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Speaker 2: We have another great hour of order repair radio for you.

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Speaker 2: I'm Roninanie in the Car Doctor here at eight five

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Speaker 2: to five five six zero nine nine zero zero again

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Speaker 2: eight five to five five six zero nine nine zero zero. Wantn'

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Speaker 2: we kick the garage doors open? Let's go to Pete

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Speaker 2: in Michigan. Pete, Welcome to the Car Doctor what's going on.

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Speaker 3: You're not the car doctor, you're the car wizard. And

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Speaker 3: I came to you because I'm trying to keep my

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Speaker 3: fleet running.

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Speaker 2: Cool beans. What's going on? Pete?

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Speaker 3: We've got two animals. The first two thousand and three

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Speaker 3: Cadillac Deville notorious problem with the window regulators that fail

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Speaker 3: on that. I've already replaced two. They were pretty straightforward

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Speaker 3: in and out, took great off. This one, the window

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Speaker 3: just just slowly slid into the to the door. Put

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Speaker 3: a new window regulator in. It doesn't work. I put

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Speaker 3: a meter to it. I'm getting voltage at the window

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Speaker 3: regulator and I can even hear the door module click.

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Speaker 3: Do I have a faulty door module?

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Speaker 2: Well, let's let's no codes, right, Yeah, you're not gonna

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Speaker 2: Let's let's back up a second. You know that switch

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Speaker 2: that the way they work any window motor is they're

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Speaker 2: going to reverse power and ground up or down. So

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Speaker 2: if we if we and go go here understand how

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Speaker 2: the circuit works, Pete, go look at one of the

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Speaker 2: windows that's working right, ye, So you know I believe

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Speaker 2: it's I believe there's an orange wire was the common

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Speaker 2: color back then, orange and whatever the opposite is do

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Speaker 2: we have power on the orange? Do we have ground

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Speaker 2: on the black? And then go look at the motors.

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Speaker 2: The wire is leading up to each individual door motor.

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Speaker 2: You should be able to reverse it. See power and

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Speaker 2: ground this way, then power and ground that way. Then

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Speaker 2: go apply it. Go apply it to that new regulator

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Speaker 2: that's not working. Because prior to this, if I understand

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Speaker 2: what you're saying correctly, the window just the glass fell

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Speaker 2: into the door. It wasn't an electrical problem. It was

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Speaker 2: a mechanical problem with the regulator itself, right right.

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Speaker 3: But normally when the other ones fell into the door,

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Speaker 3: I could still like freely move it while it was

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Speaker 3: still bolted to the window. This one I couldn't. I

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Speaker 3: couldn't just slide it on its own. How come that

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Speaker 3: told me like the motor was kind of solid?

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Speaker 2: Okay, So what you replace just the regulator itself?

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Speaker 3: I replace both?

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Speaker 2: Ah, okay, So that means you have a spare motor

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Speaker 2: line around right.

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Speaker 3: I already tested that You're way ahead of me.

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Speaker 2: Okay, and that and that motor works right yep.

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Speaker 3: But it didn't. It didn't move either. So I'm thinking

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Speaker 3: the only thing I've got left is a fuse, and

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Speaker 3: I wouldn't be getting a click and voltage at the

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Speaker 3: door if it was a fuse.

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Speaker 2: Right, and you have power? Right, you have power at

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Speaker 2: the door? I do, And I, like I said, I

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Speaker 2: would go look to see do I have Can it

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Speaker 2: reverse polarity? When I put the switch up or down?

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Speaker 2: Does it follow what the others are doing? And if

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Speaker 2: could I also still have And I know, I know

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Speaker 2: you work on enough cars that you know this, Pete,

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Speaker 2: But I'm gonna mention it. Could I have a broken

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Speaker 3: I thought about that one right now.

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Speaker 2: That's that's what they were famous for. They broke the

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Speaker 2: doorjam wires because you open and close the door three

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but this is a rear door, so well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so it took longer. It took twenty two years

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Speaker 3: Twenty sixteen, Ford Focus Girlference car driving overheating. Common problem

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Speaker 3: would be, said, makes sense the air conditioning would also

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Speaker 3: shutdown mechanism for when the car overheats to turn off

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Speaker 3: the a seat. Yep, so I said, okay, got to

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Speaker 3: be a thermostat, replace a thermstat Everything went beautifully, but

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Speaker 3: because they tampered with the dust.

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Speaker 2: Well, so what was what was kind of common with these?

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Speaker 2: You've got to get a wiring diagram for this? All right?

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Speaker 2: They had problems with the fan control module, and you know,

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Speaker 2: let's let's get out our scan tool. Can we go?

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Speaker 2: Can we go talk to the module? Is it awake?

