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Speaker 1: Ron Anian, it's probably the difference as an educated guest

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Speaker 1: Facebook could help fix that. I'm sure all the experts

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the radio home of ron Ananian, the Car Doctor.

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Speaker 2: Since nineteen ninety one, this is where car owners the

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Speaker 1: at eighty five five five six, ninety nine hundred and now.

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Speaker 1: Do you have trouble driving at night? I think a

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Speaker 1: lot of us. Do you know? A recent article by

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Speaker 1: the American Optometric Association optometry optometric actually is what they

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Speaker 1: call themselves, reports that many drivers compare about glare due

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Speaker 1: And I read the article and it's interesting they actually

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Speaker 1: talk about, Tom, do you have problems seeing at night?

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Speaker 1: To you, right, you're on the road a lot. You're

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Speaker 1: you're traveling all over creation in your in your weekday job.

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Speaker 3: Right. Well, you know it's funny.

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Speaker 1: I went to the eye doctor yesterday and she asked

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Speaker 3: I said, not really, I said, until I encounter those

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Speaker 1: Me, right, and then that's a problem. Now they're saying,

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Speaker 1: and where did it say it in this article? I

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Speaker 1: we have problems with because there's strategies for improving night vision,

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Speaker 1: and they talk about dry eye if you have dry eyes,

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Speaker 1: that if your eye is lubricated, it will affect how

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Speaker 1: be distorted and thereby help improve night vision. But this,

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Speaker 1: this is a real thing the article talks about, is

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Speaker 1: difficulty driving at night, the same as night blindness. And

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Speaker 1: night blindness, which is and I'm gonna I'm going to

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Speaker 1: destroy this word is Niceetellopia n y C T A

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Speaker 1: the darker, dimly lit areas. One of the more common

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Speaker 1: eye conditions that cause night blindness is called retinopus retinitis

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Speaker 1: pigmentosa or RP. You understand why I'm not a medical doctor, right,

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Speaker 1: And this affects the eye in a way that makes

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Speaker 1: just seems like the manufacturers just keep on adding more

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Speaker 1: get rid of the street lights. Okay, let's just put

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Speaker 1: It's definitely a. It's definitely a problem. So there's a

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Speaker 1: great article. Where was this, Oh, this is on Yahoo

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Speaker 1: The article then continues. You can turn down dashboard lights

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Speaker 1: with an anti reflection coating. Now that I hadn't thought about,

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Speaker 1: Is it those vehicles that we're hanging on to? And

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Speaker 1: what's going on here. Tom. Welcome to back to the

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Speaker 1: car doctor, sir. What's going on with the buick today?

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Speaker 4: Master flow sensor failed. I saw it with my parents

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Speaker 4: and it fixed it. So I'm looking to buy another one.

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Speaker 4: What do you recommend? Original are after Mark market? They're

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Speaker 4: pretty expensive. They're over one hundred dollars. Uh, aftermarket with

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Speaker 4: the part stores have lifetime warranties. The other ones that

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Speaker 4: are OE are one your warranty?

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Speaker 1: And how how much is the OE?

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Speaker 4: Close to two hundred dollars?

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Speaker 1: Can you still get one?

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Speaker 1: Are you you planning to keep the car?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I get it. I'm just asking the questions. Brother, Listen,

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Speaker 1: I think it's I think it's a matter of obviously,

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Speaker 1: I I think I think the other part of this

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Speaker 3: Nope? New, it says.

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Speaker 1: New, And then I'd probably go for the aftermarket version

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Speaker 4: Yeah, lifetime warranty. Right, so, but I don't want to

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Speaker 3: Every year, you know.

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Speaker 1: Well, no, I understand that too, you know. Just make

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Speaker 1: think about this with mass any mass airflow car. Just

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Speaker 1: the majority of mass airflow sensor failures occur as a

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's time, it's time. So, yeah, you knows. Mass

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Speaker 3: Yes, I'm good.

432
00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:51,159
Speaker 1: What's going on?

