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Speaker 1: Welcome to the car doctor. How can I help? Hey?

426
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Speaker 1: How are you doing today? Good sir? What's cooking? Well?

427
00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:47,480
Speaker 1: I got uh I got a two thousand eighteen chado

428
00:20:47,640 --> 00:20:50,280
Speaker 1: he sent me one L and I love I love

429
00:20:50,320 --> 00:20:56,520
Speaker 1: the truck. Um and you know you always advertised find

430
00:20:56,560 --> 00:21:00,280
Speaker 1: a good mechanic. And I've got a GM dealer mile

431
00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:01,840
Speaker 1: and a half of my house. So I use them,

432
00:21:01,840 --> 00:21:05,960
Speaker 1: and they're good. They're fantastic, They've been great. Um. The

433
00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:09,200
Speaker 1: only problem I have is this is my first truck

434
00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:13,119
Speaker 1: ever that's got the onboard computer that measures everything, and

435
00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:17,200
Speaker 1: they want me and I've got it's got synthetic oil,

436
00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:19,280
Speaker 1: but they still want me to bring it in every

437
00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:23,359
Speaker 1: three thousand. Yeah, the computer. I just took it in

438
00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:25,640
Speaker 1: about a week and a half ago, and the computer

439
00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:28,800
Speaker 1: said in my yal life was and I and it

440
00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:32,960
Speaker 1: was at three thousand, two hundred miles. And so my

441
00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:37,880
Speaker 1: question to you is it's probably a dumb questions such

442
00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:42,720
Speaker 1: as far as the warranty. If I say I'm only

443
00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:44,600
Speaker 1: going to take into when it hits temperson on the

444
00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:49,720
Speaker 1: computer and go outuntil seven thousand miles? Am I avoiding

445
00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:53,719
Speaker 1: the warranty because I'm not following what what the GM

446
00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:59,040
Speaker 1: dealer wants me to do. I mean, you know, well,

447
00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:02,200
Speaker 1: let's here, let's let's look at it like this, all right, Steve,

448
00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:05,080
Speaker 1: First of all, what does the owner's manual say when

449
00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:07,280
Speaker 1: should you change the oil? The owner's manual is gonna

450
00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:10,200
Speaker 1: reference the Oil Life Monitor Indicator right, the ol M

451
00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:15,760
Speaker 1: I and it between five and right. So as long

452
00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:17,720
Speaker 1: as you follow with the manual says, I don't see

453
00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:20,880
Speaker 1: how you're gonna avoid the warranty. My question is here

454
00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:24,280
Speaker 1: we are causing effect. Here we are again. So why

455
00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:27,920
Speaker 1: is the dealer saying every three What do they know

456
00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:32,200
Speaker 1: that we don't know? Is there something special about the

457
00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:34,920
Speaker 1: air in Wisconsin or the environment in Wisconsin where you

458
00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:38,440
Speaker 1: happen to live that oil wears out faster? Is is

459
00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:41,879
Speaker 1: there an unnatural effect from the environment that's creating an issue.

460
00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:46,200
Speaker 1: It'd be interesting to hear that. Now it's possible that

461
00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:49,240
Speaker 1: maybe the person that told you this isn't educated properly,

462
00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:53,760
Speaker 1: and that's just that's just communication, right, And I would

463
00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:56,000
Speaker 1: ask them say, hey, listen, my owners manual says this,

464
00:22:56,720 --> 00:23:00,440
Speaker 1: you're telling me this. Where Where's where's the reality of

465
00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:03,720
Speaker 1: all this? Now, I'm gonna tell you my rule of thumb,

466
00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:06,160
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna tell you the reason why cause and effect.

467
00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:10,480
Speaker 1: I still like to go by three to four thousand unconventional,

468
00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:16,040
Speaker 1: five to six thousand unsynthetic, and a good quality oil filter,

469
00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:19,320
Speaker 1: all right, because all of this, all of this extended

470
00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:22,879
Speaker 1: life oil change stuff is nonsense unless we're using a

471
00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:27,000
Speaker 1: good filter and and and unless we're using good oil

472
00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:29,160
Speaker 1: and and and that's to me is the bottom line.

473
00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:31,560
Speaker 1: I I still laugh. And I'm gonna get a lot

474
00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:33,360
Speaker 1: of hate mail for this because I get it every

475
00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:36,080
Speaker 1: time I say this, But I still laugh. I'm amazed

476
00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:39,440
Speaker 1: at the amount of time people spend. I sent my

477
00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:42,320
Speaker 1: oil into black Stone Labs and I had an analyzed

478
00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:43,959
Speaker 1: and they said that I could have driven another two

479
00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:47,280
Speaker 1: thousand miles. And my god, we spend more money in

480
00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:50,159
Speaker 1: this country on Starbucks, coffee and oil analysis. Don't we

481
00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:53,320
Speaker 1: doing anything else? And I don't, I don't understand. Just

482
00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:55,159
Speaker 1: come up with a rule of thumb and stick with it.

