1 00:00:00,880 --> 00:00:03,720 Speaker 1: Ronan. It will take you anywhere from a half hour 2 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:06,480 Speaker 1: to forty five minutes just to know the data that 3 00:00:06,559 --> 00:00:09,319 Speaker 1: you're seeking to solve the problem that you're working on. 4 00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:16,759 Speaker 1: Car Doctor, Ronnie, you don't remember me. I'm trying to 5 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:20,240 Speaker 1: think now now you got me, Eddie Marino, Eddie good 6 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:23,279 Speaker 1: Lord High School. We threw pill to the reflecting pool 7 00:00:23,360 --> 00:00:25,800 Speaker 1: front of the high school. That's right, and we got 8 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:28,479 Speaker 1: called into the principal's office because of it. Welcome to 9 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:31,480 Speaker 1: the radio home of ron and Nanian the Car Doctor. 10 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:36,200 Speaker 1: Since this is where car owners the world overturned to 11 00:00:36,400 --> 00:00:40,040 Speaker 1: for their definitive opinion on automotive repair. If you're a 12 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:42,960 Speaker 1: mechanics giving you a busy signal, pick up the phone 13 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:46,400 Speaker 1: and call in. The garage doors are open, but I 14 00:00:46,440 --> 00:00:50,239 Speaker 1: am here to take your calls at eight five and 15 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:57,960 Speaker 1: now running. I just wonder how much diagnostics will be 16 00:00:58,000 --> 00:00:59,959 Speaker 1: in the future. What's it gonna cost, what does it take, 17 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:03,080 Speaker 1: how much time is involved? And it seems like it's 18 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:05,240 Speaker 1: an ongoing problem. Here on the Car Doctor, we're always 19 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:11,080 Speaker 1: talking about this. You know what's involved to properly repair 20 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:14,600 Speaker 1: and deal with that thing we call the automobile. Um 21 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:16,480 Speaker 1: there's a class coming up the end of August up 22 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:18,679 Speaker 1: here in New Jersey, automotive training groups putting it together 23 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:21,640 Speaker 1: on four drive ability. And I was talking to Chris, 24 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:23,520 Speaker 1: the trainer. Chris used to work for me, you guys 25 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:26,200 Speaker 1: know that, And we were talking about and he said, 26 00:01:26,319 --> 00:01:30,520 Speaker 1: ron this class, there's about fifteen or sixteen hours of 27 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:33,800 Speaker 1: information we're gonna try and pack into two four hour 28 00:01:33,959 --> 00:01:37,280 Speaker 1: nights of eight And he said, it's getting to the 29 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:40,920 Speaker 1: point now where just to cover one particular area is 30 00:01:40,959 --> 00:01:43,000 Speaker 1: going to go longer. We we'd like to do like 31 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:47,000 Speaker 1: three night classes or four night classes, but unfortunately people 32 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:49,920 Speaker 1: are getting worn out. Everybody's tired, right. You know, you 33 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:51,880 Speaker 1: go work on all day long and you're you're you're 34 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:54,640 Speaker 1: fixing cars, and then you know you're going to go 35 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:56,640 Speaker 1: and sit in a four hour class four nights in 36 00:01:56,640 --> 00:01:59,640 Speaker 1: a row. How much can you absorb? Uh? You know, 37 00:01:59,720 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 1: it's coming a problem. And I just I think about, 38 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:06,480 Speaker 1: you know, the price of admission. What's going to be 39 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:08,480 Speaker 1: the price of admission to get into the business and 40 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:11,280 Speaker 1: to get into a repair shop, And what's it gonna 41 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:13,320 Speaker 1: take to begin a diagnosis. And I think it's going 42 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:17,959 Speaker 1: to radically change in the coming weeks. During the coming years, months, weeks, whatever, 43 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:22,160 Speaker 1: because of technology. Technology is going to drive it that way. 44 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:26,080 Speaker 1: And I also think that the more information we have 45 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:29,880 Speaker 1: to have to fix the cars of today, that drop 46 00:02:29,919 --> 00:02:32,120 Speaker 1: off cycle. You ever stop and think about the drop 47 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:35,040 Speaker 1: off cycle, the point at which you know, we can 48 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:38,360 Speaker 1: work on a car fifteen years old, twenty years old, 49 00:02:38,919 --> 00:02:41,200 Speaker 1: you start getting older than twenty years right now, it's 50 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:44,440 Speaker 1: things are getting kind of fuzzy in terms of available tools, 51 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:47,600 Speaker 1: in terms of available technology, scan tool capability and that 52 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:50,519 Speaker 1: kind of thing. But what's gonna happen going forward is 53 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:53,120 Speaker 1: the car becomes more involved? Does that drop off rate 54 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:56,560 Speaker 1: gets shorter? Is it gonna be? You know, you you 55 00:02:56,600 --> 00:02:59,560 Speaker 1: can effectively fix cars only ten years old or eight 56 00:02:59,639 --> 00:03:03,560 Speaker 1: years old, because how can you maintain the electronics needed 57 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:07,480 Speaker 1: for those other cars at a cost effective level. It's 58 00:03:07,639 --> 00:03:10,639 Speaker 1: a repair shop can only hold so much. There's only 59 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:13,480 Speaker 1: so much room in the space, and there's almost so 60 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:16,440 Speaker 1: much space in the bay's it's it's it's a problem. 61 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:19,440 Speaker 1: And it just made me think about that as I 62 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:22,359 Speaker 1: was as I was pondering that questioned, uh, you know, 63 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:24,760 Speaker 1: driving back and forth to work this week and saying, 64 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:27,560 Speaker 1: you know, what's it gonna take you know, the price 65 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:29,960 Speaker 1: of admission. We're gonna call it the price of admission 66 00:03:30,040 --> 00:03:32,000 Speaker 1: is going up. Tom. Well, the other problem too is 67 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:35,800 Speaker 1: you just mentioned the electronics. With the changes that the 68 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:38,960 Speaker 1: speed which changes in electronics happen, will you be able 69 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:41,640 Speaker 1: to fix those modules? At at what point can you 70 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:43,920 Speaker 1: not get the parts anymore? Well? At what point right? 71 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:46,440 Speaker 1: At what point will the manufacturer not have the chip 72 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:49,120 Speaker 1: the You know, we were talking about it in the 73 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:51,480 Speaker 1: last hour, and I've talked about ricks Corvette from time 74 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:53,760 Speaker 1: to time. He's driving a two thousand Corvette. It's a 75 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:56,880 Speaker 1: you know, it's a five seven tune port. It's a 76 00:03:56,960 --> 00:03:59,840 Speaker 1: nice car, but I mean it's old by today's standards. 77 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:02,320 Speaker 1: The technology when that car came out, it was cutting 78 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:04,240 Speaker 1: edge in two thousand. Now you look at it, it's 79 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:06,680 Speaker 1: just it's as simple as a roller skate compared to 80 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:09,520 Speaker 1: the stuff that's out there. And you know this, this 81 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:14,280 Speaker 1: twenty year old Corvette, we can't get You can't buy 82 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:20,440 Speaker 1: an accelerator, pedal position sensor assembly from GM anymore. That's 83 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:22,520 Speaker 1: a key component for the car. You know, there's no 84 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:26,559 Speaker 1: it's all drive by wire, there's no direct linkage. So 85 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:30,479 Speaker 1: you know, you can't. You can't buy that anymore. You 86 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:33,200 Speaker 1: have to buy it from an outside manufacturer that claims 87 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:37,240 Speaker 1: they're making at the GM spec. You know, you hope right? 