1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:04,600 Speaker 1: Ron and Anian, is your next Volkswagen gonna have windshields 2 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:07,240 Speaker 1: in it? To me that are beer bottles? Yeah, it's possible. 3 00:00:08,440 --> 00:00:14,120 Speaker 1: Fair country dogs round here, the car Doctor, a good 4 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:17,400 Speaker 1: heating system will blow. We'll put out anywhere between a 5 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:20,640 Speaker 1: hunter and twenty and a hun four degrees abduct temperature, 6 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:23,279 Speaker 1: so that you know, you know you've got that much. 7 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:26,439 Speaker 1: Welcome to the radio home of Ron and Anian, the 8 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:30,920 Speaker 1: Car Doctor, since this is where car owners the world 9 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:35,519 Speaker 1: overturned to for their definitive opinion on automotive repair. If 10 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:38,239 Speaker 1: your mechanics giving you a busy signal, pick up the 11 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:41,680 Speaker 1: phone and call in the garage to orders are open. 12 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:43,840 Speaker 1: But I am here to take their calls at eight 13 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:52,480 Speaker 1: five and now he running. You know, if they asked 14 00:00:52,479 --> 00:00:54,840 Speaker 1: me what's the hardest part of my job, I think 15 00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:57,680 Speaker 1: it's this. I think this is probably the most difficult 16 00:00:57,720 --> 00:00:59,560 Speaker 1: thing I get to do during the course of the week. 17 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:03,040 Speaker 1: UM is condemned a vehicle because it's it's never it's 18 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:06,000 Speaker 1: never pleasant, you know, It's it's sort of the doctor 19 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:08,720 Speaker 1: giving you bad news, but I just hate to do it. 20 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:12,560 Speaker 1: We had a UM We had a new customer in 21 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:16,559 Speaker 1: this week with a Ford Edge and we were entrusted with, 22 00:01:16,959 --> 00:01:19,720 Speaker 1: you know, looking at it for her son who's just 23 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:22,640 Speaker 1: graduating college and in the course of the next year, 24 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:24,160 Speaker 1: and is he gonna take this to his job and 25 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:26,120 Speaker 1: it's going to become the you know, the vehicle Ali 26 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:29,319 Speaker 1: commutes the first time we're seeing it. So we ran 27 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:30,880 Speaker 1: through it. We you know, we ran through our our 28 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:33,640 Speaker 1: seasonal checklist. We're famous for that. We go through and 29 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:35,880 Speaker 1: kind of look the vehicle over two page checklist and 30 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:37,919 Speaker 1: you know, let us go through its system by system 31 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:39,360 Speaker 1: as sort of a stick out your tongue and say, 32 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:44,440 Speaker 1: oh moment, which it is. And it wasn't good. It 33 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:46,800 Speaker 1: just and you wouldn't know it from looking at it. 34 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:49,280 Speaker 1: You know, it was it was a pretty car, but 35 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:52,840 Speaker 1: you wouldn't know what was going on underneath and that um, well, 36 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:56,440 Speaker 1: it had a power steering leak. And the power steering 37 00:01:56,560 --> 00:02:00,240 Speaker 1: leak was pretty decent and I've been going on for 38 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:03,480 Speaker 1: a while and it was towards the steering rack and 39 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:06,840 Speaker 1: it was actually dripping down onto the rear word rear 40 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:10,280 Speaker 1: word r E a r W or drear word the 41 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:14,760 Speaker 1: back transmount, and the transmount had gotten soft over time. 42 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:17,400 Speaker 1: The rubber was breaking down and the mount was really 43 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:19,800 Speaker 1: kind of non existent, so much so that on this 44 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:22,799 Speaker 1: old wheel drive edge, I could take the drive shift 45 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:24,440 Speaker 1: and push up on it and the engine move up 46 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:27,120 Speaker 1: and down, um, you know, four or five inches. It 47 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:29,240 Speaker 1: was just all over the place. It just it just 48 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:33,960 Speaker 1: had too much movement. The bad transmount or the broken 49 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:37,640 Speaker 1: down transmount had allowed the or had caused damage to 50 