil.

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Speaker 1: Even though they'll probably never go bad. But by them

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Speaker 1: while you still can. You need a Philip screw driver

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Speaker 1: and a straight blade and if you've got all that,

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Speaker 1: you can fix anything you want on the side of

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Speaker 1: the road and maybe a small ballpeen hammer. You're golden.

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Speaker 1: Uh you know at that point, through a fuel pump

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Speaker 1: in the trunk, trunk and uh you're good to go.

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Speaker 1: So um, you know what Rochester quadratet fixing cars on

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Speaker 1: the side of the road. I'm roundingading in the car doctor,

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

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Speaker 1: She was to Ta