88 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:41,359 Speaker 1: Uh you know, is that an issue? Um? You know 89 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:43,400 Speaker 1: he needs a sun visor? Okay, Well if we can't 90 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:45,719 Speaker 1: get a sun visor, because you know you're can unplug that. 91 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:49,359 Speaker 1: You can't get a sunvisor, can't get um some of 92 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:51,960 Speaker 1: the other components that are falling off of this twenty 93 00:04:52,040 --> 00:04:54,240 Speaker 1: year old nice car. It's when we got thirty thousand 94 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:56,720 Speaker 1: miles on it. And I don't know, Tom, I I 95 00:04:56,760 --> 00:04:59,120 Speaker 1: think that drop all freight is gonna go up, and 96 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:01,440 Speaker 1: you're gonna see a lot more cars being sent, you know, 97 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:05,760 Speaker 1: for recycling or some other method to uh, you know, 98 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:07,880 Speaker 1: who knows. Maybe hot rotting will come back and we'll 99 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:11,080 Speaker 1: put in modified drive lines and power trains just to 100 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:13,640 Speaker 1: keep the frame in the chassis rolling, because you know, 101 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:16,320 Speaker 1: it's that's where hot rotting started. I think, you know, 102 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:18,960 Speaker 1: it might not even be the processor chips. I worked 103 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:22,720 Speaker 1: on a broadcast transmitter recently now, ten years ago, and 104 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:25,640 Speaker 1: the thing was new. I installed it this particular module. 105 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:30,159 Speaker 1: They don't make the connector anymore. The connector not made 106 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:32,640 Speaker 1: and they're like, well, you have to modify it. It's 107 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:34,720 Speaker 1: like a five hour modification that I have to build. 108 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:37,880 Speaker 1: My customer form like, are you kidding me? Well, and 109 00:05:37,880 --> 00:05:41,640 Speaker 1: and to that point, you know, as a kid, when 110 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:46,359 Speaker 1: I was a kid, you thought Chevrolet really made cars. No, 111 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:52,600 Speaker 1: they sourced parts and assembled cars. I don't think Detroit 112 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:57,520 Speaker 1: has made a car as it were for about sixty years, 113 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:01,080 Speaker 1: you know, back in the day when backstreets of Detroit 114 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:03,320 Speaker 1: were lined with body and hammer shops where they were 115 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:07,039 Speaker 1: pounding out fenders, and maybe it's seventy years, you know, 116 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:10,560 Speaker 1: and everything's done on presses and and machine shops and 117 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:18,160 Speaker 1: subassemblies and sub vendors, and you know, so you're at 118 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:21,040 Speaker 1: the mercy of you know, GM makes the speck or 119 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:23,320 Speaker 1: Christler makes the speck, and say, hey, it's gotta be read, 120 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:26,440 Speaker 1: it's gotta have black glass, it's gotta be six inches long, 121 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:28,960 Speaker 1: and that's the visor or or whatever it is. And 122 00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:31,680 Speaker 1: then when they get tired or when they change that, 123 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:38,960 Speaker 1: that's gone. You can't you can't reproduce that. And you know, 124 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:41,480 Speaker 1: it really makes some of the cars of the sixties 125 00:06:41,480 --> 00:06:43,719 Speaker 1: and the seventies look that much more appealing. In the 126 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:47,280 Speaker 1: fifties because they're real steel, they're real cars. You can 127 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:51,640 Speaker 1: make substitutes and replacement parts for those. You can't do that, 128 00:06:52,279 --> 00:06:56,599 Speaker 1: you know, short of great expense and pain on you know, 129 00:06:56,760 --> 00:07:00,480 Speaker 1: eighties and nineties automobiles, it becomes very expensive inquest prohibitive 130 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:04,279 Speaker 1: to do. Uh. You know it's I don't know, I 131 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:06,400 Speaker 1: think the drop off right I'm coining a new term. 132 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:08,920 Speaker 1: I'm going to insert that in the English language. We'll 133 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:10,920 Speaker 1: see if that makes it in like YadA YadA YadA. 134 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:14,120 Speaker 1: But you know, I I just think the drop off 135 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:16,880 Speaker 1: right of automobiles is going to increase because nobody's gonna 136 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:19,240 Speaker 1: be able to, you know, keep them going doing what 137 00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:21,680 Speaker 1: they have to do. Hey, let's go over to Kayla, Wisconsin, 138 00:07:21,760 --> 00:07:24,920 Speaker 1: thirteen and eighteen jeep Kyle. Welcome to the car doctor, Sir. 139 00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:28,160 Speaker 1: How can I help you in your eighteen jeep Grand Cherokee. Hey, 140 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:30,880 Speaker 1: thanks for taking my call. I appreciate it. You're welcome. 141 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:36,559 Speaker 1: Have a two thousand, eighteen deep Cherokee with about thirty 142 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:40,120 Speaker 1: seven thousand miles on it. Bought it brand new. When 143 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:44,840 Speaker 1: it got close to the bumper to bumper warranty expiring. Uh, 144 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:48,840 Speaker 1: my mechanic not deep notice there's a problem with the 145 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:52,760 Speaker 1: rear differential. Took it to Jeep. They were kind enough 146 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:56,680 Speaker 1: to replace the rear death. But now all of a sudden, 147 00:07:56,720 --> 00:08:02,440 Speaker 1: my transmission is having problems. Literally forty five miles before 148 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:07,160 Speaker 1: it hit the thirty six thousand, my transmission is starting 149 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:11,560 Speaker 1: to buck when it down shifts whenever I let my 150 00:08:11,680 --> 00:08:17,400 Speaker 1: football guess, and they taking a couple of steps to 151 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:20,000 Speaker 1: like try to fix it. They tried the whole flashing 152 00:08:20,080 --> 00:08:24,240 Speaker 1: thing that didn't work. They replaced the valve body that 153 00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:29,520 Speaker 1: didn't work, and it's just starting to become frustrating. Interstate 154 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:34,000 Speaker 1: last weekend going like seventy and I thought my transmission 155 00:08:34,040 --> 00:08:37,400 Speaker 1: was gonna leave my car when I let off the Excellent, 156 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:41,040 Speaker 1: I was just wondering if he had any succession. Well, 157 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:43,960 Speaker 1: it's it sounds like they're they're following some kind of 158 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:46,280 Speaker 1: correct procedure. You know, you've got to make sure software 159 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:48,920 Speaker 1: is up to date. You know. My question is when 160 00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:53,640 Speaker 1: they changed the rear axle. You know, if the problem 161 00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:56,839 Speaker 1: was immediately after that, was it immediately after that, Kyle, 162 00:08:58,040 --> 00:09:01,920 Speaker 1: That's when I started noticing that it wouldn't wasn't clean anymore. 163 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:06,760 Speaker 1: It wasn't smooth. You know, I wonder if and I've 164 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:09,920 Speaker 1: seen this on on several car lines. Now, you know, 165 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:12,280 Speaker 1: you change the rear axle. I wonder if there's a 166 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:15,840 Speaker 1: relearned procedure of some type and be I wonder if 167 00:09:15,880 --> 00:09:18,280 Speaker 1: they've got the correct rear axle in there, if the 168 00:09:18,320 --> 00:09:22,520 Speaker 1: gear ratio is the same. Just you know, is something 169 00:09:22,679 --> 00:09:27,480 Speaker 1: skewing or throwing that transmission off in terms of data 170 00:09:27,520 --> 00:09:30,240 Speaker 1: input because I'm sure there's more than a few censors 171 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:34,160 Speaker 1: on the rear axle. Um uh, you know for information? 