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:40,160 Speaker 1: the center support bearing for the drive shift. There's a 51 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:43,280 Speaker 1: bearing the two piece drive shift, there's a bearing mounted, 52 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:46,560 Speaker 1: there's a support collar, and the top of the support 53 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:51,400 Speaker 1: collar was all torn and dried out. But the bigger catch, 54 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:54,800 Speaker 1: or the bigger problem was where the transmount meant the 55 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 1: trans That the lower transmount was bolted to the side 56 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:03,400 Speaker 1: case of the train mission three bolts, the lower forward 57 00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:08,400 Speaker 1: bolt the case of the transmission. The aluminum case had 58 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:12,280 Speaker 1: about it and gin a half crack in it because 59 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:14,840 Speaker 1: the mount had My guess is that the amount had 60 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:17,720 Speaker 1: allowed the engine to bounce around and wiggle enough that 61 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:20,200 Speaker 1: over time it just caused damage and it started to 62 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:22,320 Speaker 1: crack the case of the trans on both sides of 63 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:25,359 Speaker 1: the bolt. And the only fix for that would be 64 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:28,880 Speaker 1: you'd need a new case. And then when you look 65 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:31,200 Speaker 1: at the rest of the vehicle, which wasn't the worst 66 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:36,280 Speaker 1: well in comparison to the way that the front half looked. Um. 67 00:03:36,880 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 1: You know, the only good news about the power of 68 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:42,000 Speaker 1: steering that that that lubricating oil leak was the fact 69 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:44,320 Speaker 1: that it, you know, kept the front of it from 70 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:46,760 Speaker 1: rusting off, because the back half, the back suspension of 71 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:52,280 Speaker 1: this vehicle was just rotted and rusted beyond. Like my 72 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:55,480 Speaker 1: mom would say, so what do you do? You know, 73 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:58,040 Speaker 1: first time I'm talking to the customer and she's like, well, 74 00:03:58,040 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 1: what do you think? And I said, I think it's 75 00:03:59,920 --> 00:04:01,680 Speaker 1: a what color time? What do you mean, it's a 76 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:03,840 Speaker 1: what color time? You know? What color? What color do 77 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:06,040 Speaker 1: you want the next car to be? And I had 78 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:07,400 Speaker 1: to go through it a couple of times that I 79 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:10,040 Speaker 1: could tell she was upset. And then, you know, how 80 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:11,800 Speaker 1: do I convince her? And why is it my job 81 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:13,440 Speaker 1: to convince her? And I said, yeah, it's my job 82 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:15,600 Speaker 1: to convince her because she's entrusted me to take care 83 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:17,719 Speaker 1: of her kid, and I've got to show her here's why, 84 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:20,120 Speaker 1: here's why I think this is a non economical repair. 85 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:23,280 Speaker 1: I'm glad to do it, but I think there comes 86 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:25,359 Speaker 1: a point when you're dealing with something like this, because 87 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:27,880 Speaker 1: the trans would have to come out, which would mean 88 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:29,560 Speaker 1: you're gonna put a case in it, which means that 89 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:32,440 Speaker 1: a hundred and forties something thousand miles that had had 90 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:35,760 Speaker 1: on it, You're gonna put a trans in it. Transfer 91 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:39,840 Speaker 1: edge is easily five grand, and then you need all 92 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:42,279 Speaker 1: the other little things, the power of steering, fluid leaks, 93 00:04:42,279 --> 00:04:45,080 Speaker 1: and and then the mount replaced, and you know, there's 94 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:47,520 Speaker 1: a couple of other things going on, safety and maintenance wise, 95 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:52,760 Speaker 1: and you're gonna put nine grand in this vehicle. It's tough, 96 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:55,880 Speaker 1: you know, being a mechanic. I guess it's tough being 97 00:04:55,880 --> 00:04:58,320 Speaker 1: a mechanic, or I guess like people on the planet, 98 00:04:58,400 --> 00:04:59,920 Speaker 1: right for those of us that care