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Speaker 1: Welcome to the radio home of Ron and Anian the

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Speaker 1: Car Doctor, since this is where car owners the world

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Speaker 1: But I am here to take your calls at eight

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Speaker 1: there's a lot James and Iowa, Oh for Chevy Malibu.

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Speaker 1: What's going on here? James, welcome aboard. Well, uh, when

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Speaker 1: I go to check the oil in it. I'm pulling

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Speaker 1: do you do you have any idea of the oil

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Speaker 1: change history prior to you getting it? I do not.

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Speaker 1: A year? Oh? Probably four months? All right? And you're

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Speaker 1: of we call that in the industry, we call that schmutz.

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Speaker 1: You're getting some schmitz on the dipstick, right, yep. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So you know it could be a function of mileage

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Speaker 1: But you know, you want to be a little gentle

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Speaker 1: down there and ask them for a ken of Berryman

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Speaker 1: B sixty high mileage oil system rejuvenator. All right, nice product,

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Speaker 1: And the neat thing about it was it had built

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Speaker 1: Let's get back with Randy and Hawaii. Randy had a

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Speaker 1: second part to your question. Randy, Yes, yes, got you.

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Speaker 1: I got you. I wouldn't let you go, uh because after,

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Speaker 1: so um. Second part to your question, brother, a beautiful day,

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Speaker 1: another beautiful day in Hawaii, partly cloudy, and and trades

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Speaker 1: Car Doctor, Sir, how can I hell? Uh, Well, I

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Speaker 1: they overheated and then all the brake voters are worked

423
00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:57,720
Speaker 1: in such so I did you know, get quality pads

424
00:23:57,760 --> 00:24:00,400
Speaker 1: and voters went through and clean it in a blue louve.

425
00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:06,320
Speaker 1: The cowper's properly over that it uh. But since then,

426
00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:08,920
Speaker 1: over the last twenty miles, what I found is is

427
00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:12,399
Speaker 1: that the pedal just keeps on getting softer and softer

428
00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:15,359
Speaker 1: and softer, to the point that if I have a

429
00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:17,840
Speaker 1: bit of a load in the truck, I don't feel

430
00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:20,159
Speaker 1: safe driving at at highway speed because if I had

431
00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:22,960
Speaker 1: to stop, then, um, it just doesn't do such a

432
00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:25,960
Speaker 1: good job. It'll actually try sometimes, you know, it almost

433
00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:27,680
Speaker 1: feels like the A B S is engaging on just

434
00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:29,880
Speaker 1: one wheel if my foot gets all the way down

435
00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:33,240
Speaker 1: near the floor. But but yeah, I don't want to

436
00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:36,080
Speaker 1: just go throwing parts at this thing. Yeah no, no, no, no, no,

437
00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:39,480
Speaker 1: is it is it a case that can you can

438
00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:44,760
Speaker 1: you ride this break down to the floor in that sense, well,

439
00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:47,720
Speaker 1: if I pushed the pedal halfway to the floor, it'll

440
00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:49,960
Speaker 1: be like you just putting your big towel on. The

441
00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:53,959
Speaker 1: brakes were great, so like it might be, it might

442
00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:56,320
Speaker 1: be generating just the slightest bit of pressure, but it

443
00:24:56,440 --> 00:24:58,639
Speaker 1: just it feels spongy. It feels like you need to

444
00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:02,000
Speaker 1: bleat the brakes. In fact, I I even went through that.

445
00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:05,560
Speaker 1: I engaged the help of someone to help me bleed

446
00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:08,000
Speaker 1: the brakes and you have them work in the pedal

447
00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:12,160
Speaker 1: while I I go to each corner and I got

448
00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:14,280
Speaker 1: I got nothing. You know, it seemed like I may

449
00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:16,760
Speaker 1: have gotten a few air bubbles out here there, right,

450
00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:22,160
Speaker 1: but nothing definitive. It made no noticeable improvement in the pedal.