172 00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:37,880 Speaker 1: Have they you know, obviously they've scanned it for codes 173 00:09:37,880 --> 00:09:42,480 Speaker 1: and they've got nothing. Oh that's correct, sir, Okay, So 174 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:45,199 Speaker 1: can they duplicate the problem? Can you make it happen 175 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:48,640 Speaker 1: while a Jeep tech is in the vehicle? See, that's 176 00:09:48,760 --> 00:09:51,760 Speaker 1: that's another thing I've ran into you. I've had the vehicle, 177 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:57,640 Speaker 1: there's several times. And I'm not a mechanic, but when 178 00:09:58,160 --> 00:10:01,360 Speaker 1: it all of a sudden, oh wow, that's weird. So 179 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:03,840 Speaker 1: it's kind of hard to get them in the car 180 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:07,640 Speaker 1: with the whole COVID thing going on with me because 181 00:10:07,679 --> 00:10:10,720 Speaker 1: we have special grooves about that. So I'm kind of 182 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:14,839 Speaker 1: at their mercy whether or not they they can you 183 00:10:14,920 --> 00:10:18,400 Speaker 1: can notice it when they're driving it. Well, here's your 184 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:21,800 Speaker 1: here's your primary concern. I mean, the COVID thing is real, 185 00:10:21,880 --> 00:10:25,040 Speaker 1: and I get that. You know it has thirty six 186 00:10:25,040 --> 00:10:30,600 Speaker 1: thousand miles on it? Yeah, when's the when's the powertrain warranty? You? 187 00:10:31,960 --> 00:10:34,640 Speaker 1: I still got a lot of still I didn't have 188 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:38,160 Speaker 1: like two years left on the power train. So can 189 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:39,960 Speaker 1: you just leave it with them and let a tech 190 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:44,760 Speaker 1: drive it for the week. That's definitely one of the options. 191 00:10:45,040 --> 00:10:48,360 Speaker 1: And I think that's the best option. You know, I would, 192 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:51,000 Speaker 1: I would respectfully ask them, Hey, can we just go 193 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:53,560 Speaker 1: back to the beginning? Can we go over the rear 194 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:56,480 Speaker 1: action replacement? Are we sure it's the right part? Are 195 00:10:56,480 --> 00:10:59,160 Speaker 1: we sure it's the right ratio? Are we sure it 196 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:02,520 Speaker 1: was a one for one swap with like kind and quantity? 197 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:07,280 Speaker 1: And you know that there's there's just the coincidence because 198 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:10,239 Speaker 1: I don't see a connection unless there was a calibration 199 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:13,280 Speaker 1: error made in terms of what went in the vehicle. 200 00:11:13,760 --> 00:11:16,000 Speaker 1: Let me ask you this, does the spiometer seem like 201 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:18,560 Speaker 1: it's operating correctly? Like you're like when it says sixty, 202 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:22,400 Speaker 1: you're going sixty? That kind of thing. Uh, to be 203 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:26,000 Speaker 1: honest with you, I think it does pull up like 204 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:28,800 Speaker 1: a GPS on my phone, and why do you try that, 205 00:11:29,240 --> 00:11:31,680 Speaker 1: you know, or go find a go find a speed 206 00:11:31,679 --> 00:11:33,840 Speaker 1: camera somewhere where they tell you how fast you're going, 207 00:11:34,280 --> 00:11:37,360 Speaker 1: and you know, check it at various speeds just to see, 208 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:39,160 Speaker 1: you know, if it says If it says you're doing 209 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:44,560 Speaker 1: thirty five and the sparometer says forty, something's off. Because 210 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:47,640 Speaker 1: I guarantee it didn't leave the factory that way. You know, 211 00:11:47,880 --> 00:11:52,000 Speaker 1: some something changed that and I'm not sure what it 212 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:54,600 Speaker 1: is at this point. So I've got to go backwards now, 213 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:56,080 Speaker 1: and I've got to work my way out. You know, 214 00:11:56,160 --> 00:11:59,480 Speaker 1: think of basic inputs and what's that transmission looking for 215 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:02,800 Speaker 1: in terms of information, because short of that, if the 216 00:12:02,840 --> 00:12:05,080 Speaker 1: flash is right, if the software is the latest, up 217 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:08,640 Speaker 1: to date, and the inputs are correct, you've got an 218 00:12:08,679 --> 00:12:12,400 Speaker 1: internal trans problem that just happened to surface at the 219 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:16,160 Speaker 1: time of the differential replacement. It can happen. You know, 220 00:12:16,760 --> 00:12:21,280 Speaker 1: my dead dog that wasn't dead Tuesday died Wednesday, so uh, 221 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:24,040 Speaker 1: you know, but do that simple testing you can do it. 222 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:26,400 Speaker 1: If the GPS says you're off, I bring it to 223 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:31,160 Speaker 1: their attention. All right. I'm just concerned that maybe they 224 00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:34,080 Speaker 1: do replace the transmission and there's still problems with the car, 225 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:35,920 Speaker 1: and I'm like, well, what am I supposed to do? 226 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:38,520 Speaker 1: This is a pretty new vehicle to be having on 227 00:12:38,559 --> 00:12:41,080 Speaker 1: these issues. Yeah, it really is. And then at that 228 00:12:41,120 --> 00:12:43,920 Speaker 1: point it kind of becomes their problem, right. Document. I 229 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:47,160 Speaker 1: would also tell you to document all the steps because 230 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:50,680 Speaker 1: at what point does this fall under Lemon law? And 231 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:52,959 Speaker 1: I would read up. I don't know Wisconsin Lemon law 232 00:12:52,960 --> 00:12:54,680 Speaker 1: at the top of my head, but I would do 233 00:12:54,720 --> 00:12:56,640 Speaker 1: some Google search about it, because if it is going 234 00:12:56,679 --> 00:12:58,520 Speaker 1: to become an issue, you want to make sure that 235 00:12:58,559 --> 00:13:00,040 Speaker 1: you don't let him off the hook. You gotta of 236 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:02,960 Speaker 1: their feet to the fire on something like this. I'm 237 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:06,880 Speaker 1: actually stationed, you know, o high over at Dayton, and 238 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:12,160 Speaker 1: Ohio's laws like twelve thousand miles, so I'm kind of 239 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:16,400 Speaker 1: over that unfortunately. Well, what do you mean, how how 240 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:20,880 Speaker 1: long ago was the vehicle was a differential replaced? Oh? 241 00:13:21,120 --> 00:13:24,199 Speaker 1: Literally just like a month ago. Okay, so what's what's 242 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:27,760 Speaker 1: so you're saying the Lemon law only applies in the 243 00:13:27,800 --> 00:13:31,520 Speaker 1: first twelve thousand miles. Ah, That's what I was reading. 244 00:13:31,559 --> 00:13:34,920 Speaker 1: But I mean I could have read any correctly. I would. 245 00:13:35,080 --> 00:13:37,559 Speaker 1: I would reread that. My impression was that while a 246 00:13:37,679 --> 00:13:41,040 Speaker 1: vehicle is under warranty period, it's eligible under Lemon law. 247 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:45,240 Speaker 1: At least that's how I believe it works in Jersey. Okay, 248 00:13:45,280 --> 00:13:48,880 Speaker 1: I'll have to give Ohio's law read since I'm not 249 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:51,320 Speaker 1: familiar with it. Yeah, I would take a hard look 250 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:53,120 Speaker 1: at that, but I would, and I would mention that 251 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:55,040 Speaker 1: to the dealer. Hey, listen, I don't want to enact it, 252 00:13:55,080 --> 00:13:57,480 Speaker 1: but you know, understand, I spent a lot of money 253 00:13:57,480 --> 00:13:59,760 Speaker 1: on this vehicle, and here I am, you know, forty 254 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:01,920 Speaker 1: five thousand dollars poorer, and I've got a vehicle that's 255 00:14:01,920 --> 00:14:03,680 Speaker 1: acting up. What are we gonna do to fix it? Fellas? 256 00:14:04,080 --> 00:14:06,120 Speaker 1: I'm willing to work with you, but you gotta give 257 00:14:06,160 --> 00:14:08,360 Speaker 1: me some uh. You know, people just want to be 258 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:11,280 Speaker 1: talked to, not at you know, maybe taking a maybe 259 00:14:11,280 --> 00:14:13,800 Speaker 1: taking a pot of coffee and a dozen donuts and say, hey, guys, 260 00:14:13,880 --> 00:14:15,440 Speaker 1: let's sit down and figure out how we're gonna solve 261 00:14:15,440 --> 00:14:17,600 Speaker 1: this problem. I'm in this with you, but I gotta 262 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:20,800 Speaker 1: know that you've got some time, you know, Unfortunately, you've 263 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:24,880 Speaker 1: got to get somebody's attention, and you know you've got 264 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:28,600 Speaker 1: mine because you're in service. But UM, that's enough for me. 265 00:14:28,640 --> 00:14:30,680 Speaker 1: I'd wear my uniform into the place if I could, 266 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:34,640 Speaker 1: but they probably won't let you do that. UM, I 267 00:14:34,680 --> 00:14:36,960 Speaker 1: would get I would get somebody's attention and say, hey, 268 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:38,840 Speaker 1: how are we gonna solve this? I believe in the product. 