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Speaker 1: I'm I'm putting I just put a new airbag module

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Speaker 1: Sure enough, all the way down on the subscreen two

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Speaker 1: update to BCM function. Okay, I did that, went over

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Speaker 1: going on here? Chip? Welcome to the Car Doctor. I'm

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Speaker 1: All those parts you replace, do you still have the

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Speaker 1: old ones? No? Rookie move, bad move? Um? You never

425
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Speaker 1: you never want to. You never want to throw out

426
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Speaker 1: parts until the car is gone. All right. Think of it.

427
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Speaker 1: Think of it from a repair shop point of view.

428
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Speaker 1: I never throw parts out until the customer comes, pace,

429
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Speaker 1: picks up the car, sees everything, and then we throw

430
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Speaker 1: it out. Sometimes we keep it an extra day or

431
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Speaker 1: two just for the heck of it. But you never

432
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Speaker 1: want to throw parts out because what are you gonna do?

433
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Speaker 1: And here's here's the reason why. What are you gonna

434
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Speaker 1: do when you find out that the new cranks into

435
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Speaker 1: you you got is bad. And the reason it's bad

436
00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:04,879
Speaker 1: is because it's the wrong one, because you need a

437
00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:06,840
Speaker 1: part number of the original one to match it up.

438
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Speaker 1: Because there was a variation in choice of production date

439
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Speaker 1: based on the Julian date code to the part you

440
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Speaker 1: took out, it could happen. I'm not saying that it's

441
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Speaker 1: in your case. But you know, you never throw parts

442
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Speaker 1: out until the job is done, all right. Once the

443
00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:21,680
Speaker 1: job is done, then you have to throw them out.

444
00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:25,800
Speaker 1: You can't, you can't. You can't collect parts, all right. Um,

445
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Speaker 1: I would think about fuel pump. I would think about, uh,

446
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Speaker 1: we do we have any kind of a lap scope here,

447
00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:35,359
Speaker 1: any kind of a scoping ability chip? We just I

448
00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:40,480
Speaker 1: just have the one, all right? Do you have do

449
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Speaker 1: you have a voltmeter? Okay? Do you know how to

450
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Speaker 1: use the voltmeter? And' I don't say that derogatory, I'm

451
00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:48,359
Speaker 1: saying that serious. Do you have a do you know

452
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Speaker 1: how to use it? In the sense if I told

453
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Speaker 1: you to go do a voltage drop test? Could you

454
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Speaker 1: voltage drop a couple of things? All right? So why

455
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Speaker 1: don't we voltage drop the ground side, you know, go

456
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Speaker 1: from the negative battery post to the block. The meter

457
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Speaker 1: should be zero or whatever minimum spec is. UM, let's

458
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Speaker 1: do it on the positive side. Let's let's voltage drop

459
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Speaker 1: the positive and negative side from the battery to oh,

460
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Speaker 1: I don't know, the alternator charging post. Uh. Let's let's

461
00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:16,600
Speaker 1: do the same thing on the ground. Let's volta drop

462
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Speaker 1: the ground side of the battery. Let's voltage drop to

463
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Speaker 1: the chassis. Let's you know, let's just do some electrical testing.

464
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Speaker 1: It's an older car, it's got some miles on it,

465
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Speaker 1: it's up in Wisconsin, it's got some winters on it.

466
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Speaker 1: You know what's corroded, what's not. And uh, let's see.

467
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Speaker 1: Maybe maybe that's part of the problem. I'm not saying

468
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Speaker 1: it is. But the one thing you've got to remember

469
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Speaker 1: when you're trying to solve a problem, Okay, tell me

470
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Speaker 1: what's good. If you can't duplicate the condition, tell me

471
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Speaker 1: what's absolutely positively good. All right, And you're doing that

472
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Speaker 1: in a sense. You check fuel pressure. I believe there's

473
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Speaker 1: a problem with that fuel pressure. The other thing you

474
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Speaker 1: can look at with that fuel pressure, with the car

475
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Speaker 1: running and that twenty eight pounds, if you pulled the

476
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Speaker 1: dump valve on the fuel pressure gage, it should have

477
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Speaker 1: a relief alf correct. Uh, you know it should fill

478
00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:07,080
Speaker 1: a Snapple bottle. We always we always joke about this.