that we're trying 99 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:02,480 Speaker 1: to watch out for the other guy, it's tough because 100 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:05,359 Speaker 1: you've got to give them the bad news that you know, 101 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:07,800 Speaker 1: would somebody else give it to them. And I pointed 102 00:05:07,839 --> 00:05:09,480 Speaker 1: that out to where I said, you know, another mechanic 103 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:11,200 Speaker 1: might not be telling you this. They're glad to take 104 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:13,800 Speaker 1: your money. I don't work that way. You never have. 105 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:16,760 Speaker 1: I want you to know that, you know, it's it's time, 106 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:19,760 Speaker 1: it's it's it's a foolish endeavor. To go forward with 107 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:22,480 Speaker 1: this because it's gonna need too much and you're not 108 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:25,120 Speaker 1: just gonna replace the trans case, you're gonna put a 109 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:27,160 Speaker 1: trans in it. How could you take the trans out 110 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:29,000 Speaker 1: of a out of a twelve year old car and 111 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:31,120 Speaker 1: with that many miles on it and not at least 112 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:33,200 Speaker 1: go through the trans and do some form of an overhaul. 113 00:05:33,279 --> 00:05:36,280 Speaker 1: So you know, if you ever had to ask me, Hey, Ron, 114 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:37,719 Speaker 1: what's the toughest part of your job? What do you 115 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:41,560 Speaker 1: hate the most? It's gotta be telling you that you 116 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:45,479 Speaker 1: know it's time. What color? What color? Is a bad 117 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:47,840 Speaker 1: question for me. You never want to get asked that question. 118 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:49,960 Speaker 1: Hello and welcome Ron and any of the car doctor 119 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:53,039 Speaker 1: here at five five zero nine zero zero. You can 120 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:54,800 Speaker 1: ask me that question because that question is the phone 121 00:05:54,839 --> 00:05:57,360 Speaker 1: number that leads you to me. You can call eight 122 00:05:57,480 --> 00:06:00,480 Speaker 1: five five zero nine zero zero anytime day or night. 123 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:02,800 Speaker 1: We're live on the year's Saturday afternoons to to four 124 00:06:02,839 --> 00:06:06,040 Speaker 1: pm East Coast time. I and Tom Ray, the innumitable, 125 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:09,320 Speaker 1: often imitated, never duplicated, one and only no bologna, not 126 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:12,760 Speaker 1: a phoney. Thomas Ray the Third are here to answer 127 00:06:12,839 --> 00:06:16,000 Speaker 1: your questions. And uh, well, actually I answer the questions. 128 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:17,520 Speaker 1: He just pushes the buttons and tries to make me 129 00:06:17,640 --> 00:06:20,720 Speaker 1: sound better. Um. Better looking he can't do, there's no hope, 130 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:22,520 Speaker 1: but sound better he can. He works on that all 131 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:25,240 Speaker 1: the time. So, um, that's what Tom's for. And I 132 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:27,760 Speaker 1: think this hour for sure we're gonna give away a 133 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:30,920 Speaker 1: swag bag from the folks over at Michelin. Belts, idlers 134 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:34,520 Speaker 1: and tentioners. Um, you know, we were trying to stress 135 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:38,559 Speaker 1: the role of serpentine belt idlers and tentioners with your vehicle. 136 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:40,400 Speaker 1: You know, it's often the it's kind of the Rodney 137 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:42,599 Speaker 1: danger field of parts. Right, nobody thinks about the belt 138 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:45,520 Speaker 1: until it fails. And belts have gotten better, that is true. 139 00:06:45,960 --> 00:06:48,040 Speaker 1: But you know, also keep in mind that belts are 140 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:52,320 Speaker 1: often neglected, especially on older vehicles, and there are some 141 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:55,080 Speaker 1: very specific things about belts, you know, asking to be 142 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:57,640 Speaker 1: checked differently. Now it's E P D M rubber, which 143 00:06:57,680 --> 00:06:59,480 Speaker 1: is a different type of rubber. It's been that way 144 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:02,400 Speaker 1: for probably fifteen years or so then traditional old school 145 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:04,839 Speaker 1: rubber belts. We're just trying to highlight a little bit 146 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:08,160 Speaker 1: of a belt maintenance, belt safety importance going into the 147 00:07:08,200 --> 00:07:10,960 Speaker 1: fall and winter driving season. So working with the folks 