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Speaker 1: Ron Anian Sacramento County says it's illegal to work on

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Speaker 1: your own car and your own garage. I'll say that again.

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Speaker 1: In Sacramento County, California, it's illegal to work on your

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Speaker 1: own car in your own garage. It gets me so

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Speaker 1: high I can fly night after night the Car Doctor. Well,

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Speaker 1: in Sacramento County, they're gonna be a county of dumbbells

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Speaker 1: because we're not promoting all to repair, We're not promoting

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Speaker 1: critical thinking skills. Welcome to the radio home of Ron

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Speaker 1: and the Car Doctor. Since this is where car owners

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Speaker 1: the 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 call at eight

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Speaker 1: five five six and now running. I have to talk

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Speaker 1: about the dangers are assumed. It's just there's no way

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Speaker 1: to start off this hour. And uh you know, thanks

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us. So and oh to four at

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Speaker 1: f one fifty rolled into the shop on Tuesday Monday

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Speaker 1: this week was like a blur. There were so many

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Speaker 1: things that went on this week. UM, the cars that

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Speaker 1: I could describe to you, the people that broke cars

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Speaker 1: in UM one person who knows who I'm speaking of,

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Speaker 1: and drove on a bad wheel bearing for eight months

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Speaker 1: we won't mention anybody by name. Who's that. I can't

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Speaker 1: begin to tell you. How are you? Mike? By the way,

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Speaker 1: Mike gets your car better now? I got I gotta

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Speaker 1: be honest, I was telling I started going on the highway,

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking to myself, WHOA, I might be one of

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Speaker 1: those slow guys. I looked at my speedometer. I was like, man,

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Speaker 1: I'm going sixty. No sound, Mikey. That wheel bearing was

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Speaker 1: so bad all right in In forty something years of

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Speaker 1: When I took the wheel off, took the rotor assembly apart,

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Speaker 1: and went to spin the bearing by hand. You're bearing

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Speaker 1: the car was pushing the bearing. The outside hub assembly

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Speaker 1: of the bearing was turning blue from heat. I So

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Speaker 1: at some point your your your girlfriend is studying to

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Speaker 1: be a doctor. Right, Yeah, that's good because she may

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Speaker 1: have you may be the first patience she gets to

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Speaker 1: work on, um at the rate year going. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: let's say we rot tested that car in July or

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Speaker 1: Now yeah, it's called winter, right, you know it's Winter's

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Speaker 1: almost over. It's almost spring. So that's how long you went.

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Speaker 1: Shame on you. So um So, anyway, I didn't want

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Speaker 1: to assume, all right, I guess you assume I had

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Speaker 1: you know, it's funny. I always say you you don't

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Speaker 1: get beat physically in this business, but you get beat

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Speaker 1: mentally because your mind is your is your worst polluter.

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Speaker 1: And the customer's complaint was a clunk from the rear

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Speaker 1: of the truck. That's the way he explained it. From

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Speaker 1: for I took the truck for a ride. Yeah, I agreed.

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Speaker 1: There it was a clunk that I thought was left rear,

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Speaker 1: Yet it's in the rear. We in our minds, we

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Speaker 1: bushings in the back. We're in pretty good shape for

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Speaker 1: an eighteen year old truck and only had thirty seven

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Speaker 1: It doesn't really go anywhere with it. And you know,

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Speaker 1: And you know, as I said to him, I said,

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Speaker 1: rear shocks, but that's not gonna fix your clunk. Go

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Speaker 1: ahead to do it. So I take the shocks out,

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Speaker 1: called up. Ali said, listen, now I'm doing the real shocks.

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Speaker 1: I said, just just for giggles and and knowledge sake,

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Speaker 1: he said, what do you think about doing front shocks?

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Speaker 1: I think this guy just wanted to do four shocks

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Speaker 1: They're all tired, you know, just from sitting. Let's do

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Speaker 1: four shocks. Said yeah, let's do four shocks. I guess

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Speaker 1: So we go to do the fronts and I noticed

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Speaker 1: just got distracted by this clunk that I couldn't find

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Speaker 1: link was broken, is what I'm trying to get to.