269 00:14:38,840 --> 00:14:40,720 Speaker 1: To buy it, you gotta be able to fix it 270 00:14:40,720 --> 00:14:42,280 Speaker 1: and track it down. You gotta make sure they want 271 00:14:42,280 --> 00:14:44,240 Speaker 1: to take the time, and I think the only way 272 00:14:44,280 --> 00:14:46,960 Speaker 1: to do that is one tech. The best a tech 273 00:14:47,040 --> 00:14:49,200 Speaker 1: they got in the place is driving the vehicle for 274 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:54,200 Speaker 1: the next couple of days. All right, sir, would you 275 00:14:54,200 --> 00:14:56,160 Speaker 1: call me back? Would you promise to call me back 276 00:14:56,160 --> 00:14:58,760 Speaker 1: and let me know how it gets resolved? Oh? Sure, 277 00:14:58,800 --> 00:15:01,600 Speaker 1: I definitely appreciate you. Okay, you take good care, Kyle. 278 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:04,200 Speaker 1: Thank you very much, and thanks thank you for your service. 279 00:15:04,680 --> 00:15:07,400 Speaker 1: Eight five zero nine zero zero. Run on any of 280 00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:15,520 Speaker 1: the car doctor, We're back right after this. He drives 281 00:15:15,560 --> 00:15:17,760 Speaker 1: that way. But when it comes to fixing cars, Ron 282 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:21,240 Speaker 1: has card advice done right. Eight five five five zero 283 00:15:21,480 --> 00:15:24,760 Speaker 1: nine nine zero zero. Here's Ron. Hey, let's get on 284 00:15:24,800 --> 00:15:26,880 Speaker 1: over and talk to Paul in Illinois. Seventy eight g 285 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:28,960 Speaker 1: MC motor Home Paul. Welcome to the car doctor, Sir, 286 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:33,320 Speaker 1: how can I help? Hello? Um, I have this motor 287 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:36,200 Speaker 1: home that's basically has a drive train from that era 288 00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:39,200 Speaker 1: to Toronado. It's an old Sports fifty five front wheel drive. 289 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:41,760 Speaker 1: This is a real this is a real classic motor home. 290 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:45,840 Speaker 1: Pool you realize what you have? Well, it's my it's 291 00:15:45,880 --> 00:15:48,920 Speaker 1: my quote unquote hot rod. I guess well it is, 292 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:51,680 Speaker 1: you know, for everybody, everybody that's ever seen the movie 293 00:15:51,760 --> 00:15:53,920 Speaker 1: this is the motor home that was basically used for 294 00:15:53,920 --> 00:15:56,960 Speaker 1: that vehicle in the movie Stripes, Right, remember Stritch with 295 00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:59,760 Speaker 1: Bill Murray and um, I can't I can't think of 296 00:15:59,760 --> 00:16:03,520 Speaker 1: who co star was. Um he was in Ghostbusters with 297 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:05,600 Speaker 1: him two. God, that's gonna bother me now. And he 298 00:16:05,680 --> 00:16:07,800 Speaker 1: passed within the last five years. Look at this, I'm 299 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:12,200 Speaker 1: having a I'm having a memory block. Who yeah Ramus, Yeah, 300 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:15,440 Speaker 1: Harold Ramus. Yeah. But that that that's a classic. Do 301 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:17,240 Speaker 1: you know that motor home? To you, that's just a 302 00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:22,080 Speaker 1: motor home. That vehicle revolutionized the RV industry. Do you 303 00:16:22,120 --> 00:16:25,320 Speaker 1: realize that that was the Yeah, I'm kind of aware 304 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:27,160 Speaker 1: of the history of I mean, yeah, they were. That 305 00:16:27,240 --> 00:16:30,800 Speaker 1: was one of the first vehicles the design, the way 306 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:33,120 Speaker 1: they got the floors, they created the floors, they put 307 00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:36,920 Speaker 1: that vehicle together. It's a very interesting vehicle, very back 308 00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:40,960 Speaker 1: when GM designed things that actually worked. Um uh, just 309 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:44,560 Speaker 1: you know, really neat stuff, really neat. But anyway, so 310 00:16:44,720 --> 00:16:48,240 Speaker 1: what what what's the problem with it? So? Um, it's 311 00:16:48,280 --> 00:16:50,360 Speaker 1: very fine. It's spent three or four years since I 312 00:16:50,480 --> 00:16:53,320 Speaker 1: changed spark plugs. This vehicle originally came with a four 313 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:55,880 Speaker 1: oh three, but this one I have before I bought 314 00:16:55,880 --> 00:16:59,320 Speaker 1: it at four had been swapped back into it. Um 315 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:01,840 Speaker 1: and looked at Riley's and there's like half dozen defense 316 00:17:01,920 --> 00:17:04,480 Speaker 1: plug plug choices, And I just don't know. I'm looking 317 00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:07,040 Speaker 1: for advice. Which would be a good choice. Um, I'd 318 00:17:07,040 --> 00:17:10,120 Speaker 1: like I'd like Delko. I put a set of Delcos 319 00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:13,440 Speaker 1: in there, and I probably go because if I remember right, 320 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:16,920 Speaker 1: the plugs are fairly easy to get to. Yeah. Yeah, 321 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:18,840 Speaker 1: I'd probably just put coppers in it. I don't know 322 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:21,120 Speaker 1: that you need to spend the extra money. I don't 323 00:17:21,119 --> 00:17:23,080 Speaker 1: know that it's necessary for the amount that you're gonna 324 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:26,919 Speaker 1: drive it. You know. My My concern is an older 325 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:30,920 Speaker 1: vehicle like this, it might be it might be more 326 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:34,600 Speaker 1: prone to oil fouling. You know, over time, so you 327 00:17:34,680 --> 00:17:36,320 Speaker 1: might have to put plugs in it every couple of 328 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:38,920 Speaker 1: years to keep things clean, because as a cost effective 329 00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:41,679 Speaker 1: to pull the motor out and find out where do 330 00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:43,399 Speaker 1: you you know what I mean, there's a there's a 331 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:45,639 Speaker 1: you know, there's gotta be a balance, there's got to 332 00:17:45,640 --> 00:17:48,000 Speaker 1: be a young and a yang here. You know, this 333 00:17:48,040 --> 00:17:50,879 Speaker 1: is a you're gonna drive it, you know, eighteen miles 334 00:17:50,880 --> 00:17:52,400 Speaker 1: in the summer and then it's gonna sit the rest 335 00:17:52,440 --> 00:17:56,640 Speaker 1: of the time. And you know, platinum and a ridium plugs. 336 00:17:57,119 --> 00:17:59,919 Speaker 1: My god, we did six plugs in a Toyota aval 337 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:02,439 Speaker 1: on the other day and the plugs were thirty one 338 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:05,520 Speaker 1: dollars a piece. I almost fell over. You know, sure 339 00:18:05,520 --> 00:18:10,240 Speaker 1: you only do them every hundred twenty miles, but somehow 340 00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:13,080 Speaker 1: they got their pound of flesh. The price is the same, right, 341 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:17,200 Speaker 1: um uh so, but um yeah, I would just put 342 00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:19,760 Speaker 1: coppers in it, and I think you'll be fine and 343 00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:21,959 Speaker 1: you can find those, as you said out at O'rallyota 344 00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:25,679 Speaker 1: Parts orillyoto dot com. Well happy motoring and uh you 345 00:18:25,720 --> 00:18:27,919 Speaker 1: know you've got a piece of automotive history there. Enjoy it, 346 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:31,480 Speaker 1: and um you know, just just just a neat neat 347 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:35,159 Speaker 1: vehicle eight five five five zero zero. I'll run an 348 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:37,240 Speaker 1: any in the car doctor. I'll be back right after this. 349 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:08,280 Speaker 1: Welcome back any of the car doctor. Let's do some 350 00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:10,960 Speaker 1: email real quick. This comes comes to us from Fred. Hey, Ron, 351 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:13,760 Speaker 1: what's the full name of the McGuire's yellow car wax 352 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:15,920 Speaker 1: that you like? Oh? Fred's talking about you know last 353 00:19:15,920 --> 00:19:19,640 Speaker 1: week I had been talking about, um, the different McGuire's 354 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:21,840 Speaker 1: wax that I use on the hot run. I like 355 00:19:21,960 --> 00:19:24,040 Speaker 1: number twenty six. I looked it up. It was twenty 356 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:26,800 Speaker 1: number twenty six. I think they now call it m 357 00:19:26,960 --> 00:19:30,399 Speaker 1: McGuire's yellow wax, and I like it because it fills 358 