433
00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:57,639
Speaker 3: Well? I had a reverse light out that popped it

434
00:21:57,720 --> 00:22:00,160
Speaker 3: up at a new ball bin, and I know, I'm

435
00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:02,840
Speaker 3: just when I pulled the light bulb out of the socket,

436
00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:07,160
Speaker 3: the whole uh put it back in tail it came

437
00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:09,880
Speaker 3: back on. But if I put in reverse the hotel

438
00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:12,680
Speaker 3: it goes out again, and the and the bulb does

439
00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:13,119
Speaker 3: not go on.

440
00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:16,520
Speaker 1: Okay, so this started out as a Hey, the bull

441
00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:19,119
Speaker 1: was out, you went to put a new bull then

442
00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:22,240
Speaker 1: and now you put the new bullban and your phone

443
00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:24,480
Speaker 1: broke up? There, Kurt, what happened when you put the bull.

444
00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:27,399
Speaker 4: beIN the nothing?

445
00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:28,600
Speaker 3: I mean, it's still the same.

446
00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:33,120
Speaker 1: If I put in a reverse, Well, it's always Kurt,

447
00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:36,160
Speaker 1: you there kind of dark. Yeah, you're on a I'm here. Yeah,

448
00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:38,600
Speaker 1: I think you're on a bad cell connection. Try it again, brother,

449
00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:41,159
Speaker 1: when you put it in, you put it in reverse,

450
00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:42,159
Speaker 1: what happens.

451
00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:44,399
Speaker 3: The whole tail? It goes out?

452
00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:48,720
Speaker 1: Okay, So somewhere we've somewhere we've got a voltage drop.

453
00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:52,880
Speaker 1: We're we've got a bad we've got a bad connection,

454
00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:55,920
Speaker 1: or we've got an easier path for voltage to take

455
00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:59,040
Speaker 1: than to go across the the the element of the bull,

456
00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:01,760
Speaker 1: the filament of the b. So is there resistance in

457
00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:06,800
Speaker 1: the socket? So my first thought is, you know, do

458
00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:09,120
Speaker 1: you own a test light? Do you have any sort

459
00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:12,000
Speaker 1: of testing equipment where we could pin.

460
00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:14,960
Speaker 3: Up I'm not real good or electrical?

461
00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:18,040
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, then you.

462
00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:19,960
Speaker 3: Know my friend's thing is a bad ground.

463
00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:23,400
Speaker 1: Maybe well, yeah, it could be absolutely absolutely, it could

464
00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:25,360
Speaker 1: be a bad ground I would I would go through

465
00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:27,280
Speaker 1: a wiring diagram and look to see, how is that

466
00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:30,960
Speaker 1: How is that socket? Uh, you know grounded? All right?

467
00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:32,680
Speaker 1: What I would what I would actually do is I

468
00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:34,760
Speaker 1: would take the tail light out or find that tail

469
00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:37,440
Speaker 1: light is going to have a body plug all right,

470
00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:40,320
Speaker 1: where it's connected to the rest of the wiring harness,

471
00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:44,040
Speaker 1: and I would go across the contacts of that body plug.

472
00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:45,639
Speaker 1: There's going to be a hot coming back to the

473
00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:48,920
Speaker 1: bulb and a ground I would put my meter across

474
00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:52,040
Speaker 1: that and put it in reverse. Do I see.

475
00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:54,760
Speaker 3: Voltage original tailight too? Right?

476
00:23:55,080 --> 00:23:57,760
Speaker 1: Well yeah, but you know the question is is their

477
00:23:57,760 --> 00:24:01,200
Speaker 1: corrosion inside the socket? Is their coron inside the connector?

478
00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:05,520
Speaker 1: All right? So I would start there, does the other

479
00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:06,640
Speaker 1: side work correctly?

480
00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:08,280
Speaker 3: Yes?

481
00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:10,719
Speaker 1: Okay? Then I would also sit down with a wiring

482
00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:14,879
Speaker 1: diagram and a couple of different colored markers and I

483
00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:17,920
Speaker 1: would I would map everything out how does this circuit work?

484
00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:21,600
Speaker 1: All right? This is that you always hear me talk

485
00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:23,640
Speaker 1: about I always you know, I'll take anywhere from twenty

486
00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:25,960
Speaker 1: minutes to an hour to research a problem before I

487
00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:29,280
Speaker 1: attack it. And this is that twenty minutes and a

488
00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:30,840
Speaker 1: cup of coffee, cup of tea for me.

