1 00:00:03,960 --> 00:00:05,840 Speaker 1: Ron. And you know, folks, I gotta tell you, if 2 00:00:05,840 --> 00:00:08,399 Speaker 1: anybody's worried about me retiring, I'm not gonna happen. They're 3 00:00:08,400 --> 00:00:09,639 Speaker 1: gonna have to drag me out of the place with 4 00:00:09,720 --> 00:00:19,639 Speaker 1: a wrench in my hand. Down your hands. The car 5 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:22,200 Speaker 1: Doctor that took your advice, and I got my wife 6 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:24,840 Speaker 1: a night nights their vehicles. She had an owie islander 7 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:28,920 Speaker 1: and she's got out thirteen and mom is happy now, right, correct? 8 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:32,479 Speaker 1: And if mom is happy, everybody's happy. Welcome to the 9 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:35,880 Speaker 1: radio home of Ron and Nanian, the Car Doctor, since 10 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:40,280 Speaker 1: this is where car owners the world overturned to for 11 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:44,760 Speaker 1: their definitive opinion on automotive repair. If your mechanics giving 12 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:48,040 Speaker 1: you a busy signal, pick up the phone and call in. 13 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:50,680 Speaker 1: The garage doors are open, but I am here to 14 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:54,440 Speaker 1: take your calls at eight five five five six and now. 15 00:00:56,120 --> 00:00:59,440 Speaker 1: A long long time ago, when the world is still 16 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:03,560 Speaker 1: cool and dinosaurs roman the earth, when God was but 17 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:07,759 Speaker 1: a youngster and dirt had just been discovered, a new 18 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:15,959 Speaker 1: radio host was bored. Now your host of the Car Doctor, 19 00:01:16,319 --> 00:01:18,839 Speaker 1: Ron and Anien. How in the world is your car? 20 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:21,200 Speaker 1: That is what we want to know. Our goal is 21 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:23,559 Speaker 1: to improve your cars condition in the world by giving 22 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:26,600 Speaker 1: you the information that you need to keep it that way. Gooday, afternoon, 23 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:28,880 Speaker 1: and welcome to the Car Doctor. My name is Ron 24 00:01:28,959 --> 00:01:31,920 Speaker 1: and Adian, owner of our automotive located over on Zazi 25 00:01:31,959 --> 00:01:34,920 Speaker 1: Street in Waldwick, New Jersey. So Hi there, listeners, how 26 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:37,160 Speaker 1: are you today? I'm here to answer all your car 27 00:01:37,240 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 1: repair questions live, but I understand we have what I'm 28 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:42,440 Speaker 1: gonna call the first caller of the show. We have 29 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:45,160 Speaker 1: George from Yonkers with an eighty four Christ from New 30 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:48,480 Speaker 1: Yorker and a corrosion issue. Good afternoon, George, and welcome 31 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:50,640 Speaker 1: to the Car Doctor. How can he How can I 32 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:54,880 Speaker 1: help you? George? I have a second car that is 33 00:01:55,280 --> 00:01:59,000 Speaker 1: very little used and it's not garaged. You know, listeners, 34 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:01,000 Speaker 1: it's it's tough when you get into a higher mileage 35 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:03,160 Speaker 1: vehicle and uh, you know, what do you do with it? 36 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:05,480 Speaker 1: And you know, how do you resolve the problem? And 37 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:07,680 Speaker 1: I always say this, if the car is broken, a 38 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:09,799 Speaker 1: good technician can go through that car in an hour. 39 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:12,640 Speaker 1: I don't have spark, I don't have fuel. What am 40 00:02:12,639 --> 00:02:14,680 Speaker 1: I looking for? I've had a good time and I 41 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:17,840 Speaker 1: hope you have to until next week when we'll be 42 00:02:17,919 --> 00:02:19,639 Speaker 1: here again to answer any and all of your car 43 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:23,160 Speaker 1: repair questions. I'm checking out. Joinus now by calling eight 44 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:28,160 Speaker 1: five five five six zero zero zero to congratulate Ron 45 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:33,040 Speaker 1: on his fifteen hundred show. Um do the dancing girls 46 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:39,639 Speaker 1: he running? Geez. All of a sudden, I feel older. 47 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:42,960 Speaker 1: Holy cow, hundred book of Tom Ray have in store 48 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:45,480 Speaker 1: for me today? Tom, are you there, Tom? Yes? And 49 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:49,160 Speaker 1: you know what that's gonna teach you about leaving old 50 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:52,680 Speaker 1: tapes out on the countertop there at the studio. Well, 51 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:56,080 Speaker 1: I listen, and you know that's uh gee, Tom, do 52 00:02:56,160 --> 00:02:59,799 Speaker 1: I really sound better? You be nice sound and so 53 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:03,160 Speaker 1: ly better. You know, everybody in this business listens to 54 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:04,920 Speaker 1: the first tape the first time they were on the 55 00:03:04,919 --> 00:03:08,800 Speaker 1: air and a cringe. Oh my god, Tom, I can't 56 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:12,080 Speaker 1: believe that was really me, you know, but but but 57 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:15,080 Speaker 1: here we are, here, here, we are d look at us. Well, 58 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:17,120 Speaker 1: you know I played it. I played it when I 59 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:21,840 Speaker 1: put this thing together, and my wife said, that's Ron. Yeah, yeah, 60 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:26,600 Speaker 1: it's you know. I. Well, I was always blessed and fortunate, right, 61 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:29,000 Speaker 1: I had great and I had great people teaching me 62 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:31,760 Speaker 1: the business. I came up at the right time. I 63 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:33,840 Speaker 1: had some of the greats in the industry show me 64 00:03:34,320 --> 00:03:36,240 Speaker 1: right from wrong. And I kind of I always said, 65 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:38,040 Speaker 1: I kind of went to the you know, the the 66 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:40,760 Speaker 1: Catholic School of radio broadcasting where you got wrapped on 67 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:43,200 Speaker 1: the knuckles digitally if you did something wrong. And I 68 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:45,120 Speaker 1: learned right from wrong the hard way, and it worked. 69 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:47,080 Speaker 1: It seems to have worked. Here we are one of 70 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:49,800 Speaker 1: those people that you learned from that. You know, it 71 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:52,280 Speaker 1: was kind of responsible to get you where we are today. 72 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:55,720 Speaker 1: And you know, last time I saw you were picking 73 00:03:55,760 --> 00:03:57,800 Speaker 1: up bottles outside of the the fence at the dump. 74 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:02,080 Speaker 1: But anyway, um, this is I managed to get Bob 75 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:06,120 Speaker 1: Bruno from w R Radio on the phone, my former boss. 76 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:10,320 Speaker 1: Look at this, big time boss. Yeah. Really we're carried 77 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:13,119 Speaker 1: through Talk Media network and uh, you know the show, 78 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:15,119 Speaker 1: the thing just it just has a life of its own. 79 00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:18,640 Speaker 1: It just it just continues to evolve. Well that's that's great. 80 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:22,520 Speaker 1: And by the way, you remember, Waldwick was our first home. 81 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:24,800 Speaker 1: We bought our first home there. Right, yeah, you know 82 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:27,040 Speaker 1: it's so funny, right we're here. I am in Waldwick. 