00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:33,560 Speaker 1: the scratches and it's it's easy to work with. It's 359 00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:37,239 Speaker 1: listed under their Professional Series of product line under their 360 00:19:37,240 --> 00:19:40,359 Speaker 1: website McGuire's dot com. But yeah, number twenty six, Fred, 361 00:19:40,560 --> 00:19:42,840 Speaker 1: thanks for the email. I appreciate it. This one comes 362 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:45,040 Speaker 1: to us from Let's see whe's this one? Oh? This 363 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:47,280 Speaker 1: is Jim. I remember this car. Jim called in a 364 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:50,360 Speaker 1: while ago nineties seven Ranger with a rough idal at 365 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:52,640 Speaker 1: cold start, and he says the problem is solved. Ron, 366 00:19:52,680 --> 00:19:54,640 Speaker 1: I emailed and talked to you recently about my Ford 367 00:19:54,760 --> 00:19:57,960 Speaker 1: Ranger with a rough idol at cold start and a 368 00:19:58,040 --> 00:20:00,280 Speaker 1: repair shop throwing parts of the problem with my local 369 00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:03,119 Speaker 1: Ford service department found what was causing the idle. One 370 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:05,080 Speaker 1: day last week, while I was driving along at thirty 371 00:20:05,119 --> 00:20:07,800 Speaker 1: thirty five miles an hour, my truck started jerking and 372 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:09,879 Speaker 1: missing and the check engine lights started flashing. I was 373 00:20:09,920 --> 00:20:12,400 Speaker 1: close to the dealership and limped it right into their lot. 374 00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:14,040 Speaker 1: They worked on it the next day and had three 375 00:20:14,040 --> 00:20:16,640 Speaker 1: codes P zero, three hundred, three h two and three 376 00:20:16,680 --> 00:20:19,639 Speaker 1: oh four. What they found was number two and number 377 00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:23,119 Speaker 1: four plugs had failed. They replaced the foul plugs and 378 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:25,200 Speaker 1: the truck starts and runs fine. What caused the plugs 379 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:27,280 Speaker 1: to foul? I don't know. There were motorcraft plugs and 380 00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:28,960 Speaker 1: it'd only been in the truck for eighteen months with 381 00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:30,760 Speaker 1: less than three thousand miles. I never knew a bad 382 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:34,120 Speaker 1: spark plug would cause the rough idol at cold start symptoms. 383 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:36,520 Speaker 1: What had me puzzle was after thirty seconds or so, 384 00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:38,440 Speaker 1: the idole was smooth out in the truck would run fine. 385 00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:40,320 Speaker 1: Role of the story as a piece of diagnosed Jim 386 00:20:40,359 --> 00:20:42,680 Speaker 1: and Virginia. Yeah, I'll tell you why, Jim. If there's 387 00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:46,119 Speaker 1: a little bit of carbon deposit on a spark plug. 388 00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:48,960 Speaker 1: We used to call it carbon track, and carbon is 389 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:51,359 Speaker 1: the path of least resistance to ground. And instead of 390 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:54,600 Speaker 1: firing across the gap of the plug, it will arc 391 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:59,960 Speaker 1: across the base of the porcelain inside the plug, up 392 00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:03,320 Speaker 1: inside the shell of the plug, up inside, you know, 393 00:21:03,320 --> 00:21:05,479 Speaker 1: at the top of the thread, so to speak, and 394 00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:08,960 Speaker 1: it's further away from the fuel in the cylinder, and 395 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:11,879 Speaker 1: it will effectively cause a miss. And I agree with you, 396 00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:14,840 Speaker 1: what caused the miss? What caused the plugs to foul 397 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:17,600 Speaker 1: like that? And you have to stop and think and 398 00:21:17,640 --> 00:21:22,040 Speaker 1: say to yourself, is it something with regards to the 399 00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:25,600 Speaker 1: you know, is it going to happen again? Is my point? 400 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:29,119 Speaker 1: Is there a fuel foul issue or was it an 401 00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:33,320 Speaker 1: oil fouling issue? And unfortunately only the dealership can answer that. 402 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:37,520 Speaker 1: If it was fuel fouling, you may want to consider 403 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:40,640 Speaker 1: you might have um, the injectors may be getting tired. 404 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:44,040 Speaker 1: It's a two years old uh. You know, I've run 405 00:21:44,119 --> 00:21:48,680 Speaker 1: into this on silver several or several several other several 406 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:52,080 Speaker 1: talking on radio. You know, sound is usually important. Several 407 00:21:52,119 --> 00:21:55,240 Speaker 1: older forward products that you know you may be developing 408 00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:58,919 Speaker 1: some dribbling injectors. So what you may want to do, 409 00:21:59,119 --> 00:22:01,600 Speaker 1: you can do it in actor flow test. It's involved 410 00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:04,199 Speaker 1: with hooking up a fuel pressure gauge and using what 411 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:06,840 Speaker 1: we used to call an inject or pulse box or 412 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:08,800 Speaker 1: a buzz box as we call it. You would pulse 413 00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:11,600 Speaker 1: the injector and see do you get equal fuel flow 414 00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:14,840 Speaker 1: out of each cylinder? Or you could try, you know, 415 00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:19,840 Speaker 1: hooking up a forward level manufacturer specific level scan tool. 416 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:22,280 Speaker 1: You could you should be able to do an individual 417 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:26,240 Speaker 1: cylinder power balance or power drop on each cylinder to 418 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:31,679 Speaker 1: see are those cylinders contributing even amounts? Last simplest a 419 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:35,119 Speaker 1: good fuel system cleaning, you know you can and you 420 00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:38,160 Speaker 1: can read all about it out at the Barriman website. 421 00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:40,480 Speaker 1: You can get out the Barriman Products dot Com a 422 00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:43,960 Speaker 1: can of Barriman Fuel system Cleaner with hest surely can't 423 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:46,480 Speaker 1: hurt this truck. It can only help. And if you want, 424 00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:48,280 Speaker 1: pick up a can of their four pick up a 425 00:22:48,280 --> 00:22:51,520 Speaker 1: box with their fourth step process fuel system cleaning. It's 426 00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:53,560 Speaker 1: something you can do at home in your driveway. You 427 00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:56,200 Speaker 1: can see videos of it at Barriman Products dot com. 428 00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:58,320 Speaker 1: And I'm fairly certain you can buy the product at 429 00:22:58,320 --> 00:23:00,760 Speaker 1: O'Reilly Auto dot com. Get out to a Leota Parts. 430 00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:03,080 Speaker 1: You've got a local one and they can do it 431 00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:05,320 Speaker 1: for you. But you may want to consider some fuel 432 00:23:05,359 --> 00:23:08,800 Speaker 1: system cleaning to help rejuvenate the injectors in this vehicle 433 00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:12,120 Speaker 1: because there might be dirt in particulate and sometimes it's 434 00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:14,160 Speaker 1: just the way they spray, you know, sometimes they build 435 00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:17,399 Speaker 1: up a little well, I'll use the term schmutz. I 436 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:19,040 Speaker 1: know you guys like it when I say that, But 437 00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:21,879 Speaker 1: it's just like you know, in the showerhead. You know, 438 00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:25,760 Speaker 1: you notice that one shower newb there is kind of 439 00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:27,680 Speaker 1: peeing off to the side because you have to brush 440 00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:29,399 Speaker 1: up against it and clear the crowd out of it. 441 00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:32,320 Speaker 1: Same thing. You may have an injector that's peeing, not spraying, 442 00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:35,440 Speaker 1: and it's just going to affect how the fuel gets 443 00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:39,640 Speaker 1: atomized in that cylinder and how well or effectively it burns. So, 444 00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:42,520 Speaker 1: you