479
00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:08,680
Speaker 1: They used to drink snapper when I was a kid,

480
00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:12,119
Speaker 1: when it was first invented. And you know it'll it'll

481
00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:15,040
Speaker 1: fill a Snapple bottle. A good running fuel pump on

482
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Speaker 1: the majority of vehicles will fill a Snapple bottle or

483
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Speaker 1: that that a pint of fuel. And you know, under

484
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Speaker 1: something like that, if it doesn't, that suspect also because

485
00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:27,600
Speaker 1: this could also be a volume issue, not just pressure.

486
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Speaker 1: The other nice thing about doing a volume test is

487
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Speaker 1: if you use a clear Snapple bottle, which is why

488
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Speaker 1: we started doing it in the first place. With clear

489
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Speaker 1: glass bottles, is you'll get an idea of fuel sample

490
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Speaker 1: of condition, dirty, rusty. You know ninety three wasn't exactly yesterday.

491
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Speaker 1: What is the inside of the tank look like. If

492
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Speaker 1: it's a metal tank, it's rusted, could it be if

493
00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:50,000
Speaker 1: it's a if it's just an older vehicle, doesn't have

494
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Speaker 1: any Schwitzen junk in it, it's it's had more than

495
00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:55,240
Speaker 1: a few gas tank phillips in its lifetime. So but

496
00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:58,520
Speaker 1: my point becomes, start looking at tell me what's good,

497
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:02,920
Speaker 1: Tell me what you absolutely positively can prove is good?

498
00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:06,359
Speaker 1: All right? And then and then focus on the rest.

499
00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:12,080
Speaker 1: Are you writing any any of your test results down? Okay? Yeah?

500
00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:14,800
Speaker 1: Never never trust your head. I don't. I don't trust

501
00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:17,399
Speaker 1: my head. I you know. And sometimes what I'll do

502
00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:20,840
Speaker 1: when I'm chasing a problem, I'll print out a wiring diagram.

503
00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:24,560
Speaker 1: Think about this. I'll print out a wiring diagram, and

504
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Speaker 1: I'll sit down and I'll study it. Let's see, could

505
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Speaker 1: the headlight cause the car to stall? No? Cross that off? Could?

506
00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:34,120
Speaker 1: Could an ignission switch cause the car to stall? Sure?

507
00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:37,440
Speaker 1: Could circle it? Could an e g R valve caused

508
00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:38,960
Speaker 1: the car to stall if it has one or need

509
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:43,359
Speaker 1: GR control solinoid could circle it? All right. I'll just

510
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:46,520
Speaker 1: go through the process and start to break things down

511
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Speaker 1: component by component of a wiring diagram and decide could

512
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Speaker 1: anything here be the cause of my stall? And possibly

513
00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:56,480
Speaker 1: focus on that? All right. One of the things that

514
00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:58,040
Speaker 1: one of the other things I was gonna tell you

515
00:27:58,040 --> 00:27:59,600
Speaker 1: to try, what the voltmeter is. When you're looking at

516
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Speaker 1: the wiring diagram. There's gonna be power into the ignition switch,

517
00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:06,480
Speaker 1: power out of the ignition switch. Sometimes there's two powers in,

518
00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:09,159
Speaker 1: two powers out. You want to look at that with

519
00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:12,360
Speaker 1: a volt meter too. Sometimes we'll wire in a one

520
00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:15,719
Speaker 1: side marker bulb looking on the power side. So when

521
00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:17,919
Speaker 1: the car shuts off, did the bulb stay lit? If

522
00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:20,200
Speaker 1: the bulb stayed lit, I just deliminated half the circuit.

523
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Speaker 1: I don't have to test right, make makes sense, So

524
00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:28,360
Speaker 1: try that if you want to hear this again, Chip,

525
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:30,359
Speaker 1: if you want to hear the diagnosis again. This is

526
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Speaker 1: gonna be our one podcast data today. If you get

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Speaker 1: out to our website Car Doctor Show dot com, you'll

528
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Speaker 1: find it under podcast twenty minutes after the show is up,

529
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Speaker 1: and you can Yeah, you're about you started at the

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Speaker 1: bottom of the hour, so about halfway through the podcast

531
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Speaker 1: you'll hear this call and you can kind of hear me.

532
00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:48,760
Speaker 1: Welcome through it again. All right, kiddo, thanks for your time.

