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Speaker 1: Ron Andanian. Now this has an e g R valve.

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Speaker 1: It's an electronic e g R valve. Because Ford decided,

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Speaker 1: the car The car Doctor, what made you change sensors?

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Speaker 1: You know, if we've got a curb machine, even the

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Speaker 1: give me the electron wheel suns. They say, I replaced

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Speaker 1: it twice and it didn't make any difference for winner

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Speaker 1: of week or started. We're doing the same thing again.

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

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: here to take your calls at eight five and now

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Speaker 1: running Sometimes simple gets complicated. It just does. It's auto repair,

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Speaker 1: you know, It's just it's changing all the time. You

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Speaker 1: always learned something new every week We had camera in

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Speaker 1: the shop this weekend. It was it was a simple thing.

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Speaker 1: It needed a couple of tire pressure sensors. They were

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Speaker 1: leaking out the stems. The stems were corroded and you know,

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Speaker 1: customer complaint losing air out of the tires. And I said, well,

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Speaker 1: Diagnosed that, you know, had two leaking stems out of

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Speaker 1: these two tires, so you know, replace the sensors, program them.

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Speaker 1: I learned something here in that I didn't realize that

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Speaker 1: Toyota now has two levels of sensor or two levels

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Speaker 1: of system. I should say, there's a low line in

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Speaker 1: a high line. The low line is a basic tire

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Speaker 1: pressure monitoring system, and a high line will display obviously

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Speaker 1: It's it's it's that's how they call it. They call

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Speaker 1: have to be careful. I haven't figured out how they

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Speaker 1: how they're doing it. They both broadcast censors at three

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Speaker 1: fifteen mega hurts. But there's something different in the programming

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Speaker 1: so something else to look into in my spare time.

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Speaker 1: But the point is we went about it and programmed

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Speaker 1: these two centsers, put it in the car, and it

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Speaker 1: next car. I always like to road test things, you know,

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Speaker 1: It's just And sometimes even after I final check at

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Speaker 1: You'll see that, hey, this was a clear cut leak.

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Speaker 1: program a tire pressure sensor, you clone it, all right,

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Speaker 1: And auto repair does that very well. It um it

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Speaker 1: Sorry wrong, but welcome back. Tom is looking at me

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Speaker 1: no signs of any leaks. I'm like, how did you

428
00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:34,240
Speaker 1: discover this leaking? He's like, well, we looked at it,

429
00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:38,200
Speaker 1: and I'm like, WHOA, Okay, I guess you're a mechanic,

430
00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:39,560
Speaker 1: but it sounds like to me it take an awful

431
00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:41,120
Speaker 1: lot of Anni Freese to make it not run, because

432
00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:43,000
Speaker 1: I've had a lot of three point eights, and when

433
00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:46,200
Speaker 1: they do go, they usually have signs first a leaking

434
00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:50,119
Speaker 1: anti freeze um you know, or the worst case, a

435
00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:53,359
Speaker 1: hydro lock. Neither of the case was going on anyway.

436
00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:56,920
Speaker 1: They replaced the upper intake for eight hundred dollars, and uh,

437
00:22:57,040 --> 00:23:00,080
Speaker 1: you know, of course I didn't fix it. Um so

438
00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:03,439
Speaker 1: intermittently it will not start, and I did some googling.

439
00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:05,960
Speaker 1: I replaced the crank sensor and the CAM sensor because

440
00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:07,639
Speaker 1: it won't do this when you want it too, so

441
00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:09,520
Speaker 1: I couldn't troubleshoot it. And I'm like, well, I can't

442
00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:13,000
Speaker 1: get stranded. So I replaced the crank and the CAM sensor,

443
00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:15,480
Speaker 1: and then it did it again. And then at that

444
00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:18,080
Speaker 1: point I tested the CAM and crank censor with all

445
00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:20,680
Speaker 1: I have, which is a fluke meter, and from what

446
00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:24,000
Speaker 1: I gather, it looks like it's pulsing. And then I

447
00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:26,280
Speaker 1: did some more troubleshooting and figured out there's no ground

448
00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:30,320
Speaker 1: pulse to the injectors. And I used a test light,

449
00:23:30,359 --> 00:23:33,400
Speaker 1: which I've heard seeing different things where it's fine, seeing

450
00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:35,359
Speaker 1: other things where you can damage the PCM doing that

