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Speaker 2: Sometimes the best repair is the one you don't make.

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Speaker 2: It just is it's and it's it happens every once

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Speaker 2: in a while on a repair shop.

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Speaker 3: It happened to me this week.

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Speaker 2: Can you know you're not there just to make a living,

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Speaker 2: but you're there to guide people, and that's really what

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Speaker 2: it's about. It's you're supposed to take care of your flock,

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Speaker 2: and every once in a while a new a new

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Speaker 2: flock member comes in and you've kind of got to

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Speaker 2: kind of guide them. Accordingly, Amy came in with their

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Speaker 2: step sons two thousand and seven. Mercury Milan. Mercury Milans

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Speaker 2: are an interesting breed. For lack of a better way

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Speaker 2: to say, that was that generation when Ford was and

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Speaker 2: I forget what the Ford equivalent was, but it was

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Speaker 2: when Ford was bringing in and trying to create European

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Speaker 2: models under Ford Cloaking, and they were good cars. They

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Speaker 2: didn't make a lot of them, but I happen to

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Speaker 2: know for.

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Speaker 3: A fact that a lot of the parts are just gone.

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Speaker 2: Like so many cars today, their parts are just obsolete.

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Speaker 2: So I'm always cautious anytime any one of them comes in.

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Speaker 2: And I don't think the average consumer realizes it because

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Speaker 2: to them, it's it's a Mercury, it's a Ford, it's

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Speaker 2: you know, there's just it's a gazillion of them, but

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Speaker 2: there isn't. What kind of got my eye and made

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Speaker 2: me hold back was the left front directional bulb was on.

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Speaker 2: That was the complaint. And they had tried bulbs and

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Speaker 2: the local Firestone had tried a couple of things, and

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Speaker 2: they admitted, they said, hey, we don't have anybody that

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Speaker 2: qualified to work on electrical, but we like to do

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Speaker 2: your rear wheelbaring, which you know, that's a whole other

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Speaker 2: part of this story about you know, what's the best

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Speaker 2: repair and what's the best action to take. And Amy

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Speaker 2: asked around and she ended up on my doorstep, and

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Speaker 2: I was glad to have her. So you know where

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Speaker 2: I started. I always start with a diagnosis, right, and

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Speaker 2: a diagnosis begins in my shop, it begins we pull codes.

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Speaker 2: So understand and think about what I'm telling you. I'm

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Speaker 2: pulling codes, meaning I'm plugging a diagnostic tool into the

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Speaker 2: OBD two port, the diagnostic port under the dashboard, and

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Speaker 2: I'm retrieving fault codes. I just want to see what's there.

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Speaker 2: And I still maintain that this is the right way,

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Speaker 2: in the only place, in the best place to start

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Speaker 2: any any repair diagnosis really of anything today because look

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Speaker 2: look at what I'm diagnosing. I'm diagnosing a light bulb. Basically,

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Speaker 2: the vehicle had a b as in Baker seventeen ninety

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Speaker 2: nine front directional circuit open full Look at that. Now

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Speaker 2: you know to lay the groundwork for this conversation. I

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Speaker 2: have to tell you I'm aware of what these cars are.

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Speaker 2: This is European networking.

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Speaker 3: This is what it was was.

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Speaker 2: This was real high tech stuff in two thousand and seven,

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Speaker 2: and this was one of Ford's early attempts at creating

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Speaker 3: They used a it's referred.

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Speaker 2: To as the GEM module generic electronic module. It's also

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Speaker 2: called so it's called a GEM module, an SJB, a

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Speaker 2: smart junction box, or it's sometimes referred to as a

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Speaker 2: body module. As a matter of fact. In the paperwork

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Speaker 2: that I gave Amy at the end the diagnostic outs,

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Speaker 2: because I always give you paperwork on one of those

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Speaker 2: shops that I think if you're paying me for a diagnosis,

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Speaker 2: you're kind of get paperwork, which I still think is

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: In the diagnostic print outs, some spots called it an SJB,

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Speaker 2: it a and you get it right, it's still the

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Speaker 2: same thing though. So I ran through testing, I ran

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Speaker 2: as you engage the directionals, the directionals blinked once correctly,

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Speaker 2: that at some point it's going to see enough occurrences

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Speaker 2: of that and it's going to turn that that light

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Speaker 2: bulb back on. But here's the kick, And why didn't

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Speaker 2: one you don't make. Because this two thousand and seven,

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Speaker 2: this almost twenty year old vehicle needed a part that's obsolete.

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Speaker 2: And I don't mean just obsolete, I mean like it

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Speaker 2: doesn't exist. It's it's gone into the vapor trail of parts.