83 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:29,040 Speaker 1: You were in Waldwick, then you were in MAMOI I 84 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:31,560 Speaker 1: used to go past your house every day, that's right. 85 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:36,560 Speaker 1: I remember I'm looking for a show. Now I on 86 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:39,160 Speaker 1: my way into the city to do the show. And um, 87 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:41,359 Speaker 1: you know, listen, I have I have better memories of 88 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:44,320 Speaker 1: you than that, Bob. I you know you you taught 89 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:47,840 Speaker 1: me tough love, alright, tough radio love. It was we 90 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:49,479 Speaker 1: were we would all come on. Now. We were at 91 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:52,760 Speaker 1: Jacob Javitt's and we're doing the show. It was the 92 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:55,760 Speaker 1: first time you guys sent me out on remote. And 93 00:04:55,800 --> 00:04:58,320 Speaker 1: I was only there about three maybe four months. And 94 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:02,280 Speaker 1: it was Easter nineteen ye something like that, remember, yeah, 95 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:05,200 Speaker 1: And and there was probably four or five thousand people 96 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:07,640 Speaker 1: in the room and we're setting up this big giant 97 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:11,960 Speaker 1: remote and we're probably thirty seconds to air, and you 98 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:14,000 Speaker 1: lean over and whisper in my ear, so do you 99 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:16,719 Speaker 1: like working at w O War? And I just I 100 00:05:16,839 --> 00:05:20,440 Speaker 1: just looked up and went, what, well, I'm trying to focus, 101 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:23,680 Speaker 1: you know, I'm scared to death. My teeth are chattering, 102 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:28,080 Speaker 1: and um, you know I asked you about it afterwards. 103 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:29,560 Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember this, and you said 104 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:30,960 Speaker 1: to me, Ron, I was trying to put you under 105 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:32,640 Speaker 1: the gun so you'd react with all the pressure. I 106 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:35,359 Speaker 1: want you to always think like you're under pressure, you know, Bob, 107 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:38,599 Speaker 1: it worked. Well, that's great. Well, you know what, you're natural. 108 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:43,200 Speaker 1: You've had a long run and that tells tells me 109 00:05:43,279 --> 00:05:47,160 Speaker 1: that you're uh. Your initial success on w O War 110 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:50,520 Speaker 1: was well founded and uh. And you know, we had 111 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:52,560 Speaker 1: a great line up on the weekend, as I recall, 112 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:55,520 Speaker 1: you know, with with You with the with the Car 113 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:59,960 Speaker 1: Doctor Show, and we had told the garden hunting line 114 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:03,400 Speaker 1: was Ralph Snott Smith and the Pet Show with Eckstein 115 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:07,200 Speaker 1: and the Travel Show with Arthur Fromer and oh a 116 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:09,719 Speaker 1: lot of good stuff. It was. It was the golden 117 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:12,279 Speaker 1: age of radium. Will Yeah, it was the golden age 118 00:06:12,279 --> 00:06:17,080 Speaker 1: of radio, Bob, exactly, exactly. Yeah, speaking of golden ages, 119 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:19,360 Speaker 1: I understand that Tom is still with you. Huh. Yeah, 120 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:21,720 Speaker 1: you know, listen, I'd be lost without Tom. Tom. Could 121 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:23,960 Speaker 1: you know? Tom could get us on the air in 122 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:26,039 Speaker 1: the middle of the desert with a juice cannon a string. 123 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:29,320 Speaker 1: He uh, he doesn't pretty amazing. I think he's actually, 124 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:32,400 Speaker 1: you know, Tom knows how I feel about him. I 125 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:36,000 Speaker 1: think he's uh, the brightest, the smartest, the most capable 126 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:40,280 Speaker 1: broadcast engineer in the history of the medium. And by 127 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:44,719 Speaker 1: the way, Tom, you've misspelled medium. It's I you am 128 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:50,360 Speaker 1: not e U m oh. Yeah, you gave it to him, Bob, 129 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:54,039 Speaker 1: because I know I love I love Tom. He is 130 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:57,920 Speaker 1: the best and you're the best, and I can't I 131 00:06:57,920 --> 00:07:00,600 Speaker 1: can't live without testing your Tom. I'm gonna get off 132 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:02,560 Speaker 1: the air here and let you get back to business. 133 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:05,720 Speaker 1: But because you are the car doctor and you do 134 00:07:05,839 --> 00:07:08,839 Speaker 1: know everything about cars, I'm gonna give you a pop quiz. 135 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:13,160 Speaker 1: You're ready ahead, I'm ready. Okay. When is a car 136 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:18,280 Speaker 1: not a car when it's a trup? No, when it 137 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:25,280 Speaker 1: turns into a driveway? Okay, Next one, what is where 138 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:29,440 Speaker 1: does a Volkswagon go when it retires? Oh? God, I 139 00:07:29,520 --> 00:07:31,720 Speaker 1: was I was thinking into the river? But go ahead 140 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:36,640 Speaker 1: where the old volks home? The old volks home. You 141 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:38,720 Speaker 1: know what? Fifty Volkswagon at the bottom of the Hudson 142 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:44,880 Speaker 1: is no A good start, a good story. Hey listen, 143 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:48,280 Speaker 1: I'm gonna run. I love you guys, and seriously to 144 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:53,000 Speaker 1: uh Tom, you are the best, and run. Uh what 145 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:56,040 Speaker 1: can I say you? You've you've got a great run going, 146 00:07:56,160 --> 00:08:00,760 Speaker 1: keep it going, God bless you and that engine going. 147 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:03,640 Speaker 1: Thanks Bob, I appreciate what I really do. Yeah. Um, 148 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:06,680 Speaker 1: A true gentleman and uh, um, one of the one 149 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:11,160 Speaker 1: of the best in radio, Bob Bruno. Um, Bob, And 150 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:13,080 Speaker 1: I'll tell you the second Bob Bruno's story before we 151 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:17,200 Speaker 1: take the pause. Bob invited me the the two weeks 152 00:08:17,200 --> 00:08:19,840 Speaker 1: after o Or hired me, and they brought me into 153 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:22,240 Speaker 1: the city and we went out to lunch Midtown and 154 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:24,480 Speaker 1: it was one of those fancy you know. The waiters 155 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:27,360 Speaker 1: were the penguin suits and the palm trees and you know, 156 00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:31,480 Speaker 1: real highfalute and root and Tuton and uh, you know, 157 00:08:32,160 --> 00:08:34,840 Speaker 1: Bob takes me to lunch. Jerry Crowley was with us, 158 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:37,600 Speaker 1: our our sales manager at the time, and they got 159 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:39,880 Speaker 1: to talking to me and knowing me, and Bob said, 160 00:08:39,920 --> 00:08:41,439 Speaker 1: I'm going to give you one piece of advice you 161 00:08:41,559 --> 00:08:43,920 Speaker 1: never forget. And I said what's that and he said, 162 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:46,600 Speaker 1: never think you're bigger than the process. And I looked 163 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:48,360 Speaker 1: at him and he said yeah. He said, never think 164 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:50,400 Speaker 1: you're bigger than the process. As long as you continue 165 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:52,120 Speaker 1: to be true to yourself and true to what you're 166 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:54,120 Speaker 1: trying to do, he says, you'll always be a success. 