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Speaker 2: Is it online? Can we cycle it on by bi

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Speaker 2: directional control? We should be able to in a sixteen

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Speaker 2: more than more than old enough technology or new enough technology.

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Speaker 2: All right, the fan assembly should have power. I believe

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Speaker 2: it's a green red a green red trace wire and

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Speaker 2: it comes out of the battery junction boxk fuse thirty

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Speaker 2: three or thirty two, I believe it is. I think

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Speaker 2: it's f thirty two if I remember it right, you know,

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Speaker 2: pull that fuse out because the cooling fan is such

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Speaker 2: a high current draw. I've got I've gotten in the

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Speaker 2: habit the last couple of three, five, ten years of

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Speaker 2: when I have a problem like this, I want to

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Speaker 2: verify the fusees any good, I will I will physically

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Speaker 2: pull the fuse, look at it.

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Speaker 3: Does the check the fuse is checked it for continuity

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Speaker 3: and it's good.

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Speaker 2: Does it have any burn marks? Does it have any

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Speaker 3: Doesn't seem to be any scorch to it?

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Speaker 2: Okay, so you know I always look for scorch. I

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Speaker 2: like that. I'm gonna steal that word. Uh, Pete, I

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Speaker 2: like that word. It's like my gym coach, Coach Sam

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Speaker 2: has a word called janki, uh, you know, and I

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Speaker 2: like that. You know, Janki's a great word. I love

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Speaker 2: that word. He's like, you know, when you're doing this cleaner,

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Speaker 2: this deadlift, it feels a little janky. And I think

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Speaker 2: about that all the time with cars. So Coach Sam,

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Speaker 2: you gotta love him. He's got these great words.

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Speaker 3: But anyway, not to be confused with jinky. That's a

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Speaker 3: Scooby Doo reference.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, jinky is a different you know, but yanky janky

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Speaker 2: is a real car term. So you know, let's go see,

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Speaker 2: do we have power to the do we have power

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Speaker 2: to the cooling fan? And what temperature is the vehicle

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Speaker 2: getting up to? And I know you're gonna tell me

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Speaker 2: it's hot, but I want to look at it on

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Speaker 2: a scan tool. Did it get up to two twenty

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Speaker 2: four eight? And then what is fan turn on temperature?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: So the interesting that you run right into the skin

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Speaker 3: tool thing. So I did just buy a little wireless device,

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Speaker 3: Bluetooth device that plugs in and allows me to actuate

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Speaker 3: different computer controlled and one of them being the fan.

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Speaker 3: So that should be here tomorrow, right. But you know,

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Speaker 3: I've got an old snap On mtundred If that dates.

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Speaker 2: Me the brick, that's all right. I've still got mine, brother,

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Speaker 2: so I still have it, yep.

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Speaker 3: But I've got a bunch of other little cheap knockoff

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Speaker 3: ones and I'm getting to the point where i just

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Speaker 3: need a better scan tool. But I'm not going to

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Speaker 3: mortgage the house for one. What would you recommend for

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Speaker 3: something like a five hundred dollar range?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's hard. Yeah, ought tell if you can go

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Speaker 2: find a use snap On out on flea bay. That's

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Speaker 2: never a bad thing to do, you know. It's it's

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Speaker 2: we know that we know the older snap On stuff

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Speaker 2: works it. I will say this for snap On that

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Speaker 2: if they've got it in the tool, it generally works

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Speaker 2: where some of the others alltel and launch. Yeah, sometimes

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Speaker 2: the reverse engineering thing isn't always one hundred percent, but

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Speaker 2: you can find a greater volume of information or more

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Speaker 2: testing in the less appropriate engineered tool. Can I say

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Speaker 2: it like that? Is that a delicate way to put it?

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 2: But you know what, you've also got to embrace the technology.

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Speaker 2: Pete not to lecture again on the soapbox. I had

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Speaker 2: to go buy a new laptop this morning. I was

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Speaker 2: telling Tom this story. We had a family laptop die.

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Speaker 2: When did laptops become twelve and thirteen fourteen hundred dollars?

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Speaker 2: There's no cheap laptops anymore. And you know, you've just

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Speaker 2: got to embrace the technology. And I said, all right,

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Speaker 2: you know what, let's just do it because it's it's

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Speaker 2: it's the price of living in the twenty first century,

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Speaker 2: I guess. And I don't think five hundred bucks for

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Speaker 2: a scan tool is the way you can look at it.

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Speaker 2: I think I think you're going to spend a couple

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Speaker 2: to get peace of mind knowing you're ready to tackle

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Speaker 2: the job and not have to not have to scrounge listen.