451
00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:38,040
Speaker 1: at any rate when it's not running and not starting,

452
00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:42,000
Speaker 1: there is no ground pulse to the injectors. And then

453
00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:46,159
Speaker 1: I thought, okay, well maybe security, maybe PCM. I don't know,

454
00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:49,480
Speaker 1: but I I googled, what you know. I found a

455
00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:53,000
Speaker 1: PCM that they would program to your VIN for sixty

456
00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:55,800
Speaker 1: bucks on eBay. So I did that and guess what,

457
00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:59,080
Speaker 1: it's still doing it and I'm out of ideas. I

458
00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:03,200
Speaker 1: here it's the ground, but I just don't know. Okay,

459
00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:08,119
Speaker 1: so has from the sounds of it just and I'm

460
00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:10,359
Speaker 1: not defending anybody. It has nothing to do with the

461
00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:13,359
Speaker 1: first mechanic. He's just he's just incompetent enough by himself

462
00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:15,040
Speaker 1: that he couldn't put it back together right because it

463
00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:18,040
Speaker 1: ran for could be But keep in mind, my my

464
00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:21,440
Speaker 1: dip stick was blessed. Um. I had a fuel week

465
00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:24,120
Speaker 1: after that, you know. I mean, I just wondered, okay,

466
00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:26,040
Speaker 1: for the crawling around on the engine, maybe they kicked

467
00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:29,919
Speaker 1: the connector loose. Maybe I don't know. Well, here's get

468
00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:33,560
Speaker 1: crawled around enough to break the dip stick. So and

469
00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:35,320
Speaker 1: the other reason I say that is is not to

470
00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:38,040
Speaker 1: defend him or anybody, but it's just I just want

471
00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:39,760
Speaker 1: to treat this like a broken car. I want to

472
00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:40,920
Speaker 1: have that in the back of my head, but I

473
00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:42,760
Speaker 1: don't want to let that skew my judgment and how

474
00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:45,960
Speaker 1: I test something. All Right, the dealer is completely lost.

475
00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:47,399
Speaker 1: I wanted to I just have to ask, did you

476
00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:49,440
Speaker 1: have to pay the dealer for the intake? Plentiment didn't

477
00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:52,480
Speaker 1: fix it? I did. I called, I complained, And what

478
00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:55,560
Speaker 1: I did gather from that conversation is that when they

479
00:24:55,640 --> 00:25:00,879
Speaker 1: went out there, it started. So what they should have

480
00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:03,280
Speaker 1: done is called me and said, hey, this starts, what's

481
00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:06,240
Speaker 1: the deal? But they didn't. Then they speculated to you know,

482
00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:09,080
Speaker 1: what was going on in let's let's let's let's let's

483
00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:13,440
Speaker 1: sell something. We need lawn furniture today. Yeah. So from

484
00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:15,879
Speaker 1: the sounds of it, my first question would be when

485
00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:20,240
Speaker 1: it's no start, doesn't have spark, Yeah, it has sparks,

486
00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:23,080
Speaker 1: so it has spark, no injector pulse, which is a

487
00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:28,840
Speaker 1: typical classic case on that car of an anti theft event. Yeah,

488
00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:31,000
Speaker 1: but during and I read in the manual, and I've

489
00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:34,080
Speaker 1: also read online that during an anti theft event, it

490
00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:35,879
Speaker 1: won't crank. And I don't know if that's true or not,

491
00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:38,120
Speaker 1: but that's exactly what it says in the manual. Let's

492
00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:40,680
Speaker 1: then let's let's let's give it an anti theft event.

493
00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:44,080
Speaker 1: Although I disagree with that. My understanding is it will

494
00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:47,159
Speaker 1: crank but not start, and it won't start and it

495
00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:50,720
Speaker 1: won't provide injector pulse. If I remember two thousand Buick Park, right.

496
00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:53,879
Speaker 1: I have read that online, um, and I've read that

497
00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:56,119
Speaker 1: it won't crank. Now keep in mind, when I put

498
00:25:56,160 --> 00:26:00,520
Speaker 1: the new PCM in, it didn't know the keys. Um,

499
00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:03,159
Speaker 1: so when I tried to start it with a new PCM.