451
00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:28,160
Speaker 1: So if if, if, if if I had the resources,

452
00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:31,520
Speaker 1: what I would do is let's break this out into

453
00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:35,800
Speaker 1: a basic brake system, all right, So obviously you're smart enough,

454
00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:38,120
Speaker 1: you know how to believe breaks. All right, you've been

455
00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:40,119
Speaker 1: you've been that, You've been down that road, and I

456
00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:43,040
Speaker 1: don't think that's your issue. Um, you know, and you've

457
00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:46,360
Speaker 1: done pads and rotors, and I don't think that's your issue. Obviously.

458
00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:49,160
Speaker 1: I'm gonna, you know, just remind you so everybody else

459
00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:51,639
Speaker 1: hears me say it. You know, the pad slide, the

460
00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:55,760
Speaker 1: caliper slides move. There's nothing stuck, frozen, rusted, you know,

461
00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:58,960
Speaker 1: down at the caliper break assembly itself. We have good

462
00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:02,800
Speaker 1: movement on all breaking oponents, right, agreed? Important? Yes, yes, yes,

463
00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:04,920
Speaker 1: because as I did, and I made sure I cleaned

464
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:09,600
Speaker 1: her well and then lubricated, so you know, we could

465
00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:11,840
Speaker 1: we could break all the rules the industry says, never

466
00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:15,320
Speaker 1: pinch off a rubber hose, doesn't happen. Yeah, So we

467
00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:17,160
Speaker 1: could go down and we could pinch off the four

468
00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:20,439
Speaker 1: rubber hoses leader or three rubber hoses, the two fronts

469
00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:22,520
Speaker 1: and the one to the rear. Does the brake pedal

470
00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:25,639
Speaker 1: get any better? And I bet it doesn't, all right,

471
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:29,520
Speaker 1: I wouldn't. I would venturous. Guess it doesn't either. One

472
00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:31,399
Speaker 1: thing I'll add I just thought about it. I had

473
00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:34,400
Speaker 1: to renew my tags and actually I'm a Delaware residence

474
00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:36,920
Speaker 1: of Delaware. When your tags bring new, you have to

475
00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:39,920
Speaker 1: You had drive through inspection and they actually have a

476
00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:42,920
Speaker 1: ski pad that they used to test your brakes. And

477
00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:45,960
Speaker 1: I thought, surely it's going to fail, you know, and

478
00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:48,840
Speaker 1: it passed. Guess what? Guess what it passed. Now. What

479
00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:51,360
Speaker 1: I did was is they have a big computer display,

480
00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:54,000
Speaker 1: and I could see I was expecting to be failed,

481
00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:55,639
Speaker 1: and then I was going to have to be forced

482
00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:58,240
Speaker 1: to fix it as fast as I could. I looked

483
00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:01,440
Speaker 1: over at the display and it was reasonably balanced between

484
00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:04,040
Speaker 1: the all four wheels front and rear, left right, So

485
00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:07,720
Speaker 1: all four breaks are performing. They're just not performing the

486
00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:10,720
Speaker 1: way that they should. Right where I think your fault

487
00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:14,159
Speaker 1: is is the break actuator itself, the A B S

488
00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:19,440
Speaker 1: break controller. Yeah, that's what I was. Yeah, it's it's

489
00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:22,240
Speaker 1: it's ugly. You know. I've had a few of these fail,

490
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:24,680
Speaker 1: not just on Toyota's but on Fords, it seems Ford

491
00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:27,919
Speaker 1: and Toyota. I've had well GM too. Actually what am

492
00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:30,679
Speaker 1: I saying? And you know it's the darndest thing, David.

493
00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:32,520
Speaker 1: The only way you can diagnose it is you have

494
00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:35,960
Speaker 1: to prove what it's not, okay, And the way I

495
00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:38,840
Speaker 1: did it was I I you know, well, let's see,

496
00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:41,920
Speaker 1: you're you're an eleven, so you're nine years old. If

497
00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:44,320
Speaker 1: the if the break fluid is any kind of dirty,

498
00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:46,960
Speaker 1: that has to be on your mind, if it ever was.