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Speaker 2: I also, while I was there, I did find a

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Speaker 2: seven hundred dollars laptop and I purchased that. And all

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Speaker 2: that laptop is going to do is I'm putting together

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Speaker 2: my four scan tool, which is the I think it's

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Speaker 2: the Russian hacker knockoff of the Ford factory scan tool.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to try that for a while. I want

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Speaker 2: to see how that works.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 2: You know, I've seen guys using it works really well,

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Speaker 2: and I've I've played with one. I want to get

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Speaker 2: my own now, So I spent I treated myself. I

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Speaker 2: bought myself a dedicated laptop just for that. You know

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Speaker 2: what I'm trying, You know what, I'm embracing technology. I'm

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Speaker 2: trying to learn new things every day, and at this

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Speaker 2: point in my life, I feel like I've learned enough.

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Speaker 2: It just don't work.

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Speaker 3: So I used to run an IT department for a

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Speaker 3: Ford dealership and that's what we used is laptops on

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Speaker 3: pretty much everything.

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Speaker 2: And it works. So all right, kiddo, go get You're welcome.

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Speaker 2: You'll be well you too. Bye bye. I'm running Andy

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Speaker 2: in the car doctor eight five five five six zero

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Speaker 2: nine nine zero zero. Is that the phone number. By golly,

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Speaker 2: zero zero. I got Tom's head spinning. I'm gonna pull over,

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Speaker 2: take a pause, and I'll be back right after this.

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Speaker 2: Don't go away. Hey, let's accidentally, what did I do

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Speaker 2: now when you're a coffee this morning? Uh? No, actually

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Speaker 2: I had a half a couple of coffee. This we

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Speaker 2: I have to admit now. They don't really let me

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Speaker 2: drink coffee. They say it gets me wired.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well it's obvious.

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Speaker 2: So but look, look at we could probably do a

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Speaker 2: four hour show in two hours. You know, that might

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Speaker 2: be an idea, and think about that, Maybe we should

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Speaker 2: add an hour. So now if we added an hour

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Speaker 2: one hour, two hours, are making only an hour. I'll

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Speaker 2: leave you to ponder that question. Well, I take the

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Speaker 2: next call. It'd make it too long at this rate.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to Frank and Illinois. Frank, welcome to the car, doctor, sir,

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Speaker 5: Thank you Ron for taking my call.

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Speaker 5: Situation here to depies everything that I thought I ever

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Speaker 5: And I just happened to use tins oil platinum and

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Speaker 5: But the engine is whispered quiet, not a tick or nothing.

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Speaker 5: So I took the oil field, I cut it open,

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Speaker 5: Being so, I didn't find anything in the fielder. I

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Speaker 5: there was just a very few specs, no flakes. I

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Speaker 2: So what's Well, it's two things i'd want to test,

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Speaker 2: all right. Number one, if you can get a sample

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Speaker 2: number one. Number two, can we take a sample of

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Speaker 5: Apart right on that I the only thing I did do.

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Speaker 5: I took a magnet and I couldn't get any of

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Speaker 5: microwave and I'll send off the oil there. But this

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Speaker 5: And that's what baffles me.

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Speaker 2: Is this the first two oil changes that you're doing

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Speaker 5: Frank, Yeah, the first change had all of flegs. In

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Speaker 2: So whatever it is is going away. But I before

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Speaker 2: you know what is, Blacks, don't tell me that is.

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Speaker 2: You know, here's a case. And I'm not a fan.

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Speaker 2: I'm not a huge fan of oil analysis. I will

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Speaker 2: tell you it's absolutely needed. So that you know exactly

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Speaker 2: it's brass, then we can sit down and think, Okay,

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Speaker 2: what's brass inside this engine that might be failing or

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Speaker 2: might have been failing, and we can maybe do a

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Speaker 2: tell you perhaps the last oil change, whoever did it,

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Speaker 2: like you probably put seven eight thousand miles on this car, yes,

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Speaker 2: think by now it would have failed.

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Speaker 5: Right, And being the second chase hardly had anything, no chick,

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Speaker 2: Right, you know this is where this is where you

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Speaker 2: Because whatever it is, it's going away and it's not

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Speaker 2: So was it during an oil change from a dirty funnel?

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Speaker 2: Do we have a problem? But not a problem if

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Speaker 5: I'm saying right right, Well, I'll go ahead send off

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Speaker 5: maybe what's going on, or maybe I don't have a.

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Speaker 2: Problem, maybe you don't have a problem, you know. In

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Speaker 2: any event, would you call me either way and let

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Speaker 2: because it's always a good story when something like this happens.

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Speaker 2: There's always a reason remember that, Frank, at the end

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Speaker 2: is there. And we'll we'll we'll see what Blackstone says

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Speaker 2: and then work it out and solve the problem. All right, kiddo.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll call you back and let you know.