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Speaker 2: There's one dealer in the middle of Kansas somewhere that

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Speaker 2: out it was a five hundred dollars part five years

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Speaker 2: they had it, it would have to be shipped. It

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Speaker 2: was probably a as received no guarantee on condition condition,

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Speaker 2: and then it had to be programmed. The GEM module

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Speaker 2: often requires programming to identify it to the vehicle. And

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Speaker 2: as I said to Amy, so you know, if we

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Speaker 2: get this five hundred dollars obsolete part and we managed

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Speaker 2: to program it with newer equipment, because a lot of

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Speaker 2: older stuff. It's like, as I always tell you guys,

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Speaker 2: it's like it's like, go find me a Windows ninety

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Speaker 3: It's how difficult is that?

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Speaker 2: As we evolve forward and the technology moves forward, a

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Speaker 2: lot of the computer software just outdates whatever.

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Speaker 2: I said, what's next? And she looked at me and

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Speaker 2: she said, gee, I never thought of it like that.

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Speaker 2: And that's a lot of That's a lot of what

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Speaker 2: this is about, right, It's what's next?

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Speaker 3: What are we going to do? What are we going

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Speaker 2: You know what happens and I know this for a fact,

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Speaker 2: what happens when the transmission in that Mercury Milan goes bad?

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Speaker 2: And what does that cost? And I can tell you

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Speaker 2: from experience that's obsolete too. Don't ask me how. I

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Speaker 2: know you don't want to hear the story. But the

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Speaker 2: customer that purchased one about two years ago, maybe two

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Speaker 2: And when the transmission went south on that Mercury Milan it,

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Speaker 2: they took it back to the dealer under warranty and

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Speaker 2: they were told, yeah, that transmission is obsolete. But they said,

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Speaker 2: but just sold us a service contract and they ran

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Speaker 2: it up through the power of Ford Motor Company. And

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Speaker 2: Ford said, okay, we've got seven left, and they were

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Speaker 2: able to get one of those seven. And it's just

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Speaker 2: I found that interesting that, you know, our car company's

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Speaker 2: a point where it doesn't pay to really distribute them,

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Speaker 2: which is a different conversation. I think it's the obligation

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Speaker 2: preface the repair. Is this car worth fixing? Is this

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Speaker 2: car really worth repairing? Because what's next? What's going to

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Speaker 2: This car needed a left rear wheelbaring. This car needed

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Speaker 2: this body module repair, all right, whatever associated programming that

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Speaker 2: went along with it. And it's nineteen years old, and

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Speaker 2: freshman college student trying to make his way through college

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Speaker 2: on a thirty minute commute each way back and forth

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Speaker 2: for the next four years, and all that has to

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Speaker 2: come into consideration. I think it's the obligation. I don't

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Speaker 2: has an individual story because when you look at why

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Speaker 2: behind most of it, all right. Some are some are

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Speaker 2: just a number. Some want to be just somebody standing

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Speaker 2: at the deli counters now serving number fourteen and away

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Speaker 2: we go. I'll take a half a pound of turkey.

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Speaker 2: But some people want to know how good is the turkey,

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Speaker 2: turkey give me satisfaction? And that's a lot of what

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Speaker 2: you're doing at the repair shop level should be doing.

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Speaker 2: You know, you're making sure that they're happy with the slice,

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Speaker 2: they're happy with the sandwich. You're managing expectations and a

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Speaker 2: lot of times you're gonna find out that it makes

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Speaker 3: Your vehicle can't.

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Speaker 2: Be repaired, shouldn't be repaired. And here's why. It's just

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Speaker 2: how you build the case, because a lot of times

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Speaker 2: the best repair to make is none. Get paid for

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Speaker 2: your time, get paid for the consultation, but guide them

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Speaker 2: in the best direction. And in this case, no parts,

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Speaker 2: no repair, just can't be done, not within reason. Eight

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Speaker 2: ay in the car, doctor, I'll be back right after this.

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Speaker 2: Don't go away. Hey, let's get over to Chris and

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Speaker 2: Wisconsin and see what's going on here. Chris, how can

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Speaker 2: I help you in your twenty three Chrysler PACIFICA.

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Speaker 4: Thanks for taking my call your show.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 4: We bought this be a cult used from a dealer

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Speaker 4: in Wisconsin on December second. I drove it home, which

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Speaker 4: ride got a home perching in the driveway. We had

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Speaker 4: a clothed spell during that time. The very next night,

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Speaker 4: and this is the first time that we were starting

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Speaker 4: it because the dealer had brought it already started for

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Speaker 4: us to test drive. And when I pushed the start button,

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Speaker 4: the car made this electrical popping noise. And I tried

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Speaker 4: it like ten times.