489
00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:34,480
Speaker 3: But you know, take hold out and see take a

490
00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:36,240
Speaker 3: battery and do the tests.

491
00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:39,440
Speaker 1: Well that and I would also I also want to

492
00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:42,520
Speaker 1: look at a wiring diagram. I have that luxury all right,

493
00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:45,760
Speaker 1: where you know, how does the circuit work if if

494
00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:49,080
Speaker 1: it's a For example, if it's a common hot back

495
00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:54,120
Speaker 1: from the printle switch that feeds the reverse lights, and

496
00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:56,600
Speaker 1: then the connector splits off at the back of the trunk,

497
00:24:56,680 --> 00:24:58,399
Speaker 1: then I know the feed coming out of the switch

498
00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:01,280
Speaker 1: the prindle the harness come back is all good because

499
00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:03,760
Speaker 1: if it's affecting one it's not affecting the other, then

500
00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:05,879
Speaker 1: it has to be where it splits off and the

501
00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:10,120
Speaker 1: harness becomes separate legs. But if it's a if it's

502
00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:13,280
Speaker 1: two separate shots coming back from the switch, then I

503
00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:14,920
Speaker 1: might have to trace it all the way back up

504
00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:17,600
Speaker 1: to where the connection is made at the switch when

505
00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:20,160
Speaker 1: you move the shifter if you make If you understand

506
00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:23,119
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, So here's the advantage of where a

507
00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:25,480
Speaker 1: wiring diagram, would you know, break it out? How does

508
00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:26,320
Speaker 1: the circuit split?

509
00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:27,320
Speaker 3: You know?

510
00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:29,840
Speaker 1: Or does the circuit split? So and I think it does.

511
00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:31,600
Speaker 1: I think it's a straight shot coming back if I

512
00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:35,160
Speaker 1: remember correctly. And then it becomes it becomes two connectors,

513
00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:36,960
Speaker 1: one going to the left, one going to the right

514
00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:40,080
Speaker 1: type of a thing. So, but yeah, you sounds like

515
00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:42,840
Speaker 1: you've got a classic case of a bad ground, you know,

516
00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:45,919
Speaker 1: a voltage drop problem. And I'm gonna just say it,

517
00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:47,680
Speaker 1: even though I don't think so. Do you have the

518
00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:49,359
Speaker 1: right bulb? All right?

519
00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:51,400
Speaker 3: Just to be sure I do, because it came out

520
00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:53,359
Speaker 3: of another bubble tailate, Well, it doesn't.

521
00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:55,919
Speaker 1: That doesn't. That doesn't make it right unless it's the

522
00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:57,439
Speaker 1: one from the other side. Was it the one from

523
00:25:57,480 --> 00:25:58,200
Speaker 1: the other side.

524
00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:01,240
Speaker 3: No, it was from a fair tale light that I had.

525
00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:05,400
Speaker 3: It was a new bulb. I had replaced the other light,

526
00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:08,479
Speaker 3: and I put the new bulbs. It had came with bulbs,

527
00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:10,600
Speaker 3: so I put all the new bulbs in the other one.

528
00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:13,680
Speaker 1: You know, never never assume if it came out of

529
00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:15,800
Speaker 1: a car that it's the right part. Someday I'll tell you,

530
00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:17,160
Speaker 1: guys the story. I'll tell you the story.

531
00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:17,360
Speaker 4: Now.

532
00:26:17,359 --> 00:26:20,280
Speaker 1: We had a FOURD pickup truck a couple of weeks

533
00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:23,120
Speaker 1: ago where the customer had to ask for a battery

534
00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:26,840
Speaker 1: replacement and we couldn't determine whether it was supposed to

535
00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:30,480
Speaker 1: be an a GM battery or a conventional battery. And

536
00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:33,680
Speaker 1: we looked at it and it had an AGM battery

537
00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:36,160
Speaker 1: in it, but it was right on the fuzzy edge

538
00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:38,320
Speaker 1: of where Ford started putting a GM batteries in their

539
00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:41,000
Speaker 1: pickup trucks, and we had to actually trace it down

540
00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:44,040
Speaker 1: by then that vehicle actually called for a conventional battery,

541
00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:46,760
Speaker 1: and we put a conventional battery back in. That's what

542
00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:48,840
Speaker 1: the customer wanted. They wanted it as it came out

543
00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:50,639
Speaker 1: of the factory, and that's what we gave them. But

544
00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:53,080
Speaker 1: you can't look at the car and say, you know,

545
00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:54,920
Speaker 1: it's it works, it's right.