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Speaker 2: You let us know you'd be well. Thank you, sir,

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Speaker 2: So take care, yes, sir, you too. Kind of makes

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Speaker 2: you wonder. You know that that two hundred fifty twenty

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Speaker 2: you know, quarter million miles. I remember in a quarter

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Speaker 2: I think of that and say, and I also think,

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Speaker 2: It sure seems like a lot of things have engine problems.

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Speaker 2: And I'm not saying Frank does, but you start to

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Speaker 2: I'm saying. So anyway, eight five five five six zero

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Speaker 2: we'll talk a little bit about the Car Doctor YouTube channel,

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Speaker 2: as well as continuing with your phone calls. I'm ronnin

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Speaker 2: Andy and the Car Doctor. I'll return right after this

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Speaker 2: and let's go to Fred and Massachusetts sixteen Cadillac Fred.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Car Doctor, sir? How can I help?

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Speaker 3: Thanks for taking my call?

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Speaker 2: Right, You're welcome. What's going on?

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Speaker 6: I'm calling about my sister's car here? Twenty sixteen Cadillaca SR.

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Speaker 6: Tranny cooler went inside the radiator, examinated everything. Okay, So

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Speaker 6: I just wanted to put that out there so if

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Speaker 2: Yeah, beforehand, right right before that. Yeah, exactly How big

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Speaker 2: of a mess did it make? Well?

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Speaker 6: The dealer told her thirty eight hundred to flush everything

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Speaker 2: How how long did she drive the car? Fred?

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Speaker 6: She had her for a few years.

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Speaker 2: Well, no, no, no, I mean, let me back up?

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Speaker 2: Did how did how did she? When did she realize

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Speaker 6: I think when everything went bad, you know, all lights

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Speaker 2: Right, So let me ask this question because I'm going

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Speaker 2: not beating you up. I really appreciate what you're trying

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Speaker 2: to do. Who was changing the oil all this time?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, she got a private guy doing it and not

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Speaker 2: Right, Well, but you know whoever's doing it, and I'm

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Speaker 2: not listen. There's good in dealerships, there's bad in dealerships.

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Speaker 2: There's good in independence, there's bad in independence. But in

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Speaker 2: and mentioned that, gee, where's this black oily residue or

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Speaker 2: where's this where's this oily residue coming from in the

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Speaker 2: And here we are four thousand dollars in the hole

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Speaker 2: that could have been avoidable, and yeah.

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Speaker 3: No guarantee.

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Speaker 6: What's going to happen after that?

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Speaker 2: Right? So I think, you know, I would try to

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Speaker 2: or half a dozen times a week, but how much

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Speaker 2: is an oil change? And why an oil change was

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Speaker 2: never meant to be fast? An oil change was never

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Speaker 2: all about. There is one bulletin you know that talks

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Speaker 2: you know, I don't know. If you're going to have

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Speaker 2: go read bulletin. You got a pencil handy, Yeah, you

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Speaker 2: might want to go read bulletin seventeen dash NA like

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Speaker 2: and they talk about you know, transmission oil cooler flush

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Speaker 2: failures and things like that. You know, did she buy

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Speaker 6: No, she bought a use.

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Speaker 2: Okay, you know, maybe there's an argument here about you know,

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Speaker 2: what can you do for me if it if it works,

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Speaker 2: if it doesn't work, you know what I put four

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Speaker 2: grand into that? I don't know. I'll tell you what

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Speaker 2: I also might do is find an alternative, get out

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Speaker 2: and go. Look at bgfind ashop dot com website bgfind

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Speaker 2: ashop dot com. You can enter in your zip code

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Speaker 2: BG fluid Exchange program, and you might be able to

434
00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:26,520
Speaker 2: find the cheaper than the thirty eight hundred dollars. Thirty

435
00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:29,200
Speaker 2: eight hundred dollars seems like an excessive amount of money.

436
00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:31,680
Speaker 2: You know, I'd gamble a thousand, I'd gamble fifteen hundred

437
00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:34,159
Speaker 2: bucks on a guess, and I'm not so. I'm not

438
00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:36,120
Speaker 2: so worried about the cooling system as I am more

439
00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:37,160
Speaker 2: about the transmission.

440
00:21:37,960 --> 00:21:40,800
Speaker 6: You know what that training costs rebuilt five grand?

441
00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:45,119
Speaker 2: Probably on a good day. I bet you that as

442
00:21:45,280 --> 00:21:47,800
Speaker 2: a guest, I bet in New Jersey dollars that trans

443
00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:49,200
Speaker 2: is every bit of six to eight grand.

444
00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:50,760
Speaker 4: Wow.

