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Speaker 1: Ron Andanian, because the struggle in the competition for used

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Speaker 1: cars out there is fierce that you want to go

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Speaker 1: and maybe take it to your body shop and say, hey,

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Speaker 1: can I buy an hour of your time? Can you

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Speaker 1: look this car before we told you think of it?

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Speaker 1: A body wise? Has ever been in an accident? Big

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Speaker 1: cars like one that revolve yardc they don't make a

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Speaker 1: luck down no more. Get let's big car the car Doctor.

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Speaker 1: I remember reading years ago, You're supposed to three plays,

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Speaker 1: all four tires and staff a certain mile adown him

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Speaker 1: at the same time. Makes a good point. Yeah, you

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Speaker 1: wonder what happens if in thirty thousand miles you need

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Speaker 1: one tire? Are they're gonna put one on it? Or four?

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

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Speaker 1: Since nineteen ninety one, this is where car owners the

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Speaker 1: world overturned to for their definitive opinion on automotive repair.

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Speaker 1: If your mechanics giving you a busy signal, pick up

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Speaker 1: the phone and call in the garage to orders are open,

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Speaker 1: but I am here to take your calls at eight five,

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Speaker 1: five five six and now running. You know it's great

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Speaker 1: being a mechanic, It really is. I love my job.

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Speaker 1: I absolutely, I absolutely enjoy running a repair shop. I

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Speaker 1: really enjoy the time I get to spend here with

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Speaker 1: you each and every week as we continue motoring forward.

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Speaker 1: And it's interesting the variety of people I get to

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Speaker 1: talk to and meet and seeing. But sometimes my phone

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Speaker 1: sometimes at the shop. You know, we always play guess

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Speaker 1: your best Danny and I sometimes we wonder, you know,

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Speaker 1: And um, we had one this week, officer Sean. And

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Speaker 1: I said to Danny, I said, he's a police officer

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Speaker 1: and he said, hetty, And I said, I can tell,

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Speaker 1: I said. His mannerism is the way he you know,

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Speaker 1: he was very um methodical in his approach, you know,

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Speaker 1: him over time as the repair process continued forward. We

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Speaker 1: looked at his jeep this week and you know, he

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Speaker 1: then when he came to pick it up, we got

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Speaker 1: to sit down and talk with him and you know,

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Speaker 1: here's what the vehicle need. But you know it's not

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Speaker 1: life and death, and yet he yet a yeah, and

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Speaker 1: we kind of walked him through it. He started to

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Speaker 1: tell us about his experiences with where he'd been going,

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Speaker 1: because I'm always curious what brings somebody new to my door.

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Speaker 1: I want to know what is it, because I want

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Speaker 1: to know what the last guy did to annoy them.

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Speaker 1: And it's easy to guess, and it's it's it's not

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Speaker 1: hard to imagine, because, let's face it, there is a

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Speaker 1: lot of incompetence in the automobile field like any other field,

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Speaker 1: you know, but not everybody's bad. And you know, there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of guys and girls out there that are

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Speaker 1: really trying hard, trying to fix vehicles and keep us

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Speaker 1: all rolling, and um, it was just interesting to hear

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Speaker 1: Sean's explanation of you know, the one that got me

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Speaker 1: was he said, I took it to the dealer for

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Speaker 1: picking on dealers, he just happened to That's what he said.

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Speaker 1: He this one particular dealer, and he said, I knew

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Speaker 1: so he said, you know, did I get a tire rotation?

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Speaker 1: Did I get anything done? And he said I had

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Speaker 1: Now wouldn't that be a wouldn't the warranty be avoided

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Speaker 1: the dirty oil in the filter. And they used freight.

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Speaker 1: But but that maintenance is described in the manual. So

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Speaker 1: how would that be covered under warranty? If it was neglected?

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Speaker 1: How would you not understand? How would they prove it?

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Speaker 1: Tom brought up something. We use Subaru oil filters on Subarus.

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Speaker 1: It says Subreu right on it. Sub brew a fifteen

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Speaker 1: and they don't say why, but they've changed their manufacturer

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Speaker 1: of oil filters to this. It's still a blue filter.

