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Speaker 1: Michigan wants to chat electrics. John, Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 1: How can I help you tonight? Yes, I've heard previous

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Speaker 1: it's they just can't build much more than that. Isn't

427
00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:52,320
Speaker 1: that sort of bothersome? That this whole electric thing is

428
00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:54,560
Speaker 1: being thrown at us and saying, hey, hey, we've got

429
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Speaker 1: to do this, and we're going to do this in

430
00:21:56,600 --> 00:21:58,280
Speaker 1: such a short period of time. But you know, it's

431
00:21:58,359 --> 00:22:00,400
Speaker 1: kind of like the road to nowhere. We're being told

432
00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:02,720
Speaker 1: here's where we're going, but the bridge ends. Watch out

433
00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:05,239
Speaker 1: for the detour. Well, I'm glad they're trying, and they

434
00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:07,560
Speaker 1: can change their plans as they go. But we might

435
00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:09,919
Speaker 1: see a new technology. We you and I don't know

436
00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:12,400
Speaker 1: about it. Well, we might, and we might and we might.

437
00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:17,040
Speaker 1: So let me tell you from my perspective right, um,

438
00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:19,479
Speaker 1: the things I hear down in the shop at at

439
00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:23,320
Speaker 1: shop level is some of the scan tools that we've

440
00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:26,159
Speaker 1: invested in are no longer going to be developed or

441
00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:30,280
Speaker 1: not being developed any further because the manufacturers have mandated

442
00:22:30,320 --> 00:22:33,439
Speaker 1: because of this seven year or fifteen year phase out

443
00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:36,440
Speaker 1: of internal combustion engine. So those scan tools are now

444
00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:39,679
Speaker 1: being done away with. There's no further software support being added.

445
00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:42,280
Speaker 1: They don't foresee that they're going to develop anymore hardware.

446
00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:44,440
Speaker 1: There's no need, they say, because we'll all be in

447
00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:48,879
Speaker 1: electric vehicles. You know, we're slowly throwing the switch towards

448
00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:52,480
Speaker 1: the electric vehicle future. But what if the tracks don't

449
00:22:52,520 --> 00:22:56,480
Speaker 1: go anywhere? And that's the that's the problem. That situation

450
00:22:56,520 --> 00:22:59,919
Speaker 1: can be remedied if it in the worst case. Okay,

451
00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:05,760
Speaker 1: so you're start making those things again. So well, no,

452
00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:07,679
Speaker 1: wait a minute, now, you're saying, so if we go

453
00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:09,800
Speaker 1: if we go ten years down the road and we've

454
00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:13,000
Speaker 1: done We've lost ten years of development of software and

455
00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:16,000
Speaker 1: scan tools and tooling for internal combustion engine and we

456
00:23:16,119 --> 00:23:18,560
Speaker 1: switched to e V. You think we can switch and

457
00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:21,000
Speaker 1: go right back to an internal combustion engine just like that,

458
00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:25,040
Speaker 1: that quickly. I'm not in a position to say that,

459
00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:28,000
Speaker 1: but I think, but you did say that. I have

460
00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:31,639
Speaker 1: faith that somehow the world will go on and or

461
00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:34,320
Speaker 1: go back to it somehow, Well it will, but it

462
00:23:34,359 --> 00:23:38,040
Speaker 1: will live without all that stuff for a long time, right,

463
00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:40,560
Speaker 1: and we will go back to it. John. If that's

464
00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:42,199
Speaker 1: the case, what you have today is going to be

465
00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:45,920
Speaker 1: obsolete and how many years anyway? Well, but the point

466
00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:49,000
Speaker 1: becomes that we're being told already the switch has already

467
00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:53,120
Speaker 1: been thrown. And you know what, listen, I've been I've

468
00:23:53,119 --> 00:23:55,960
Speaker 1: been an auto mechanic for forty five years. If I

469
00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:58,360
Speaker 1: wasn't the one to embrace technology, I don't know who does.