445
00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:54,439
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's it makes the argument for fluids and

446
00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:58,600
Speaker 2: service again proper right, you know that that I want

447
00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:01,280
Speaker 2: one hundred dollars oil change. Yeah, I don't. I want

448
00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:02,639
Speaker 2: to spend the two hundred bucks and I want to

449
00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:04,000
Speaker 2: get it done right, I want to spend the three

450
00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:08,679
Speaker 2: hundred bucks. I would much rather appreciate that that. You know,

451
00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:11,440
Speaker 2: it's it's going to take its time and look things

452
00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:13,840
Speaker 2: over it and having that one guy doing it. And

453
00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:16,200
Speaker 2: I'm not blaming the guy that did it. Hey, listen,

454
00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:18,640
Speaker 2: she could have parked the car Monday and Tuesday woke

455
00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:21,600
Speaker 2: up in the cooler split. It happens, right, you know

456
00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:24,080
Speaker 2: it's it's eight years old, it's nine years old. It's

457
00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:26,440
Speaker 2: probably got some miles on it, but yeah.

458
00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:28,000
Speaker 6: It's only got fifty nine thousand on it.

459
00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:31,119
Speaker 2: I think that's a shame. That's really a shame. Brother.

460
00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:33,760
Speaker 2: But I could, I could. I could stand here and

461
00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:35,879
Speaker 2: tell you this story all day long. It's it's I

462
00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:38,440
Speaker 2: think it really comes down to the oil change. There's

463
00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:40,960
Speaker 2: a reason, and I'm gonna I'm gonna jinx myself, so

464
00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:43,080
Speaker 2: I won't say it too much. I think there's a reason,

465
00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:45,040
Speaker 2: my little shop Ranger that you guys always hear me

466
00:22:45,080 --> 00:22:48,639
Speaker 2: talk about. It's a ninety seven. When was ninety seven? Fred?

467
00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:51,880
Speaker 2: That was a while ago, wasn't it. Yeah? Yeah, two

468
00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:56,880
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty seven thousand, three hundred and two miles. Now, wow,

469
00:22:56,920 --> 00:22:59,760
Speaker 2: there's a there's a reason. And that truck, that truck

470
00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:03,359
Speaker 2: gets it's the least amount of love, all right, That

471
00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:05,680
Speaker 2: that truck doesn't get really a whole lot of love.

472
00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:07,800
Speaker 2: But we sort of beat the snot out of it,

473
00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:09,320
Speaker 2: for lack of a better way to put it, because

474
00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:12,240
Speaker 2: it's it's always outside, it's always jump in it, drive

475
00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:15,080
Speaker 2: it cold, get it to where we gotta go. You know,

476
00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:17,760
Speaker 2: we're running around in town and sometimes it doesn't warm

477
00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:19,879
Speaker 2: up for a week, and we're driving all short local trips,

478
00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:22,840
Speaker 2: and yet that thing's still going because if it's wet,

479
00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:25,480
Speaker 2: if it's a fluid, it gets changed on a regular basis,

480
00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:28,560
Speaker 2: and here we are. You know, It's it's just it

481
00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:30,359
Speaker 2: is what it is. So but take a look at

482
00:23:30,359 --> 00:23:32,800
Speaker 2: those things. Yeah, go ahead, real quick.

483
00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:35,840
Speaker 6: To nineteen eighty six Chevy pick up k keen. I'm

484
00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:38,520
Speaker 6: wondering about tune up parts and leaf springs.

485
00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:38,680
Speaker 3: For the rear.

486
00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:43,439
Speaker 2: Leaf springs have become a specialty item. I gotta tell you,

487
00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:46,880
Speaker 2: they really have. If we were in New Jersey, there's

488
00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:50,160
Speaker 2: two places like it's Senji and Patterson, New Jersey, Jensen

489
00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:54,000
Speaker 2: Mitchell and Standard Spring. Actually three and one in Hackensack

490
00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:56,879
Speaker 2: Hackensack Spring. Those are the only three places I know

491
00:23:56,960 --> 00:23:58,280
Speaker 2: of that still do spring work.

492
00:23:58,920 --> 00:23:59,879
Speaker 3: What about Dorman.

493
00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:03,199
Speaker 2: Dorman might have a replacement leave spring. Now that you

494
00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:07,320
Speaker 2: say that, yes, you're correct, and as a as a

495
00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:09,919
Speaker 2: matter of fact, I'll go back to my ranger, my

496
00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:12,640
Speaker 2: little shop truck. You know, I'm glad you said that. Fred.