546
00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:55,879
Speaker 3: You know.

547
00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:58,120
Speaker 1: I'm not saying the AGM or the conventional ones better

548
00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:00,960
Speaker 1: than the other, you know, but I just I never

549
00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:03,840
Speaker 1: assume that's why my back bristles anytime somebody says that.

550
00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:05,160
Speaker 1: So I'm not picking on your current.

551
00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:07,399
Speaker 3: Well, I tried to put in one of the LED

552
00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:13,120
Speaker 3: kits for the interior lights, right that really screwed everything up. Well,

553
00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:14,639
Speaker 3: I had to put the old bubbles back in.

554
00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:16,760
Speaker 1: You're you're pretty gutsy for a guy who's not good

555
00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:17,920
Speaker 1: with electrical.

556
00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:19,680
Speaker 3: But just replacing a ball.

557
00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:24,280
Speaker 1: How hard could it be? Famous famous last words, how

558
00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:25,040
Speaker 1: hard could I?

559
00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:29,320
Speaker 3: Because when I put the LEDs up, like the lower

560
00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:32,720
Speaker 3: feet panels wouldn't light up because I guess the whole

561
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:37,520
Speaker 3: circuitry revolves in voltage feedback. And since you're not only

562
00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:42,080
Speaker 3: using partial the voltage, Yeah, it just screw screwed everything up.

563
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:45,040
Speaker 1: Well, and wait till you find out with all the LEDs.

564
00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:47,600
Speaker 1: And it's also based on it's looking at if it's

565
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:49,880
Speaker 1: coming out of the body computer, it's looking at voltage

566
00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:53,840
Speaker 1: drop or current draw and to decide what circuits to

567
00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:56,199
Speaker 1: turn on and off and the electronics. That's why they

568
00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:58,880
Speaker 1: have us put resistors in with led kits to get

569
00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:01,400
Speaker 1: the b cms or the one computers to do certain things.

570
00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:04,480
Speaker 1: So LEDs versus conventional lighting is a whole nother story.

571
00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:08,600
Speaker 3: Go ahead, I left a message on your thing. I

572
00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:12,960
Speaker 3: was watching it. There's a twenty nineteen Dodge Ram, but

573
00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:16,720
Speaker 3: only drive thirty three miles and shut down and have

574
00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:19,520
Speaker 3: all these alarms go off. Go to the dealer immediately

575
00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:21,919
Speaker 3: pull over and if you put it in park then

576
00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:24,320
Speaker 3: it would be locked in the park and they push

577
00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:27,439
Speaker 3: a button to stop the engine. It wouldn't stop, and

578
00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:30,400
Speaker 3: then after about ten minutes it would shut down automatically.

579
00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:33,400
Speaker 3: You could start to think, back up, no alarms, drive

580
00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:35,639
Speaker 3: thirty three miles, then you do it all over again.

581
00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:37,879
Speaker 3: Do you ever see that video.

582
00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:40,120
Speaker 1: I haven't seen that video, but I would have to

583
00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:42,760
Speaker 1: think that's a computer fall, because if it's that precise

584
00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:45,360
Speaker 1: that it's happening like clockwork, I don't think it's the

585
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:47,840
Speaker 1: thirty three miles. I think it's the timeframe, and I

586
00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:49,959
Speaker 1: would sit there. I would sit there in time. I'll

587
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:51,520
Speaker 1: tell you what. Let me pull over, take a pause.

588
00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:53,560
Speaker 1: Don't go anywhere, Kurt, because we're runningup against the clock.

589
00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:55,120
Speaker 1: We'll be back to talk about it right after this.