470
00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:00,480
Speaker 1: I live with it every day, and so everybody else

471
00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:03,639
Speaker 1: out there fixing cars. You know, we're just seeing technology

472
00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:06,600
Speaker 1: being thrown at us that isn't ready, that there doesn't

473
00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:10,359
Speaker 1: seem to be viable solutions. And you know, what do

474
00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:13,159
Speaker 1: you think about the idea that the possibility. What do

475
00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:17,080
Speaker 1: you say to you know, where will the power come from? Are?

476
00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:18,800
Speaker 1: I guess you're gonna tell me that we're gonna charge

477
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Speaker 1: everything from the sun. I'm not qualified to say anything

478
00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:25,000
Speaker 1: at all about it, about any of these issues, but

479
00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:31,120
Speaker 1: the key word you used to see right, Oh well, listen,

480
00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:33,600
Speaker 1: I don't disagree with you on a lot of your points.

481
00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:35,720
Speaker 1: I just want to see how it gets carried out.

482
00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:38,560
Speaker 1: If someone tells me, if someone tells me this is

483
00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:39,920
Speaker 1: the future, I want to see how we're going to

484
00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:41,800
Speaker 1: get there. I want an explanation because I don't have

485
00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:45,239
Speaker 1: complete blind faith. Um, and I think it's our right

486
00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:47,600
Speaker 1: to question it. So whether you agree or not, that's

487
00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:50,720
Speaker 1: up to you. Um, you know. But as I said,

488
00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:52,840
Speaker 1: I'm glad you're called. I really am. I'm glad we

489
00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:57,200
Speaker 1: had this conversation that a six cylinder car could get

490
00:24:57,520 --> 00:24:59,720
Speaker 1: thirty plus miles a gallon, maybe some of them even

491
00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:04,080
Speaker 1: get already. Who would have believe that? In well, sure,

492
00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:06,320
Speaker 1: like I said, who would have believed you know, from

493
00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:09,040
Speaker 1: Kitty Hawk to you know, landing on the Moon in

494
00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:13,440
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty nine. Um, you know, it's there's a lot

495
00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:16,800
Speaker 1: of validity there. But again, We don't have seventy years.

496
00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:20,119
Speaker 1: We have seven, all right, And that's the point we're

497
00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:23,880
Speaker 1: we're we're being thrown a technology that we don't seem

498
00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:27,400
Speaker 1: to be able to embrace. And you know, I don't

499
00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:29,600
Speaker 1: get it as I'm asking you the questions. I've asked

500
00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:32,280
Speaker 1: everybody the same questions, where will it come from? And

501
00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:35,240
Speaker 1: I get the same answer. Don't worry, it's gonna happen.

502
00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:39,400
Speaker 1: You know what. Somebody wrote me and made an harassing

503
00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:43,359
Speaker 1: statement about Ron. You're being closed minded because you know

504
00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:47,000
Speaker 1: it's it's gonna happen, just like you know transportation we

505
00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:48,840
Speaker 1: see at a star trek will happen at some point

506
00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:52,400
Speaker 1: in the future too. Yeah, Star Trek happened five years

507
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:55,919
Speaker 1: from now. Um, you know it's not happening today. So

508
00:25:56,320 --> 00:25:58,959
Speaker 1: you know what, if you're gonna make an argument for something,

509
00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:00,840
Speaker 1: you've got to have roof of it. You've got to

510
00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:02,400
Speaker 1: be able to sit there and say two and two

511
00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:05,199
Speaker 1: is four. Don't give me the what ifs um. But

512
00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:07,000
Speaker 1: I appreciate the call. John. I'm more than glad to

513
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:08,920
Speaker 1: talk to anybody about it. I want to know where

514
00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:12,560
Speaker 1: we're going. I just I'm looking for information. Zero nine

515
00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:24,720
Speaker 1: zero we're back right after this. Welcome back, ran the

516
00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:28,879
Speaker 1: car Doctor rolling along the Saturday zero zero. Let's get

517
00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:31,280
Speaker 1: over to Elsa and Maine. Oh four Honda Civic and

518
00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:33,440
Speaker 1: a n AC problem. Welcome to the car Doctor. How

519
00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:38,880
Speaker 1: can I help? Hi? Ron, thank you for taking my call. Well,

520
00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:44,760
Speaker 1: I have a two thousand four Honda Civic and I

521
00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:46,840
Speaker 1: I have been taken care of it in the meantime,

522
00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:52,840
Speaker 1: no getting oil, et cetera. I checked some fluids myself. Uh.