497
00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:15,159
Speaker 2: I completely forgot about this, but I actually put Dorman

498
00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:17,600
Speaker 2: leaf springs in the back of my ranger a couple

499
00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:20,199
Speaker 2: of years back. Yeah, yeah, they work fine. Listen, we

500
00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:22,440
Speaker 2: still we used the whole scrap to the yard and

501
00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:24,120
Speaker 2: you know, it holds up well, and the truck still

502
00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:27,239
Speaker 2: rides well and it does its thing. So yeah, take

503
00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:28,520
Speaker 2: a look at dor didn't.

504
00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:31,840
Speaker 6: Of business though, didn't they sell something well?

505
00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:36,680
Speaker 2: Delco From my understanding, and we're going back to two

506
00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:39,320
Speaker 2: thousand and eight, two thousand and nine, as I recall,

507
00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:45,040
Speaker 2: Delco no longer manufactures anything in the United States. Everything

508
00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:48,840
Speaker 2: is either imported or brought in or they're purchased from

509
00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:52,119
Speaker 2: another company and then relabeled and stamped under the Delco brand.

510
00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:56,480
Speaker 2: And you know, unfortunately, some you know, buying group got

511
00:24:56,520 --> 00:24:59,119
Speaker 2: involved and they took a great product. And I'm not

512
00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:01,159
Speaker 2: saying it's not a great pro anymore, but it's not.

513
00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:05,120
Speaker 2: It's not dating electronic electrical laboratories anymore. Which is what?

514
00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:07,480
Speaker 2: Which is what Delco originally started out in the twenties

515
00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:09,800
Speaker 2: and the thirties, So from the company that brought us

516
00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:13,440
Speaker 2: the electric starter in Cadillacs by the way, way back

517
00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:16,159
Speaker 2: when you know, it's it's now a shell of what

518
00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:16,760
Speaker 2: it used to be.

519
00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:18,840
Speaker 6: So so what do you think I should get for

520
00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:19,679
Speaker 6: tune up parts?

521
00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:20,159
Speaker 4: Delco?

522
00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:22,199
Speaker 2: Still, Yeah, I would still get Delco. It's still going

523
00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:24,000
Speaker 2: to be a good, decent brand. I would look it

524
00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:26,639
Speaker 2: over very carefully, you know, because I think I think

525
00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:28,600
Speaker 2: you're going to find the best there. As a matter

526
00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:30,520
Speaker 2: of fact, no, I'm going to retract that statement. You

527
00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:33,800
Speaker 2: know where I would go. You're catching me here, Fred,

528
00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:35,679
Speaker 2: I got to think about these things. I would go

529
00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:39,040
Speaker 2: look at standard. This is for the this. This is

530
00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:42,000
Speaker 2: for the eighty six, right yeah, right, right, yeah, this

531
00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:44,399
Speaker 2: is for the eighty six. I bet your Standard, and

532
00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:46,880
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say I know for sure Standard still makes

533
00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:50,200
Speaker 2: tune up parts for that eighty six Chevy Ce ten

534
00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:52,879
Speaker 2: K ten whatever it is, I would have no problem.

535
00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:54,960
Speaker 2: And I would also try and purchase, if I can,

536
00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:58,880
Speaker 2: their Blue Streak Line, which is there, you know, heavier plastic.

537
00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:01,800
Speaker 2: They up the quality. Not that there's anything wrong with

538
00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:04,159
Speaker 2: the entry level stuff, but their Blue Streak Line is

539
00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:07,359
Speaker 2: a heavier duty version of their every Day and it

540
00:26:07,359 --> 00:26:09,280
Speaker 2: will last longer. And I would buy two of everything

541
00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:10,840
Speaker 2: if you're planning to hang on to the vehicle and

542
00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:13,359
Speaker 2: drive it another hundred thousand miles. All right, K get up?

543
00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:15,000
Speaker 6: Yeah, thank you very much.

544
00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:17,280
Speaker 2: You're very welcome. Fred, you'd be well. I'm you too.

545
00:26:17,359 --> 00:26:19,000
Speaker 2: I'm running any in the car doctor. I'll be back

546
00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:24,440
Speaker 2: right after this. Let's keep it going. Let's go to

547
00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:27,919
Speaker 2: Catherine in Connecticut. One SUPERU outback. Catherine, Welcome to the

548
00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:28,920
Speaker 2: car doctor. How can I help?

549
00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:32,600
Speaker 4: Hi? Hi? I'm not sure you can because three other

550
00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:36,120
Speaker 4: garages were able to help, and I spent a lot

551
00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:40,560
Speaker 4: of money, okay, and I really need this car. And

552
00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:43,920
Speaker 4: there are no options at this point, but either way,

553
00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:50,120
Speaker 4: I got a red check.

554
00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:52,440
Speaker 2: Engine light, orange check engine light.