know, a fuel system cleaning really may do it 445 00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:43,919 Speaker 1: for you. You may want to take a look at 446 00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:46,479 Speaker 1: that and uh get itself that way. Hey, when we 447 00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:48,840 Speaker 1: come back, I'll put the question to you like this, 448 00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:53,240 Speaker 1: all right, you come out of the store and you 449 00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:56,399 Speaker 1: start the car and you go to shift into park 450 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:00,600 Speaker 1: or out of park into drive and it won't. What 451 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:04,480 Speaker 1: do you do? Gee, it worked before. There's one thing 452 00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:08,159 Speaker 1: you can check that will tell you right away what 453 00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:10,359 Speaker 1: to look for. And I'm going to address it with 454 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:11,760 Speaker 1: you be just the way I addressed it with the 455 00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:14,320 Speaker 1: customer they called the shop this week, Maggie in a 456 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:16,399 Speaker 1: row three Mercury broke down and when I walked her 457 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:18,480 Speaker 1: through it, she was really shocked. She said, you got 458 00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:20,280 Speaker 1: to talk about that on the show. She said, that's 459 00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:22,480 Speaker 1: so simple. I never knew about it. So I'm gonna 460 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:26,199 Speaker 1: do just that, zero zero running any of the car 461 00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:28,800 Speaker 1: doctor here to take your calls. We'll return right after this. 462 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:43,800 Speaker 1: Blood Where did Yeah, I'll tell you what reached Regis 463 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:46,840 Speaker 1: felt in past. Tom. Did you did you hear about that? Yeah? 464 00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:49,400 Speaker 1: I just saw that. Yeah, m eighty eight years old. 465 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:51,879 Speaker 1: It's too bad because we just had him introduce you well, 466 00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:55,240 Speaker 1: and you know you never heard anything bad about Regis, right, 467 00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:58,520 Speaker 1: he was just a good guy and uh um always 468 00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:00,879 Speaker 1: good thoughts and uh we're sorry, rest in peace and 469 00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:03,119 Speaker 1: thanks for all them years. Well, you know you you 470 00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:06,800 Speaker 1: talk about Bob Grant and you know at w R 471 00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:08,760 Speaker 1: when we were there and he and Bob were good 472 00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:12,919 Speaker 1: friends very highly of him. Yeah, he was well. And 473 00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:16,840 Speaker 1: you know it's funny you get to know some of 474 00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:20,480 Speaker 1: the greats, as we say, in the business, and they're 475 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:23,760 Speaker 1: just people, and you know, you can always tell the 476 00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:26,399 Speaker 1: good ones. And I feel like Regis was one. I 477 00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:28,520 Speaker 1: never met him, but you could see in watching his 478 00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:32,160 Speaker 1: mannerisms and how he conducted himself on air and off 479 00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:35,959 Speaker 1: air and in life that he was always you know, 480 00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:42,959 Speaker 1: self assured, um, always onto a degree. All right, Uh, 481 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:44,520 Speaker 1: you know, I'm kind of sorry I never met him 482 00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:49,320 Speaker 1: in real life, and but always a gentleman, you know. Um. 483 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:51,080 Speaker 1: The other one I also wanted to meet that I 484 00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:54,120 Speaker 1: was disappointed was Tim Conway. The more I the more 485 00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:57,600 Speaker 1: I watched Tim Conway on Carol Burnett and mckel's Navy, 486 00:25:57,640 --> 00:26:00,520 Speaker 1: the more I laughed because he was just Oh I 487 00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:04,280 Speaker 1: met him, Yeah, I know, you told me this, And 488 00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:06,879 Speaker 1: he wasn't trying to be right, He's just he was 489 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:10,320 Speaker 1: just like a giant child in an adults body. Sometimes 490 00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:13,600 Speaker 1: he was he was just something some kind of special. 491 00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:16,440 Speaker 1: So anyway, so you're you come out of the supermarket, 492 00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:17,560 Speaker 1: you come out of the store or whatever it is, 493 00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:18,879 Speaker 1: and you go to take your car and shift it 494 00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:22,520 Speaker 1: out of park and uh, it doesn't go Gee it 495 00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:25,800 Speaker 1: worked before. What happened? The first thing I want you 496 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:28,920 Speaker 1: to check are the brake lights. Step on the brake 497 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:31,400 Speaker 1: and take a look. If you're if you're if you're 498 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:33,480 Speaker 1: backed up, Do you see break light reflection in the 499 00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:35,320 Speaker 1: car behind you, do you see it against the wall, 500 00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:39,760 Speaker 1: et cetera. If the brake lights don't work, chances are 501 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:43,000 Speaker 1: that's the reason. The shift interlock. On a newer car, 502 00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:46,080 Speaker 1: and I'm talking anything in the last twenty years, really, 503 00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:50,440 Speaker 1: the shift interlock requires input from the brake lights switch. 504 00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:52,840 Speaker 1: If the brake lights don't work, the switch is probably 505 00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:55,560 Speaker 1: bad or disconnected or a fault in the wiring. But 506 00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:58,040 Speaker 1: there's something wrong with the input from the brake lights 507 00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:02,399 Speaker 1: switch preventing the shift interlock from releasing. So what you 508 00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:05,959 Speaker 1: need to do is depending upon the car. You can 509 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:08,199 Speaker 1: try this a couple of different ways. If it's an 510 00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:10,800 Speaker 1: old school like Maggie, Maggie's got an old three oh 511 00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:14,439 Speaker 1: three Mercury Grand Markey Crown Vix, same thing. Um, you 512 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:17,119 Speaker 1: know what I told her was turned the key on, 513 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:20,400 Speaker 1: but don't light the dashboard up. So go on, one 514 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:22,919 Speaker 1: click at a time. First click can you move the 515 00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:27,040 Speaker 1: level out of park. No second click. On the second click, 516 00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:29,320 Speaker 1: she was able to You know, you gotta keep your 517 00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:31,520 Speaker 1: foot on the brake because the car is gonna roll 518 00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:34,719 Speaker 1: because you're taking it out of park. Think about that 519 00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:37,560 Speaker 1: for a second. All right, you're taking it out of park. 520 00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:39,920 Speaker 1: There's nothing to hold the car. You've got to keep 521 00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:42,800 Speaker 1: your foot on the brake. But what she was able 522 00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:44,439 Speaker 1: to do, and what you'd be able to do is 523 00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:47,520 Speaker 1: once you find that first or second click sweet spot 524 00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:50,040 Speaker 1: as we'll call it, you can take it. If you 525 00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:53,600 Speaker 1: can move the shift, put it in neutral. You can 526 00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:58,000 Speaker 1: start the car in neutral and then reverse or drive, 527 00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:00,000 Speaker 1: depending upon which way the car is facing on how 528 00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:02,159 