483
00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:58,800
Speaker 1: You never ever want to have to do engine repair.

484
00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:00,920
Speaker 1: It happens, but what you just don't want to be

485
00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:03,320
Speaker 1: in it. I was in a friend's shop yesterday looking

486
00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:06,920
Speaker 1: at a car for them, and they had a two thousand,

487
00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:11,719
Speaker 1: eleven twelve I'm sorry, a two thousand twelve gmc Acadia,

488
00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:14,359
Speaker 1: all right, and they were putting an engine in it

489
00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:16,200
Speaker 1: had a hundred five thousand miles on it and the

490
00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:20,480
Speaker 1: motor imploded. V six. You've got to see what this

491
00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:23,760
Speaker 1: looks like. It's the the whole front cradle engine and

492
00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:26,320
Speaker 1: trans around four jack stands. The cars up above you

493
00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:28,600
Speaker 1: on the lift, the mechanics sitting on us on a

494
00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:33,399
Speaker 1: roll around uh seat, you know, you know, zooming around

495
00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:36,399
Speaker 1: and taking things apart and transferring. I mean, it's a

496
00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:40,159
Speaker 1: it's a nine thousand dollar engine repair. And you're like, well,

497
00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:42,000
Speaker 1: first of all, I'm like, why would we want to

498
00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:44,080
Speaker 1: do this on a what's gonna be an eight going

499
00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:46,200
Speaker 1: on nine year old car? And the reason isn't because

500
00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:48,119
Speaker 1: the bell is still has three years worth of payments

501
00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:50,720
Speaker 1: on it. He bought it used. And you know, the

502
00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:52,760
Speaker 1: second question I got in my mind is why aren't

503
00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:54,640
Speaker 1: we changing the trans which now has a hundred five

504
00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:56,520
Speaker 1: thousand miles on it? And what we're gonna take this

505
00:24:56,560 --> 00:24:58,119
Speaker 1: apart to do the trans again in two years? That

506
00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:01,520
Speaker 1: doesn't make any sense either. Uh. You know, I don't

507
00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:04,680
Speaker 1: care what you tell me. Maintenance, fluids, filters, common sense

508
00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:07,560
Speaker 1: stuff and a little bit of overkill is what's going

509
00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:09,399
Speaker 1: to get you the distance in the mileage without the

510
00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:12,560
Speaker 1: major breakdown. Just listen. That's the world I live in.

511
00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:16,040
Speaker 1: I read forums, I you know, I I look at

512
00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:19,480
Speaker 1: the conversations. I think my part of the world sometimes

513
00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:23,359
Speaker 1: is very secular, and I look at the problems people

514
00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:26,480
Speaker 1: are having and I'm like, really, um, You're like, we

515
00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:29,000
Speaker 1: never see that. And it's just that that's why I

516
00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:32,320
Speaker 1: started my conversation with you. What's special about the environment

517
00:25:32,359 --> 00:25:37,240
Speaker 1: in Wisconsin? Um? And and you know with that said,

518
00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:40,399
Speaker 1: I don't, I mean I don't. I don't work my

519
00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:43,600
Speaker 1: truck hard, but maybe two or three times a year

520
00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:47,800
Speaker 1: for a week at a time. Wise, it's primarily highway

521
00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:52,520
Speaker 1: and city driving. And um, and I don't know why

522
00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:57,440
Speaker 1: they're asking that question. Um. I used to take care

523
00:25:57,520 --> 00:26:00,480
Speaker 1: of my my vehicles all myself. This is my truck

524
00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:03,000
Speaker 1: that I took a good look at it, and I said, yeah,

525
00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:05,240
Speaker 1: I think this will be my first vehicle where I

526
00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:08,920
Speaker 1: I stopped doing the major work kind of that the

527
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:13,760
Speaker 1: oil changes, that that the dealership offerers are inexpensive enough

528
00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:16,080
Speaker 1: that I don't mind taking it there and having them

529
00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:20,960
Speaker 1: do it. But it's the vehicles nowadays are getting more

530
00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:23,760
Speaker 1: and more difficult for do it yourself, or like me

531
00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:29,399
Speaker 1: to to take care of my MYE G M C.