499
00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:49,720
Speaker 1: But you know, I came up with plugs. I blocked

500
00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:52,440
Speaker 1: off the master as soon as I disconnected the master.

501
00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:55,719
Speaker 1: I had a great pedal all right on all of them.

502
00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:57,600
Speaker 1: You know I would, I would block the Master off,

503
00:27:57,680 --> 00:28:01,160
Speaker 1: bleeded out. I'd have a great pedal, good and hard boom. Okay, Well,

504
00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:04,520
Speaker 1: you know I pinch off the hoses, I'd still have

505
00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:06,639
Speaker 1: a crummy pedal. The only thing left is the A

506
00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:11,760
Speaker 1: B S actuator. Now that being said, there there is

507
00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:14,800
Speaker 1: likely a procedure. I don't remember them all, but I would.

508
00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:16,600
Speaker 1: I would at least plug in a scan tool of

509
00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:19,239
Speaker 1: some magnitude and look to see, can I do an

510
00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:23,879
Speaker 1: A BS bleed all right? And bleed the actuator control

511
00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:26,760
Speaker 1: the A B S actuator. If I can't, then you're

512
00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:28,399
Speaker 1: likely going to have to bite the bullet. You know,

513
00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:30,520
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to eliminate everything else and work your

514
00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:33,000
Speaker 1: way towards an A B S break actuator assembly and

515
00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:36,760
Speaker 1: replace it and get ready because they're pricing. Oh, I

516
00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:39,360
Speaker 1: know they are. I know. I've done the electronic bleed

517
00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:43,440
Speaker 1: when I had several cheap Grand chairkeys. But those were

518
00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:48,000
Speaker 1: like four raining and UH and deal deal snap on

519
00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:50,720
Speaker 1: UH scan tool that I had at the time. I

520
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:53,360
Speaker 1: was able to control all that and I could electronically

521
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:57,560
Speaker 1: do it. It was fantastic. And and I guarantee you'll

522
00:28:57,560 --> 00:28:59,480
Speaker 1: put an actuator in it that'll fix it, et cetera.

523
00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:02,440
Speaker 1: If that's sort of diagnosis too, and you'll end up

524
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:05,239
Speaker 1: you'll end up um taking it apart and you'll never

525
00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:07,480
Speaker 1: see what's wrong with it. I've taken him apart every time.

526
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:09,680
Speaker 1: I never see what's wrong with them. So good luck

527
00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:11,520
Speaker 1: to you, David. Let me know what happens. I'm curious

528
00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:13,960
Speaker 1: and we'll do whatever we can for you to help you.

529
00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:16,040
Speaker 1: Ran a name the car Doctor. We're back right after this.

530
00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:25,280
Speaker 1: Name the car Doculet's go to Rob in Delaware, Cobra, Rob,

531
00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:33,680
Speaker 1: how can I help quickly? Good? Good, Thanks for your help, Cobra.

532
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:38,480
Speaker 1: When I when I'm sitting at idle, bring it up

533
00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:43,400
Speaker 1: the temperature. Everything's great, when I read the engine, it

534
00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:50,400
Speaker 1: sucks the coolant whose from the thermostatic housing to the

535
00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:57,360
Speaker 1: oil cooler totally shut. Now I did, um, I just

536
00:29:57,520 --> 00:30:00,840
Speaker 1: finished stop putting hey gaskets in the car, replace the

537
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:07,080
Speaker 1: water pump, thermostat, um everything that could be replaced while

538
00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:09,880
Speaker 1: I had the engine out of the car. I don't.

539
00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:12,600
Speaker 1: I don't know if it did this prior to me

540
00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:16,680
Speaker 1: pulling the engine and doing the head gaskets. But is

541
00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:21,040
Speaker 1: that something that I mean, you're well, you're you're creating

542
00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:23,960
Speaker 1: a vacuum. You know normally when we see a vacuum

543
00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:25,800
Speaker 1: like that. But I'm sure you've done it as you

544
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:30,120
Speaker 1: would right away. Think it's a faulty radiator cap, right,

545
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:34,400
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's all well? And then do you have

546
00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:40,720
Speaker 1: the old one? Um? I do? Did you try that? Um? No?