590
00:28:55,200 --> 00:29:11,760
Speaker 1: Don't go away. Hey, welcome back. Let's finish up with Kurt. Kurt,

591
00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:14,680
Speaker 1: you're still there, sir, Yes, sir, I have not seen

592
00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:16,920
Speaker 1: that video of the nineteen RAM that goes thirty three

593
00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:19,040
Speaker 1: miles and then dies, you know.

594
00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:22,000
Speaker 3: To address yeah, thirty minute video. It took him to

595
00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:23,280
Speaker 3: explain it all right.

596
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:26,600
Speaker 1: I would be thinking about which part of the computer

597
00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:29,160
Speaker 1: network is shutting down, because to me it sounds more

598
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:32,680
Speaker 1: computer and in terms of failure that it's so specific

599
00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:34,040
Speaker 1: to a mile at a time fence.

600
00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:38,240
Speaker 3: It was a failure. It was a wire of three

601
00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:41,800
Speaker 3: point five vault something on a block where all the

602
00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:46,640
Speaker 3: modulars are plugged into. Okay, he goes, they section the

603
00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:49,760
Speaker 3: modulars because there's just so many of them, so they

604
00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:52,920
Speaker 3: take them down to like a ten modular per block.

605
00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:55,480
Speaker 3: So then he had to pull the blocks out that

606
00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:59,200
Speaker 3: he had a list of errors, probably as long as

607
00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:01,320
Speaker 3: your armed, but they they were all canceled when the

608
00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:02,720
Speaker 3: cars start back up again.

609
00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:05,680
Speaker 1: Right well, And and and to explain it from a

610
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:08,600
Speaker 1: different perspective, what what you're talking about and what you

611
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:11,479
Speaker 1: were seeing was when you hear me talk about how

612
00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:14,360
Speaker 1: computer networks go down and pull the whole componentry down,

613
00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:16,760
Speaker 1: that's what you're seeing. So they were they were breaking

614
00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:19,719
Speaker 1: it down into section by section trying to figure out

615
00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:21,400
Speaker 1: where the fault was. And that's why I said it

616
00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:24,440
Speaker 1: sounded computer in nature or electrical in nature, that it's

617
00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:27,080
Speaker 1: so specific. It only runs, well, you know, it only

618
00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:29,720
Speaker 1: runs up to a certain point where there's a default value.

619
00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:33,400
Speaker 1: You know. The issue is all the vehicles today have specific,

620
00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:37,560
Speaker 1: shall we say, fail safe modes, and when they reach

621
00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:39,960
Speaker 1: that specific fail safe mode, that's when it you know

622
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:43,800
Speaker 1: that's when it it will allow it to you know,

623
00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:46,520
Speaker 1: go into that mode and then it resets when you

624
00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:50,520
Speaker 1: when you cycle the key. So but yeah, wiring right,

625
00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:52,760
Speaker 1: it's it's your strong point, Kurt. We could send you

626
00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:53,720
Speaker 1: out to fix that next.

627
00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:58,400
Speaker 3: Now narrowed it down to one block. Yeah, and the

628
00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:02,120
Speaker 3: unplugged the whole block and all the codes cleared right now.

629
00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:04,720
Speaker 3: He checked everything on that block. He checked a wire

630
00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:08,479
Speaker 3: going to the block and here he checked the block.

631
00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:11,959
Speaker 3: But I guess this one diode if he checked it

632
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:14,920
Speaker 3: over and over and over or whatever it's called, the

633
00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:18,440
Speaker 3: voltage kept climbing up. It was three point five, three

634
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:22,280
Speaker 3: point six, you know, and he's figuring because of all

635
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:25,720
Speaker 3: at idle it will cool down and be fine. But

636
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:28,800
Speaker 3: when you're driving fifty five and all this information is

637
00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:31,760
Speaker 3: going through these things, it would go over four volts

638
00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:34,360
Speaker 3: and then shut it down, right, And he just changed

639
00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:36,600
Speaker 3: that block out and the guy never had a problem.

640
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:39,880
Speaker 3: He couldn't totally prove it, but it never happened again.