523
00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:55,760
Speaker 1: I brought it to my dos because and I've been

524
00:26:55,760 --> 00:27:01,440
Speaker 1: dealing with him with them because there was noise. There

525
00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:06,000
Speaker 1: is still noise when I started up, and then once

526
00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:09,200
Speaker 1: I get going it quiets down a little bit. That

527
00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:14,160
Speaker 1: I when I put my foot on the brake, it's quiet,

528
00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:18,400
Speaker 1: but when I put my foot on the uh speed

529
00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:25,320
Speaker 1: uh speed, Uh yeah, it makes noise. But in any case,

530
00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:28,320
Speaker 1: I went there and I told him what the problem was,

531
00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:32,000
Speaker 1: and I said, I need to tune up because it's

532
00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:35,159
Speaker 1: been a while, and can you check the air conditioning,

533
00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:39,440
Speaker 1: which they did. They tuned it up and they did

534
00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:44,879
Speaker 1: some engine labor. They decided was a valve cover gasket

535
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:50,240
Speaker 1: set that I needed and a double platinum plug. Then

536
00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:56,359
Speaker 1: the annditioning. They put a R M F G compressor in.

537
00:27:57,080 --> 00:28:03,880
Speaker 1: They put a serpent serpentine belt on, They evacuated purge

538
00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:09,080
Speaker 1: and recharged the a C. They put outward viterent in

539
00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:16,719
Speaker 1: leak style system oil and it's I didn't check it

540
00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:20,080
Speaker 1: in between because I trusted that it was done and

541
00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:23,600
Speaker 1: it would work. But then when the warmer weather started,

542
00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:29,040
Speaker 1: which was really recent, it's a blue hot air and

543
00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:34,520
Speaker 1: I tried it several times. So my daughter suggested, you know, mom,

544
00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:36,879
Speaker 1: why don't you bring it to v I P. So

545
00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:40,240
Speaker 1: titled in the neighborhood went to v I P. They

546
00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:43,760
Speaker 1: checked it out. I don't know. They checked everything out.

547
00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:46,640
Speaker 1: I told them what had been done but had been installed.

548
00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:51,480
Speaker 1: They did a multi pomp sports vehicle inspection alignment checks,

549
00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:55,920
Speaker 1: they checked for this in capital at as a C leak,

550
00:28:56,120 --> 00:29:02,240
Speaker 1: a dash leak uh she leak detection, and they did

551
00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:06,160
Speaker 1: some labor. They said everything was fine. But what occurred

552
00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:10,840
Speaker 1: to me, though, after I had all that previous work done,

553
00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:17,640
Speaker 1: that uh they charged me um. It was a second

554
00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:23,800
Speaker 1: hand it was not a new one UM compressor, I believe,

555
00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:30,280
Speaker 1: which the first place elsa right, the first place in right.

556
00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:32,800
Speaker 1: What they did was from what you're describing, and I

557
00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:35,800
Speaker 1: assume you're reading off the repair order what you're describing

558
00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:38,240
Speaker 1: as they put a re manufactured a C compressor on

559
00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:41,480
Speaker 1: the car. So but but, but, but listen, let's let's

560
00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:43,840
Speaker 1: get to the chase, because it's only a one hour show.