Speaker 1: you want to get out of that parking spot or 529 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:04,400 Speaker 1: whatever it is you're trying to get out of. So 530 00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:06,920 Speaker 1: you know you can you can basically do it that way. 531 00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:11,920 Speaker 1: It's it's it's it's park. One or two clicks get 532 00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:14,960 Speaker 1: it into neutral and then you can go ahead and uh, 533 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:16,480 Speaker 1: you know, do what you have to do, get it 534 00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:18,760 Speaker 1: into drive or reverse and then get it to a 535 00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:21,800 Speaker 1: repair shop and get it diagnosed. In in Maggie's case, 536 00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:23,879 Speaker 1: as it was, it turned out it Yeah, it had 537 00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:27,440 Speaker 1: a bad break light. Switch and replacing the switch, can 538 00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:30,280 Speaker 1: you know, resolve it for And it's just amazing and 539 00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:31,840 Speaker 1: she said, gee, it just happened just like that, and 540 00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:32,960 Speaker 1: she said, don't know what to do. I was gonna 541 00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:34,480 Speaker 1: call for triple A. I was gonna get a tow truck. 542 00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:36,480 Speaker 1: And I said, yeah, well, you know you don't necessarily 543 00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:38,760 Speaker 1: have to do that. Um, you know, that'll get you 544 00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:40,480 Speaker 1: out of trouble. So I'll never forget that. That's some 545 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:44,080 Speaker 1: And that's you know what. Imagine if that was in 546 00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:46,720 Speaker 1: a repair shop on on on Friday and then on 547 00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:50,160 Speaker 1: or on Thursday, and then on Friday the break light 548 00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:53,400 Speaker 1: switch went bad, whose fault would that have been? Shouldn't 549 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:55,720 Speaker 1: be the repair shop? Because everything is electric, right it 550 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:58,080 Speaker 1: can it can break just like that at the drop 551 00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:00,920 Speaker 1: of a hat. So it's it just becomes an initi you. Um, 552 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:03,280 Speaker 1: you know, but it worked out for her, and I 553 00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:05,640 Speaker 1: hope it. I hope that it would that it would 554 00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:08,880 Speaker 1: work out for you. Um. So let's cover that. I 555 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:10,960 Speaker 1: wanted to talk about that. I also wanted to talk 556 00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:13,120 Speaker 1: a little bit and you'll you'll find it up on Facebook. 557 00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:16,120 Speaker 1: We shot a video recently about you know, the emergency 558 00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:19,280 Speaker 1: road kit and you know some of the contents and 559 00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:21,360 Speaker 1: you can get out the Facebook and see it. It's 560 00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:23,880 Speaker 1: on the Car Doctor Facebook page as well as some 561 00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:26,720 Speaker 1: of the other videos some of my associate radio shows 562 00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:28,880 Speaker 1: have shot Sam Amola, Bobby like as the guys that 563 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:31,480 Speaker 1: under the Hood and so on. Um, we're talking about 564 00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:36,320 Speaker 1: emergency road repair, emergency road care, you know, out on 565 00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:39,480 Speaker 1: the side of the road. What I shot. You know, 566 00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:40,640 Speaker 1: we were asked, what do you want to I said, 567 00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:42,520 Speaker 1: I want to talk about tires and and and tire 568 00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:45,440 Speaker 1: inflator because you know everybody gets on this. I don't 569 00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:47,800 Speaker 1: want to spend any money. I need safety and reliability 570 00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:52,120 Speaker 1: and nobody just stops to look right, anything can get 571 00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:55,880 Speaker 1: a flat at any given time. And you know, the 572 00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:59,600 Speaker 1: car goes nowhere without tires. It doesn't stop without breaks, 573 00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:02,360 Speaker 1: and it doesn't start with a bat or a week battery. 574 00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:05,160 Speaker 1: And I can tell you based on what went on 575 00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:09,800 Speaker 1: in the shop this week. We did four four wheel 576 00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:14,280 Speaker 1: break jobs, four tires. This week was insane at the shop. 577 00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:17,720 Speaker 1: I mean it was in at seven go home at six, 578 00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:20,600 Speaker 1: five days in a row. We were absolutely bonkers off 579 00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:25,040 Speaker 1: the wall and we did fourteen four wheel breaks, four tires, 580 00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:27,840 Speaker 1: four breaks, four tires and a battery. Danny and I 581 00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:30,720 Speaker 1: walked around the block at separate times because we thought 582 00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:33,080 Speaker 1: we were running a special on it. We couldn't figure 583 00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:34,960 Speaker 1: it out. We're like, where are all these cars coming from? 584 00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:37,840 Speaker 1: It makes absolutely no sense, but it just proves the 585 00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:41,440 Speaker 1: point of and the need for and the concern of 586 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:45,800 Speaker 1: a flat a flat tire. Boy, you're done, You're just 587 00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:48,040 Speaker 1: you're not going anywhere. So if you look at the video, 588 00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:50,800 Speaker 1: you'll see I talk about using a tire inflator. I 589 00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:52,960 Speaker 1: happened to have a Milwaukee there. I like the Milwaukee 590 00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:55,440 Speaker 1: tire inflator. There's a couple of them floating around the 591 00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:58,440 Speaker 1: floating around the family in the house. And you know, 592 00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:01,240 Speaker 1: the thing I wanted to touch on post was look 593 00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:04,640 Speaker 1: at the tire cross all right, and make sure that 594 00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:07,360 Speaker 1: it's a good quality tire cross, that it's you know, 595 00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:10,080 Speaker 1: it's forged or welded really well in the middle. Some 596 00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:13,600 Speaker 1: of the cheap Japanese or Chinese knockoffs, I should say, 597 00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:16,520 Speaker 1: you know, they're cheap, they're junk, and you're gonna get 598 00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:18,840 Speaker 1: out there on the road and any tool, um you've 599 00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:20,280 Speaker 1: got to look at it. Will it hold up and 600 00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:21,760 Speaker 1: do the job? It's supposed to do when you need 601 00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:23,760 Speaker 1: it the most. You know, it's it's okay if the 602 00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:26,480 Speaker 1: tool is shiny and pretty sitting in the toolbox, but 603 00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:30,680 Speaker 1: you don't want to be able to you know, gee, 604 00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:32,720 Speaker 1: it's it's all shiny and pretty, but will it work? 605 00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:34,200 Speaker 1: And that's the question. You don't want to find that 606 00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:36,320 Speaker 1: out on the side of the road. And yes is 607 00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:39,000 Speaker 1: one of our listeners pointed out, there's no point in 608 00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:42,000 Speaker 1: carrying a tire inflator across because changing tires on the 609 00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:45,000 Speaker 1: side of the road is dangerous. No, kitten, We would 610 00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:46,760 Speaker 1: hope you'd have the common sense that if you got 611 00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:48,360 Speaker 1: a flat, you're