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Speaker 1: rat and uh, you know called Valley says, hey, do

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Speaker 1: You know what. We fixed the truck. And the point

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Speaker 1: a lesson, and the lesson really comes back to that

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Speaker 1: you can never assume. You should never really, you know,

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Speaker 1: Make sure you look at everything, because it could be anywhere.

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Speaker 1: The sounds play a strange trick on all of us,

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Speaker 1: You know, it was just one of those days. We

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Speaker 1: and uh um, you know it. Just never assume. That's

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Speaker 1: the moral to the story. So when you're taking into

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Speaker 1: we we we never assume. It's just part of the process.

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Speaker 1: Hold on and welcome roning any of the car Doctor

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Speaker 1: here at five zero nine zero, the phone number the

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Speaker 1: bit about some of the things that people are saying online.

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Speaker 1: I don't care what you say about me online. It

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Speaker 1: doesn't matter to me. All right. You think I'm a jerk, great,

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Speaker 1: that I'm too down on electric vehicles with no basis

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Speaker 1: if you've got some comments about my thoughts on Volkswagen,

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Speaker 1: everything I see and I think about it, and um listen.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes I think you're wrong and sometimes I think you're right,

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Speaker 1: talk to Mica up in Maine. Micael, welcome back, brother.

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Speaker 1: How are you today? I'm doing great, Thanks and thanks

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Speaker 1: so much for taking my call. Um Ron, I got

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Speaker 1: a question for you about my two thousand and fifteen

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Speaker 1: subrew legacy. You know, I like to keep it well maintained,

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Speaker 1: get the salt off it. They it's not touched list,

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Speaker 1: Why can't this be an exhaust leak? Although three seconds

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Speaker 1: Thanks Ron for taking my call. I really appreciate it. Um. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So you know a couple of things we always look

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Speaker 1: a bad wheel bearing this week. The wheel bearing was

426
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Speaker 1: so bad that when I took it all apart, I

427
00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:55,560
Speaker 1: couldn't turn the wheel bearing by hand. The way to

428
00:20:55,600 --> 00:20:58,160
Speaker 1: the car was grinding the bearing into powder and turning

429
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Speaker 1: it blue. Yeah. Just you know, kids, right, you want

430
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Speaker 1: to you want to come down to the studio. You

431
00:21:02,280 --> 00:21:03,920
Speaker 1: can kind of smack them around a little bit too.

432
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Speaker 1: It's how would you just why would you do something

433
00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:09,880
Speaker 1: like that? So how's that? Mikey? Is that good? Anyway?

434
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Speaker 1: So make sure the wheels move freely? Um, you know

435
00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:18,680
Speaker 1: you're driving it at fifty five sixty. No, no weird vibrations,

436
00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:24,000
Speaker 1: no weird clunk stumps. So we want to look at

437
00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:27,280
Speaker 1: fuel trim, all right, And if you're a regular listener

438
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Speaker 1: to the show, and I suspect you are that, you know,

439
00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:30,639
Speaker 1: we want to look at fuel trim as a barometer.

440
00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:33,359
Speaker 1: Where is it fuel trims and indication of is the

441
00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:36,240
Speaker 1: computer or how far is the computer or is it

442
00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:38,840
Speaker 1: is it or is it not? If it's based fuel trim,

443
00:21:39,119 --> 00:21:41,200
Speaker 1: you know it's it's in this case, I would expect

444
00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:45,000
Speaker 1: to see a higher than normal positive. So short term,

445
00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:50,119
Speaker 1: normally we're gonna basically see somewhere between zero and cruising around.

446
00:21:50,119 --> 00:21:53,080
Speaker 1: I'd i'd expect to see in the I all that

447
00:21:53,160 --> 00:21:58,720
Speaker 1: type of thing. So that's in there. Um obviously thermostat

448
00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:04,679
Speaker 1: you know, how hot is this? Where's where's engine temperature? Okay,

449
00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:07,000
Speaker 1: and just and just be sure, you know, if it's

450
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Speaker 1: a one, I'm gonna say, I think it's a stat

451
00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:14,080
Speaker 1: if it's always right on the fuzzy border of one.