167 00:08:54,679 --> 00:08:56,959 Speaker 1: You know what. Second was the second best thing Bob 168 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:59,719 Speaker 1: Bruno ever did to me. Next to the Jacob Javits thing, 169 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:03,160 Speaker 1: which I never forgot that the the the deer in 170 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:06,400 Speaker 1: the headlight, look that that created? Uh staring down the 171 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:08,880 Speaker 1: barrel of four or five thousand people? And are you 172 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:12,000 Speaker 1: happy working here? Like? Oh my god, what are we doing? Bob? 173 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:15,160 Speaker 1: I love you, Thank you for taking the time. Zero 174 00:09:15,280 --> 00:09:19,000 Speaker 1: nine zero zero. Hey, when we come back, I've got well, 175 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:21,280 Speaker 1: how good is your best car story? Wait? Do you 176 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:22,720 Speaker 1: hear mine? We're gonna talk about it when the car 177 00:09:22,760 --> 00:09:28,000 Speaker 1: doctor returns celebrating fifteen hundred. Don't go away, I got 178 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:42,360 Speaker 1: I got time writing on the wall, so you don't 179 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:45,200 Speaker 1: forget to call for car advice? Done right? Eight five 180 00:09:45,280 --> 00:09:51,080 Speaker 1: five five zero nine zero zero. Now back to row. Okay, 181 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:53,880 Speaker 1: you know what, let's uh, what is your best car story? 182 00:09:54,120 --> 00:09:56,320 Speaker 1: Here's mine? Mind save in my life? It really did. 183 00:09:56,520 --> 00:09:59,640 Speaker 1: I was sixteen, I was a I was a typical kid. 184 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:02,240 Speaker 1: I just didn't know what I wanted to do with 185 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:06,559 Speaker 1: my life. And I saw one movie, American Graffiti. I'm 186 00:10:06,600 --> 00:10:09,040 Speaker 1: not gonna lie, and I thought that fifty five Chevy 187 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:10,600 Speaker 1: was the coolest thing in the whole world. Hey, I 188 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:12,240 Speaker 1: gotta go get one of those. I gotta make one 189 00:10:12,240 --> 00:10:15,600 Speaker 1: of those. All right, And I did found a hundred 190 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:17,760 Speaker 1: and twenty five dollar street racer at a Jersey City, 191 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:19,600 Speaker 1: New Jersey. You could look in the headlights and see 192 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:22,680 Speaker 1: how the tail lights, no engine, no interior or nothing, 193 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:25,120 Speaker 1: just a bare shell for a buck and a quarter. 194 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:27,199 Speaker 1: And that's the way it was in nineteen seventy four, 195 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:29,520 Speaker 1: and we flat towed at home. We hooked it to 196 00:10:29,559 --> 00:10:31,400 Speaker 1: the back of a G t O sixty five g 197 00:10:31,520 --> 00:10:33,640 Speaker 1: t O with a toe bar and flat toad that 198 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:35,160 Speaker 1: I actually had to sit in the in the car 199 00:10:35,160 --> 00:10:37,600 Speaker 1: on a milk crate and steer it. Which you don't 200 00:10:37,640 --> 00:10:40,040 Speaker 1: think about the dumb things that you do, right, And 201 00:10:40,040 --> 00:10:42,000 Speaker 1: every great car story sort of has a dumb thing, 202 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:44,120 Speaker 1: and it a dumb part that you just say, wow, 203 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:46,600 Speaker 1: I would never do that as you get older. And 204 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:48,560 Speaker 1: we we towed it all the way up Root three, 205 00:10:48,640 --> 00:10:51,840 Speaker 1: up to Roots seventeen. And you know, the great part 206 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:53,920 Speaker 1: of the story as well, we did make it home eventually. 207 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:57,040 Speaker 1: But the great funny, thank god we're alive, part of 208 00:10:57,040 --> 00:11:00,040 Speaker 1: the story is we're towing it up Root three and 209 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:03,520 Speaker 1: it's cold, it's dark, it's it's probably ten eleven o'clock 210 00:11:03,559 --> 00:11:08,880 Speaker 1: at night, and I hear clunk rattle, rattle, rattle, clunk, rattle, rattle, rattle. 211 00:11:09,679 --> 00:11:12,840 Speaker 1: Parts are falling off it, which looking back, probably wasn't 212 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:15,160 Speaker 1: a great sign of things to come. As We're towing 213 00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:20,600 Speaker 1: it up the highway and I can hear something falling apart, 214 00:11:20,640 --> 00:11:22,040 Speaker 1: but I don't know what it is, and I've got 215 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:23,360 Speaker 1: no way to signal the guys in the car in 216 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:25,040 Speaker 1: front of me, because you wouldn't think of that, right, 217 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:28,040 Speaker 1: you're sixteen, the guy toing is eighteen. You don't. You don't. 218 00:11:28,080 --> 00:11:31,000 Speaker 1: Your brain hasn't developed that far. You're not thinking that 219 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:34,120 Speaker 1: far ahead. And after about another three or four minutes 220 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:36,760 Speaker 1: of something falling off, the left front wheel falls off 221 00:11:37,280 --> 00:11:39,240 Speaker 1: because what was falling off it was the lug nuts. 222 00:11:39,280 --> 00:11:42,120 Speaker 1: The lug nuts weren't tight. The left front wheel falls off, 223 00:11:42,280 --> 00:11:46,920 Speaker 1: and the car goes down on the left sparks flying everywhere. 224 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:49,120 Speaker 1: All of a sudden, the tow vehicle they woke up. 225 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:52,079 Speaker 1: They pulled off to the shoulder. Dirty Ernie jumps out. 226 00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:53,679 Speaker 1: Dirty Arnie was in the past in your seat. Don't 227 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:56,400 Speaker 1: ask how he got that name, And um, dirty Yarnie's 228 00:11:56,400 --> 00:11:57,800 Speaker 1: in the pass in your seat. He jumps out into 229 00:11:57,840 --> 00:11:59,439 Speaker 1: the middle of the root. Three I'll never forget the 230 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:03,120 Speaker 1: look on Ernie's face when he picked up the tire 231 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:06,160 Speaker 1: that had fallen off, and the two eighteen wheelers went 232 00:12:06,240 --> 00:12:07,920 Speaker 1: by him, one on each side, and he was in 233 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:10,680 Speaker 1: the middle at the sixty miles an hour. He just 234 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:14,800 Speaker 1: it took him about ten minutes to talk. He bent over, 235 00:12:14,880 --> 00:12:16,720 Speaker 1: picked up the tire, looked up so the two trucks, 236 00:12:16,760 --> 00:12:18,720 Speaker 1: and just froze right on the white line because that's 237 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:22,559 Speaker 1: where it landed. Thank god, we managed to find two 238 00:12:22,640 --> 00:12:24,920 Speaker 1: of the lug nuts. We took one off of one 239 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:27,560 Speaker 1: of the other wheels, put it back on. Check the 240 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:30,199 Speaker 1: rest of them. They were all tight. Evidently the guy 241 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:31,839 Speaker 1: when he put the wheels on didn't tighten it. And 242 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:34,240 Speaker 1: why would we check that. We would assume right we 243 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:37,480 Speaker 1: were kids. We didn't know got the car home. And 244 00:12:37,520 --> 00:12:41,720 Speaker 1: that's really the beginning of it. But that car, in 245 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:45,000 Speaker 1: in everything that it did to me, taught me how 246 00:12:45,120 --> 00:12:48,520 Speaker 1: to do things right, because I did so many things wrong. 