gonna pull off to the side of 612 00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:50,000 Speaker 1: the road. You're gonna pull off to a point where 613 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:52,440 Speaker 1: you're safe. Because if you're in a bad spot and 614 00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:55,280 Speaker 1: you can't change the flat, guess what, neither can the 615 00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:57,680 Speaker 1: emergency road crew that comes out to rescue you. So 616 00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:01,200 Speaker 1: common sense has to prevail. Common sense is the order 617 00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:03,000 Speaker 1: of the day. If you do get a flat and 618 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:05,040 Speaker 1: you're stuck on the side of the road, pull over 619 00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:07,280 Speaker 1: to the side. Chances are the tire you might ruin 620 00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:09,640 Speaker 1: the tire, but at least you'll be safe. Put the 621 00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:12,360 Speaker 1: spare on. You'll be around to live and drive the 622 00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:14,360 Speaker 1: next day and go pay it for a new tire 623 00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:16,760 Speaker 1: and just beku, I just survived it because getting a 624 00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:20,680 Speaker 1: flat today is just it's it's it's it's no easy task. 625 00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:24,720 Speaker 1: It's uh, it's involved. Cars are not simple anymore. Eight 626 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:27,600 Speaker 1: five zero nine zero zero. I'll running any of the 627 00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:29,720 Speaker 1: car doctor here with Tom Ray, will both be back 628 00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:46,200 Speaker 1: to wrap it up right after this, welcome back, right 629 00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:49,360 Speaker 1: on naming the car doctor. Eight five five zero zero 630 00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:51,920 Speaker 1: is the car Doctor's phone number. That number seven, I 631 00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:54,360 Speaker 1: should point that out. I'll give it again. Eight five 632 00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:57,840 Speaker 1: five five zero nine zero zero. You can call that 633 00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:01,160 Speaker 1: number anytime, day or night. Leave a message. Executive producer 634 00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:03,480 Speaker 1: Tom Ray will hook you up and bring in for 635 00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:05,960 Speaker 1: the next live broadcast. We are live on the network 636 00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:08,680 Speaker 1: Saturday afternoons to to four pm East Coast time, where 637 00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:14,960 Speaker 1: East Coast boys. And if zero zero is your ticket 638 00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:17,800 Speaker 1: and Tom, I'm having a problem talking today. Is it 639 00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:20,880 Speaker 1: almost over? It's been a long it's been a long week. 640 00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:23,160 Speaker 1: It's been a long well. I got a I'm not 641 00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:26,160 Speaker 1: kidding fourteen four wheel, I mean Danny and I got 642 00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:29,600 Speaker 1: tired of doing breaks this week and then we did 643 00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:34,240 Speaker 1: the usual amount of oil changes and diagnostics, and you know, 644 00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:36,800 Speaker 1: it was just it was breaks and tires, breaks and tires, 645 00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:39,720 Speaker 1: breaks and tires, breaks and tires. It was monotonous after 646 00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:43,120 Speaker 1: a while. I you know, it was I was ready 647 00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:45,360 Speaker 1: to duct tape the fourteen millimeter to my left hand, 648 00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:47,840 Speaker 1: in the eighteen millimeter to my right hand, depending upon. 649 00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:49,560 Speaker 1: Because you never put a wrench down, you were You've 650 00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:51,200 Speaker 1: always had a wrench in hand. This week it was 651 00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:54,040 Speaker 1: people broke their breaks. People broke their breaks. Well, well, 652 00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:58,680 Speaker 1: every break job we did this week was COVID related. 653 00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:03,360 Speaker 1: Every road was rusty, rusty rotors be on beyond use, 654 00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:06,400 Speaker 1: just and everything starting to catch up as the economy 655 00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:09,520 Speaker 1: is starting to reopen. So um, you know, it's it's 656 00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:12,320 Speaker 1: just the problem. Hey, a quick a quick note from Facebook. 657 00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:16,480 Speaker 1: Helen's checking in. She says, Hey, Ron I had Ada Civic, 658 00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:19,240 Speaker 1: which I loved. Life changed if you're driving two miles 659 00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:22,759 Speaker 1: a day city. I drove five miles a week expressway. 660 00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:25,680 Speaker 1: Life changed again, Helen says, and I was driving one 661 00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:28,840 Speaker 1: mile a day city. Eventually the clutch pedal went around 662 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:31,640 Speaker 1: two thousand three. I think anyone could have sold me 663 00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:33,640 Speaker 1: a new clutch, and I wouldn't have questioned it. My 664 00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:36,080 Speaker 1: mechanics said, all you need is a new clutch slave 665 00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:40,280 Speaker 1: and yeah, you know that's that's that's an honest mechanic, Helen, 666 00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:42,239 Speaker 1: And they're out there. You know, I was saying, this 667 00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:44,840 Speaker 1: is someone this week. They were asking me, you know, 668 00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:47,600 Speaker 1: about the shop and how I run the shop. I 669 00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:49,719 Speaker 1: was interviewed for a magazine article due to come out 670 00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:51,719 Speaker 1: in the next month or so, or a couple of months, 671 00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:54,239 Speaker 1: whatever it is. And as I pointed out to this 672 00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:56,160 Speaker 1: person writing it, I told her, I said, you know, 673 00:34:57,200 --> 00:35:00,120 Speaker 1: I'm not the best mechanic in the world. Um, I'm 674 00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:02,879 Speaker 1: an honest mechanic. There's a lot of honest mechanics out there. 675 00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:05,560 Speaker 1: We're all just trying to fix cars. We can't judge. 676 00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:08,759 Speaker 1: You know, the entire industry based off a couple of 677 00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:11,160 Speaker 1: guys that would oversell or do the wrong thing, or 678 00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:14,920 Speaker 1: you know, don't take the time to be professional. That's 679 00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:18,320 Speaker 1: not what this industry is. UM. My concern and the 680 00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:20,319 Speaker 1: reason I always think about this and bring it up 681 00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:24,160 Speaker 1: Helen and everybody else is I don't understand. And Helen, 682 00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:26,879 Speaker 1: sounds like you had a mechanic, you did the right thing. 683 00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:30,160 Speaker 1: You've built a relationship with a mechanic. And that's so 684 00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:33,640 Speaker 1: important because I don't understand how people walk into the 685 00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:37,640 Speaker 1: shop week after week, thirty forty fifty years old, still 686 00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:42,359 Speaker 1: looking for an honest mechanic. I'm not sure what they're 687 00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:45,120 Speaker 1: looking for. I'm not sure if they know what they're 688 00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:49,399 Speaker 1: looking for, but the conversations are always eerily the same. 689 00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:52,640 Speaker 1: They know more than the mechanic. They think it should 690 00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:55,040 Speaker 1: be less, a lot less, and they're gonna keep on 691 00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:57,160 Speaker 1: looking until they find one. And I always tell them 692 00:35:57,200 --> 00:36:00,200 Speaker 1: the same thing, remember this. Good mechanics aren't expect its 693 00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:01,880 Speaker 1: of They're priceless. See you