500
00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:06,399
Speaker 1: It would not crank at all until I did the

501
00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:12,160
Speaker 1: learned procedure and and then it would, but still wouldn't

502
00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:15,200
Speaker 1: ground pulse to the injector. Well, why don't we bypass,

503
00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:16,879
Speaker 1: Why don't we just put a bypass kid in for

504
00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:20,200
Speaker 1: the anti theft. There's kids out there, and what they're

505
00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:22,359
Speaker 1: gonna do is they're gonna they're gonna take the resistance

506
00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:25,320
Speaker 1: value of the key and always programming in because I'm

507
00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:27,919
Speaker 1: betting you've got a broken wire inside the steering column.

508
00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:31,360
Speaker 1: This one's a p K three. It's not the resistor kind.

509
00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:37,240
Speaker 1: It's just old enough to have the RF. What is that, holloway,

510
00:26:37,359 --> 00:26:41,119
Speaker 1: I don't know anyway, agreed to the key via electronic

511
00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:46,160
Speaker 1: field versus the resistor. So it's a hall effects set up. Yeah, yeah, okay, um,

512
00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:50,560
Speaker 1: let's bypass it. So well listen, the only way I

513
00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:53,600
Speaker 1: know that car goes into a crank no start condition

514
00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:57,800
Speaker 1: and it's injector no injector pulse. A crank no start

515
00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:02,439
Speaker 1: loss of injector pulse is a classic definition of an

516
00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:05,480
Speaker 1: anti theft event. That's the only way I know that occurs.

517
00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:08,960
Speaker 1: If it has spark, it's not crank if it has spark,

518
00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:12,560
Speaker 1: it's not CAM alright. The PCM is actually looking for

519
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:16,800
Speaker 1: um a square wave signal on on circuit for thirty,

520
00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:18,959
Speaker 1: which is the purple white from the ignition module going

521
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:22,040
Speaker 1: to the power contrain. The PCM if it doesn't if

522
00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:26,680
Speaker 1: it doesn't see that, it says, well wait a minute. Um. Now,

523
00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:28,639
Speaker 1: I don't know what kind of scanner you got. You

524
00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:31,760
Speaker 1: could look at the scanner and watch censored data. You know,

525
00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:37,120
Speaker 1: does it show you cranking rpm? At least I don't

526
00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:39,160
Speaker 1: have a good scanner. It's like a thirty dollar piece

527
00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:41,120
Speaker 1: of garbage. But I did check the purple white because

528
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:44,239
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, well maybe the the I also, by

529
00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:45,679
Speaker 1: the way, I didn't tell you this, but I replaced

530
00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:47,679
Speaker 1: the ignition control module because I've got three of these

531
00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:49,560
Speaker 1: cars with the same motor, and I just pulled one

532
00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:52,600
Speaker 1: off of another motor. Obviously that did not fix the problem.

533
00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:55,520
Speaker 1: And I'm like, okay, well, the current, the CAM and

534
00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:58,080
Speaker 1: the crank are good. The I c M is good.

535
00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:00,480
Speaker 1: So then I checked that purple white. But I can't

536
00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:03,880
Speaker 1: find anywhere how to check it exactly. But I assume

537
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:07,000
Speaker 1: that it's the same way you check the CAM and crank. Uh,

538
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:09,320
Speaker 1: you know, which is a square wave there? So I

539
00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:11,720
Speaker 1: figures a square wave on the purple white, right, you're

540
00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:14,520
Speaker 1: gonna think you're gonna have You're gonna have a digital signal.

541
00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:16,440
Speaker 1: Do you have another one of these cars that runs

542
00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:22,360
Speaker 1: check it on that? Uh? Yeah, and I haven't done that. Um,

543
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:24,800
Speaker 1: but what I get is a two and a half volts,

544
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:27,720
Speaker 1: which is the same thing I get out, you know,

545
00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:29,600
Speaker 1: And that's about half of what I'm supposed to have.

546
00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:31,399
Speaker 1: And my PLUKEE is a pretty fast meter, so I

547
00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:35,720
Speaker 1: think that's telling me, well, chances there, but yeah, it's

548
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:38,840
Speaker 1: chances there. But understand, what you're doing is you're you're

549
00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:41,200
Speaker 1: trying to display a digital signal on a meter. It's

550
00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:44,160
Speaker 1: just showing you an average. The reason you want to

551
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:45,880
Speaker 1: see that on a scope is because you want to

552
00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:48,720
Speaker 1: see cleanliness and clarity of signal, and you want to

553
00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:51,280
Speaker 1: see that it's reaching its height and reaching its bottom.