247 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:51,560 Speaker 1: And that's part of what makes a great, great car 248 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:53,920 Speaker 1: story great. It's not a story about the car was 249 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:58,320 Speaker 1: the fastest, or it looked the best, or it you know, 250 00:12:58,559 --> 00:13:02,400 Speaker 1: it did any thing else. That car taught me about life, 251 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:05,360 Speaker 1: because life is like going to repair, all right. Life 252 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:09,360 Speaker 1: is that series of experiences and accidents and and good 253 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:11,400 Speaker 1: things and bad things, and you learn along the way, 254 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:13,360 Speaker 1: and you skin your knee and you get up and 255 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:15,960 Speaker 1: you move forward, just like we're going through right now, 256 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:18,719 Speaker 1: right with the world situation being what it is, we're 257 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:20,960 Speaker 1: just skinning our knee and we're just figuring things out 258 00:13:21,280 --> 00:13:22,880 Speaker 1: and we're getting up, and we are going to get 259 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:24,960 Speaker 1: up and we are going to stand tall, and we 260 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:27,040 Speaker 1: are going to be able to do it again, and 261 00:13:27,080 --> 00:13:29,160 Speaker 1: we are going to get back to normal. But I 262 00:13:29,240 --> 00:13:32,800 Speaker 1: never forgot that car eventually, and I held onto that 263 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:36,320 Speaker 1: car a very long time. Um, I just couldn't part 264 00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:37,760 Speaker 1: with it because of all that it did for me 265 00:13:37,840 --> 00:13:39,720 Speaker 1: and all that it taught me and all the experiences 266 00:13:39,760 --> 00:13:43,360 Speaker 1: I had with it. I just sold it three years ago, 267 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:46,760 Speaker 1: maybe four. And somebody said to me once, They said, 268 00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:49,720 Speaker 1: how would you possibly sell that car? That was your life? 269 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:53,880 Speaker 1: And yeah, to a degree it was. But you know what, 270 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:55,920 Speaker 1: it was time for somebody else to have the experience. 271 00:13:55,920 --> 00:13:58,719 Speaker 1: It was time for somebody else to really enjoy that car, 272 00:13:58,800 --> 00:14:01,079 Speaker 1: because you see what you realize it or not for 273 00:14:01,080 --> 00:14:03,160 Speaker 1: everybody out there with a classic car in the garage 274 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:05,959 Speaker 1: or a classic car story in their head, or cruising 275 00:14:06,160 --> 00:14:09,600 Speaker 1: or late night street racing or whatever it is you did. 276 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:13,160 Speaker 1: You're not really owning that car. You don't own those cars. 277 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:16,120 Speaker 1: You're just the caretaker. You just sort of get to 278 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:17,680 Speaker 1: take care of it until you give it to the 279 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:19,280 Speaker 1: next guy, and then they pass it on to the 280 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:22,400 Speaker 1: next generation. And that's the great thing about cars. They're 281 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:26,560 Speaker 1: they're always going to be there to educate you in 282 00:14:26,640 --> 00:14:29,360 Speaker 1: so many ways, just beyond just the mechanics and physics 283 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:32,840 Speaker 1: of how a vehicle operates. I never forgot so many 284 00:14:32,880 --> 00:14:36,760 Speaker 1: things from that car. I never forgot the the frustration 285 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:38,800 Speaker 1: of being stuck on Route three with that left front 286 00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:41,320 Speaker 1: tire on the ground. I never felt so bad as 287 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:43,240 Speaker 1: when I saw Ernie almost get killed when he got 288 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:46,480 Speaker 1: flattened by the eighteen wheelers. And we still talk about 289 00:14:46,520 --> 00:14:48,720 Speaker 1: it and joke about it to this day, fifty years later, 290 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:53,240 Speaker 1: and it's it's crazy, but it's a bonding moment. And 291 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:57,120 Speaker 1: I think that when I people ask me, you know, 292 00:14:57,400 --> 00:14:59,440 Speaker 1: my kid wants to be a mechanics Should I let them? 293 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:01,680 Speaker 1: What can they look forward to? I always think of 294 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:06,080 Speaker 1: that story because that story sort of typifies what you 295 00:15:06,160 --> 00:15:09,800 Speaker 1: have to look forward to. It's it's it's just one 296 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:14,080 Speaker 1: unexpected turn after another, just like life. And that's the 297 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:17,600 Speaker 1: way it goes. That's my car story. Let's uh, let's 298 00:15:17,640 --> 00:15:21,400 Speaker 1: wander over and um let's over Steven san Diego six 299 00:15:21,480 --> 00:15:24,440 Speaker 1: Ford Focus line too, and let's see what's going on here, Steve. 300 00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:27,080 Speaker 1: Welcome to the car doctor, sir, help us celebrate? How 301 00:15:27,120 --> 00:15:32,320 Speaker 1: can I help you? Yes, I sure ken this, Steve. 302 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:35,440 Speaker 1: And I just got myself a Ford Focused two thousand 303 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:39,080 Speaker 1: and six. And when when I bought it, the engine 304 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:41,520 Speaker 1: mounts were shot to pieces. There's one that it's like 305 00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:44,400 Speaker 1: a full of oil, right, Yeah, that's not surprising. They're 306 00:15:44,720 --> 00:15:48,440 Speaker 1: always bad, Steve. Well, there was nothing in it, not 307 00:15:48,560 --> 00:15:50,600 Speaker 1: no sense about being any oil in there for a 308 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:53,480 Speaker 1: long time. So there's three months out, replaced them all 309 00:15:54,200 --> 00:15:57,560 Speaker 1: and it's it's a million times better than it was. 310 00:15:57,600 --> 00:16:01,440 Speaker 1: But there's still a pronounced rattle and it's only on startup, 311 00:16:01,560 --> 00:16:05,160 Speaker 1: only when I put it in gear. And if I 312 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:07,280 Speaker 1: put it in neutral and red the engine, it's fine. 313 00:16:07,320 --> 00:16:08,920 Speaker 1: But if I put it in gear, it makes a 314 00:16:09,040 --> 00:16:11,600 Speaker 1: nasty rattling noise and after a while it goes away. 315 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:14,720 Speaker 1: When when you say rattle, Stephen or you're talking about 316 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:16,880 Speaker 1: it's an automatic, right, you're putting it in. You're putting 317 00:16:16,880 --> 00:16:18,600 Speaker 1: it in, you're putting it in drive. And there's a 318 00:16:18,640 --> 00:16:22,240 Speaker 1: resonance that you feel through the steering wheel. Yes, and 319 00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:25,760 Speaker 1: a noise of a noise and a resonance. Oh what 320 00:16:25,960 --> 00:16:28,800 Speaker 1: kind of a noise? A rattle? Yeah? So I was 321 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:31,160 Speaker 1: looking at all the heat shields because that seemed to 322 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:33,720 Speaker 1: be like a reasonable match for the noise. But they 323 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:36,520 Speaker 1: all seem in good shape and not lose anything. Okay, 324 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:38,880 Speaker 1: can you get it up in the air, you know, 325 00:16:38,920 --> 00:16:41,880 Speaker 1: on the lift, put it in gear and duplicate the noise, 326 00:16:41,880 --> 00:16:45,320 Speaker 1: and then possibly with your hands wrapped in rags, hold 327 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:48,320 Speaker 1: the heat shields. Sometimes they don't appear loose, but they'll 328 00:16:48,320 --> 00:16:53,040 Speaker 1: they'll they'll buzz. There's a vibration to them, all right, Okay, 329 00:16:53,080 --> 00:16:55,520 Speaker 1: that you won't necessarily and again it depends on the 330 00:16:55,560 --> 00:16:57,480 Speaker 1: severity of the rattle or how much of a rattle 331 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:01,160 Speaker 1: you've actually got, uh, you know that a possibility. And 332 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:03,360 Speaker 1: then the other thing is have you looked at the 333 00:17:03,360 --> 00:17:08,120 Speaker 1: exhaust Do you have any rusted clamps, exhaust hangers, anything 334 00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:11,679 Speaker 1: dangling loose? You know, something like I looked at I 335 00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:15,760 Speaker 1: looked at the exhaust. It looks okay. Um. I was 336 00:17:15,800 --> 00:17:18,080 Speaker 1: wondering it's kind of seemed like a long shot, but 337 00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:21,040 Speaker 1: maybe the probably I think it has been driven around 338 00:17:21,080 --> 00:17:23,639 Speaker 1: for a while with these mounts shot And I wondered 339 00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:28,240 Speaker 1: if maybe the exhausted manifolded cracked or one of the 340 00:17:28,320 --> 00:17:31,680 Speaker 1: joints that had become damaged and it wasn't visible, but 341 00:17:32,119 --> 00:17:35,040 Speaker 1: once it heated up, it you close up a little 342 00:17:35,160 --> 00:17:38,520 Speaker 1: crack or something, and you only hear it when it's cold. Yeah, 343 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:40,800 Speaker 1: but if the exhaust actually had a leak, it would 344 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:46,359 Speaker 1: sound more like exhaust than you know, a rattle per se. 345 00:17:46,480 --> 00:17:48,760 Speaker 1: So try this all right, and then call me back. 346 00:17:48,960 --> 00:17:50,760 Speaker 1: You know, look at the way the mounts are installed. 