452
00:22:16,359 --> 00:22:18,040
Speaker 1: You know, if it's original, if you have no idea

453
00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:20,080
Speaker 1: how old it is, it's it's a good idea to

454
00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:23,359
Speaker 1: maybe change it. Just as just as maintenance. Uh, you know,

455
00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:28,000
Speaker 1: one of the things we forget is thermostats cycle and

456
00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:30,800
Speaker 1: I don't think people realize that that the thermostat, you

457
00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:35,120
Speaker 1: know it it holds itself shut. The vehicle warms up,

458
00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:38,320
Speaker 1: all right, it gets up the temperature and then it opens,

459
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Speaker 1: and then the radiator in the fan and whatever. You know,

460
00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:42,840
Speaker 1: part of the cooling system is doing its job. The

461
00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:46,399
Speaker 1: coolant loses temperature and the thermostat starts to close again.

462
00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:50,639
Speaker 1: So if the thermostat doesn't cycle properly, at the thermostat

463
00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:54,080
Speaker 1: doesn't close all the way. If the thermostat is working

464
00:22:54,119 --> 00:22:57,800
Speaker 1: harder than it needs to long haul, it will affect

465
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Speaker 1: overall engine temperature. So you know, it wouldn't hurt to

466
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Speaker 1: put a stat into a two thousand where we two

467
00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:06,720
Speaker 1: thousand to eighteen years old, you would have throws that

468
00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:09,960
Speaker 1: let's put that. Um no, I had a guy put

469
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Speaker 1: the fuel pump a new field pump in. Does that

470
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Speaker 1: have You don't have to reset the computer on adit

471
00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:18,000
Speaker 1: now that that's uh, you know, drop and go, you know,

472
00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:22,119
Speaker 1: plug and play. Right. Uh. You know, have you considered

473
00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:24,439
Speaker 1: or have you done any sort of fuel system cleaning?

474
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Speaker 1: Carbon deposits are an issue, especially on something eighteen years old,

475
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Speaker 1: you know, as a potential issue. You know, to do

476
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Speaker 1: a fuel system cleaning. Um, you know some tank additive

477
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Speaker 1: and and I want to I want to make two

478
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Speaker 1: distinctions here. I think tank additive is good maintenance on

479
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Speaker 1: a regular basis. Tank additive is sort of like taking

480
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Speaker 1: that vitamin D pill every day. Right, What do you

481
00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:50,080
Speaker 1: would you recommend I use Marvel Mystery oil? Is just

482
00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:53,080
Speaker 1: that all good? Or do you recommend c foam or um?

483
00:23:53,119 --> 00:23:55,359
Speaker 1: I like c foam, I like tech Ron. If we're

484
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Speaker 1: gonna talk about what I like best, I'm gonna tell

485
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Speaker 1: you it's Berriman. It really is. Uh. You know it's

486
00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:04,200
Speaker 1: funny I had I had UM so my salesman came

487
00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:07,119
Speaker 1: in from my local parts house, and you know, my

488
00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:10,040
Speaker 1: local guys don't have Barryman. I have to actually um

489
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Speaker 1: get it from the warehouse further south. And you know,

490
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Speaker 1: carry comes in and he sees this case of Barryman

491
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Speaker 1: sitting on the floor of the shop, and like all sales,

492
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Speaker 1: I mean, he wants all the sales. He goes, gee,

493
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Speaker 1: what are you buying that for? U said, because I

494
00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:24,359
Speaker 1: think it it works better and I think it's a

495
00:24:24,359 --> 00:24:26,760
Speaker 1: better product. And a lot of times I use that

496
00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:29,280
Speaker 1: over everything else on the market because I think I

497
00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:31,720
Speaker 1: went to auto Zone and asked him about that, and

498
00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:35,800
Speaker 1: I think they don't you have to specially order that, right? Um, yeah, tried.