533
00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:52,400
Speaker 1: Keep me posted, sir. You absolutely positively enjoy talking to you. Chip.

534
00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:54,400
Speaker 1: Take good care. I'm run eating the Car Doctor or

535
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Speaker 1: back right after this now, I don't want to talk yet.

536
00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:08,520
Speaker 1: I like this song. Wait, let's listen to the shift.

537
00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:11,600
Speaker 1: You know, it's sort of like being a detective working

538
00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:13,959
Speaker 1: in cars, because you're always kind of looking for, you know,

539
00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:16,520
Speaker 1: the clue of where somebody went wrong and trying to

540
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Speaker 1: get him back on the straight and narrow. So when

541
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Speaker 1: we come back, I'll tell you where the street. You know,

542
00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:21,840
Speaker 1: I can tell you why it's called straight and narrow.

543
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:24,040
Speaker 1: But not now. Let's let's go and talk to Sam

544
00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:25,960
Speaker 1: in Florida. Sam, how can I help you run a

545
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:29,160
Speaker 1: nading the car? Doctorate your service or what's going on? Hi? Ron,

546
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:31,360
Speaker 1: thanks for taking my call. A couple of weeks ago,

547
00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:35,600
Speaker 1: my A B s light in course, traction controls downhill. Lie,

548
00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:38,760
Speaker 1: it's all three of them come on at the same time. Okay,

549
00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:43,560
Speaker 1: And the couple of days later, I've just got back

550
00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:45,920
Speaker 1: in the vehicle started up, take it down to the shop.

551
00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:50,320
Speaker 1: The guy that I know has a scanned tool. It's it.

552
00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:52,760
Speaker 1: They all cleared himself. But by the time they got

553
00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:57,400
Speaker 1: to the stop sign and he scanned it anyway, I

554
00:29:57,480 --> 00:30:00,240
Speaker 1: showed data at the right center. I don't know the

555
00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:05,720
Speaker 1: right front or the right Yeah, and since then it's

556
00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:07,760
Speaker 1: done it again. As soon as I go to go

557
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:09,840
Speaker 1: down to him to haven't put the stand two along

558
00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:12,200
Speaker 1: the lights go up. Now when I just left work,

559
00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:18,479
Speaker 1: calm called the lights came on again. Okay, So do

560
00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:21,120
Speaker 1: we know which code. This is right front, left or

561
00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:24,240
Speaker 1: right front, right rear, one or the other. He didn't

562
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:27,640
Speaker 1: tell me, just that was the right there. That's what

563
00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:32,400
Speaker 1: the data shared one. So we know it's we know

564
00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:35,600
Speaker 1: it's something on the right side. Sensors are not uncommon,

565
00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:39,040
Speaker 1: so that's a possibility. It's you're in Florida. I don't

566
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Speaker 1: think you're gonna have a rust issue. Depends on what

567
00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:43,040
Speaker 1: part of Florida here, and it's you know, welcome to

568
00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:46,720
Speaker 1: the northeast, you know, it's uh, it's the parts of

569
00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:48,680
Speaker 1: the country. Yeah, there's no rust anywhere, and welcome to

570
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:52,320
Speaker 1: New Jersey. Um, what I would what I would do

571
00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:55,760
Speaker 1: is see if he has a scope, a lab scope,

572
00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:58,760
Speaker 1: and let him measure the signal, and I would hook

573
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Speaker 1: up to sensors. Let's do one from the left side,

574
00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:02,680
Speaker 1: Let's do one from the right side, or the bad

575
00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:05,400
Speaker 1: one from the right side, and compare the two signals,

576
00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:09,720
Speaker 1: because it's not just going to be wait until the

577
00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:13,920
Speaker 1: code comes on. Sometimes as a sensor fails, you'll see

578
00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:17,800
Speaker 1: a change in the electrical pattern, but the pattern, you know,

579
00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:21,760
Speaker 1: maybe the pattern changes just enough but not enough to

580
00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:28,000
Speaker 1: trigger a code until bam, then it does all right, right,

581
00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:31,240
Speaker 1: and ahead another thing. Well, it's all right, I know

582
00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:34,240
Speaker 1: I can take the front wheel unplugged, the center for

583
00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:39,120
Speaker 1: then ometer a vote meter on there and leisure as