347 00:17:51,359 --> 00:17:53,159 Speaker 1: You know, if if the if mechanic did him, or 348 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:56,480 Speaker 1: you did them, consider loosening you did them. So consider 349 00:17:56,520 --> 00:17:59,040 Speaker 1: loosening the mounts up. Started up, not a whole lot, 350 00:17:59,080 --> 00:18:02,400 Speaker 1: but started up. Let them find neutral, all right, Let 351 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:05,680 Speaker 1: them find a neutral state and then tighten them back up. 352 00:18:05,760 --> 00:18:07,720 Speaker 1: Maybe there's too much load on the mount one way 353 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:09,720 Speaker 1: or the other. Maybe that'll change it. But take a 354 00:18:09,720 --> 00:18:11,399 Speaker 1: look at the exhaust too. I'm on any of the 355 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:31,080 Speaker 1: car Doctor. We're back right after this. Hey run any 356 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:33,359 Speaker 1: of the car doctor. Welcome back. Let's get on over 357 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:36,359 Speaker 1: to step in May nineteen escape. Steve, you're on with 358 00:18:36,359 --> 00:18:40,920 Speaker 1: the car doctor. Help us celebrate? Brother, what's going on? Congratulations? 359 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:45,200 Speaker 1: Thank you sir. What's what can I do for you? Well? 360 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:51,280 Speaker 1: I have a nineteen escape, yes, the baseball and on 361 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:57,840 Speaker 1: all of these nineteens nineteen escapes they have only a radio. Uh, 362 00:18:57,960 --> 00:19:03,040 Speaker 1: starting with nineteen eighteen had a radio and CD. So 363 00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:07,440 Speaker 1: my question is would I mess up anything if I 364 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:11,440 Speaker 1: pulled the nineteen radio out of the dash and put 365 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:16,600 Speaker 1: a radio with CD. I love this question. You know, 366 00:19:16,920 --> 00:19:21,160 Speaker 1: this is the question I asked at class two months ago. 367 00:19:21,280 --> 00:19:24,840 Speaker 1: We were we were doing scope class and controlled area networking, 368 00:19:25,640 --> 00:19:28,560 Speaker 1: and I asked this. I asked something very similar to 369 00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:31,840 Speaker 1: this question. And and you're not gonna like the answer, 370 00:19:31,920 --> 00:19:34,080 Speaker 1: but you know you're you're thinking like me, brother, that's 371 00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:37,840 Speaker 1: I like the question. So here's here's the problem. Okay. 372 00:19:37,960 --> 00:19:39,720 Speaker 1: You know you look at it from the outside and 373 00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:42,080 Speaker 1: you see a radio, and then in some cars you 374 00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:45,720 Speaker 1: see a radio and a CD player. All right, it's 375 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:48,199 Speaker 1: it's behind the dash or in the car that we 376 00:19:48,280 --> 00:19:53,359 Speaker 1: don't see and you know, somewhere in the network of 377 00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:56,040 Speaker 1: the vehicle, that car is a controlled area network, it's 378 00:19:56,040 --> 00:20:01,240 Speaker 1: a can system, and and there's modules, there's there's pathways 379 00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:03,680 Speaker 1: of information that have to relay things back and forth 380 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:07,840 Speaker 1: between different modules. You're seeing a you're seeing a display. 381 00:20:08,160 --> 00:20:11,120 Speaker 1: How they do it behind the desk could be totally different. 382 00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:14,720 Speaker 1: It can be different. It can be different from a 383 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:19,480 Speaker 1: nineteen escape that was built in January versus a nineteen 384 00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:23,720 Speaker 1: escape that was built in February. Because of the pluriferation 385 00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:29,479 Speaker 1: of electronics, do you ever go out and buy a laptop? Okay, 386 00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:31,680 Speaker 1: and then two weeks later your wife says, had like 387 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:33,040 Speaker 1: a laptop, and you go to the store and you 388 00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:37,000 Speaker 1: want to buy the exact same one and maybe and 389 00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:39,119 Speaker 1: they don't have it or or or they have that 390 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:41,000 Speaker 1: same model. And then you take it apart and you 391 00:20:41,040 --> 00:20:42,919 Speaker 1: look at the chips and the chip set is different 392 00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:50,240 Speaker 1: because because technology just keeps marching forward, and that's the problem. 393 00:20:50,320 --> 00:20:55,040 Speaker 1: So well, right, so, you know, one of the questions 394 00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:58,359 Speaker 1: I asked and then I brought up, is so does 395 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:04,880 Speaker 1: that mean the after market automotive stereos companies, you know, Pioneer, Panasonic, Sony, 396 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:08,000 Speaker 1: you know whoever all of them? Right, are they done? 397 00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:12,080 Speaker 1: Because you know, what are you gonna put it in? 398 00:21:12,119 --> 00:21:16,000 Speaker 1: Where's where's the car to to put that in? You know, 399 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:18,280 Speaker 1: it's it's got to be something older, So it's got 400 00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:23,480 Speaker 1: to be something really and older, because you know after 401 00:21:24,320 --> 00:21:27,840 Speaker 1: model year that's when can proliferation really took off. But 402 00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:30,320 Speaker 1: you know who's gonna put two thousand dollars worth of 403 00:21:30,359 --> 00:21:36,159 Speaker 1: stereo into a two thousand model year car? Right? So 404 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:41,000 Speaker 1: you know, can it be done? Yes? You know what's 405 00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:45,280 Speaker 1: the cost? You know, and the argument you're gonna get 406 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:48,960 Speaker 1: all right, the argument you're gonna get here, I'll relay 407 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:51,119 Speaker 1: it like this. I just I actually did just buy 408 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:53,640 Speaker 1: my wife a laptop. She needed a laptop or laptop 409 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:55,440 Speaker 1: of seven years old. It was dying a slow death. 410 00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:57,400 Speaker 1: And I said, oh, let me, you know, I've got 411 00:21:57,440 --> 00:21:59,760 Speaker 1: some time now we're home a little bit obviously, let 412 00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:01,720 Speaker 1: me let me change. Let me get to a laptop. 