555
00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:59,720
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it started flashing and I'm like, oh my gosh.

556
00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:05,520
Speaker 4: So so I took it to my first garage. I

557
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:09,040
Speaker 4: don't know. They said to replace spark plugs in a

558
00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:14,320
Speaker 4: nission coils. I don't know, po three oh one, PO

559
00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:16,520
Speaker 4: three oh three and PO three oh five. Does that

560
00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:17,399
Speaker 4: make any sense to you?

561
00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:22,200
Speaker 2: Is this the six cylinder sub or the four six cylinder? Okay?

562
00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:25,560
Speaker 2: So it had it had it had a one four

563
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:26,879
Speaker 2: and five.

564
00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:30,720
Speaker 4: O three and O five basically the right side.

565
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:31,639
Speaker 2: Of the engine, right, okay.

566
00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:37,000
Speaker 4: And so they replaced the spark plugs and it didn't

567
00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:44,840
Speaker 4: do anything. And so I took it to my regular guy.

568
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:46,879
Speaker 4: He said he's not going to touch it with a

569
00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:50,920
Speaker 4: ten foot pole. They were both saying that I had

570
00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:53,600
Speaker 4: to replace the engine and I'm like yeah. So he

571
00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:56,480
Speaker 4: told me to take it to Subaru, who he used

572
00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:59,800
Speaker 4: to work for, and I was just kind of like,

573
00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:04,080
Speaker 4: I don't feel good about this, and they were not

574
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:10,520
Speaker 4: able to find out what was wrong with it, recommended

575
00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:14,800
Speaker 4: removing spark plugs. I'm reading the thing right now and

576
00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:20,680
Speaker 4: inspecting coils and looking at the graph while the vehicle

577
00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:24,639
Speaker 4: was running, noticed af correction. I don't know what that

578
00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:36,439
Speaker 4: means anyway. They replaced intake gaskets, checked the fuel line,

579
00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:41,360
Speaker 4: an O ring somewhere, a hose assembly. They actually had

580
00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:45,160
Speaker 4: the car for a month and said they could not

581
00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:46,000
Speaker 4: figure it out.

582
00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:50,480
Speaker 2: So right now, it's got misfires on one side of

583
00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:51,120
Speaker 2: the engine.

584
00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:55,280
Speaker 4: Correct. And here's the thing. The red light stays on steady.

585
00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:57,280
Speaker 2: The orange light, yeah right.

586
00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:05,640
Speaker 4: Red in my mind, and when I stay too long

587
00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:13,200
Speaker 4: at a stoplight, it will begin to glimmer and start

588
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:14,000
Speaker 4: to flash.

589
00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:16,560
Speaker 2: Okay, so here, let's do this. Let's talk about let's

590
00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:19,080
Speaker 2: talk about testing in the two minutes I've got left. Sure,

591
00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:22,280
Speaker 2: all right, So first of all, we've got to find

592
00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:24,960
Speaker 2: somebody that wants to work on this, all right. Most

593
00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:27,160
Speaker 2: of the guys will shy away from the from the

594
00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:30,080
Speaker 2: pancake sixes just for some reason. Nobody likes to work

595
00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:33,200
Speaker 2: on the six cylinder suber. I haven't figured that out.

596
00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:35,000
Speaker 2: There are some oddities to it, but I'm just letting

597
00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:37,960
Speaker 2: you know what the hesitation is. I don't know that

598
00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:41,680
Speaker 2: changing the engine will solve this, all right. I'm not

599
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:45,480
Speaker 2: convinced that it has an engine problem yet? All right?

600
00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:48,360
Speaker 2: So you know, I don't care if it's a one cylinder,

601
00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:51,680
Speaker 2: two cylinder, twelve cylinder, or a nineteen cylinder, whatever it is.

602
00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:54,120
Speaker 2: If the left side is running good and the right

603
00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:56,320
Speaker 2: side is running bad, at least the left side of

604
00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:58,200
Speaker 2: the motor can give me some good numbers and the

605
00:29:58,280 --> 00:29:59,960
Speaker 2: right side of the motor can give me the bad number.

606
00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:03,480
Speaker 4: Right, I was thinking, sensors.

607
00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:05,960
Speaker 2: Well, I want to know. I want to know basics,

608
00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:08,600
Speaker 2: all right. I want to know what mechanical compression is

609
00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:12,680
Speaker 2: the does the bad side of the engine we'll call

610
00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:16,040
Speaker 2: the misfiring side, the bad side? Does it pass basic

611
00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:19,880
Speaker 2: mechanical compression and a cylinder leaked down test?

612
00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:21,680
Speaker 6: All right?

613
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:26,280
Speaker 2: Could it be that I've got a jumped timing device

614
00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:28,480
Speaker 2: on the one side of the engine versus the other?