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Speaker 5: It wouldn't start, and it would go pop pop, And

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Speaker 5: it's kind of the same noise that you get when

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Speaker 5: a battery is hooked up wrong and you're trying to

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Speaker 4: And finally, on about the eleventh try, it started. I

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Speaker 4: drove thirty miles, it ran dutifully. I was in a

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Speaker 5: It started right up.

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Speaker 4: When I went to go home. Subsequently, for the next

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Speaker 4: two weeks, sometimes it would start on the first try,

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Speaker 4: and then sometimes I'd experience that popping issue, and every

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Speaker 4: time that you'd get to pop, it wouldn't start. The

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Speaker 4: other thing that was happening was the indicator light on

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Speaker 4: the shifter nab. It's got a turn nab to shift.

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Speaker 4: Sometimes it would go out completely. So the only way

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Speaker 4: you could tell when you started it, and you could

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Speaker 4: the number of clicks as you turned that little knob.

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Speaker 2: So now you alway, somebody traded it in, right, yeah, yep.

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Speaker 4: And the dealer they traded it in for a key,

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Speaker 4: had Carnival a key a dealer, and the dealer put

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Speaker 4: So we've tried different things for like two weeks and

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Speaker 5: In the nearby phone.

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Speaker 4: They had it for six days. They had to take

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Speaker 5: The cable was wrapped around something and replaced the cable

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Speaker 2: So let me ask you this, Chris, you think that

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Speaker 4: I did the car tax on it and it said no.

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Speaker 5: I just think, well keep it.

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Speaker 3: Keep it.

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Speaker 2: Keep in mind, though, kiddo, you know it can be

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Speaker 4: Right? And it with one owner car?

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Speaker 2: Right, So there's something something's askew here, right in the

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Speaker 2: to be cock eyed with this car. Right, But onto

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Speaker 2: assume it's not an accident vehicle, which is a dangerous word, right, YEA.

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Speaker 4: And I don't think it was Okay, the dealer would

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Speaker 6: I bought it.

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Speaker 3: Well, maybe the dealer didn't.

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Speaker 2: Maybe the dealer doesn't know it's an accident vehicle, and

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Speaker 4: Maybe they just they replaced the battery.

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Speaker 2: Okay, sure, but but regardless, you think the dealer is

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well that's what happened, right You known problem and

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Speaker 4: the hood are not opening. We're both there. What we

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Speaker 2: Anyway anyway, first thing I want to do is when

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Speaker 2: I you know, where does this pop pop sound come from?

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Speaker 2: Is it under the dash or out under the hood.

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Speaker 4: It's out under the hood like the battery. And the

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Speaker 6: After they.

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Speaker 4: Fixed the hood issue, and we drove it for a

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Speaker 4: And on January third, I was at our cottage and

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Speaker 2: And pop pop So here, let me let me do

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Speaker 2: got a trace coming off positive and negative battery. Are

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Speaker 3: I would be I would be.

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Speaker 2: Going over the tip them or the power control module

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Speaker 2: under the hood. Also, does this vehicle have start stop technology?

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Speaker 4: What does that mean?

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Speaker 2: When you pull up to a traffic light or a

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Speaker 4: That has not happened, but it has this annoying augmatic

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Speaker 2: The perk brak, right, but does it? But does it

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Speaker 2: have start stop? Well, don't don't. Don't judge it by that.

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Speaker 2: It hasn't worked because if the and here's why, If

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Speaker 2: it's there because it's hidden in a in a recess, right, ah,

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Speaker 2: it can cause other starting issues. So one of the

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Speaker 2: two things. One, does this vehicle have start stop? Doesn't

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Speaker 2: have an auxiliary battery? Okay, identify that because you know,

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Speaker 2: If you want to read more about the auxiliary batteries,

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Speaker 2: go out to auto batteries dot com. They'll explain it

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Speaker 2: very well. That's number one. Number two, do a code scan.

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Speaker 2: I know this isn't check engine light related stuff, but

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Speaker 2: And that will tell us something also about loss of power.

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Speaker 2: So two things to do, a couple of things to

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Speaker 2: any in the car Doctor. We'll return right after this.

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Speaker 7: Through the city street.

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Speaker 2: To the Oven Rule tonight.

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Speaker 3: If you run his head album wrong, we'll keep.