413 00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:03,159 Speaker 1: I can set it up this way, I can do 414 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:05,160 Speaker 1: it while I have the time, instead of when I'm 415 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:07,280 Speaker 1: in the middle of you know, the usual work week. 416 00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:09,679 Speaker 1: You know, do you know you know how hard it 417 00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:14,480 Speaker 1: is to find a laptop with a CD player? Now, 418 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:18,560 Speaker 1: and when when I asked, the argument is because nobody 419 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:22,879 Speaker 1: listens to c D s anymore. Well, I I dispute 420 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:26,520 Speaker 1: that as far as myself. Well well, and the other 421 00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:28,560 Speaker 1: side of it is, what was the CD player for 422 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:31,119 Speaker 1: in a computer? It was to install software or in 423 00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:34,760 Speaker 1: a program. Right everything everything is on a USB stick 424 00:22:35,119 --> 00:22:38,520 Speaker 1: or it's downloaded right off the net. There's there's there's 425 00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:43,680 Speaker 1: no hard material anymore. So what you could probably do 426 00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:47,240 Speaker 1: and I would talk to a stereo install shop because 427 00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:50,199 Speaker 1: I'm thinking I did a little research after I had 428 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:53,400 Speaker 1: asked the question in class two months ago. I'm thinking 429 00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:58,320 Speaker 1: that the aftermarket stereo companies are catching onto this. I 430 00:22:58,359 --> 00:23:01,679 Speaker 1: don't know that you'll find a CD player, but I 431 00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:06,280 Speaker 1: believe you'll you'll find a way. You have a smartphone, Steve, No, 432 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:09,720 Speaker 1: I have a dumb phone. Okay, well see now, so yeah, 433 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:12,800 Speaker 1: it's you. You may have to get a smartphone and 434 00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:15,359 Speaker 1: then you would put your music on the smartphone and 435 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:18,320 Speaker 1: then your phone would plug into a port on the 436 00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:20,760 Speaker 1: front of the radio and that would be an input 437 00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:22,720 Speaker 1: channel and then that would play your music. And that's 438 00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:26,000 Speaker 1: how you would do it. Yeah, And that's how I 439 00:23:26,119 --> 00:23:28,800 Speaker 1: charge my phone from the car. You know it has 440 00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:32,840 Speaker 1: the square plug, and I plug into my radio charges 441 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:36,320 Speaker 1: that way, So I guess I could send it in 442 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:40,879 Speaker 1: the opposite direction to send music into the car. Yes, 443 00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:43,639 Speaker 1: if you can look on the radio, does the radio 444 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:49,640 Speaker 1: offer you a source input feed? Um? If it? If 445 00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:52,560 Speaker 1: it gives you the option of source input or source 446 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:55,680 Speaker 1: and you can tell it external or you know, phone 447 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:58,560 Speaker 1: or whatever the whatever the wording is, then yeah, you 448 00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:01,560 Speaker 1: could play from your phone. You and I listen you, 449 00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:03,919 Speaker 1: and I think like Stevie and no one saw you 450 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:05,840 Speaker 1: and I are dinosaurs, were thinking like I want to 451 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:10,639 Speaker 1: see d player and you know doesn't exist. Doesn't exist 452 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:14,040 Speaker 1: on my on my dash it says phone or it 453 00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:17,680 Speaker 1: says media. So I think I could do what you're saying. 454 00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:20,120 Speaker 1: So and you could, uh, now you want to get 455 00:24:20,119 --> 00:24:22,719 Speaker 1: really high tech. What you could do too is if 456 00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:28,359 Speaker 1: you have unlimited data streaming on your phone, not that 457 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:31,480 Speaker 1: I've used anyway. Well, if you have unlimited data on 458 00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:35,840 Speaker 1: your phone, all right, and you can well you you 459 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:37,520 Speaker 1: have a dumb phone. See, if you have a smartphone, 460 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:41,159 Speaker 1: you could put Amazon Music on your phone and you 461 00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:44,439 Speaker 1: can actually stream right from Amazon Music through your phone 462 00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:46,320 Speaker 1: into your car's radio. You don't need to see D 463 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:51,840 Speaker 1: player anymore. Yeah. Um, And what I've found from maybe 464 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:55,800 Speaker 1: like Crutch Realists inplace like that, that or a local 465 00:24:56,359 --> 00:25:00,359 Speaker 1: installation place, is that they at least know of some 466 00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:08,000 Speaker 1: aftermarket CD players that could be routed into the cars speakers. 467 00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:10,920 Speaker 1: That's possible too, and then that could also that might 468 00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:13,520 Speaker 1: also work where and I've seen this for the for 469 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:17,320 Speaker 1: the laptop where they make external CD players. They'll plug 470 00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:20,600 Speaker 1: into the laptop or the car and that will channel 471 00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:22,840 Speaker 1: through the radio out to the speakers that way, and 472 00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:27,000 Speaker 1: you could do that too. Yeah, so there's there's ways 473 00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:31,160 Speaker 1: around it maybe, right, but it's it's cumbersame, it's difficult. 474 00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:35,600 Speaker 1: So so uh that confirms what I what I thought 475 00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:40,919 Speaker 1: that it might uh mess up with the uh pulling 476 00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:46,320 Speaker 1: the factory radio out and putting another forward radio limb. 477 00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:50,840 Speaker 1: Right yet it there's the electronics are likely not there. 478 00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:53,240 Speaker 1: But I'll give you the good news. The good news 479 00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:57,960 Speaker 1: is that if you had a smartphone and you podcasted 480 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:01,879 Speaker 1: The Car Doctor, you could stream that into your car's 481 00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:04,080 Speaker 1: radio while you're driving and download and listen to all 482 00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:08,240 Speaker 1: four nine episodes. Oh cool. That it might take a while, 483 00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:09,760 Speaker 1: It might take you a while. You can take a 484 00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:12,080 Speaker 1: long trip. Would you have the time for it right now? Anyway? 485 00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:17,040 Speaker 1: All right, brother, right, you're welcome Steve, be well, be safe, 486 00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:19,760 Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, sir, very very happy. You're glad 487 00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:23,719 Speaker 1: to be here for you guys. Uh yeah, technology is changing. 