547
00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:43,280
Speaker 1: I didn't. Once you try that. You know what news

548
00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:49,560
Speaker 1: stands for, right, it's a brand new three row illuminums radiator. Yeah,

549
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:52,080
Speaker 1: but you know you try to but try try replacing

550
00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:53,840
Speaker 1: it with the old cap, and I'll tell you why.

551
00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:58,240
Speaker 1: You know what news stands for right, never ever worked?

552
00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:02,040
Speaker 1: So you know it's if it didn't do it before.

553
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:05,320
Speaker 1: Let's go with simple, all right, do that because I'm

554
00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:07,120
Speaker 1: up against the clock this week. Not to rush you,

555
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:09,040
Speaker 1: but do that. Call me back next week and we

556
00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:11,160
Speaker 1: can talk about it more. But you're creating a vacuum

557
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:13,520
Speaker 1: in that system. My second thought would be is if

558
00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:15,720
Speaker 1: you if you started up, let the car run, bring

559
00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:17,880
Speaker 1: it up, the temperature, drive it. Do you have any

560
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:20,800
Speaker 1: excessive pressure? Do you have any signs that you've got

561
00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 1: a cooling system issue? Um ahead, gas at, et cetera,

562
00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:27,320
Speaker 1: something like that elsewhere in the system, signs of air.

563
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:29,920
Speaker 1: But it sounds like you're you're on top of this.

564
00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:32,600
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go for a simple fix here. Let's uh,

565
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:35,520
Speaker 1: let's um, you know, let's let's take a look at

566
00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:37,960
Speaker 1: the radiator cap, swap it. We'll kind of take it

567
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:41,560
Speaker 1: from that point. All right, kid, very good, You're very welcome. Rob.

568
00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:43,000
Speaker 1: I'm run on any of the car doctor. We'll be

569
00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:50,840
Speaker 1: back right after this. Welcome back. We're on any car doctor,

570
00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:53,160
Speaker 1: Mike and Jersey. We got three minutes, Michael, what's on

571
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:59,560
Speaker 1: your mind? Okay? Um, whenever it put from the tank

572
00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:02,800
Speaker 1: gas a uh distance empty used to be five fifty

573
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:07,240
Speaker 1: Now when I fill the tank up, it's only so

574
00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:10,040
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I'll tell you what people told

575
00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:12,720
Speaker 1: me run. They said, there's a there's a different blend

576
00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:16,080
Speaker 1: of gas in the winter than there is in the spring. Um,

577
00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:18,840
Speaker 1: there's probably different brand, there's probably a different blend of

578
00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:22,640
Speaker 1: gas last week to this week, because yeah, they're always

579
00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:27,400
Speaker 1: changing formula. And that's that's not necessarily incorrect, Mike. But

580
00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:30,120
Speaker 1: let's go back to basics. Forget what the car tells you.

581
00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:32,080
Speaker 1: How far do you get to go before the tank

582
00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:37,120
Speaker 1: is empty? Is the accurate? Yeah? Okay, so what you're

583
00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:41,080
Speaker 1: telling me is your overall fuel economy is down. Yeah. Now,

584
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:43,400
Speaker 1: just to give you some more background, I travel a lot,

585
00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:45,400
Speaker 1: and I leave the car idle and I disconnect the

586
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:48,960
Speaker 1: negative battery terminal. Um, and that never happened before. But

587
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:52,200
Speaker 1: does that anyway interfere with the internal computer? Yeah, I

588
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:55,560
Speaker 1: wouldn't do that. Well, well, the answer is simple, how

589
00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:58,560
Speaker 1: long do you leave the car? Set about ninety days.

590
00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:03,240
Speaker 1: The problem is that when you disconnect it like that,

591
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:05,440
Speaker 1: you have to retrain the car. The car is gonna

592
00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:08,680
Speaker 1: have some adaptives and some relearns in terms of you know,

593
00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:11,920
Speaker 1: to get back. It's it's it knows, it knows. Hey,

594
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:13,800
Speaker 1: Mike's back, and he's driving me, and he's taking me

595
00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:15,440
Speaker 1: along this route and that route, and this is how

596
00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:18,480
Speaker 1: he drives, and the car has some some adaptive to you.

597
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:22,440
Speaker 1: Now it didn't happen before. Um, it may not be

598
00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:25,360
Speaker 1: all of your problem, but you're certainly not helping the cause.

599
00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:29,920
Speaker 1: All right, So but a just interrupted for a second.

600
00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:32,880
Speaker 1: I've done this about four or five times when I traveled,

601
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:35,840
Speaker 1: and it's never happened before. Right, Well, that's that's why.

602
00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:38,160
Speaker 1: That's why I'm saying it's not necessarily all of it.

603
00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:41,280
Speaker 1: But I I don't like doing that. I would try

604
00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:44,520
Speaker 1: and find another way to preserve the battery, perhaps a

605
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:47,680
Speaker 1: solar charger in the window. Does the car parked outside

606
00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:52,560
Speaker 1: while you're traveling or is it inside? It's inside? Well,

607
00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:56,040
Speaker 1: you're difficult today, Michael. Um. I would love to see

608
00:33:56,080 --> 00:33:59,240
Speaker 1: the batteries, you know, maintain a state of charge that aside.

609
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:02,320
Speaker 1: All right, let's let's let's call that iboit and and

610
00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:05,920
Speaker 1: and move on. Um. Obviously something's changing in the engine.

611
00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:07,960
Speaker 1: I'm sure you've done your maintenance. I'm sure you're on

612
00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:10,320
Speaker 1: top of your oil changes. Have you had a fuel

613
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:14,040
Speaker 1: system cleaning at all? A field system? No? But ron

614
00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:17,239
Speaker 1: someone suggested that change the spark plugs. But but the

615
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:23,120
Speaker 1: spark plugs seeds. Yeah, that's that's old school. What I

616
00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:25,120
Speaker 1: would do is, I would take this car for a rod.

617
00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:28,279
Speaker 1: Look at scan tool data. Do we have cool and

618
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:30,759
Speaker 1: temperature right where it's supposed to be cool? Intempt is

619
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:33,000
Speaker 1: going to affect things? And I come up with a number,

620
00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:36,279
Speaker 1: I'd start doing miles per gallon? You know I would.

621
00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:39,359
Speaker 1: I would. Well, let's let's back up in order. All right,

622
00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:42,840
Speaker 1: let's verify the spendometer is accurate. Okay, it probably is,

623
00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:44,560
Speaker 1: but we have to know what's good to figure out

624
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:47,360
Speaker 1: what's bad. Let's look and see as the s plometer accurate.

625
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:50,239
Speaker 1: Get out to the highway mile markers, you know, Uh,

626
00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:53,000
Speaker 1: distance between them at sixty miles an hour should take

627
00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:54,600
Speaker 1: you a minute. If you've got a GPS, you can

628
00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:57,279
Speaker 1: reference a GPS. There's a couple of different ways to

629
00:34:57,320 --> 00:34:59,279
Speaker 1: do it. We've been talking about in the past few weeks.

630
00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:03,040
Speaker 1: That's no number one. Um, you know, spinometer accurate is

631
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Speaker 1: cool and temperature where it's supposed to be. Uh, last

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Speaker 1: time the vehicle had a fuel system service carbon cleaning

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Speaker 1: carbon deposits on a hierol mileage older vehicle, it's already

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Speaker 1: four years old, and you know last I would take

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Speaker 1: a look tire pressure and be concerned or considered about, um,

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Speaker 1: do we have a break, drag? Do those things call

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Speaker 1: me back? We can talk about it some more. I'm

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Speaker 1: running any in the car, doctor, reminding you until the

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Speaker 1: next time. Good mechanics aren't expensive, They're priceless. See you