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Speaker 1: Now it's a bright blue filter. It looks kind of cheesy,

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Speaker 1: Subaru of Americ oil filters. They changed, and they're saying

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Speaker 1: It says super America right on the filter. It breeds

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Speaker 1: confidence in the customer I really think it does to

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Speaker 1: at least some sort of explanation. I think they should

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Speaker 1: call it said, yeah, they don't know why they did it.

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Speaker 1: They get the complaint all the time. People want that

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Speaker 1: aftermarket blue oil filter that they're substituting on there because

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Speaker 1: you know, Tom images everything, and it takes a few

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Speaker 1: bad apples to ruin it for everybody. And then you

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Speaker 1: would they know? You know? It just it's it's interesting.

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Speaker 1: There isn't a old day that goes by in order repair,

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Speaker 1: you know. I once told Danny when I hired them,

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Speaker 1: going on twelve years ago. Now, I said, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: see things that nobody else sees. You're gonna know things

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Speaker 1: nobody else knows, and I'm going to teach you things.

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Speaker 1: Five percent of the guys in the industry, No, because

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Speaker 1: I've seen it, done it, and I've just got a

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Speaker 1: And if that sounds like it's a lot of ego, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. It isn't. It's just reality. It's just

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Speaker 1: what I say. I think more repair shops get themselves

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Speaker 1: things they don't see. And then I think the other

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Speaker 1: ninety five percent of the problem. Five percent of the

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Speaker 1: time it's the shop, at the other time it's the customer.

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Speaker 1: probably fifty percent of time it's the customer. The other

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Speaker 1: forty five percent of the time it's the vehicle. Because

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Speaker 1: weird things happen with cars, they really do. We had

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Speaker 1: We had a sub Bru this week. THEO brought us

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Speaker 1: her Subaru and we changed the oil. And when I

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Speaker 1: Now directly to the left of the oil leak where

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Speaker 1: the two O two censors the two downstream MO two's

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Speaker 1: add a diye. And the next time it comes back,

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Speaker 1: Is it? Is it growing? Is it? Is it something?

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Speaker 1: We have to address this? Vehicles seven on eight years old,

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Speaker 1: one hundred thousand something miles um vehicle came back thirty

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Speaker 1: a fault code for fuel trim on the on Bank two.

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Speaker 1: Does it have a bad O two censor? I don't know.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna find out Monday. I got to diagnose it

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Speaker 1: positive thirty five percent, So something skewing fuel trim on

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Speaker 1: fault is that? Do you not wash off the oil leak?

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Speaker 1: Do you not diagnosed the oil leak? Do you not care?

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Speaker 1: And you know there's that there's that forty five percent

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Speaker 1: cars did you build for GM back in seventy eight

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Speaker 1: we met we uh se Well, I don't remember because

427
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Speaker 1: I was only there for a short time or seven

428
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Speaker 1: day eighty four to eighty seven. We built Grand Nationals

429
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Speaker 1: of oldsmobiles and pouty ax. Yeah, what department? What department

430
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Speaker 1: were you in? I was in paint Okay, So were

431
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Speaker 1: you a painter or a prep guy or what? I

432
00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:13,920
Speaker 1: was a painter? Yeah? So you know, how often did

433
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Speaker 1: it did it work out? Where every car got painted

434
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Speaker 1: the right color? Was it ever? You know I've heard

435
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Speaker 1: stories where two I've heard about the truck and butts

436
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Speaker 1: plant and the guy went and picked his car up

437
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Speaker 1: at the truck and bus plant, and when he went

438
00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:32,359
Speaker 1: to pick it up at the dealers, he says, the

439
00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:35,120
Speaker 1: front seat. It's the back seat pushed the match the

440
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Speaker 1: front seat, and they can't. They can get fine, real

441
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Speaker 1: heavy if if a GMC comes out the door with

442
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Speaker 1: a Chevallet, m M, my momma, and I can tell

443
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Speaker 1: see Ron later on. I'm gonna get me a tablet

444
00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:55,399
Speaker 1: where I can do better because these magnetic grid people

445
00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:59,879
Speaker 1: coming here all illegal is drawing the juice of these farms,

446
00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:03,840
Speaker 1: and the magnet agrid is shipped in like crazy. Right,

447
00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:08,480
Speaker 1: one of these times we might end up down solve Hey,

448
00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:12,720
Speaker 1: not that we want to, right, but you might. Ron.

449
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Speaker 1: I got one other question, questions real quick. When you're

450
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Speaker 1: just to connect the ground, can you damage anything on

451
00:24:21,119 --> 00:24:25,800
Speaker 1: what uh chevallet vehicles? Oh, I mean if you disconnect

452
00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:29,480
Speaker 1: the negative cable. Yeah, well you're on a on a

453
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Speaker 1: late model GM product when you just connect, probably in

454
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Speaker 1: the nineties, and uh, I've got them all the way

455
00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:41,040
Speaker 1: back to the eighties. Well, what you mean cars in

456
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Speaker 1: your own fleet? Yep. Now, if there's no computer, then

457
00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:48,720
Speaker 1: they weren't that smart, and they'll they'll learn fairly quick.

458
00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:53,040
Speaker 1: The newer vehicles have a higher learning capacity or a

459
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Speaker 1: higher learning characteristic, Like the newest vehicle I got is

460
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Speaker 1: a two thousand and one. Yeah. Nah, you know if

461
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Speaker 1: in terms of you want to disconnect the battery for

462
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Speaker 1: storage purposes, yeah, like that, or or I can. I'm

463
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Speaker 1: gonna have to go to a battery, car battery and

464
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Speaker 1: a car radio to be able to listen to you

465
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Speaker 1: because the solar blackout is really messed up my solar radios, right, yeah,

466
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Speaker 1: there is a solar black pollution is because where we've

467
00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:32,280
Speaker 1: had so much in the last six months, there is

468
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Speaker 1: a solar blackoutcoming. I believe Tom was telling me about that.

469
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Speaker 1: Um well, I call it solar blackout because again't getting

470
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Speaker 1: the radio's work alone, or not right right right right?

471
00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:44,840
Speaker 1: Then not getting enough fun? Yeah. So yeah, and that's well,

472
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Speaker 1: we're supposed to have something I think some kind of

473
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Speaker 1: solar eclipse. I think is uh, I think is what's

474
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Speaker 1: going on? Um So, Michael, I enjoyed the conversation with

475
00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:57,560
Speaker 1: your brother and uh, you hang in there and uh,

476
00:25:57,640 --> 00:25:59,040
Speaker 1: you know when you're ready to talk and you want

477
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Speaker 1: to expose everybody on national radio and talk about evs,

478
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Speaker 1: You're always welcome back eight five five six zero nine

479
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Speaker 1: nine zero zero. Run any of the car doctor. I'll

480
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Speaker 1: be back right after this. Don't go away. Welcome back

481
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Speaker 1: running any of the car doctor. UM, quick piece of

482
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Speaker 1: email because I want to respond to this run. I

483
00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:29,160
Speaker 1: prefer not to call in. I usually listened on podcast

484
00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:31,159
Speaker 1: and I'm short on time. How can I change the

485
00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:34,480
Speaker 1: battery in my twenty fourteen Silverado and twenty sixteen Jeep

486
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Speaker 1: Rennigade without causing issues such as computer settings, radio, etc.

487
00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:40,920
Speaker 1: Is this even a concern? Years ago, there used to

488
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Speaker 1: be things that plugged into a cigarette lighter. Yeah, I'm

489
00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:46,119
Speaker 1: that old that ran off a nine volt battery that

490
00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:48,480
Speaker 1: were supposed to hold the settings while you changed the battery.

491
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Speaker 1: I never found those to work. I really didn't. Got

492
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Speaker 1: a new battery for a g plast fall and he

493
00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:55,120
Speaker 1: plugged in a battery pack and that's the computer connector

494
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Speaker 1: to the left of the steering wheel near the floor.

495
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Speaker 1: Is there anything for a non professional that would work

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Speaker 1: and not the bank. I'm open to suggestions. I've recently

497
00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:04,760
Speaker 1: acquired a NOC jump pack. With that work, I want

498
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Speaker 1: to I don't want to do something that would overload

499
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Speaker 1: the system and damage and I'm smart enough to ask

500
00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:10,879
Speaker 1: someone like you can get a knowledgeable answer. Thanks, and

501
00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:12,760
Speaker 1: feel free to write that if you're read it on

502
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Speaker 1: the show. Mike, you know what, Mike, Yeah, you want

503
00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:18,480
Speaker 1: to plug into the OBED two diagnostic port, which is

504
00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:20,679
Speaker 1: located to the lets to the steering wheel on that vehicle.

505
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:22,880
Speaker 1: It's to the left of the right on vehicles by

506
00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:25,760
Speaker 1: federal emissions mandate in nineteen ninety one, and the vehicle

507
00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:29,119
Speaker 1: OBED two emissions equipped at beginning model you're in nineteen

508
00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:31,960
Speaker 1: ninety six. The two connector has to be in the

509
00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:34,920
Speaker 1: vicinity of the steering wheel. They made that the focal point.

510
00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:37,960
Speaker 1: You want to use a battery jump pack. It's just

511
00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:42,760
Speaker 1: important because it will help retain onboard computer settings, you know,

512
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Speaker 1: to keep things active. Why well, because here I'll tell

513
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Speaker 1: you a story. We recently had a vehicle that the

514
00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:53,720
Speaker 1: customer had gone to a shop to have a battery replaced.

515
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Speaker 1: They replaced the battery, they didn't use the jump pack,

516
00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:01,920
Speaker 1: and they put a battery in the vehicle and as

517
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Speaker 1: the vehicle was running its monitors, right, what happens. Disconnect

518
00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:09,320
Speaker 1: the battery, there's no memory save. It will reclear the

519
00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:12,320
Speaker 1: computer's memory and it will cause it to rerun its

520
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:17,639
Speaker 1: monitors its self tests without any without any other indications,

521
00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:20,440
Speaker 1: any other problems. The vehicle set up P zero four

522
00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:25,520
Speaker 1: twenty catalytic converter efficiency faull Gee, How could the CaCO

523
00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:29,040
Speaker 1: bad that quick? And it was a GM product that

524
00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:32,680
Speaker 1: did it, And it was just you know what changed

525
00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:36,720
Speaker 1: what made all that difference? And in looking at it,

526
00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:40,320
Speaker 1: we could see that when we looked at mode six data,

527
00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:45,600
Speaker 1: it failed by not by that much. It was a percentage. Now,

528
00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:46,960
Speaker 1: one of the things you have to know about some

529
00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:49,280
Speaker 1: of the gms as they age is there is an

530
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Speaker 1: O two sensor or an O two sensor heat or

531
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Speaker 1: recalibration function that will tell the computer, Hey, we want

532
00:28:57,440 --> 00:29:00,480
Speaker 1: you to get reacquainted with the O two sensor because

533
00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:03,280
Speaker 1: it's an older sensor. We had a clear memory. We

534
00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:06,920
Speaker 1: want you to learn as you go. We did an

535
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:12,400
Speaker 1: O two sensor recalibration and drove the vehicle. It failed again,

536
00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:16,000
Speaker 1: but we could see by mode six it didn't fail

537
00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:18,680
Speaker 1: by that much. The numbers were getting shorter. It failed

538
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:22,080
Speaker 1: two more times before we had driven enough miles for

539
00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:25,840
Speaker 1: the computer to finished looking at its rolling average, and

540
00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:28,920
Speaker 1: it now realized it had now learned those older O

541
00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:31,560
Speaker 1: twos that we didn't replace because they didn't need to

542
00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:34,640
Speaker 1: be replaced, but they were older O twos original to

543
00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:39,640
Speaker 1: this vehicle with the miles that's on it, and the

544
00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:44,640
Speaker 1: vehicle finally accepted it. Does that make sense? And you

545
00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:46,920
Speaker 1: know it had a memory pack or a battery pack

546
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:49,480
Speaker 1: been used, I don't think you would have had that problem.