148 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:14,120 Speaker 1: over at Michelin Belt's Idler's intentioners will be giving away 149 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:17,480 Speaker 1: a Michelin swag bag uh, a stainless tumbler, a pocket 150 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:20,240 Speaker 1: key ring, a digital tire gage, baseball cap, and some 151 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:22,880 Speaker 1: other goodies in that flap insulated cooler big. So we'll 152 00:07:22,920 --> 00:07:24,400 Speaker 1: do that this hour, Tom, Tom is going to be 153 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:27,360 Speaker 1: the ultimate decider. Tom will have the final say so 154 00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:29,640 Speaker 1: smile on the phone when you talk to Tom, and 155 00:07:29,960 --> 00:07:32,560 Speaker 1: we can make it work from there. Let's let's pull 156 00:07:32,640 --> 00:07:34,920 Speaker 1: over and take an early pause, and when we come back, 157 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:36,720 Speaker 1: we're gonna go right to Sherry in Long Island and 158 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:39,880 Speaker 1: talk about this vibrating jeep renegade. I'm Ron Aning of 159 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:57,480 Speaker 1: the Car Doctor. I'll return right after this when you 160 00:07:57,720 --> 00:08:01,960 Speaker 1: get keep Ron's number hand eight five five five zero 161 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:05,360 Speaker 1: zero for when you really need advice on your car. 162 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:08,720 Speaker 1: Here's rock. Hey, let's get over and talk to all. 163 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:10,440 Speaker 1: Let's go over and talk to Sherry in Long Island, 164 00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:12,840 Speaker 1: like I said, and let's see what's going on here. Sherry. 165 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:14,800 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Car Doctor, Ronny, and at your service, 166 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:22,800 Speaker 1: how can I help Sherry? Sherry going once, Sherry going twice? 167 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:26,480 Speaker 1: I think Sherry vibrated away where she goes. She had 168 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:29,000 Speaker 1: a vibration enerjeep and she wandered away from the phone. 169 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:30,640 Speaker 1: Let's give her a pause there while Tom tries to 170 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:32,120 Speaker 1: go to work on that. Hey, did you see the 171 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:36,480 Speaker 1: article recently from Norway about Tesla owners Electric vehicles are 172 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:39,720 Speaker 1: taking Norway by stone by storm and the top selling 173 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:42,439 Speaker 1: electric vehicle brands in the country have been Tesla. Well, yeah, 174 00:08:42,520 --> 00:08:45,000 Speaker 1: no surprise. Uh, Tesla makes a good product. We don't 175 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:47,360 Speaker 1: disagree with that. However, that doesn't mean it's vehicles or 176 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:50,640 Speaker 1: without perceived problems. One that sem Norwegian Tesla owners say 177 00:08:50,679 --> 00:08:53,640 Speaker 1: that they have been able to remediate with Tesla directly. Um. 178 00:08:53,840 --> 00:08:56,320 Speaker 1: And this is kind of a novel approach there. They're 179 00:08:56,360 --> 00:08:59,959 Speaker 1: actually going on a hunger strike. Uh. Yeah, they're They're 180 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:04,560 Speaker 1: are actually trying to get Testla's attention. Um. They're complaining that, Um, 181 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:07,080 Speaker 1: they have poor customer service, they don't get in touch 182 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:10,760 Speaker 1: with them, they don't respond to concerns and complaints and um, 183 00:09:10,840 --> 00:09:13,079 Speaker 1: they've got all sorts of issues over in Norway. So 184 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:16,160 Speaker 1: they're they're doing all sorts of things. They've had complaint. 185 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:18,080 Speaker 1: Let's see other issues can be found on owners forms 186 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:21,880 Speaker 1: the cars lights bubbling seats, water collecting in the trunk, 187 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:24,319 Speaker 1: loose trim pieces, and reduced power. Another complaint is that 188 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:27,960 Speaker 1: the autopilot does not work properly all the statements rather board. 