554
00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:55,200
Speaker 1: So you know you're I do have access to borrow

555
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:59,280
Speaker 1: something that could do that. Listen, let's let's do it.

556
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:03,560
Speaker 1: Do this. Okay, do this verify it's got spark? If

557
00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:05,480
Speaker 1: if this is no injector pulse, do you have any

558
00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:09,920
Speaker 1: propane Uh, yeah, well I don't have a way to

559
00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:12,120
Speaker 1: square to down. I've got some brake fluid or no,

560
00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:14,040
Speaker 1: I don't do that. Go go go spend the go

561
00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:16,560
Speaker 1: spend another hunter Bucks. Go buy a propane Enrichmond tool

562
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:19,680
Speaker 1: set up. Get out to a rileyotoparts dot com and

563
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:22,320
Speaker 1: you'll find OTC makes it. I remember the part number

564
00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:24,800
Speaker 1: off the top of my head. And UM, get yourself

565
00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:27,760
Speaker 1: and get yourself a propane Richmond tool and you can

566
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:29,920
Speaker 1: order it online and they'll deliver it to you. And

567
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:33,080
Speaker 1: then at that point, UM feed it some propane, prove

568
00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:35,480
Speaker 1: that it's only loss of injector pulse, that it has spark,

569
00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:37,959
Speaker 1: Proved that it will start, and when it's that, then

570
00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:40,080
Speaker 1: start chasing it. From the perspective of this is an

571
00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:42,720
Speaker 1: anti theft event, get yourself a better scan tool. You'll

572
00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:45,480
Speaker 1: see more data. What you're trying to do is fix it,

573
00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:47,840
Speaker 1: but you can't do it without a couple of more tools,

574
00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:51,200
Speaker 1: because you're just gonna make it worse by swapping parts.

575
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:53,120
Speaker 1: Do those things. Call me back next week. I'll be

576
00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:55,080
Speaker 1: glad to talk to you again. I'm running any in

577
00:29:55,120 --> 00:30:06,920
Speaker 1: the car. Doctor back right after this. Welcome back, Rannie

578
00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:09,200
Speaker 1: of the car Doctor. Let's get over to David and Tennessee. David.

579
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:12,800
Speaker 1: Welcome to the car Doctor, sir. How can I help? Oh?

580
00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:15,880
Speaker 1: Good talking to with you, sir. Uh. Last week it

581
00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:17,680
Speaker 1: was the first time I've ever heard you on tell

582
00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:20,920
Speaker 1: on the on the radio, and I thought, this guy, Uh,

583
00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:23,200
Speaker 1: this kind of seems to know what he's talking about.

584
00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:28,120
Speaker 1: So I thought I would pick your brain on a

585
00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:35,120
Speaker 1: Volkswagen t d I. UM, I know that it's the

586
00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:38,920
Speaker 1: people that is getting shorter and the crowds of people

587
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:41,479
Speaker 1: are getting smaller and smaller that know how to how

588
00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:44,400
Speaker 1: to work on these cars because they've quit producing them.

589
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:48,000
Speaker 1: But when I bought the car, UH, it came with

590
00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:52,440
Speaker 1: a forty eight thousand mile warranties from Volkswagen. I said,

591
00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:56,200
Speaker 1: no matter what caused the check engine soon light to

592
00:30:56,280 --> 00:31:00,280
Speaker 1: come on, Volkswagen will repair it. So I have no

593
00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:05,640
Speaker 1: check engine soon light on. But during cold starts, when

594
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:09,960
Speaker 1: uh I first started, especially in the winter the colder weather, UM,

595
00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:12,360
Speaker 1: I do start it and let it let it warm

596
00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:18,840
Speaker 1: up for a minute. But within a hundred yards of

597
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:24,920
Speaker 1: just pulling out of my driveways, a simple deceleration I'm

598
00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:28,680
Speaker 1: not talking about I'm in it on high RPMs. I'm

599
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:31,040
Speaker 1: just pulling out of the driveway. I let off the

600
00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:34,719
Speaker 1: gas coming into the first curve, and I hear a screaming,

601
00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:40,160
Speaker 1: almost whistling noise that coming. It sounds like from the

602
00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:44,800
Speaker 1: left side of the vehicle. Um, there's you know, there's

603
00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:49,000
Speaker 1: so many filters and so many different hoses and things

604
00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:51,680
Speaker 1: with diesels, there's not many people that know how to

605
00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:54,200
Speaker 1: work on them in the closest Folkswagon dealer's like forty

606
00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:59,360
Speaker 1: five miles away. You're saying, driver's side of the vehicle, David, More,

607
00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:03,080
Speaker 1: it's sound to me it's coming more from that side.