615
00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:33,080
Speaker 2: Think bicycle sprockets, right, Catherine, all right, big sprocket, little sprocket.

616
00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:37,080
Speaker 2: If those sprockets, If we brought those sprockets around to top,

617
00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:39,480
Speaker 2: as the expression goes, and we made a white dot,

618
00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:42,840
Speaker 2: and we rotated again, and things were in cycle, both

619
00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:45,360
Speaker 2: white dots would come to the top at the right moment. Right,

620
00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:48,680
Speaker 2: You can visualize that yes, if the chain was loose,

621
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:51,080
Speaker 2: If my bicycle chain was loose, and the big Sprocket

622
00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:55,280
Speaker 2: jumped ahead of tooth right now, the rear sprocket comes

623
00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:59,000
Speaker 2: up top correct, but the big Sprocket doesn't. It's off

624
00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:02,200
Speaker 2: by a tooth or two. Its position is incorrect. That

625
00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:06,040
Speaker 2: will make an engine misfire. All right, and in all

626
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:09,200
Speaker 2: possibility you could have that. But I'm assuming, which is

627
00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:12,560
Speaker 2: a dangerous word, that they've tested that. So I want

628
00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:18,719
Speaker 2: to know. Is mechanical timing mechanical timing correct? Is mechanical

629
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:24,160
Speaker 2: compression good? If I've got good mechanical compression and good

630
00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:32,520
Speaker 2: mechanical timing, why am I changing the engine number one right? Next? Okay?

631
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:33,240
Speaker 3: It is?

632
00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:36,000
Speaker 2: What with what the dealer's talking about, With the A,

633
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:40,120
Speaker 2: A F or A FR sensor being correct, I'll tell

634
00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:41,760
Speaker 2: you what. Sit tight, Let me pull over, take a

635
00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:43,280
Speaker 2: pause because I don't want to rush this. Let me

636
00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:45,240
Speaker 2: give you. Let me give you another segment. I'm running

637
00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:46,800
Speaker 2: ding in the card arctor. We'll be right back with

638
00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:57,280
Speaker 2: Catherine right after this. Don't go anywhere, Catherine, you're still there, Catherine, Yes, yes,

639
00:31:57,360 --> 00:32:01,960
Speaker 2: pencil and paper in hand. Okay, so you ever walk

640
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:04,440
Speaker 2: into an office building with one of those circular doors.

641
00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:07,400
Speaker 2: They're revolving doors. Sure you ever notice how some of

642
00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:09,560
Speaker 2: those doors are easy to push and some of them

643
00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:10,200
Speaker 2: are real hard?

644
00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:11,080
Speaker 4: Yes? I do?

645
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:16,040
Speaker 2: Okay, So you're an engine, right, You walk into Office A,

646
00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:19,200
Speaker 2: and that door is as you expect it, a little

647
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:20,880
Speaker 2: bit of resistance and you have to push at a

648
00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:25,120
Speaker 2: certain level. Correct. You walk into Office B, and that

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Speaker 2: door spins easy as pie. It spins so easy you

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Speaker 2: almost fall over yourself trying to push the door and

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Speaker 2: stay upright. All right. That's probably the best example I

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Speaker 2: could give you of an engine that has good compression

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Speaker 2: on one side and bad compression on the other. It's

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Speaker 2: a matter of resistance, all right, Keep that in mind.

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Speaker 2: So the first thing I want to do is baseline

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Speaker 2: this engine. Are both doors equally as difficult to move?

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Speaker 2: Do they have the same amount of resistance? I want

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Speaker 2: a mechanical compression test done, all right? I want a

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Speaker 2: cylinder leak down test on a cylinder. Leak down test

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Speaker 2: is a test process where we put air into the

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Speaker 2: cylinder in a closed cylinder. If I put one hundred

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Speaker 2: pounds in, how much air should come out? Nothing? Right?

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Speaker 2: A closed cylinder A closed door is a closed door,

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Speaker 2: right all Right. In mechanical terms, we accept up to

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Speaker 2: ten percent leakage. Anything more than ten percent, I've got

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Speaker 2: a mechanical problem on that cylinder. That's it. It's an

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Speaker 2: irrefutable fact, right, So the last thing I want them

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Speaker 2: to go through is consider possible air fuel ratio sensor problems.

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Speaker 2: Maybe we've got an imbalance, and we can figure that

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Speaker 2: out by looking at fuel trims. But let's baseline this,

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Speaker 2: and let's make sure this twenty five year old car

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Speaker 2: really is worth fixing. That's the last thing I want

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Speaker 2: to mention. I'm running any in the car doctor whose

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Speaker 2: mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless.