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

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

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Speaker 1: And now that's not all nice to say. Much better, Ronny,

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Speaker 1: Doctor zero zero zero. Let's uh, let's wander around as

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Speaker 1: we kind of creep along this Halloween show. This is

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Speaker 1: Jeff Subaru impressive sport. Jeff, welcome along, sir. How can

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Speaker 1: How can I help hi? Ron? Thanks for having me

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Speaker 1: Sam and ILLINOI we haven't talked to Illinois in a while. Sam.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Car Doctor, sir, How can I help Ron,

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Speaker 1: thanks for taking my call. You welcome, sir. Um. I

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Speaker 1: How how how old are you? Sam? I am fifty eight.

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Speaker 1: But I'm still so good, but so exercise and you

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Speaker 1: You know, you're you you get where I'm going. You know, Listen,

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Speaker 1: So you know, are these the original tires sixty? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: But neither here nor there has has anybody tried to diagnosis?

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Speaker 1: Has anybody moved the tires around? Has anybody done? I

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Speaker 1: Let's look around. Let's be nosy neighbors. Let's go look

425
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Speaker 1: at front end. Let's go look for something warn Let's

426
00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:08,200
Speaker 1: go look for rust stains coming out of a bolt socket.

427
00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:10,920
Speaker 1: That means it's water got in there and something's bound

428
00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,640
Speaker 1: up and not not moving like it's supposed to. Let's go,

429
00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:15,960
Speaker 1: you know, let's use our eyes and ears. Let's do

430
00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:18,520
Speaker 1: what God gave us and use what God gave us. Um,

431
00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:22,280
Speaker 1: So balancing is a good place to go. Moving tires

432
00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:24,840
Speaker 1: is a good place to go. Front to back. If

433
00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:27,520
Speaker 1: we moved tires front to back and it changes the

434
00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:32,960
Speaker 1: shaik at all. Uh you know, I'm all for it. Um.

435
00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:35,840
Speaker 1: You know it's it's and and and keep in mind too.

436
00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:37,560
Speaker 1: And you know, we can tell you some stupid stories.

437
00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:40,040
Speaker 1: People have come to me with shakes and we'll go

438
00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:42,600
Speaker 1: to work on the car and the lug nuts are loose.

439
00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:46,520
Speaker 1: You know, one wheels got did this happened a month ago?

440
00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:49,760
Speaker 1: One wheels got loose lug nuts? And we're like, what happened?

441
00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:51,680
Speaker 1: When we went down to the tire store down the road,

442
00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:53,840
Speaker 1: and they did they did a rotation for us, and

443
00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:55,680
Speaker 1: we kept going back and they could never figure out

444
00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:57,240
Speaker 1: what was wrong with it. And literally we tightened the

445
00:24:57,280 --> 00:25:00,680
Speaker 1: lug nuts and solve the problem. Um, you know, So

446
00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:04,840
Speaker 1: I mean that's out there. Um. You know, the longer

447
00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:10,320
Speaker 1: I work on cars, good ahead, I no, no, I

448
00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:14,200
Speaker 1: I've checked on the lunch. Uh, you know, I maintained

449
00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:18,359
Speaker 1: it pretty good, you know, the minimum stuff, not not

450
00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:21,760
Speaker 1: the major stuff. But I think I think I think

451
00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:24,400
Speaker 1: long story short, Yeah, I think long story short. You're

452
00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:29,600
Speaker 1: talking more about rotation balance um. When it's on the balance, sir?

453
00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:32,920
Speaker 1: How much hop do the tires have? How much UM?

454
00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:35,920
Speaker 1: I call? I think of it as concentricity of out

455
00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:37,560
Speaker 1: of line up and down. Blah blah blah blahah. You

456
00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:40,240
Speaker 1: know how much motion up and down does it have? UM?

457
00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:44,440
Speaker 1: Or the tires egged on the wheels? Have they taken aware? Uh?

458
00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:46,919
Speaker 1: You know, do we have a belt shift? You know,

459
00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:49,359
Speaker 1: there's there's there's five or six things that can go

460
00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:53,280
Speaker 1: wrong with tires as they age. And you know, um,

461
00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:56,440
Speaker 1: we've got to make it feel like it's tight at it.

462
00:25:56,440 --> 00:26:00,399
Speaker 1: It's you know, and and and you know. But before

463
00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:05,520
Speaker 1: we randomly replaced tires, let's start doing some diagnosa. Can

464
00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:07,800
Speaker 1: I can I throw another one at you? Sure? Real quick?

465
00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:14,560
Speaker 1: It's it's on oh three camer like heating does not work.

466
00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:17,720
Speaker 1: I changed the thermostat and the next thing I was

467
00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:22,040
Speaker 1: gonna do is there's a servo on the passenger side

468
00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:27,160
Speaker 1: which controls the door Um, it's called the servo door.

469
00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:31,040
Speaker 1: I can't remember the term, and I from that that

470
00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:35,399
Speaker 1: would be something some one on our car. No. Um,

471
00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:40,280
Speaker 1: so it's just he he's not a rating. Um, just

472
00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:45,000
Speaker 1: stay right words at um all right, simple thermostat has

473
00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:49,840
Speaker 1: been replaced. The dermostat wasn't bad either. Simple simple questions here, Um,

474
00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:54,439
Speaker 1: check engine light on? No, okay, good, So it's not

475
00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:57,240
Speaker 1: setting any sort of fault code for for a thermostat operation.

476
00:26:57,280 --> 00:26:58,879
Speaker 1: And you know, it's always a fair question sometimes the

477
00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:00,840
Speaker 1: check engine lights on. Nobody's things to the would have

478
00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:03,959
Speaker 1: anything to do with temperature. Um, So the vehicle comes

479
00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:07,000
Speaker 1: up to operating temperature temperature. Gage says, it's hot if

480
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:08,359
Speaker 1: you were to lift the hood, and if you were

481
00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:10,159
Speaker 1: to lift the hood and grab the radiator hose, is

482
00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:15,040
Speaker 1: it uncomfortable to the touch? No, it's not. It's not

483
00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:23,439
Speaker 1: hot hot. Do you have a scan tool? I'm just

484
00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:25,920
Speaker 1: reading about this stuff and that's pointing to me in

485
00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:29,040
Speaker 1: that board the serbo door on the passengers side and

486
00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:31,639
Speaker 1: where I'm at now right, Well, I just want to

487
00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:34,879
Speaker 1: verify that the engine does have enough temperature. So what

488
00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:40,560
Speaker 1: I want to know is good ahead, I said, I

489
00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:43,320
Speaker 1: checked the water the cool level and everything ends up

490
00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:46,159
Speaker 1: to bar okay, but but hear me out, Sam, And

491
00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:48,840
Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's not the actual wator. I'm just

492
00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:51,280
Speaker 1: saying that I'd like to just know. You know, there's

493
00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:53,199
Speaker 1: some basics here. If you're at the doctor, heart rate,

494
00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:55,480
Speaker 1: blood pressure, how good are you doing? You know that

495
00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:56,880
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. I just I just want to cover

496
00:27:56,920 --> 00:28:00,040
Speaker 1: the basics from you know, cool level. Surely they're a

497
00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:03,520
Speaker 1: thermostats there. What's engine temperature? Thermostat could be the best

498
00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:05,240
Speaker 1: thermostat and aware of Like I can give you a

499
00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:07,280
Speaker 1: half a dozen reasons why engine temperature doesn't come up

500
00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:10,879
Speaker 1: to speed UM. So I'd still like to know what

501
00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:14,399
Speaker 1: what does the computer see? Is it? Is it and

502
00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:16,800
Speaker 1: it's supposed to be one? Is it just right on

503
00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:18,440
Speaker 1: the ragged edge of where it will set a fault

504
00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:21,879
Speaker 1: code but doesn't. So if that vehicle has been driven

505
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:24,240
Speaker 1: for twenty minutes and it's sixty five degrees out, you

506
00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:27,199
Speaker 1: grab that upper radiator hose that should be sort of

507
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:31,440
Speaker 1: uncomfortable warm to the touch, stats open, cool and circulating.

508
00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:33,760
Speaker 1: It should be um and if you have any doubts,

509
00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:35,639
Speaker 1: if it's warm enough, a scan tool O v D

510
00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:38,160
Speaker 1: two way would tell you, hey, it's up to temp.

511
00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:40,320
Speaker 1: This is what it's running at. Once we get past that,

512
00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:43,720
Speaker 1: grab the heater hoses inlet an outlet. One should be

513
00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:46,840
Speaker 1: hotter than the other and if they're not. If one's

514
00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:49,680
Speaker 1: hot and the other one is is cold, maybe we've

515
00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 1: got a restriction at the core and the core needs

516
00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:54,400
Speaker 1: to be back flushed. Um, and then maybe we could

517
00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:58,560
Speaker 1: talk about water valves right being restricted not allowing proper flow.

518
00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:02,959
Speaker 1: So just having the number sometimes beforehand is is just

519
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:04,840
Speaker 1: gives you a lot of information. Give me a call

520
00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:06,720
Speaker 1: back if you need more, Sam, I appreciate it. I'm

521
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:08,720
Speaker 1: running Any in the Car Doctor. We're back right after this.

522
00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:21,040
Speaker 1: Welcome back Running the Car Doctor, rolling along here this hour.

523
00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:24,880
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524
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525
00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:28,719
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526
00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:30,880
Speaker 1: on there. As so, we continue to try and fix

527
00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:34,560
Speaker 1: all of America's broken cars. Roman Lincoln Park, New Jersey.

528
00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:37,959
Speaker 1: How are you today, sir? How can I help? Okay?

529
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:41,680
Speaker 1: How are you going? I got a two thousand one

530
00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:45,000
Speaker 1: accurate t L with a three point two V six

531
00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:52,280
Speaker 1: hundred ninety two thousand miles. Um it's it's it's basically

532
00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:55,400
Speaker 1: when I when I'm driving less, I'm on thirty miles forty,

533
00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:58,920
Speaker 1: and I accelerate, it kind of jerks the car to

534
00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:01,480
Speaker 1: the left, but it doesn't continue pulling to the left.

535
00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:03,959
Speaker 1: It seems like the alignments. Okay, it just it just

536
00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:06,080
Speaker 1: well actually jerked the steering wheel to the left. I

537
00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:07,520
Speaker 1: could feel it if I let it go, I could

538
00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:10,360
Speaker 1: actually see it. And then it goes straight again. And

539
00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:12,440
Speaker 1: then when I hit the brakes, it actually goes the

540
00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:16,200
Speaker 1: other way. I would focus on the I would focus

541
00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:20,040
Speaker 1: on the brake issue first. I replaced the brakes, and

542
00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:23,120
Speaker 1: the brakes are wearing beautiful, and the rotors and everything,

543
00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:26,120
Speaker 1: and it seems like the brakes are totally fine. It's

544
00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:29,920
Speaker 1: just because the car, because the car pulls to which way?

545
00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:33,160
Speaker 1: Does the car pull to the right. It only jerks,

546
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:35,760
Speaker 1: just just for a second, as soon as you apply it,

547
00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:39,360
Speaker 1: and then it starts going straight when you say it jerks.

548
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:43,440
Speaker 1: Does the steering wheel change position or does the tiny

549
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:45,800
Speaker 1: bit It will just like kick a tiny bit to

550
00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:47,680
Speaker 1: the right or to the left. When I accelerate, it

551
00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:52,800
Speaker 1: kicks to the left. Is the steering rack tight? I don't.

552
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:55,640
Speaker 1: I don't know. It sounds like it sounds like the

553
00:30:55,640 --> 00:31:00,920
Speaker 1: steering mechanism is loose that could be tightened though. Well,

554
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:04,400
Speaker 1: if it's a little sure, um, you know it's it's

555
00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:08,600
Speaker 1: you know what. What you're describing under acceleration to a

556
00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:11,520
Speaker 1: degree sounds like something we used to call torque steer.

557
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:16,120
Speaker 1: Because front wheel drive vehicles have unequal length front drive axles,

558
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:19,400
Speaker 1: it would favor one side over the other, and sometimes

559
00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:21,440
Speaker 1: it would put more load on an axle and the

560
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:25,520
Speaker 1: axle would get internally gouged up and beaten up, and

561
00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:29,520
Speaker 1: it would create a massive torque steer issue. But in

562
00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:31,720
Speaker 1: this case, where I would go is I would pay

563
00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:37,240
Speaker 1: very careful attention to engine mounts transmount. If you power

564
00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:41,160
Speaker 1: break this car, does the front mount hold up? Okay?

565
00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:43,200
Speaker 1: Have you tried that? Have you looked at that? I

566
00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:45,600
Speaker 1: replaced the front mount, the big one in the front.

567
00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:47,760
Speaker 1: I replaced the one on the on the the main

568
00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 1: one on the side. That were they bad? I did not?

569
00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:55,600
Speaker 1: They were bad? Well, that that didn't change the one

570
00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:57,560
Speaker 1: I didn't replaces the one in the back of the

571
00:31:57,640 --> 00:31:59,400
Speaker 1: end of the big one in the back. Well, is it,

572
00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:01,520
Speaker 1: you know? If it's not bad? I'm not saying you

573
00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:03,800
Speaker 1: have to. There's there's ways to I don't know how

574
00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:05,440
Speaker 1: to tell if it's bad. Well, if you if you

575
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:07,520
Speaker 1: put the car in reverse and and power break it

576
00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:09,440
Speaker 1: and reverse, does it lift the back of the motor up?

577
00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:13,600
Speaker 1: Does it lift the back of the mount up? Alright?

578
00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:15,920
Speaker 1: You know it's trying and reverse, Try it and drive.

579
00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:18,520
Speaker 1: Does it look like the mounts are you know? Drive

580
00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:21,960
Speaker 1: it doesn't do anything bad? And reverse? Try and reverse

581
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:24,080
Speaker 1: and you might have to have somebody watch while you're

582
00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:28,080
Speaker 1: doing it. So that's that's that, UM. And then we

583
00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:31,760
Speaker 1: get into is do we have an issue with the rack?

584
00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:36,000
Speaker 1: Is the rack itself the steering rack itself shifting and

585
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:39,320
Speaker 1: you know under acceleration jerking the wheel because the car

586
00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:42,040
Speaker 1: actually shifting or is it just at the steering wheel

587
00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:45,640
Speaker 1: is shifting from the application of of of load? UM?

588
00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:48,280
Speaker 1: So do those things and give me a call back.

589
00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:51,040
Speaker 1: And obviously just pay attention on what kind of shape

590
00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:53,760
Speaker 1: are the drive axles in? And um, even though the

591
00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:57,040
Speaker 1: brakes were wearing evenly, could you still have a caliper

592
00:32:57,080 --> 00:32:59,360
Speaker 1: that's binding? It might be an interesting car if you

593
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:02,640
Speaker 1: have access is to a thermal imager. I know it's

594
00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:05,360
Speaker 1: a little high tech, but a thermal imager to look at.

595
00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:07,200
Speaker 1: Take it for a ride, bring it back real quick,

596
00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:10,840
Speaker 1: jump out, take a thermal image of or temperature heat

597
00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:13,800
Speaker 1: gun of the brake rotors? Are the equal? Are within

598
00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:16,480
Speaker 1: twenty degrees side to side? Is one side dragging more

599
00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:18,719
Speaker 1: than the other? Sometimes you'll see a lot doing it

600
00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:24,040
Speaker 1: that way. Um, anyway, I appreciate the call Romanzo zero.

601
00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:25,600
Speaker 1: The car doctor is coming back to wrap it up

602
00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:33,880
Speaker 1: right after this welcome back where I mean the car doctors.

603
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:37,320
Speaker 1: You know, I want to just talk real quick about

604
00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:40,040
Speaker 1: some of the things that well, it goes on here

605
00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:41,480
Speaker 1: and goes on in the shop in terms of the

606
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:44,760
Speaker 1: phone calls and the questions I answer. There's gotta be

607
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:49,320
Speaker 1: a deductive line of reasoning. Just because the brakes pulled

608
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 1: to the right doesn't mean the faults in the brakes.

609
00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:54,840
Speaker 1: Just because the check engine light comes on and it's

610
00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:57,719
Speaker 1: got a fault in the non sensor circuit of an

611
00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:02,880
Speaker 1: internal module doesn't mean of faults in that module. Auto

612
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:07,960
Speaker 1: repair is a layered issue today and it has been

613
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:12,160
Speaker 1: for some time. It can't just be because the check

614
00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:15,840
Speaker 1: engine light says this, we automatically do that, you know,

615
00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:19,239
Speaker 1: following a float chart. The only time I know a

616
00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:21,239
Speaker 1: float chart works is if you're trying to walk from

617
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:23,240
Speaker 1: one end of the block to the other. Left foot,

618
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:26,600
Speaker 1: right foot, left foot, right foot, you know, And I

619
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:29,839
Speaker 1: always think about would a float chart include look out

620
00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:32,360
Speaker 1: for the puddle, look out for the hole in the

621
00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:34,480
Speaker 1: in the in the road? Would it would it include

622
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:37,400
Speaker 1: don't step here? The dog was just there? You know?

623
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:41,560
Speaker 1: Does it give you the options? All? Right? And I

624
00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:44,719
Speaker 1: think a lot of that With auto repair, we had

625
00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:46,560
Speaker 1: more than a few calls this week. I had a

626
00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:50,480
Speaker 1: body shop called me this week and, um, Tim's under

627
00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:51,880
Speaker 1: the gun. He's trying to get a car out, and

628
00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:55,360
Speaker 1: he said, you know, my scan tool doesn't communicate with

629
00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:59,480
Speaker 1: the car, and I you know, listen, did you did you?

630
00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:01,279
Speaker 1: And I could tell he was not a panic, but

631
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:03,160
Speaker 1: he was upset. It's it's quarter to five. He's gotta

632
00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:05,640
Speaker 1: get rid of the car. You know, did you check

633
00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:08,960
Speaker 1: the fuse for the for for port sixteen? Did you

634
00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:12,360
Speaker 1: check to see um, you know, did you try the

635
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:14,839
Speaker 1: scan tool on another car? Did you go through some

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