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Speaker 4: You all right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a car doctor, car advisor. Maybe that's the

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Speaker 2: car doctor car advice. Done right. I'll have to think

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Speaker 2: on the West coast a net. Welcome to the car Doctor.

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Speaker 8: How can I help high, I've got a twenty eleven

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Speaker 8: F one fifty and I'm losing about a gallon of

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Speaker 8: any freeze every three hundred miles. Which engine there's no

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Speaker 2: So it's it's it's the V eight, okay, And there's

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Speaker 2: no leaks ye that you see anywhere. You don't see puddles,

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Speaker 2: et cetera. Correct, Has anybody pressure tested this?

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Speaker 8: My mechanic has a couple of what's been going on

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Speaker 8: for about five years now, I don't drive it a lot. Right,

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Speaker 8: it's but he can't find the leak.

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Speaker 2: Well either, and if it's truly so let's back up,

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Speaker 2: let's say he's pressure tested it. You know, he's applied

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Speaker 2: would be a normal course of a diagnosis, and he

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Speaker 2: sees no leaks anywhere. All right, then I'm going to

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Speaker 2: tell you that if you're not seeing an external leak,

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Speaker 2: and you've been through it and proven that, and I'm

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Speaker 2: saying it like that because I'm trying to make a

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Speaker 2: point that that has to be the first step. Just

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Speaker 2: because we don't see it doesn't mean we shouldn't do it.

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Speaker 2: But once we've established that there are no external leaks,

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Speaker 2: it's internal through the engine, and the fact that you

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Speaker 2: won't see it is because the engine's burning it little

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Speaker 2: by little. Is it a CP head gasket? Is it

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Speaker 2: a CP cooling internal passage? It's leaking into combustion somewhere

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Speaker 2: causing the issue.

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Speaker 3: How many miles around this truck?

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Speaker 8: One hundred and eighty five thousand.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So you know, if we're not seeing an external leak,

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Speaker 2: something at almost two hundred thousand miles, I'm going to say, yeah,

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Speaker 2: let's put head gaskets on it. I'm probably and we're

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Speaker 2: just gonna spitball this y and I right, I'm not.

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Speaker 2: I'm not trying to sell you either way. But if

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Speaker 2: so it's what thirteen years old, now it's for fifteen

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Speaker 2: years old, right, fifteen years old, two hundred thousand miles.

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Speaker 2: Why aren't we doing something like a case seal coolant

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Speaker 2: seal additive to see if that stops it, simple and easy,

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Speaker 2: right now, K seal if you go to k seal

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Speaker 2: dot com. Not to make this salesy, but it's the truth.

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Speaker 2: We use k seal the shop all the time.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 2: K seal does have better ability to stop a coolant

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Speaker 2: And they also make something called k seal Ultimate, which

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Speaker 2: I think. I think, I think the speck is thirty

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Speaker 2: And if there's an internal head gasket issue, if K

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Speaker 2: I think there's a real tiny leak here. But if

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Speaker 2: you're legitimately losing coolant and there's no external leak, the

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Speaker 2: only other place it can be going is internal through

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Speaker 2: the engine, right, I mean, that's it.

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Speaker 8: There's just you can kind of smell the evaporation, you

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Speaker 3: It smells sweet.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, you can smell it that I can't see it.

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Speaker 8: He can't see it.

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Speaker 2: Right Where does it smell sweet? Upfront or in the

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Speaker 8: Upfront?

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Speaker 2: Okay, then there might be a leak there that he

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Speaker 2: a dye test. And the reason I like to do

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Speaker 2: a die check is because it just gives me proof positive.

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Speaker 2: Tell me what's good. I'll tell you what's bad.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: I could come back to you and say, hey, you know,

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Speaker 3: I looked at it with a black light.

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Speaker 2: There is no external dye anywhere. Because there's an awful

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Speaker 2: lot of why pipes and hoses and fittings up front

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Speaker 2: of o ring connections that seep coolant and you just

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Speaker 2: won't see it. You know, it'll either clearly hit the ground,

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Speaker 2: oddest time. But the fact that this is going on

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Speaker 2: Right far, how far has that vehicle gone in five years,

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Speaker 2: five thousand miles, ten thousand miles, thirty.

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Speaker 8: Thousand miles, maybe ten thousand miles, right, Yeah, I drive

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Speaker 2: Right, so it's not seeing a lot of super heavy

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: I bet if you drove that vehicle twenty thousand miles

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Speaker 2: now whatever the horse is would have reared its ugly

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Speaker 2: I think we've got to kind of nurse this along.

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Speaker 2: It's either an external dyeing black light test or some

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Speaker 2: cooling system sealer internally, and see if it slows it down.