641
00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:42,600
Speaker 3: So it was in that. It was it was interesting

642
00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:46,120
Speaker 3: as far as you know, not knowing electrical hardly at all,

643
00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 3: and how you know it took it took him quite

644
00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:50,520
Speaker 3: a while to figure it out.

645
00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:53,560
Speaker 1: Oh sure, listen, I the amount of electronics. I read

646
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:55,560
Speaker 1: an article the other day that they were talking about

647
00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:59,000
Speaker 1: circuit boards. It was it was return. It was referring

648
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:01,360
Speaker 1: to a circuit board. I see twelve, and now how there?

649
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:04,160
Speaker 1: I see thirteen and it started talking in depth. It

650
00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:07,480
Speaker 1: was an in depth electronics conversation that, frankly, was over

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Speaker 1: my opinion. But they're accomplishing the job. I guess, Kurt,

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Speaker 1: I got to go them up against the clock. Good

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Speaker 1: to hear from you, man, I make out with your vote.

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Speaker 3: Thank you too, sir.

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Speaker 1: Be well, I'm running any In The Card Doctor. We're

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Speaker 1: back right after this. Don't go away. It's second Welcome

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Speaker 1: back Running the Card Doctor. The list segment of this week.

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Speaker 1: and look for the classic Card Doctor posts coming up midweek,

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Speaker 1: as well as podcast today's show. We'll get those up

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Speaker 1: right after the show today in a couple hours. Let's

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Speaker 1: segment I want to talk about it. I've just got

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Speaker 1: a question up on Facebook from Bob in the Bronx

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Speaker 1: New York ron I've got a twenty three Ford Maverick

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Speaker 1: hybrid pickup. My plans are to relocate the truck from

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Speaker 1: New York to Fort Myers, Florida, where the truck will

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Speaker 1: only be used four months of continuous followed by a

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Speaker 1: period of seven to eight months sitting in my garage

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Speaker 1: without any usage. Is there any risk of the hybrid

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Speaker 1: disconnect the twelve old battery when I store vehicles for

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Speaker 1: long periods, But what can you do to save the

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Speaker 1: hybrid battery? Thanks Bob. Bob, First of all, look at

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Speaker 1: the owner's manual. I know this question has been posed

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Speaker 1: to a lot of hybrid owners, and I'm almost certain

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Speaker 1: that Ford's got a section in the Owner's manual dedicated

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Speaker 1: to long term storage and concerns. I don't know of

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Speaker 1: a hybrid concern a hybrid battery concern that they have there.

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Speaker 1: Of course, letting it sit like that might cause it

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Speaker 1: obviously running the vehicle. We'll obviously charge it back up.

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Speaker 1: My biggest concern, quite honestly, is the quality of the gasoline,

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Speaker 1: because you know, we've seen issues where even on hybrids

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Speaker 1: that are used on a regular basis, certain vehicles driven

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Speaker 1: as a hybrid, it can go thirty days. I've seen

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Speaker 1: cases of this where they can go thirty days before

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Speaker 1: a regular basis, so much so that the gasoline is older.

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Speaker 1: And you know, how often do you fill up that hybrid?

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Speaker 1: Is it a I know people that tell me, hey,

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Speaker 1: I go thirty days forty days between phillips because they

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Speaker 1: don't go anywhere. They're going three to six miles a day,

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Speaker 1: and you know the longevity, the quality of the fuel.

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Speaker 1: And I would be more concerned with long term storage

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Speaker 1: effects on the gasoline than I would be on the

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Speaker 1: hybrid battery. As far as disconnecting the twelve vault battery,

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Speaker 1: Bob and for everybody else, I'd put a battery tender

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Speaker 1: on it. I wouldn't disconnect it. I'd be that battery

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Speaker 1: connected because I'd like the vehicle to maintain its memory.

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Speaker 1: I think the learning curve is going to be too

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Speaker 1: tedious when you get back to it. They have to

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Speaker 1: do that every time. Ug I don't want to do that.

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Speaker 1: I want to try a battery tender, but I think

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Speaker 1: I'd be more concerned the long term storage effects of

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Speaker 1: the gasoline, not the other two batteries. I'm not an

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Speaker 1: ay and the car doctor reminding you till the next time.

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Speaker 1: Good mechanics are inexpensive, they're priceless. See you