608
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:08,479
Speaker 1: You know, how long has it been? How long has

609
00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:12,760
Speaker 1: it been making How long has it been making this noise? Oh,

610
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:16,480
Speaker 1: I've been waiting for the check an so might to

611
00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:21,160
Speaker 1: come on? Is my problem? About six months? Maybe a year? Okay,

612
00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. Stay right where you are, David,

613
00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:24,840
Speaker 1: Stay right where you are. Let me pull over. Take

614
00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:26,840
Speaker 1: a pause so we don't run long into the break.

615
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:28,880
Speaker 1: Let me let me take the pause. When I come back,

616
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:30,880
Speaker 1: we'll continue. Don't go away. I'm running any in the car.

617
00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:48,479
Speaker 1: Doctor will be back right after this. Welcome back, right

618
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:50,040
Speaker 1: name of the car doctor. Let's get right to David

619
00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:54,320
Speaker 1: and tennessee David, you're there, sir, Yes, okay, I got

620
00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:56,000
Speaker 1: I got two minutes. So let me let me ask

621
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:59,240
Speaker 1: a couple of questions. Um, when when it's making this noise?

622
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:02,480
Speaker 1: Is it only on D cell or is it under acceleration?

623
00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:05,240
Speaker 1: Or is it while you're idling along? What's the what's

624
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:09,240
Speaker 1: the best way to describe how the noise occurs only

625
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:14,200
Speaker 1: on the cell? And it's uh, and it's lower speed

626
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:18,560
Speaker 1: D cells when it's warmer, I don't have when it

627
00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:20,720
Speaker 1: gets warmer, I don't hear it. Okay, have you tried

628
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:22,880
Speaker 1: pop Is it an automatic or a stick? This is

629
00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:28,880
Speaker 1: a stick, right, it's the B S G transmisson automatic.

630
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:34,720
Speaker 1: M Have you tried popping it into neutral during the

631
00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:39,840
Speaker 1: times that it whistles? No? All right? And well? And

632
00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:42,240
Speaker 1: I guess I guess that's not a valid request though,

633
00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:45,120
Speaker 1: because from your description, the minute you took your foot

634
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:47,880
Speaker 1: off the fuel pedal, it will stop making the noise.

635
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:54,440
Speaker 1: It goes all right, kind of like a whistle or

636
00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:57,240
Speaker 1: a scream. If you pull over the side of the road,

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Speaker 1: if you pull over to the side of the road,

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Speaker 1: shot the car off while it's making the noise. Could

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Speaker 1: the noise continue even with the key off? All right?

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Speaker 1: I don't think it would. I really don't, all right.

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Speaker 1: The most common failure from what you're describing, and you

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Speaker 1: will likely not get a check engine light until it

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Speaker 1: gets much much worse, is what we call a crank

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Speaker 1: case ventilation valve. Some people might refer to it as

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Speaker 1: the PCV valve, small valve under the air box threather

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Speaker 1: hose on each side. You're gonna find it's either stuck

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Speaker 1: or sticking if you What you could try is loosening

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Speaker 1: the oil fill cap. If you can get it to

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Speaker 1: happen while you're sitting there idling in the driveway. Goosen

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Speaker 1: the oil fill cap and see if the noise goes away,

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Speaker 1: or possibly loosen the cap duct tape it in place

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Speaker 1: so it kind of rattles, but it will at least

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Speaker 1: crank case pressure on its owner to pull the dip

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Speaker 1: stick out of the tube a little bit. Take it

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Speaker 1: for a ride. If the noise is gone, you need

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Speaker 1: a crank case ventilation valve. Get it repaired. It's pretty

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Speaker 1: simple and clear cut. Until the next time I'm on

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Speaker 1: an any in the car doctor. The mechanics are expensive.

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Speaker 1: Get priceless m