561
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:47,520
Speaker 1: So let's let's do it like this. The first place,

562
00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:51,080
Speaker 1: you know, first of all, did you authorize the replacement

563
00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:52,800
Speaker 1: of the compressor? Did they say to you, hey, Elsa,

564
00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:55,080
Speaker 1: this is the problem. The compressor's bed and they put

565
00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:56,760
Speaker 1: a compressor on it. What did they talk to you

566
00:29:56,800 --> 00:30:00,320
Speaker 1: about that? First? Yes, they didn't want to charge me

567
00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:04,520
Speaker 1: a thousand dollar price, so they had in mind a

568
00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:07,600
Speaker 1: secondhand one. Okay, well it's not secondhand. It's just not

569
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:10,440
Speaker 1: a new compressor. A reman means that it was rebuilt

570
00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:15,080
Speaker 1: somewhere by some outside shop, somebody other than Honda. So regardless,

571
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:17,560
Speaker 1: did you go back to the first shop and say, hey,

572
00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:20,400
Speaker 1: the A C still doesn't work. Can you take a

573
00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:25,280
Speaker 1: look at it? No, But that's my next question to you, right,

574
00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:28,960
Speaker 1: why why wouldn't you do? You should do that? I mean, um,

575
00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:37,080
Speaker 1: did they did they recently do the compressor? So? So

576
00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:39,680
Speaker 1: March of this year, so less than three months ago

577
00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:42,600
Speaker 1: they did. They did an a C compressor. Yeah, it's listen.

578
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:44,640
Speaker 1: I wouldn't I wouldn't be I wouldn't be at V

579
00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:46,720
Speaker 1: I P or anybody else. I would be back to

580
00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:49,240
Speaker 1: the shop that did it. Look, you know, have they

581
00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:51,320
Speaker 1: been your have they been your shop for a while.

582
00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:55,800
Speaker 1: Do you have a relationship with them? Do you feel yes? OK,

583
00:30:56,640 --> 00:31:02,200
Speaker 1: so I feel that. Yeah, if you feel comfortable with them. Look,

584
00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:05,440
Speaker 1: it happens to everybody, it happens to me. I'll put

585
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:07,400
Speaker 1: a part on a car. I'll think it's the best

586
00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:09,920
Speaker 1: part in the world. It's a new part um. I've

587
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:11,760
Speaker 1: got a great story coming up in the next couple

588
00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:15,080
Speaker 1: of weeks about alexis that we did uh knuckles and

589
00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:17,959
Speaker 1: wheel bearings in less than three miles ago, and we

590
00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:21,160
Speaker 1: can't figure out why the bearings failed. The manufacturer can't

591
00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:24,200
Speaker 1: figure out why the bearings failed. Things happen, you know,

592
00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:26,400
Speaker 1: there's an X file side to the to the order

593
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:29,160
Speaker 1: repair of business. It just makes no sense why things happen,

594
00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:32,280
Speaker 1: and you've got to give them the benefit of the doubt.

595
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:34,880
Speaker 1: I would go. I would be back there and say, hey, guys,

596
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:38,040
Speaker 1: you know what's up now? You know is it possible

597
00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:41,240
Speaker 1: that the new compressor's bed. Sure, is it possible that

598
00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:43,400
Speaker 1: there's a leak in the system that they didn't see

599
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:49,000
Speaker 1: the first time? Absolutely? But until they until absolutely listen,

600
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:51,520
Speaker 1: it could be good on Tuesday and bed on Wednesday.

601
00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:53,960
Speaker 1: Do you ever buy you ever buy something electronic and

602
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,600
Speaker 1: have it failed the day after you bought it? I

603
00:31:56,760 --> 00:32:00,720
Speaker 1: have right, it's it's new, doesn't mean good. New means

604
00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:03,720
Speaker 1: never ever worked in my library, kiddo. So I think

605
00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 1: before we have a big, much longer conversation, I think

606
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 1: it's back to the original repair shop as them to

607
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:11,280
Speaker 1: take a look, um, you know, this is what you know,

608
00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:14,320
Speaker 1: and and start there and see how they handle it.

609
00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:18,040
Speaker 1: You know, remember this auto repairs like a marriage. It's

610
00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:20,360
Speaker 1: not how great things are when everybody's happy and things

611
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:23,200
Speaker 1: are rolling along all right. It's when there's a problem.