499
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Speaker 1: Do you have an Oraileyoto parts by you? Try to

500
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Speaker 1: try the local Oraillyoto parts. I think you'll find Barryman

501
00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:44,560
Speaker 1: there all right, or you can find it online at

502
00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:47,680
Speaker 1: orillyoto dot com. So you know, I told carry carry.

503
00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:49,159
Speaker 1: We kind of went back and forth. I said, here,

504
00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:51,320
Speaker 1: take a can of this. They gave him a can.

505
00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:53,920
Speaker 1: He came back for his visit the next week. He says,

506
00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:57,120
Speaker 1: what's in that stuff? I said, well, he goes, he said,

507
00:24:57,200 --> 00:24:59,000
Speaker 1: the car never ran better. He goes, I've been using

508
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Speaker 1: tech ron, I've been using the phone. I've been using

509
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Speaker 1: everybody else's product all these years. He said, that actually

510
00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:06,680
Speaker 1: made a difference. I felt the power difference in the vehicle,

511
00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:10,560
Speaker 1: and carries Carrie lives an hour in ten minutes from work,

512
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Speaker 1: so he's you know, he knows how the car. He's

513
00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:15,680
Speaker 1: very into the car and how it runs, and uh,

514
00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:18,120
Speaker 1: you know, it made a difference for him. So canna

515
00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:22,640
Speaker 1: Barrriman definitely. And then let's um get it possible that

516
00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:24,600
Speaker 1: when I took the plugs out too, there was a

517
00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:26,359
Speaker 1: little bit of oil in there. I was a little

518
00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:32,520
Speaker 1: bit worried about the um uh intake or whatever. Would

519
00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:35,240
Speaker 1: that possibly if I knew I intake it would run

520
00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:37,000
Speaker 1: that good? Right? Yeah, it wouldn't run that good. You'd

521
00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:39,200
Speaker 1: be telling me about misfires. You'd be telling me about

522
00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:41,720
Speaker 1: stumbles and things like that. And then wait, I saved

523
00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:45,080
Speaker 1: the best for last. So I want you to think

524
00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:50,480
Speaker 1: about this. In that, could you have tired O two sensors?

525
00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:55,840
Speaker 1: All right? Oxygen? Oxygen sensors do wear out. You know,

526
00:25:55,880 --> 00:26:00,679
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter if there's only doesn't mean yeah, it

527
00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:03,560
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. You know, two censors, a thermal coupler. It

528
00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:07,760
Speaker 1: reacts to oxygen um it does. It can be effected

529
00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:11,080
Speaker 1: from sitting. Uh. So there are ways to measure it

530
00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:13,119
Speaker 1: were I was in lab scope class this week with

531
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Speaker 1: the folks from Motomotive Training Group. We were talking about it,

532
00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:20,879
Speaker 1: and a good diagnostician could measure the cross count on

533
00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:22,600
Speaker 1: an O two centsor and you know, is it is

534
00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:24,880
Speaker 1: it reaching its peak? And how many cross counts does

535
00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:28,280
Speaker 1: it have over a given time period? So that won't

536
00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:32,720
Speaker 1: won't show up necessarily on the computer either. You won't

537
00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:36,399
Speaker 1: see that on a scan tool it it. Have you

538
00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:39,720
Speaker 1: ever been sick in your life, Jim? You know, have

539
00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:41,480
Speaker 1: you ever been sick where you you know, you're kind

540
00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:44,280
Speaker 1: of raggy, but you still got to go to work Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,

541
00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:46,280
Speaker 1: and by Thursday the cold cleared up and you didn't

542
00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:49,760
Speaker 1: get full blown sick. But you just you just you weren't. Jim.