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00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:48,400
Speaker 2: But don't get confused by the fact that you don't

438
00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:51,239
Speaker 2: see it. If it's burning it, you'll never see it.

439
00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:55,280
Speaker 2: But the smell an engine burning coolant shouldn't produce a

440
00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:59,400
Speaker 2: sweet smell up front, Right, there's a loss there. It's

441
00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:02,080
Speaker 2: there some where you're just not seeing it. Is it

442
00:24:02,119 --> 00:24:03,560
Speaker 2: is it dripping into it?

443
00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:03,760
Speaker 3: You know?

444
00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:07,480
Speaker 2: The worst coolant leak I ever had a diagnos was

445
00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:10,119
Speaker 2: the one that was dripping into the frame rail and

446
00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:12,760
Speaker 2: the frame rail captured the small amount of cool and

447
00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:15,159
Speaker 2: over time until you drove it down the road and

448
00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:17,280
Speaker 2: then it would splash out. You'd never see it. It would

449
00:24:17,280 --> 00:24:18,879
Speaker 2: never drip all the vehicle was parked.

450
00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:21,679
Speaker 3: You know. It kind of drove me insane.

451
00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:24,760
Speaker 2: It was a dodge in that case, not that you know,

452
00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:26,840
Speaker 2: dodges dripping the frames and forts can't.

453
00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:29,080
Speaker 3: It depends on where the leak is. But you know,

454
00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:31,960
Speaker 3: treat all. You know. Diagnosis is a diagnosis.

455
00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:34,800
Speaker 2: And that's why I say a die check and a

456
00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:37,520
Speaker 2: pressure test along the way, it will tell us a

457
00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:40,359
Speaker 2: whole lot more. All right, kiddo, But kseal dot com

458
00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:42,120
Speaker 2: might have some answers for you.

459
00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:42,640
Speaker 3: You go there.

460
00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:43,520
Speaker 5: I appreciate that.

461
00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:44,000
Speaker 6: Thank you.

462
00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:46,080
Speaker 2: You're very welcome in that you be well. And I

463
00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:48,439
Speaker 2: think that's I think that's uh no, go ahead, and

464
00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:49,960
Speaker 2: that you're good. I think that's how you have to

465
00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:52,639
Speaker 2: look at it, right, it's it's how long has it

466
00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:54,760
Speaker 2: been going on? Why don't I see it? Well, you

467
00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:57,840
Speaker 2: won't see it. You won't see an internal engine leak

468
00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:00,479
Speaker 2: because it'll it'll go through the ex so Austin will

469
00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:02,800
Speaker 2: hit the cat the cattle, and not to mention what

470
00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:05,000
Speaker 2: we're doing through the catalytic converters if it is internal,

471
00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:07,520
Speaker 2: because catalytic converters and any freeze don't like each other

472
00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:11,119
Speaker 2: a whole lot, right, So it's important to diagnose it,

473
00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:14,320
Speaker 2: and it's it's process of elimination. Stop looking for what's bad,

474
00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:18,120
Speaker 2: tell me what's good. If I don't have an external leak, well,

475
00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:20,960
Speaker 2: logic would dictate that the only place it can be

476
00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:23,520
Speaker 2: then is an internal engine loss. And then we've got

477
00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:24,520
Speaker 2: to decide how are we going.

478
00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:24,919
Speaker 3: To solve it.

479
00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:28,960
Speaker 2: Eighty thousand mile vehicle. We're taking something apart two hundred

480
00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:32,640
Speaker 2: thousand mile vehicle. You know, we're gonna throw some caseal

481
00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:35,200
Speaker 2: at it and let that do the work that it's

482
00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:38,119
Speaker 2: supposed to do. And it it will, and you know,

483
00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:40,120
Speaker 2: get another couple of five years out of that truck

484
00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:42,880
Speaker 2: before we have to make another decision. So because there's

485
00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:45,879
Speaker 2: a vehicle, just a real quick note, I bet you

486
00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:47,959
Speaker 2: half the parts for that truck are obsolete too, just

487
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,000
Speaker 2: like the Mercury Milan in the open up today. So

488
00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:54,200
Speaker 2: obsolescence comes into play. The best repair move you can

489
00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:56,920
Speaker 2: make is none eighty five five five six oh nine

490
00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:59,639
Speaker 2: nine zero zero. The Car Doctor's cruising back right after this.

491
00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:15,800
Speaker 2: Let's go take a ride down the New Jersey Turnpike

492
00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:16,720
Speaker 2: and go to Philadelphia.