547
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:52,640
Speaker 1: So yeah, it is that important. It is an issue.

548
00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:58,960
Speaker 1: Now you need an OBED two style battery pack, something

549
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:01,280
Speaker 1: that plugs into the jumpack and then plugs into the

550
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:04,080
Speaker 1: OBD two connector. And it's getting to the point now

551
00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:06,640
Speaker 1: where some sort of a jump pack in every vehicle

552
00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:08,800
Speaker 1: a chicken in every pot, as I like to say,

553
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:10,840
Speaker 1: but some sort of a jump pack in every vehicle

554
00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:12,840
Speaker 1: is important because you know, when are you going to

555
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:17,560
Speaker 1: have a jumpstart issue, a battery fail issue that you

556
00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:21,440
Speaker 1: know needs to be resolved. Just that important. One of

557
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:23,720
Speaker 1: the thing to think about when you're picking a battery

558
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:29,760
Speaker 1: is there's two concerns. There's physical dimension. You know, will

559
00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:32,640
Speaker 1: it fit in. Batteries go in group numbers. You can

560
00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:35,080
Speaker 1: look on a battery group twenty four, a group twenty six,

561
00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:38,880
Speaker 1: group thirty five, group seventy eight, and so on, and

562
00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:42,840
Speaker 1: that's the physical dimensions. Now, some cars, Fords, for example,

563
00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:44,920
Speaker 1: will either run a group fifty nine or a group

564
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:48,080
Speaker 1: sixty five to sixty five group battery is much bigger

565
00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:51,120
Speaker 1: than the fifty nine same amount of electrical energy, but

566
00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:56,080
Speaker 1: you generally have the option for more electrical energy on

567
00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:59,240
Speaker 1: a physically bigger case sized battery. So that's one reason

568
00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:01,320
Speaker 1: to go to it. And then the other is what

569
00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:03,800
Speaker 1: is the electrical energy? You know, do you have the

570
00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:07,560
Speaker 1: ability can you put you know, if the factory size

571
00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:10,200
Speaker 1: or at the factory rating is five hundred and fifty

572
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:14,600
Speaker 1: ccas cold cranking amps, which is think of it as

573
00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:16,040
Speaker 1: when you get out of bed in the morning on

574
00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:19,600
Speaker 1: a cold morning, how many push ups can you do? All? Right?

575
00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:22,000
Speaker 1: Can you do ten? If you can do ten, maybe

576
00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:26,040
Speaker 1: that's the five fifty CCA battery in terms of electrical

577
00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:30,400
Speaker 1: energy that'll be available. If you can do twenty, you know,

578
00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:33,920
Speaker 1: maybe that's the six hundred and fifty Cca battery. Because

579
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:36,600
Speaker 1: it has a higher output it can put out more

580
00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:41,240
Speaker 1: under a peak situation. Bottom line, there's a physical measurement,

581
00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:44,520
Speaker 1: there's an electrical energy measurement. Cold cranking amps is a

582
00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:46,840
Speaker 1: good rule of thumb, and you want to look at

583
00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:48,760
Speaker 1: that as well. But yeah, you know what, Michael, you

584
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:50,360
Speaker 1: do want to have some sort of battery pack to

585
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:53,840
Speaker 1: remain to retain memory because you want to try to

586
00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:57,160
Speaker 1: avoid clearing the computer causing it to go into a reset,

587
00:31:57,280 --> 00:32:01,320
Speaker 1: because you could create a false code situation and have

588
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:02,920
Speaker 1: to learn the hard way that it had nothing to

589
00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:05,760
Speaker 1: do with componentry. Um. It has to just do with

590
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:10,160
Speaker 1: age and relearning, proper procedure, proper way five five six

591
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Speaker 1: zero nine nine zero zero. I'm run a nay in

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Speaker 1: the car doctor. I'll be back right after this. Don't

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00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:27,720
Speaker 1: go away, dot, welcome back. Run name the car doctor.