543
00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:51,560
Speaker 1: Your wife looked at you and you said, what's wrong

544
00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:54,480
Speaker 1: with you this week? And you went, well, you know, well,

545
00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:57,439
Speaker 1: same thing with a car that two centsor can be

546
00:26:57,480 --> 00:27:00,520
Speaker 1: a little raggy and feel a little crummy. It won't

547
00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:02,240
Speaker 1: turn on the light, and it won't give you a

548
00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:07,200
Speaker 1: peak performance, and it can affect everything. Now, last thought

549
00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:09,439
Speaker 1: of the day, and you gotta that's something somebody with

550
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:11,760
Speaker 1: a lab scope that just don't just run out there

551
00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:13,360
Speaker 1: and change the part. You get somebody with the lab

552
00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:15,720
Speaker 1: scope that knows what they're doing to you know, maybe

553
00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:17,359
Speaker 1: take a look at O two and can they really

554
00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:20,880
Speaker 1: measure the true capacity of what those two sensors are doing?

555
00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:24,720
Speaker 1: Last thought? How are you how are you measuring or

556
00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:30,639
Speaker 1: calculating fuel economy? I'm going by my my oddminter, not

557
00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:35,080
Speaker 1: the odometer. I'm going by the the thing that registers.

558
00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:38,040
Speaker 1: What's that called? They can't think we're going off the

559
00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:42,159
Speaker 1: calculator in the car. Yeah, yeah, okay, so and I

560
00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:44,639
Speaker 1: feared that, but I wanted to give you the knowledge first.

561
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:47,080
Speaker 1: So let's do this. You have to do two things.

562
00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:49,600
Speaker 1: You gotta you gotta go out to the highway when

563
00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:51,840
Speaker 1: there's no one out there. You gotta find a mile marker,

564
00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:56,120
Speaker 1: set the cruise control at sixty, and you gotta find

565
00:27:56,119 --> 00:27:58,159
Speaker 1: the next mile marker. So if you're a mile marker

566
00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:00,480
Speaker 1: fifty two, you gotta get to my i'll mark or

567
00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:05,000
Speaker 1: fifty three at sixty in a minute. Right. That means

568
00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:09,280
Speaker 1: that the spedometer is calibrated and working correctly because we're

569
00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:11,080
Speaker 1: based off of that. So at least, you know, so

570
00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:15,720
Speaker 1: you should have gone one mile at sixty in one minute, right,

571
00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:18,680
Speaker 1: So let's let's make sure that we're our measurement is correct.

572
00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:21,159
Speaker 1: That's number one, and then number two. You gotta do

573
00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:24,439
Speaker 1: the math when you're checking fuel economy. You gotta do

574
00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:30,439
Speaker 1: the math over to likely three tank folds of fuel. Alright,

575
00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:33,000
Speaker 1: I've done that, okay, And then when you you know,

576
00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:35,680
Speaker 1: do the math against the odometer once you verify it's right,

577
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:39,800
Speaker 1: and when you put fuel in the vehicle. First click.

578
00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:43,440
Speaker 1: All right, you can't. You can't top it up, because

579
00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:45,239
Speaker 1: how do you know which when you topped up more

580
00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:47,360
Speaker 1: or less? You know you get another car after a while.

581
00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:48,720
Speaker 1: You know, it's got to be the first click or

582
00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:50,400
Speaker 1: second click, whatever you want to do. But you gotta

583
00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:53,600
Speaker 1: be you gotta be consistent. So do those things. I

584
00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:54,880
Speaker 1: know I gave you a lot. If you want to

585
00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:57,320
Speaker 1: hear this again, get out the Car Doctor Show dot

586
00:28:57,360 --> 00:28:59,920
Speaker 1: com after the after the broadcast today the podcast to

587
00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:01,920
Speaker 1: be up, or go out to iHeart dot com. The

588
00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:04,160
Speaker 1: proadcast will be up and you can download the podcast

589
00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:06,200
Speaker 1: first hour down around the bottom and you can hear

590
00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:08,320
Speaker 1: the whole thing all over again. Thanks for the call, Jim.

591
00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:12,160
Speaker 1: If you need more, I'm here zero the Car Doctors

592
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:18,040
Speaker 1: cruising back right after this. Welcome back. Let's go to

593
00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:20,520
Speaker 1: Bob in New Jersey. Robert, how the heck are you?