584
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:42,160
Speaker 1: you turn the hut by hand. That another way of

585
00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:47,760
Speaker 1: testing it. Well, all all you're using. All the ometer

586
00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:51,040
Speaker 1: is showing you is continuity. It's not showing you. It's

587
00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:55,360
Speaker 1: not showing you a signal strength, size, amplitude pattern. It's

588
00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:58,680
Speaker 1: it's not showing you. You know, it's you're, you're, you're,

589
00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:00,720
Speaker 1: you're going for a manicure. She's able to look at

590
00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:03,160
Speaker 1: your hands and go, yeah, you've got five fingers, um,

591
00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:05,560
Speaker 1: but she she can't tell you, you know, how many nails,

592
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:08,000
Speaker 1: how long it's gonna take. You're only getting part of

593
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:12,040
Speaker 1: the picture. So you know it's a good effort, but

594
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 1: it's not necessarily you know, right, I can't tell you.

595
00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:19,000
Speaker 1: I've had cars where I'll unplug and an A, B

596
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:22,720
Speaker 1: S sensor. I'll measure the olms ohlms is good bad

597
00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:27,520
Speaker 1: censor all day long. So you know you know now

598
00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:31,440
Speaker 1: by the same token I've had it, ohms good. It's

599
00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:34,960
Speaker 1: not a sensor. It's the trigger wheel. How is it triggered?

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00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:38,240
Speaker 1: You know? Sometimes and if I'm not mistaken. Don't hold

601
00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:41,000
Speaker 1: me to this. But the hun day, maybe the trigger

602
00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:43,320
Speaker 1: device is part of the wheel bearing, depending upon if

603
00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:44,800
Speaker 1: it's front or back, and you end up putting a

604
00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:46,360
Speaker 1: wheel bearing in the car, you end up putting an

605
00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:53,120
Speaker 1: assembly in Yeah, yeah, so right, so just make sure

606
00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:57,680
Speaker 1: he's using a good quality part and you should be okay. Alright, Sam, alright, alright,

607
00:32:57,760 --> 00:32:59,959
Speaker 1: appreciate you. You're welcome, sir. Good luck to you. Take

608
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Speaker 1: could carry zero running any of the Car Doctor coming

609
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Speaker 1: back right after this? Hey, welcome back. Why don't any

610
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:11,000
Speaker 1: of the car Doctor on my own highway? A couple

611
00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:14,640
Speaker 1: of things we're talking about programming at the beginning of

612
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Speaker 1: the hour. Here's the problem with programming the way GM

613
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:20,040
Speaker 1: is doing it on that particular car. What if the

614
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Speaker 1: car was in an accident, and there are situations where

615
00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:25,360
Speaker 1: GM or and some of the other companies want you

616
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Speaker 1: to know the part number, scan the module prior to replacement.

617
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:31,440
Speaker 1: What if the car was in an accident. What if

618
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Speaker 1: the wearing harness was chopped and you can't access any modules,

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Speaker 1: and now all the body parts that body shop has

620
00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:38,160
Speaker 1: assembled the car and they put all the modules in

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Speaker 1: you you you need a collection of modules. Now the

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Speaker 1: old stuff in order to know what the new stuff

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Speaker 1: is supposed to be. It gets very, very complicated. So

624
00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:50,360
Speaker 1: when it comes to programming and flashing, just develop a

625
00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:54,320
Speaker 1: diagnostic routine I do I I get new parts, old parts,

626
00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:56,440
Speaker 1: write down numbers. I have the phone numbers of tech

627
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Speaker 1: line handed because it just becomes a very involved, very

628
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Speaker 1: involved says that you you just don't want to skip

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Speaker 1: out on it. Get out to all data dot com.

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Speaker 1: That was the other thing I wanted to mention. If

631
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Speaker 1: you get out to all data dot com, scroll down

632
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Speaker 1: to the bottom of the page and you will see

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Speaker 1: that they talked. There's a blog there. People are emailing

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Speaker 1: the article on Mode six that my buddy David wrote.

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Speaker 1: Very good information, very good good information. Just breaks it

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Speaker 1: down into every day, everyday information. Now, Michael had a

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Speaker 1: That's where it comes from. See that, you learn a

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Speaker 1: and that's what it's all about. Until the next time

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Speaker 1: I'm running any in the car doctor, reminding you good

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