493
00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:19,159
Speaker 3: Talk to Brian. Hey, Brian, welcome to the Car Doctor. Sir?

494
00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:20,000
Speaker 3: What's going on today?

495
00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:21,200
Speaker 4: Hey?

496
00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:21,880
Speaker 6: How are you? Sir?

497
00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:23,160
Speaker 3: All right? Sir? Goat's cooking?

498
00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:27,439
Speaker 6: Uh, interesting question for you. This is my father is

499
00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:29,879
Speaker 6: he hasn't been driving that much lately. He has a

500
00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:34,760
Speaker 6: twenty twenty three Hyndaia Lantra. Actually first is the summer

501
00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:36,919
Speaker 6: of twenty twenty two, so it's actually a year older

502
00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:40,840
Speaker 6: than that. This car, you know, the oil is it

503
00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:45,960
Speaker 6: requires a zero twenty synthetic. He changes you know, his

504
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:48,919
Speaker 6: oil at regular intervals. He does usually he was doing

505
00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:52,040
Speaker 6: at least one thousand miles a month. Now I'm using

506
00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:55,960
Speaker 6: his in mind, he's not they're not. I'm not getting

507
00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:58,560
Speaker 6: a lot of miles on it. But I don't want

508
00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:02,200
Speaker 6: to not change the oil for an extended period of time.

509
00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:04,760
Speaker 6: So if I'm not doing that many miles, how long

510
00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:09,560
Speaker 6: how many months do you think I should wait till

511
00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:12,320
Speaker 6: I change the oil because I'm not getting a lot

512
00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:12,919
Speaker 6: of miles on it.

513
00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:14,960
Speaker 2: You're going to get me in trouble with the internet trolls.

514
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:17,560
Speaker 2: You know that, don't you, because you know you know

515
00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:19,199
Speaker 2: the answer to this question is not going to make

516
00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:19,680
Speaker 2: them happy.

517
00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:22,280
Speaker 3: Well, actually, it'll give them a reason to beat me up.

518
00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:25,280
Speaker 2: I'm still going to stand by my original conviction five

519
00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:29,200
Speaker 2: and five, five months, five thousand miles, and I'll defend

520
00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:29,600
Speaker 2: it here.

521
00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:30,240
Speaker 3: Right.

522
00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:32,800
Speaker 2: It's odd you pick a twenty three hunday. We had

523
00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:35,359
Speaker 2: a twenty three hunday. It's one of the stories I

524
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:38,040
Speaker 2: may talk about this week. This particular car had a

525
00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:41,240
Speaker 2: leaky oh ring and the dealer didn't do a proper

526
00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:44,320
Speaker 2: oil change and didn't check a few things, and it's

527
00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:47,280
Speaker 2: a whole nother story, but the issue was changing the

528
00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:50,560
Speaker 2: oil on this twenty three hunday. You know, it had

529
00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:55,879
Speaker 2: about just shy of eighteen hundred miles on it. And

530
00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:58,320
Speaker 2: this was an older person. They don't go a lot

531
00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:01,280
Speaker 2: of miles. They've been living with this oil, et cetera.

532
00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:07,240
Speaker 2: And the oil was by color. It looked atrocious, and

533
00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:10,360
Speaker 2: first time customer to us, and after more inquiries, he's

534
00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:12,080
Speaker 2: not doing a lot of driving. I mean it's almost

535
00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:14,399
Speaker 2: like I talk to your father and I know it

536
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:18,919
Speaker 2: wasn't right. You know, same scenario. You know, an oil

537
00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:22,040
Speaker 2: change is more than just an oil change. It's more

538
00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:24,119
Speaker 2: than just draining oil and putting a filter on.

539
00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:25,200
Speaker 3: Right.

540
00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:29,480
Speaker 2: It's tire pressure, it's a physical look. It's verifying what

541
00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:33,320
Speaker 2: sort of condition is that piece of machinery in. If

542
00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:35,720
Speaker 2: we're going to try and get ten years out of

543
00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:39,880
Speaker 2: a vehicle, I don't think it's unreasonable to maintain it consistently.