594
00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:22,000
Speaker 1: You know? Before the show today, I said, we haven't

595
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:23,440
Speaker 1: heard from Bob and New Jersey in a while, and

596
00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:27,440
Speaker 1: he said, yeah, he called today there you are. Yeah, yes,

597
00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:31,640
Speaker 1: you know one of the things that fixing anything we

598
00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:36,120
Speaker 1: need five humans sense this hearing, seeing, feeling, smelling, and tasting.

599
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:39,880
Speaker 1: And the last time I was talking to you, I

600
00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:42,680
Speaker 1: was hearing this wine coming out of this two thousand

601
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:47,160
Speaker 1: and eight out of the three at certain speeds. And

602
00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:49,600
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's still there or not because

603
00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:52,360
Speaker 1: I had my hearing A three program that now I

604
00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:58,440
Speaker 1: can't hear it. So and yeah, and that's that's the problem.

605
00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:02,000
Speaker 1: It's a noise still there. I don't know. I've had

606
00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:04,600
Speaker 1: different people try to drive his car and they look

607
00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:08,680
Speaker 1: at me. I can't hear nothing. Well, so maybe the

608
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:12,680
Speaker 1: noise is gone. Yeah, I don't know if if it was,

609
00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:16,560
Speaker 1: you know, because since I had the hearing aids reprogrammed,

610
00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:21,360
Speaker 1: I can't hear. But you know, it's just that. Uh

611
00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:24,080
Speaker 1: So what I did do was as I had two flew,

612
00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 1: it again changed and there was no uh you know,

613
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:31,160
Speaker 1: everything was as clean as what I took out. So

614
00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:34,840
Speaker 1: apparently you know this wine, and I'm talking about is

615
00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:37,760
Speaker 1: it normal or is it was it enhanced with the

616
00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:40,840
Speaker 1: hearing aids or what. I don't know. Well, you know,

617
00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:42,840
Speaker 1: but I want to take the car to a dealer

618
00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:45,240
Speaker 1: that I'm afraid you know that they might give me

619
00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:49,040
Speaker 1: a bologna sandwich. You well, yeah, it's it's but you

620
00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:50,760
Speaker 1: know the other side of that is if if you're

621
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Speaker 1: riding with people, let me ask you this. You know, um,

622
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:57,360
Speaker 1: do you have you have your better half? Right? Can you?

623
00:30:57,360 --> 00:31:00,160
Speaker 1: Can you take her out for a ride? Sure? Does

624
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:03,480
Speaker 1: she hear the noise? Oh? Well then it must be

625
00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:07,600
Speaker 1: okay because wives know everything. Yeah, I mean I you know,

626
00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:10,720
Speaker 1: I know that. Um, you know I always wait to

627
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:12,520
Speaker 1: get home to find out what I did wrong that day.

628
00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:18,000
Speaker 1: Uh years ago, I had ah when I worked at Volzwagon.

629
00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:22,040
Speaker 1: We had a car had something similar to this, and

630
00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:25,520
Speaker 1: they took this thing apart and I found up. I

631
00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:27,840
Speaker 1: put my hand out and had a root brack on it.

632
00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:30,800
Speaker 1: I touched the roof brack and the noise went away. Well, yeah,

633
00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:33,200
Speaker 1: it could be that too. I would be curious. I

634
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:35,400
Speaker 1: would be curious if you could pinpoint the noise at

635
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:38,760
Speaker 1: a certain mile an hour or certain load. If then

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Speaker 1: Does it make the same noise as it evolved into

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Speaker 1: a vibration that type of thing, So you know that's

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Speaker 1: all there, you know, Bob you make, you make good points.

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Speaker 1: And it's it's like I always said and have said

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Speaker 1: what God gave us to you to fix cars, right

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Speaker 1: it site, sound, touch, smell and here um and here

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Speaker 1: a site, sound, touch, smell. Um. There is a fifth

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Speaker 1: one there. I figuret what has already said sound twice.