612
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:24,760
Speaker 1: How do you work it out? And do you resolve

613
00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:27,920
Speaker 1: it to everybody's satisfaction? Now the heats on them. Let's

614
00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:29,880
Speaker 1: see how they stand up. Can they take the heat?

615
00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:31,760
Speaker 1: You call me back if you need more else. I

616
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:35,680
Speaker 1: appreciate the call. Go get them eight five zero zero.

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00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:47,360
Speaker 1: The car doctors back right after this, welcome back, very lively.

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Speaker 1: Hour just just a lot of fun this hour eight zero.

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Speaker 1: The phone number. Put it away somewhere you can use

620
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:55,959
Speaker 1: it in the following broadcast. You can call and leave

621
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Speaker 1: a message and Tom Rae will hook you up and

622
00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:00,400
Speaker 1: put you in the next live broadcast for Elsa from Maine,

623
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:02,640
Speaker 1: if she's still out there. Um, you know else I

624
00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:05,440
Speaker 1: was thinking about this and uh I jumped into the

625
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:09,520
Speaker 1: Mitchell one shirt track community website. Shut Track is a

626
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:12,960
Speaker 1: collection of well real life stories from the repair shop,

627
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:15,680
Speaker 1: things that happened to fix vehicles and um, you know

628
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:17,560
Speaker 1: it's it's live from the base if you would, it's

629
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:19,960
Speaker 1: what's really going on under the hood. And this one

630
00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:21,760
Speaker 1: is fresh. This one is from May of this year

631
00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:24,040
Speaker 1: by Nick Taylor. He's the author. Um, he's been with

632
00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:25,680
Speaker 1: Mitchell one for a very long time. You can check

633
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:28,120
Speaker 1: him out at mitchell one dot com. UH talks about

634
00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:30,960
Speaker 1: you know, this is every every shop's nightmare, right. They

635
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:34,000
Speaker 1: were working on a two thousand two GMC envoy and

636
00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:37,800
Speaker 1: it talks about the tool a tool accidentally dropped against

637
00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:40,280
Speaker 1: the battery and short of the positive and negative terminals

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Speaker 1: while the vehicle was in for a head gas get repair.

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Speaker 1: After the head gas get repair was done. After they

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Speaker 1: picked up the ratchet that had short of the positive

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Speaker 1: and negative terminals. The car would not start and there

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Speaker 1: was no cranking. They found that the main fuse is

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Speaker 1: a M fuse and under her fuse box was bad.

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Speaker 1: They replaced it. It's it still wouldn't crank. Um or sorry,

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Speaker 1: it would crank and everything would work at the fuse box,

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Speaker 1: but they just wouldn't allow the vehicle to start. And

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Speaker 1: they're thinking like, oh my god, was it something related

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Speaker 1: to the ratchet that short of the battery positive negative terminals?

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Speaker 1: Of course you'd think that you had the engine apart.

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Speaker 1: There's so many variables, so many things to look at.

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Speaker 1: It turns out that because of the shirt track community,

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Speaker 1: everybody chimed in and was talking about it. Somebody suggested, hey,

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Speaker 1: why don't we go through basic power and grounds at

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Speaker 1: the PCM. They did that. They found a bad ground

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Speaker 1: for the PCM that had nothing to do with any

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Speaker 1: of the work that was done. The ratchet that fell

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Speaker 1: against the battery posts. They cleaned the ground. Vehicle fired

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Speaker 1: right up and without the helpful things like shirt track

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Speaker 1: community and Mitchell One, it just wouldn't have happened. So

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Speaker 1: Elsa it could be something unrelated to the A C

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Speaker 1: compressure that they did go back and talk to the shop.

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Speaker 1: That's the key. More information at mitchell one dot com.

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Speaker 1: By the way, until the next time I'm runing any

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Speaker 1: of the car doctor reminding you good mechanics aren't expensive,

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Speaker 1: they're priceless. See you. She was staring super