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00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:30,720
Speaker 1: And um, yeah, it's important that your scan tool have

595
00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:37,480
Speaker 1: that agil to do. Uh. Tom's Tom's Tom's slippy fingers So, um,

596
00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:39,280
Speaker 1: Tom's eating again on the board. I can tell this

597
00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:41,600
Speaker 1: his fingers are slipping. Uh. It's important to have a

598
00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:43,040
Speaker 1: scan tool. They can do that function to do O

599
00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:45,800
Speaker 1: two sensor recalibration and O two censor heat or relearn

600
00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:48,200
Speaker 1: UM and some of the other things that's required. So

601
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:50,840
Speaker 1: changing a battery is not is not as simple as

602
00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:52,320
Speaker 1: it once was. And by the way, I should point

603
00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:55,320
Speaker 1: out too um in relation to when you're picking a battery.

604
00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:57,880
Speaker 1: UH to finish up that conversation before the break, to

605
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Speaker 1: get out to auto batteries dot com. Order batteries. Dot

606
00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:03,720
Speaker 1: Com has all the information you need on picking a battery,

607
00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:05,840
Speaker 1: and it talks about things such as how to choose

608
00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:09,760
Speaker 1: a proper battery, cca physical size, things like that. So

609
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:11,840
Speaker 1: I always ask the same question. You know, I'm a

610
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:14,160
Speaker 1: I'm a creature of habit. Whenever I go out to

611
00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:16,280
Speaker 1: buy a battery, I want to know what does the

612
00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:19,080
Speaker 1: next What does twenty dollars get me? What does thirty

613
00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:20,600
Speaker 1: dollars get me? How much is it to get to

614
00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:23,960
Speaker 1: the next size up of electrical energy not physical size,

615
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,960
Speaker 1: but electrical storage capacity in that battery? And I usually

616
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:30,360
Speaker 1: get a much more How can I say this, I

617
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:34,120
Speaker 1: get a better or a bigger electrical battery, not physical

618
00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:37,480
Speaker 1: size but electrical source for that extra twenty or thirty dollars.

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Speaker 1: And I find that sometimes that most of the time

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00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:44,480
Speaker 1: that's usually translates into quicker starts, better starts, easier starts

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Speaker 1: in cold weather, that kind of thing, and longevity, which

622
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:49,760
Speaker 1: I'm always looking for obviously, So hey coming up this

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Speaker 1: week April twelfth. This week April twelfth, if you're a

624
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Speaker 1: member of the NNGK Shop Squad n GK NTK, they're

625
00:33:57,440 --> 00:34:01,840
Speaker 1: putting on a presentation via via the web Ultra Diagnostics

626
00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:05,200
Speaker 1: featuring Dodge and GM Diagnostics. They're going to be using

627
00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:09,240
Speaker 1: Autel scan tools as well as some others. Michael Flink,

628
00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:11,800
Speaker 1: who is the director of Sales and Training for Autel,

629
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Speaker 1: Philip Boston, NGK Technical Training Manager, and John for Autel

630
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:18,640
Speaker 1: Technical Training Specialist are all going to be in attendance.

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Speaker 1: If you are a member of the NK Shop Squad, great,

632
00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:24,239
Speaker 1: make sure you're there. Sign up for it. If you're not,

633
00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:27,200
Speaker 1: and you want to get out to NNGK sparkplugs dot

634
00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:30,839
Speaker 1: com or just Google search NNGK Shop Squad and it'll

635
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:33,359
Speaker 1: take you to the link shine up sign up. It's

636
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:36,399
Speaker 1: a you know, for the professional shops out there, and

637
00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:38,560
Speaker 1: you know, I'm sure to do it yourselfers can get in,

638
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:41,880
Speaker 1: I'm guessing, but it's a great resource as well as

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Speaker 1: some of the other things the Shop Squad has. So

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Speaker 1: that's just an example of what they're doing that's coming up.

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Speaker 1: I think that's this Wednesday, this coming Wednesday, April twelve.

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Speaker 1: So get out the GK Shop squad, sign up and

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Speaker 1: get some knowledge. More knowledge is always a good thing.

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Speaker 1: You can't have too much knowledge. Knowledge is power. I

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Speaker 1: heard somebody say that once. Who was that? It was

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Speaker 1: me roninading and the car doctor reminding you once again,

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