532
00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:32,520
Speaker 1: I did everything to it. You know, I wouldn't even

533
00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:34,199
Speaker 1: know where to begin on this truge. Let me let

534
00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:35,760
Speaker 1: me ask you a question, Steve. So you take it

535
00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:37,680
Speaker 1: into the dealer for the oil change. And let me

536
00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:40,040
Speaker 1: let me preface, let me preface this comment. All right,

537
00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:42,560
Speaker 1: you know taking it. I don't care where you take

538
00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:45,679
Speaker 1: your car to get it serviced. I I very rarely

539
00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:50,040
Speaker 1: shop anything on price. I shop it on right. How

540
00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:53,639
Speaker 1: right is it? Okay? And and and that's that becomes

541
00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:57,160
Speaker 1: the critical thing because we had a customer recently take

542
00:26:57,240 --> 00:26:59,840
Speaker 1: her two year old Honda into the local Honda dealer

543
00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:03,240
Speaker 1: fifteen thousand miles. They did the oil change. The oil

544
00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:07,640
Speaker 1: change with synthetic oil is thirty seven dollars. I looked

545
00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:09,040
Speaker 1: at that, and I said, how can you do that

546
00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:11,200
Speaker 1: for thirty seven bucks? I can't buy the oil and

547
00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:13,760
Speaker 1: filter for thirty seven bucks and change. It's just impossible.

548
00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:15,879
Speaker 1: How do you do it? Because you're using it as

549
00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:17,960
Speaker 1: a loss leader. And she walked out the door with

550
00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:21,120
Speaker 1: almost eight worth of recommended services in a two year old,

551
00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:24,159
Speaker 1: fifteen thousand mile vehicle. Hence she came it was it

552
00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:26,200
Speaker 1: was the daughter of a regular customer. Now she's my

553
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:28,520
Speaker 1: regular customer because I explained it to her. The car

554
00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:30,440
Speaker 1: needed about two hundred fifty bucks worth of you know,

555
00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:32,600
Speaker 1: filters and some other odds and ends, but not a lot,

556
00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:36,720
Speaker 1: so you know, part of order. Repair is also the marketing,

557
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:39,320
Speaker 1: and you've got to watch it. You've got to make

558
00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:42,560
Speaker 1: sure that we're not falling into the Hey, how cheap

559
00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:45,080
Speaker 1: can I get it? And what are they really doing?

560
00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:49,520
Speaker 1: All right? And we're at the point now where it's

561
00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:51,640
Speaker 1: it's an oil change a couple of times a year,

562
00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:54,880
Speaker 1: and I just had the conversation with somebody that it's

563
00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:57,479
Speaker 1: also an annual check up, a code scan every year

564
00:27:57,520 --> 00:28:00,359
Speaker 1: as the car gets older, checking for updates and ultons

565
00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:02,920
Speaker 1: and things like that. So those are the things you

566
00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:05,000
Speaker 1: want to look for. Go back and talk to them.

567
00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:07,840
Speaker 1: Why are you recommending whale changes sooner rather than later?

568
00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:09,879
Speaker 1: Call me back, let me know what the answer is.

569
00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:11,600
Speaker 1: I'm curious to hear what they say. Maybe there's something

570
00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:14,600
Speaker 1: with the year in Wisconsin. Maybe not, but I'm betting

571
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:19,000
Speaker 1: that it's not zero. The car doctors cruising back right

572
00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:29,200
Speaker 1: after this, We're back. We're on any of the car doctors.

573
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:32,480
Speaker 1: You know, nobody, and I say this every time, Nobody

574
00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:34,720
Speaker 1: in forty years is gonna come up with a song

575
00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:38,000
Speaker 1: that we took my Toyota Prius out on the highway

576
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:40,600
Speaker 1: and we raced all the way to Bamburgers. You know,

577
00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:43,680
Speaker 1: it's just not gonna happen. It's just what a time period.

578
00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:46,560
Speaker 1: Let's get over and talk to Jeremy and Washington d C. Jeremy,

579
00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:48,040
Speaker 1: Welcome to the car doctors, sir. How can I help

580
00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:52,240
Speaker 1: good to talk to you? Have just a little side

581
00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:54,360
Speaker 1: note before I get going here. I'm currently doing a

582
00:28:54,440 --> 00:29:02,480
Speaker 1: great job and I'm having like the worst time in

583
00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:05,360
Speaker 1: the universe getting the O E M pads and shams

584
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:11,760
Speaker 1: using aftermarket hardware kit, I mean, the clips that they

585
00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:15,760
Speaker 1: centric sold me. I don't know if I'm never gonna

586
00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:17,080
Speaker 1: be able to get him in. I'm just gonna sit