189 00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:29,679 Speaker 1: The article goes on to say it's something that many 190 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:32,800 Speaker 1: can understand, giving the number of recent complaints against Tesla's 191 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:36,000 Speaker 1: automated driving system. In fact, the NATIONALEY Traffic Safety Administration 192 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:39,280 Speaker 1: here has all pened up an engineering analysis on the technology, 193 00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:42,840 Speaker 1: which is a prerequisite to the agency asking an automaker 194 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:45,880 Speaker 1: to issue a recall if the complaints are fairly well 195 00:09:45,920 --> 00:09:48,240 Speaker 1: known on the internet, wire owners escalating things to a 196 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:52,120 Speaker 1: hunger strike. According to the group's website, UM another huge 197 00:09:52,160 --> 00:09:54,440 Speaker 1: issue preventing owners from having their vehicles performed to their 198 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:57,520 Speaker 1: expectation involves the customer service side of the company. They 199 00:09:57,559 --> 00:09:59,839 Speaker 1: spent the owner's claim they spend it in order to 200 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:02,800 Speaker 1: out of time waiting on hold to actually speak with 201 00:10:02,880 --> 00:10:05,400 Speaker 1: someone from Tesla, and they never receive a call back 202 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:08,840 Speaker 1: when promised. So guess what, it seems like those cars 203 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:12,040 Speaker 1: aren't perfect either, So uh, you know, definitely a potential 204 00:10:12,120 --> 00:10:14,560 Speaker 1: problem that everybody's trying to deal with. Let me tell 205 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:16,760 Speaker 1: you about Sherry Sherriot called in from Long Island. She 206 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:20,320 Speaker 1: had a sixteen Jeep Renegade and her complaints a common one, 207 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:22,240 Speaker 1: and I want to address it now in case we 208 00:10:22,280 --> 00:10:23,959 Speaker 1: don't get ahold of her. I don't know what happened there, 209 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:26,640 Speaker 1: but um, maybe I'm letting the cat out of the bag. 210 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:30,160 Speaker 1: But these Jeep Renegades, with the two fours, the the 211 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:33,520 Speaker 1: bigger of the four cylinder engines, they've got a known 212 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:37,559 Speaker 1: issue where they're vibrating at idol or their excessive vibration 213 00:10:37,640 --> 00:10:40,600 Speaker 1: at idol, and they're causing all sorts of uh, you know, discomfort. 214 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:42,199 Speaker 1: You'll feel it in the driver's seat, you'll feel it 215 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:44,800 Speaker 1: in the steering wheel. Well, there's a bulletin from Chrysler 216 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:48,360 Speaker 1: UM that specifically addresses this particular problem. It's bulletin OH 217 00:10:48,440 --> 00:10:51,480 Speaker 1: nine Dish double O two Dish seventeen and it talks 218 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:55,439 Speaker 1: about replacing the engine mounts, something that uh, you know, 219 00:10:55,679 --> 00:10:58,839 Speaker 1: Chrysler has determined will solve the problem for you and 220 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:03,480 Speaker 1: help help help smooth out the rough transition. Another issue, 221 00:11:03,559 --> 00:11:05,120 Speaker 1: and I should point this out to this is another 222 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:09,360 Speaker 1: one that I see regarding vibrations is a fifteen Um. 223 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:12,839 Speaker 1: Not the Renegades, but the wranglers the model above it. Um. 224 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:15,839 Speaker 1: We've had more than a few in the shop, one 225 00:11:15,920 --> 00:11:18,960 Speaker 1: recently that was involved in an accident where the vehicle 226 00:11:19,040 --> 00:11:22,079 Speaker 1: owner was complaining about vibration issues that nobody could seem 227 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:24,480 Speaker 1: the resolve in the vehicle just it just you know, 228 00:11:24,559 --> 00:11:27,400 Speaker 1: it just had that that shake to it. It had 229 00:11:27,480 --> 00:11:30,160 Speaker 1: that resonance to it that you knew something was cock eyed, 230 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:32,440 Speaker 1: something wasn't doing what it was supposed to be doing. 231 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:38,480 Speaker 1: And this particular jeep had a bent transmission mount. And 232 00:11:38,559 --> 00:11:41,199 Speaker 1: it's not something you'll notice at first. Take a look 233 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:43,400 Speaker 1: at the way the transi is sitting in relation to 234 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:46,760 Speaker 1: the cross member, and you'll see the transmount has a 235 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:48,760 Speaker 1: little bit of a kick, and it's usually down on 236 00:11:48,840 --> 00:11:51,080 Speaker 1: the right and up on the left, and it's bent 237 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:56,520 Speaker 1: ever so slightly, just you know, three degrees, two degrees, 238 00:11:56,679 --> 00:12:00,120 Speaker 1: not much, but you'll realize that the transmount is bent. 239 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:01,920 Speaker 1: And then you'll find out that the engine either had 240 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:05,920 Speaker 1: a broken mount on the one side, or you'll find 241 00:12:05,960 --> 00:12:07,959 Speaker 1: out that the vehicle was involved in an accident. Is 242 00:12:08,040 --> 00:12:10,800 Speaker 1: usually an accident. Sometimes it's off road abuse too, because 243 00:12:11,280 --> 00:12:13,440 Speaker 1: people do drive their jeeps a little on the hard side. 244 00:12:13,480 --> 00:12:16,679 Speaker 1: Sometimes I understand that too. But um, just just be 245 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:19,760 Speaker 