544
00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:42,440
Speaker 2: And I'm not scolding you, Brian. I know you see

545
00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:45,840
Speaker 2: it this way too, but the issue comes back to

546
00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:49,480
Speaker 2: the things you will see along the way on those

547
00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:52,360
Speaker 2: regular oil changes will help get that vehicle to the

548
00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:54,720
Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty thousand mile mark, the two hundred

549
00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:58,239
Speaker 2: thousand mile mark, because it also gives the mechanic a

550
00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:00,840
Speaker 2: pause and a moment. And I know you have a

551
00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:03,200
Speaker 2: great relationship with a regular guy that hey, you know,

552
00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:05,160
Speaker 2: the car's got sixty thousand miles on it. Let's talk

553
00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:09,120
Speaker 2: about driveline fluids, let's talk about cooling system service, let's

554
00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:13,600
Speaker 2: talk about a fuel system cleaning. So oil changes aren't

555
00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:16,160
Speaker 2: done just for the sake of changing oil and a filter,

556
00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:21,400
Speaker 2: but it's also done with the idea of regular scheduled maintenance. Right,

557
00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:24,640
Speaker 2: It's kind of like going to the dentist. You go

558
00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:26,680
Speaker 2: to the dentist. I go to the dentist twice a year,

559
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:28,800
Speaker 2: you know, get a cleaning, get a look over.

560
00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:29,080
Speaker 3: You know.

561
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:31,560
Speaker 2: Sometimes I have a cavity. Sometimes I needed this, sometimes

562
00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:34,680
Speaker 2: I needed that. But I had no problems. But it

563
00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:38,440
Speaker 2: was just normal wear and tear maintenance. And the fact

564
00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:40,400
Speaker 2: that I'm a little older now that when I first started,

565
00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:43,040
Speaker 2: I've been going to the dentist twice a year forever

566
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:48,560
Speaker 2: and look where I got, right, So I think regular

567
00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:51,520
Speaker 2: attendance by a qualified professional, and I have to preempt

568
00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:53,120
Speaker 2: that because there's a lot of idiots out in the

569
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:56,400
Speaker 2: world that are working in repair shops. And I don't

570
00:29:56,400 --> 00:30:00,480
Speaker 2: say that lightly. I say that sadly. It's you know,

571
00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:05,000
Speaker 2: a different perspective. So I like, five months, five thousand miles.

572
00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:07,320
Speaker 2: I don't care how many miles the vehicle has on it,

573
00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:11,240
Speaker 2: you know. Time and time again, we had a we

574
00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:15,400
Speaker 2: had what was she driving a twenty eighteen Ford Edge.

575
00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:18,040
Speaker 2: Cindy's driving a twenty eighteen Ford Edge. The car was

576
00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:24,040
Speaker 2: due for an oil change in October and she was

577
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:26,920
Speaker 2: just five hundred miles shy of the mileage this week.

578
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:29,200
Speaker 2: But it was while I didn't have the money, and

579
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:31,640
Speaker 2: the Christmas came and Thanksgiving came, and you know, there

580
00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:35,240
Speaker 2: was always that here's why I can't do it. Reason now,

581
00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:38,040
Speaker 2: The oil that came out of this car was pitch black,

582
00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:43,080
Speaker 2: pitch black, forty two thousand mile edge right. It was

583
00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:45,600
Speaker 2: just and you could feel it. There's a there's a

584
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:48,440
Speaker 2: lubricity to oil. If you rub good oil between your

585
00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:50,959
Speaker 2: thumb and forefinger and then beat up oil between your

586
00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:53,280
Speaker 2: thumb and forefinger, you'll feel it. I don't need to

587
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:55,560
Speaker 2: spend twenty five dollars and send it out to the

588
00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:59,600
Speaker 2: layup to have them doing oil analysis, which, frankly, unless

589
00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:01,600
Speaker 2: I'm looking for a problem, I don't understand why we

590
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:03,440
Speaker 2: do that anyway. I think the money we spend on

591
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:05,920
Speaker 2: oil analysis can be put towards oil changes and we'll.

592
00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:07,680
Speaker 3: Get further out of the car. You know.

593
00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:10,600
Speaker 2: It's it's and those are the trolls I refer to.

594
00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:12,240
Speaker 2: I think there's a time and a place to do

595
00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:15,160
Speaker 2: oil analysis, but I think I think it's overdone. I

596
00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:20,000
Speaker 2: think we go into analysis paralysis. And you know, I

597
00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:23,600
Speaker 2: always think about I have these I had these two customers.

598
00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:26,400
Speaker 2: Father and son. They both drive an nine f one fifty,

599
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:30,200
Speaker 2: and they did the oil change analysis early on when

600
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:31,200
Speaker 2: they bought these vehicles.

601
00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:31,840
Speaker 3: They thought they.

602
00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:34,680
Speaker 2: Were you know, they were concerned about, you know, what's

603
00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:36,200
Speaker 2: breaking down, what's good, what's bad?

604
00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:37,239
Speaker 3: Da da da da da da da.