488 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:26,240 Speaker 1: Oh boy, it's changing. We're here to chelping change with it. 489 00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:28,160 Speaker 1: So stay tuned. I'm running any in. The car Doctor 490 00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:41,640 Speaker 1: will be right back. Don't go away, welcome back. I'm 491 00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:44,400 Speaker 1: naming the car Doctor eight five five five zero nine zero. 492 00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:45,879 Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, is a follow up to 493 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:48,800 Speaker 1: that to Stephen, mean, get used to this one, Steve, 494 00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:51,399 Speaker 1: if you're still listening for everybody else, they're gonna get 495 00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:54,240 Speaker 1: rid of radios. That's right, car radios are gonna go 496 00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:57,280 Speaker 1: away in the not too distant future. There are car 497 00:26:57,280 --> 00:26:59,879 Speaker 1: companies out there actually talking about it. I can't mention 498 00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:03,119 Speaker 1: brand names. I'm sort of sworn to secrecy, but trust me, 499 00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:07,160 Speaker 1: you'll be shocked because they're both very major brand name 500 00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:10,320 Speaker 1: companies and um, they're they're trying to get rid of 501 00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:13,800 Speaker 1: radios and it'll just be it'll just be streaming off 502 00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:17,000 Speaker 1: the internet, and um, you know, you won't have radio 503 00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:18,919 Speaker 1: stations to listen to anymore. So the world is going 504 00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:22,840 Speaker 1: to change yet again, and probably within the next eighteen 505 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:25,400 Speaker 1: to twenty four months from what I'm hearing. So we'll say, 506 00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:27,960 Speaker 1: let's get over to Stephanie and JB in Pennsylvania with 507 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:31,000 Speaker 1: a fifteen Volvo and a radio problem. Radio problems seem 508 00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:34,280 Speaker 1: to create radio problems, so let's see what's going on here. 509 00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:37,119 Speaker 1: Welcome to the car doctor. How can I help? Y 510 00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:43,600 Speaker 1: Um all, we got sixty and this has happened to 511 00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:47,760 Speaker 1: us twice. We bought it used. But the infotainment center 512 00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:54,800 Speaker 1: as it's called. Um, we'll just um, something happened at 513 00:27:54,840 --> 00:28:00,640 Speaker 1: one pover Um we've there's there's you like, some kind 514 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:05,560 Speaker 1: of um upgrade that needs done. But and the dealer 515 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:09,960 Speaker 1: you know, doesn't know anything about it. And I forget 516 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,399 Speaker 1: what happened. But the guy that was working on a 517 00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:16,320 Speaker 1: on a body issue said that he did a hard start, 518 00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:20,119 Speaker 1: which meant disconnecting the battery and putting it back on 519 00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:24,840 Speaker 1: and it came back. Um, recently I changed the battery 520 00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:28,720 Speaker 1: and uh it's gone again. I just don't want to 521 00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:31,280 Speaker 1: get to the dealer and you know, spend a ridiculous 522 00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:33,479 Speaker 1: amount of money just to bring this back. But all 523 00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:36,920 Speaker 1: the goodies are going you know, you know the everything 524 00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:42,200 Speaker 1: except you know the basics, radio, no nothing, Now anything 525 00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:46,760 Speaker 1: I can now is does this have is this a 526 00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:50,680 Speaker 1: display navigation style system or is this just strictly a radio? 527 00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:55,560 Speaker 1: Now it's it's got the whole nav and rear camera 528 00:28:55,720 --> 00:29:00,160 Speaker 1: and everything. So first of all, um, not not trying 529 00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:01,840 Speaker 1: to hurt your feelings, but get over not trying to 530 00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:04,480 Speaker 1: spend any money. It's a Volvo, it's a high end 531 00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:08,880 Speaker 1: car and there's very specific repair procedures involved to maintain 532 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:14,000 Speaker 1: and repair that vehicle. So the first yeah, and you 533 00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:17,920 Speaker 1: know that story, right, Um, The first question I would 534 00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:20,200 Speaker 1: have and the only way you're going to know this 535 00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:22,880 Speaker 1: you know, and you can't even trust looking up in 536 00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:26,640 Speaker 1: information systems that there are no reflashes or software updates 537 00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:28,880 Speaker 1: for that vehicle. The first thing you have to do 538 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:32,640 Speaker 1: is tie into Volvo's flash system. Are there any software 539 00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:36,400 Speaker 1: updates for the radio for the vehicle in general that 540 00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:39,480 Speaker 1: might be related to what you're describing. So that's the 541 00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:42,240 Speaker 1: first step. So if if if you've got a mechanic 542 00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:46,200 Speaker 1: that can do that, great, If not, dealer only all right, 543 00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:50,200 Speaker 1: and then and then after that, if that doesn't solve it, 544 00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:53,520 Speaker 1: they've got to go through normal diagnostics, look for trouble codes. 545 00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:57,280 Speaker 1: No trouble codes. Uh, this could be the unit itself. 546 00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:00,280 Speaker 1: And that's that's the problem. That's what you're chasing, trying 547 00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:02,880 Speaker 1: to get down to. Uh. You know, I just I 548 00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:05,360 Speaker 1: just went through this on my wife's car on a Ford. 549 00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:08,640 Speaker 1: I have gone through this on Toyota's I've gone through 550 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:11,240 Speaker 1: this on GM product and it seems like they all 551 00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:16,600 Speaker 1: take the same general path of diagnostics. Software updates, scan 552 00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:20,400 Speaker 1: for codes, you know, basic diagnostics. Then it's component level 553 00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:23,680 Speaker 1: the problem is in and in most of the cases 554 00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:27,520 Speaker 1: I've dealt with, they've either been intermittent or they'll happen 555 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:29,880 Speaker 1: at random, and then you have to try and duplicate them, 556 00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:32,120 Speaker 1: and you can't. You have to go into that that 557 00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:35,760 Speaker 1: hard restart as you called it, where you're you're taking 558 00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:38,680 Speaker 1: power away and doing a dead boot as we sometimes 559 00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:40,840 Speaker 1: refer to it with a computer, and that dead boot 560 00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:44,240 Speaker 1: is the key. If the dead boot fixes it disconnecting 561 00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:46,280 Speaker 1: the battery or pulling the unit out of the dash 562 00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:49,800 Speaker 1: and leaving it disconnected, depending upon the make, sometimes that works. 563 00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:52,680 Speaker 1: You know, that dead boot tells me that we're resetting 564 00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:57,000 Speaker 1: a module, resetting a processor, just like a computer, and 565 00:30:57,200 --> 00:30:59,840 Speaker 1: you know it's it's it's it's pointing more and more 566 00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:06,800 Speaker 1: towards the component after software's trot. Does that make sense? Yeah? Yeah, Um, 567 00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:09,320 Speaker 1: you know your mechanic that works on it, does he 568 00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:13,240 Speaker 1: have Volvo capable scan tool? Can he speak to the car? 569 00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:17,760 Speaker 1: I'm about forty five minutes from a Volvo dealer, And 570 00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:21,800 Speaker 1: that's another point, you know, it just makes it more 571 00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:26,680 Speaker 1: about um a nusance item to do well. And luckily 572 00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:29,720 Speaker 1: it's it's been eating. It's free. So I got a 573 00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:32,400 Speaker 1: guy here in in Altuna that that you know, I 574 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:38,040 Speaker 1: trust for everything. But hey, and the place actually where 575 00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:41,480 Speaker 1: I got it, um, you know, both need to refer 576 00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:44,080 Speaker 1: me back to h you know, the dealer. Yeah, it's 577 00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:46,480 Speaker 1: one of the questions, you know. Whatever anybody asks me 578 00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:48,080 Speaker 1: how I want to buy this car of that car, 579 00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:51,080 Speaker 1: if it's if it's if it's a Volvo, it's, if 580 00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:53,440 Speaker 1: it's a Mercedes, if it's a higher line European, the 581 00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:56,160 Speaker 1: first question I always ask is who's going to fix it? 582 00:31:56,800 --> 00:31:59,040 Speaker 1: And if they tell me their local guy, like your 583 00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:00,880 Speaker 1: guy there in Altuna, that that you've been working on 584 00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:03,280 Speaker 1: for years and years and he's your guy, I said. 585 00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:05,040 Speaker 1: You know, the first thing I always say is you 586 00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:06,720 Speaker 1: got to go and talk to Bob or Fred or 587 00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:08,520 Speaker 1: whoever it is and say, hey, I'm gonna buy this. 588 00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:12,200 Speaker 1: Can you fix it? Because it's it's it's and it's 589 00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:15,480 Speaker 1: not a matter of his capability, all right, It's not 590 00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:17,920 Speaker 1: a matter of how smart he is. It's a business 591 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:21,400 Speaker 1: decision on his part. Can he afford a Volvo specific 592 00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:24,760 Speaker 1: scan tool? Can he afford the electronics and the diagnostics 593 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:29,640 Speaker 1: needed to work on that? And and you know, deal 594 00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:33,000 Speaker 1: with it, which is is part of the issue too. 595 00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:35,600 Speaker 1: Go talk to your mechanic, tell him what we talked 596 00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:37,760 Speaker 1: about and see if that makes sense to him. And 597 00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:39,520 Speaker 1: then after that, I think it's time to get back 598 00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:42,000 Speaker 1: out to the dealer and uh, you know, go from there. 599 00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:43,800 Speaker 1: Call me back in the next week or two. Let 600 00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:45,400 Speaker 1: me know. If the dealer can't solid for you, we'll 601 00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:47,840 Speaker 1: dig a little deeper. But I appreciate the call and 602 00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:50,000 Speaker 1: hate everybody out there, and I'll tune a p A. 603 00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:52,240 Speaker 1: I'm running any in the car doctor. We're cruising away. 604 00:32:52,280 --> 00:33:00,560 Speaker 1: We'll be back right after this. Don't go, hey, run 605 00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:02,120 Speaker 1: any of the car doctor. Welcome back. Let's do a 606 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:05,720 Speaker 1: quick piece of email This one comes to us from Cathy. Hey, Ron, 607 00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:08,480 Speaker 1: I've got a two thousand two Chevy trail blazer the 608 00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:11,520 Speaker 1: radiators seeping down one side. My mechanics said it's about 609 00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:13,760 Speaker 1: eight hundred dollars to replace it because he has to 610 00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:16,880 Speaker 1: remove the entire front bumper, grill clip, etcetera. I want 611 00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:18,719 Speaker 1: to know because I'm out of work right now due 612 00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:20,760 Speaker 1: to the due to the virus. Uh, due to the 613 00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:25,880 Speaker 1: world situation. She puts, um, would case seal fix this? Uh? Yeah, 614 00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:27,560 Speaker 1: you know what, Cath, you could do k seal k 615 00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:30,560 Speaker 1: seal dot com for more information. You know, k Seal 616 00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:35,480 Speaker 1: is a great cooling system sealer. It'll do the job here. 617 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:38,600 Speaker 1: And even if you wanted to do it on a 618 00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:42,320 Speaker 1: temporary basis, I would still put k Seal in this. Uh. 619 00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:44,720 Speaker 1: You know, Listen, a lot of factors come into this. 620 00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:47,240 Speaker 1: All right, It's an O two bullet trailblaser. It's eighteen 621 00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:49,960 Speaker 1: years old. You don't say the mileage. I'm gonna guess 622 00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:52,000 Speaker 1: and say it's probably got a hundred and fifty thousand 623 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:54,400 Speaker 1: miles on at anything eighteen years old, it seems this 624 00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:57,080 Speaker 1: vintage usually does. Uh. You know, would you put eight 625 00:33:57,120 --> 00:33:59,160 Speaker 1: hundred dollars into it. That's kind of tough to come 626 00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:01,600 Speaker 1: up with, right now, would you do a uh, you 627 00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:04,680 Speaker 1: know what they consider I don't know how temporary of 628 00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:07,040 Speaker 1: a patch case seal is because I've used k seal 629 00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:09,400 Speaker 1: as a permanent fix and a lot of vehicles. But 630 00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:11,759 Speaker 1: you know, you could use k seal and just monitor it. 631 00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:14,120 Speaker 1: You know, where do you go with the vehicle? If 632 00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:18,840 Speaker 1: you're around town driving and you're doing eight thousand miles 633 00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:20,719 Speaker 1: a year and you want to try k seal, You're 634 00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:23,759 Speaker 1: not gonna hurt anything. And if the radiator starts to 635 00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:26,520 Speaker 1: seep again in a year or a year and a half, 636 00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:29,040 Speaker 1: you know it's not gonna hurt to put a radiator 637 00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:32,000 Speaker 1: in it because k seal doesn't damage the cooling system. 638 00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:35,319 Speaker 1: The technology on how k seal works, and it's it's 639 00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:37,919 Speaker 1: the only sealer on the market that works like that 640 00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:41,200 Speaker 1: is different than everything else. It doesn't clogg the cooling 641 00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:43,440 Speaker 1: system like so many of the other steelers out there 642 00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:45,960 Speaker 1: do today. And it does work. As a matter of fact, 643 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:48,160 Speaker 1: and I've said this for a while now, why everybody 644 00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:50,760 Speaker 1: doesn't have a little JARRK seal in the glove compartment. 645 00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:53,719 Speaker 1: We've stucked up on toilet paper and everything else for emergencies. 646 00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:57,279 Speaker 1: You know what. Stuck up on k seal too, because uh, 647 00:34:57,280 --> 00:34:58,920 Speaker 1: you know what, if you're out in the country, your 648 00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:01,919 Speaker 1: mechanics closed. Having a bottle in the car sure does help. 649 00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:04,080 Speaker 1: K cl dot com. I'm running any of the car 650 00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:06,160 Speaker 1: doctor looking up. Thanks for joining me this hour. Until 651 00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:09,959 Speaker 1: the next time. Good mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. See 652 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:10,040 Speaker 1: you