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Speaker 1: I can't say it again, but you get the point. Um, Robert,

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Speaker 1: good to hear from you, and I'm glad. I'm glad

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Speaker 1: all else as well. You keep on trucking and enjoying

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Speaker 1: your audie. Um, you have a good rest of the day.

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Speaker 1: Zero nine nine zero zero sites such here's it. When

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Speaker 1: I come back, I'm run any of the car doctor,

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Speaker 1: don't go away. You have the back any of the

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Speaker 1: car doctor. And we're just gonna wind things down this hour.

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Speaker 1: By the way, Mikey, I want you to know I've

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Speaker 1: instructed Tom we're gonna call your mommy in the second

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Speaker 1: hour and so we can get her on air. We

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Speaker 1: wanted I you know, and I have to tell you folks.

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Speaker 1: So I said to Mike, I said, do you realize

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Speaker 1: how bad the wheel bearing was and he said, yeah.

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Speaker 1: I said, did your mom ask you how bad the

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Speaker 1: wheel bearing was? And she said, and he said, well,

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Speaker 1: I just told her that it was just bad. I

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Speaker 1: didn't tell her how bad. So Mike's mom thinks that

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Speaker 1: the wheel bearing was bad, but not the wheel was

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Speaker 1: gonna fall off bed. So we're gonna make sure Mike's

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Speaker 1: mom knows so that next time Mike doesn't do something

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Speaker 1: like that because he was bad this week. Um. In

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Speaker 1: any event, I want to talk to you about overfilling

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Speaker 1: the gas tank. It's it's important. And this one comes

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Speaker 1: to us from our good friends over at mitchell Mitchell

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Speaker 1: one dot com. Uh. Sometimes when you sometimes you have

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Speaker 1: to observe how a customer uses a vehicle to track

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Speaker 1: down a problem. Right, it's it's We always say that

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Speaker 1: it's it's it's observation. By the way, the five the

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Speaker 1: five senses where site, smell, touch, taste, and sound. I

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Speaker 1: know I could get it right when I wasn't under

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Speaker 1: the gun. So um anyway, Uh, recently a sure Track

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Speaker 1: community member. This comes to us from the real fixed

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Speaker 1: sure Track community over there at Mitchell one. Rocky Ridge

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Speaker 1: too had a Toyota Highlander in their shop. That would

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Speaker 1: stall after filling up, but not every time. They put

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Speaker 1: the question out to the community, and with the help

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Speaker 1: of everybody around, because it's a mechanicals it's a mechanics blog.

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Speaker 1: That's what the real fix sure Track repair community here,

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Speaker 1: they were able to solve the issue quickly. They had

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Speaker 1: Toyota high Lander. The complaint was it would stall after

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Speaker 1: fill up. The customer was set every time I filled

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Speaker 1: the car up, the car stall. They recently had replaced

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Speaker 1: the evaporative canister and the purge veil. So the mechanic

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Speaker 1: did the next thing. He said, Hey, let's see how

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Speaker 1: does the person fill it up. They got in the

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Speaker 1: customer fill the tank. And according to the report that

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Speaker 1: came out in sure Track, when they came to stop

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Speaker 1: it it, they kept clicking the pedal, They care clicking

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Speaker 1: the pump, and they kept filling it and play and

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Speaker 1: click click click click started setting fold codes. Bottom line,

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Speaker 1: as sure Track tells us, make sure when you're filling

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Speaker 1: gas in the car, first click stop it. You're that

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Speaker 1: extra dollar you put in over time, you're over filling

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Speaker 1: the tank. You're creating issues with the evaporative emission systems,

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Speaker 1: and it can't cost you a big dollars when it

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Speaker 1: doesn't have to. Just came to a courtesy of Mitchell

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Speaker 1: folks over at Mitchell one dot com. I'm running any

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Speaker 1: in the car doctor saying, hey, another hour flown by

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Speaker 1: until the next on. Good mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless.

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Speaker 1: See you