587
00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:20,600
Speaker 1: the pricking pads in loose in the brackets so I

588
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:22,840
Speaker 1: can get some o EM clips. I guess, well, no,

589
00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:27,840
Speaker 1: it's probably going on, is is there's probably a fair

590
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:31,600
Speaker 1: amount of rust build up on the bracket. Even though

591
00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:35,000
Speaker 1: you don't see it, it's it's there, and it's it's

592
00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:41,360
Speaker 1: it's sort of swollen the caliper bracket. And yeah, it's

593
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:43,400
Speaker 1: just if you look at it that I'm telling I mean,

594
00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:47,520
Speaker 1: they slide in fine without those clips. Yeah, okay, that's

595
00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:53,320
Speaker 1: an interesting idea. It's a rebuilt um caliper well that

596
00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:56,400
Speaker 1: I put on about a year ago. And it's interesting

597
00:29:56,480 --> 00:30:01,200
Speaker 1: you say that because some you know, genius sprayed over

598
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:07,480
Speaker 1: with black paint. Right. So so so here's here's what

599
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:08,920
Speaker 1: you've got to do. And one of the things I

600
00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:11,240
Speaker 1: don't like about some of the Reman calipers out there

601
00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:13,200
Speaker 1: is if you look at the surface, they look like

602
00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:16,600
Speaker 1: they've been shot peened. So when they when they shot

603
00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:19,240
Speaker 1: peen the caliper and the bracket that you know, it

604
00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:21,920
Speaker 1: beats up, it beats up the metal and it kind

605
00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:25,760
Speaker 1: of raises the surface. That changes the dimension. You know,

606
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:28,160
Speaker 1: it doesn't take much. Everything's built of such a tolerance

607
00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:34,320
Speaker 1: today you close it frustrating. I mean, yeah, listen, been there,

608
00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:37,760
Speaker 1: done that brother, um, but yeah, I get it. Just

609
00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:42,080
Speaker 1: make sure. Well, what we'll do is will either will

610
00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:44,120
Speaker 1: either hit it with the wire wheel and just scuff

611
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:45,360
Speaker 1: it up a little bit. You can just take a

612
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:48,800
Speaker 1: jeweler's file and dress the caliber bracket and um. Or

613
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:51,160
Speaker 1: you can although I don't like to do this a lot.

614
00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:53,320
Speaker 1: I will take and knock off some of the paint,

615
00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:57,760
Speaker 1: but that helps the pad to rust. The the the

616
00:30:58,000 --> 00:30:59,920
Speaker 1: coating on the brake pad itself. If it makes the

617
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:02,360
Speaker 1: head just a just a touch, but that's a that's

618
00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:04,000
Speaker 1: a go no go gauge kind of thing. It's a

619
00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:08,760
Speaker 1: little bit of patience, you know. So, but that's that's

620
00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:11,760
Speaker 1: that's that's that's part of Welcome to the world of mechanics,

621
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:13,640
Speaker 1: right man. It's just like you know, you budget, like

622
00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:15,600
Speaker 1: just you're planning your day. You're like, all right, I'll

623
00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:16,840
Speaker 1: take him that hour and a half to do this,

624
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:20,800
Speaker 1: and nothing happening right now. Just make sure you're putting

625
00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:22,520
Speaker 1: a little bit of you know, we used we used

626
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:26,280
Speaker 1: uh Delco brake rease. That's exactly what I used with

627
00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:28,760
Speaker 1: a little a little brush. Yeah, a little brush stuff

628
00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:31,840
Speaker 1: works great. Yeah, I'm over all the paint and purple

629
00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:34,320
Speaker 1: and black and all the other colors stuff that, you know,

630
00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:37,640
Speaker 1: but the del the Delco silicon breake rease works good.

631
00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:39,560
Speaker 1: Go man, what's your story? I got about a minute?

632
00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:44,280
Speaker 1: Look sorry, yeah, I got a two thousand one cutaway van,

633
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:51,480
Speaker 1: UH motor home right, and it's uh throughout control. I

634
00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:54,720
Speaker 1: keep getting reduced engine power. And this has been going

635
00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:57,840
Speaker 1: on and off for years. And you know, back in

636
00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:00,560
Speaker 1: the day when it's still under warranty, the replaced you know,

637
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:04,760
Speaker 1: gas pedal and uh thraw a position and they replaced

638
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:07,760
Speaker 1: the tach module, the throttle actual way to control module

639
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:10,040
Speaker 1: on the driver's side of the fire wall. And I

640
00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:13,520
Speaker 1: don't necessarily know that they did the tach module, okay,

641
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:15,040
Speaker 1: And I don't think that it needs it because I'll

642
00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:18,920
Speaker 1: tell you what. I'll tell you what's probably wrong with it. Um,

643
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:21,240
Speaker 1: I think unless they've done it, I think it's in

644
00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:25,960
Speaker 1: the harness. Okay, I'll see they did once. But um

645
00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:29,520
Speaker 1: and the guy told me, he's like, well, I added,

646
00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:35,320
Speaker 1: that's the little lamp. So that way, you know, if

647
00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:39,920
Speaker 1: you really tigle what it'll cut out that that doesn't

648
00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:42,600
Speaker 1: sound right. Yea, hang on, Jeremy, Hey, Jeremy, sit tight,

649
00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:44,360
Speaker 1: let me pull over. Take this pause. When we come back,

650
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:46,040
Speaker 1: we'll have a couple of minutes. We'll finish up. I'm

651
00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:47,720
Speaker 1: run on any of the car, doctor, don't go away.

652
00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:51,040
Speaker 1: Welcome back. We're on any of the car. Doctor, Jeremy,

653
00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:54,760
Speaker 1: you're still there, buddy. So you know this is a

654
00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:59,240
Speaker 1: drive by wire vehicle, right this this okay. So the

655
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:02,880
Speaker 1: big misnomer or where everybody kind of got lost in

656
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:05,240
Speaker 1: the diagnosis was everybody did the exact same thing. It

657
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:08,120
Speaker 1: was changed the pedal sensor at the gas at the

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00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:11,400
Speaker 1: at the throttle pedal, change the attack module, change the

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00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:15,120
Speaker 1: throttle body, and the vehicle still had the issues. Now

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00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:20,000
Speaker 1: that you're saying they changed the wiring harness leading out

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00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:22,320
Speaker 1: to the throttle body, Okay, let me tell you what

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00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:25,320
Speaker 1: they changed. Near as I can tell. What they changed

663
00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:28,480
Speaker 1: was the a section of the wire harness, including the

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00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:33,760
Speaker 1: plug that leads to the throttle positions sense it. I

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00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:35,440
Speaker 1: don't know if they did anything with the harness that

666
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:38,520
Speaker 1: leads to the motor you know that operates the butterfly

667
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:43,400
Speaker 1: in there, because that's that's generally and it depends on

668
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:47,600
Speaker 1: what fault code it was, if you're curious. It's a

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00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:51,360
Speaker 1: one to two one, which seems to be only GM

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00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:55,200
Speaker 1: specific kind of story. Staff. I don't know if that's

671
00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:57,920
Speaker 1: the case or not, but like, well here's what I

672
00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:01,520
Speaker 1: here's here's what you should do, all right, if if

673
00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:03,400
Speaker 1: if you can get this thing, you know, just warm

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00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:07,080
Speaker 1: it up, if you manipulate or tweak that harness around,

675
00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:09,279
Speaker 1: can you get this to act up and go into

676
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:12,319
Speaker 1: a stall mode or a limp mode. I'm gonna try

677
00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:13,759
Speaker 1: to see if I can get it to do all right.

678
00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:16,960
Speaker 1: Then I would be more concerned changing the throttle I'm

679
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:20,000
Speaker 1: changing the TPS censor and wiring. I get that the

680
00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:24,200
Speaker 1: problems we always saw were in the pin connectors leading

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00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:27,880
Speaker 1: up to the control motor for the throttle plate, and

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00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:31,360
Speaker 1: the explanation we always got out of GM was that

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00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:34,480
Speaker 1: over time, vibration and heat would spread the pins just

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00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:38,600
Speaker 1: a microscopic nanosecond kind of what you're experiencing on the

685
00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:42,400
Speaker 1: brake calipers, and it would just be enough to lose contact.

686
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:45,160
Speaker 1: GM did come out with and they did at one

687
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:48,320
Speaker 1: point have a harness repair kit for the vehicles of

688
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:51,000
Speaker 1: that generation. I don't know that it's still available or

689
00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:53,719
Speaker 1: they had a way to purchase individual pins to make

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00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:56,520
Speaker 1: up a harness, but I would focus on that connector

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00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:59,200
Speaker 1: and change that connector and harness and see if the

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00:34:59,239 --> 00:35:01,239
Speaker 1: problem goes away, and I'm betting it does. Good to

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00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:03,360
Speaker 1: talk to you, Jeremy, Thanks bunch. I'm running any in

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00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:05,160
Speaker 1: the car doctor reminding each and every one of you

695
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:08,200
Speaker 1: good mechanics aren't expensive, They're priceless. See you