605
00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:40,400
Speaker 2: But they still came in low mileage, still came in

606
00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:43,200
Speaker 2: on a regular monthly basis. They never saw anything out

607
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:46,320
Speaker 2: of the oil analysis. Now these trucks, well they're row nines,

608
00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:48,560
Speaker 2: they're fifteen years old, they've got one hundred and fifty

609
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:50,520
Speaker 2: hundred and sixty thousand miles on them and they're still

610
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:52,640
Speaker 2: going strong. So what was the point in doing all

611
00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:55,960
Speaker 2: the oil analysis? I mean, other than hey, it's neat.

612
00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:58,680
Speaker 2: We can tell you what's in your oil. So I

613
00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:01,640
Speaker 2: appreciate the call, Brian, five and five's my call, And

614
00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:03,760
Speaker 2: if anybody else wants to comment, send me an email

615
00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:05,320
Speaker 2: run at cardoctorshow dot com.

616
00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:06,440
Speaker 3: I'll be back right after this.

617
00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:19,000
Speaker 7: Don't go away.

618
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,680
Speaker 2: Hey, let's do a piece of email. Ray from West

619
00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:24,320
Speaker 2: Texas Rights and hey, car doctor, I was just listening

620
00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:26,960
Speaker 2: to your show as I do every weekend, and I

621
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:29,040
Speaker 2: want to talk about the person that called in from

622
00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:31,800
Speaker 2: the West coast. I'm in West Texas, not the West coast.

623
00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:33,240
Speaker 3: Ray writes, I've.

624
00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:35,520
Speaker 2: Got an nine f one fifty with two hundred and

625
00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:38,280
Speaker 2: ninety thousand miles on it, and I've got a coolant loss. Also,

626
00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:41,120
Speaker 2: I don't find it. And after listening to you, after

627
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:44,080
Speaker 2: it's been going on for two years, he writes, he said,

628
00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:46,400
Speaker 2: I understand what to do for the coolant leak or

629
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:49,080
Speaker 2: the coolant loss, but what can I do to help

630
00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:51,520
Speaker 2: the catalytic converter? Is there anything out there? Because I

631
00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:53,560
Speaker 2: don't want to have to repair either on this older

632
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:56,080
Speaker 2: truck with high mileage. You know, Ray, that's a great question,

633
00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:59,440
Speaker 2: and that's some that's that's someplace we hadn't gone this hour,

634
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:01,800
Speaker 2: but we'll take there right now. Go out to CRC

635
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:04,760
Speaker 2: Industries dot com. Get out to CRC Industries dot com.

636
00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:08,160
Speaker 2: Take a look at Guaranteed to Pass. They're emission system cleaner.

637
00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:11,160
Speaker 2: It's a real great fuel system cleaner. But what it

638
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:15,280
Speaker 2: does is it will help restore a you know, maybe

639
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:17,400
Speaker 2: restores not the word, but it will help clean up

640
00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:19,960
Speaker 2: a beat up catalytic converter.

641
00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:21,280
Speaker 3: We've had great success with it.

642
00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:24,120
Speaker 2: It'll clear check engine lighte faults and as the label

643
00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:27,760
Speaker 2: says guaranteed to pass. It's a very caustic is probably

644
00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:30,200
Speaker 2: a strong word, but it's a very high quality, high

645
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:34,280
Speaker 2: detergent fuel system cleaner that will also clean up catalytic

646
00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:36,840
Speaker 2: converters and help bring them back to life. So it's

647
00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:39,040
Speaker 2: just it's just been known to work. We've used it

648
00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:40,760
Speaker 2: quite often. You can use it a couple of times

649
00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:43,520
Speaker 2: a year as regular maintenance on an older vehicle it's

650
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:46,680
Speaker 2: got a coolant loss or a fluid issue, an oil burner,

651
00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:49,520
Speaker 2: something like that, and I think you'll see longer life

652
00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:52,120
Speaker 2: out of the cats, and you won't have to replace

653
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:55,000
Speaker 2: or repair them, and you know, just good normal part

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Speaker 2: of maintenance. We kind of use it different than what

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Speaker 2: we might normally do with it, but guaranteed to pass.

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Speaker 2: CRC Industries dot com is where you want to be.

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Speaker 2: Ray and keep listening. I appreciate hearing from you out

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Speaker 2: there in West Texas. I'm ronning Andy in the car Doctor.

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Speaker 2: Another hour just kind of took off and went off

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Speaker 2: by itself till the next time. Good mechanics aren't expensive,

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Speaker 2: they're priceless. See uh the car doctor Carr advice to

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Speaker 2: all right,