1: mindful and know that that um, you know, that's a 246 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:22,920 Speaker 1: potential that's a potential problem too. So something else that 247 00:12:22,960 --> 00:12:25,559 Speaker 1: you've got to be aware of. Uh. With regards to 248 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:27,240 Speaker 1: the jeeps, we kind of see that as a common 249 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:30,640 Speaker 1: factor too. Had an O seven Lincoln this week and 250 00:12:30,679 --> 00:12:35,120 Speaker 1: oh seven Lincoln town car. That consumer complaint, you know, 251 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:38,880 Speaker 1: how off track can you get? The vehicle owners complaint 252 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:42,080 Speaker 1: was the key fobs weren't working, and they had gone 253 00:12:42,080 --> 00:12:45,959 Speaker 1: as far as replacing the batteries and the two key fops. 254 00:12:45,960 --> 00:12:47,480 Speaker 1: I guess they listened to the show and I've trained 255 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:51,000 Speaker 1: them well, and um, the problem is they they jumped 256 00:12:51,240 --> 00:12:53,679 Speaker 1: to the wrong conclusion in the diagnosis. They sent me 257 00:12:53,720 --> 00:12:55,240 Speaker 1: a note they said, hey, Ron, the key fops no 258 00:12:55,360 --> 00:12:58,319 Speaker 1: longer work. Fixed the fobs. Well, it's not that the 259 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:02,000 Speaker 1: key fobs didn't work. Nothing worked. The power door locks 260 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:06,160 Speaker 1: didn't work, the trunk release mechanism didn't work. The keyless 261 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:08,120 Speaker 1: entry you know, they have the keyless entry pad on 262 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:09,840 Speaker 1: the side of the door and that didn't light up 263 00:13:09,920 --> 00:13:13,160 Speaker 1: nor work. So it was really related to lock actuate 264 00:13:13,280 --> 00:13:16,240 Speaker 1: or function coming out of what we call the driver's 265 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:19,360 Speaker 1: door module. The driver's door module on an OH seven 266 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:22,120 Speaker 1: Lincoln and it's common Crown Vix Habit and a couple 267 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:24,280 Speaker 1: of the other forward cars of that vintage of that 268 00:13:24,440 --> 00:13:28,080 Speaker 1: era have a driver's door module that was the predecessor 269 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:31,480 Speaker 1: before they put everything into the body computer. And the 270 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:35,240 Speaker 1: driver's door module was bad. And it was a pretty 271 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:38,319 Speaker 1: clear cut diagnosis. It was simply a matter of I. 272 00:13:38,559 --> 00:13:40,600 Speaker 1: I went and scanned. It wasn't up on the network. 273 00:13:40,679 --> 00:13:44,160 Speaker 1: It does communicate via serial data, but it wasn't on 274 00:13:44,240 --> 00:13:48,000 Speaker 1: the network. The module wasn't awake, and I checked four 275 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:52,360 Speaker 1: power and ground. I needed power three pins, two light blue, 276 00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:54,520 Speaker 1: two whites with a light blue and one dark blue. 277 00:13:54,559 --> 00:13:56,640 Speaker 1: They both had power. And then I needed two grounds 278 00:13:57,720 --> 00:14:00,520 Speaker 1: three and twenty four pins and twenty four AC wire 279 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:04,040 Speaker 1: and a pink wire with an orange trace. And I 280 00:14:04,240 --> 00:14:07,120 Speaker 1: did it fairly simple too. And this is what I 281 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:09,679 Speaker 1: wanted to talk about. When I'm looking for power and 282 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:13,000 Speaker 1: grounds across a circuit to a module, I made the 283 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:17,880 Speaker 1: ground for that module my ground, so it was ground 284 00:14:17,960 --> 00:14:19,720 Speaker 1: one oh four if I remember right, going over the 285 00:14:19,840 --> 00:14:22,880 Speaker 1: left door pillar, I used that wire for the ground 286 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:26,840 Speaker 1: leg and I touched the white blue, white light blue, 287 00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:28,920 Speaker 1: the white light blue, and the dark blue, all separately, 288 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:32,520 Speaker 1: three wires and they all showed power. And then just 289 00:14:32,640 --> 00:14:34,960 Speaker 1: to make sure that the circuit could carry a load, 290 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:37,360 Speaker 1: because I'm dealing with an electronic component. In the case 291 00:14:37,440 --> 00:14:39,280 Speaker 1: of this oh seven Lincoln town Car with a bad 292 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:42,280 Speaker 1: body module, I'm dealing with a module that's not available 293 00:14:42,360 --> 00:14:45,720 Speaker 1: till December, which is a whole different conversation, and uh, 294 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:49,440 Speaker 1: you know something I've got to deal with. And I 295 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:53,520 Speaker 1: took the old one four side market bulb, and I 296 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:56,480 Speaker 1: like the one when I'm dealing with a small circuit 297 00:14:56,560 --> 00:14:58,320 Speaker 1: like this because it doesn't pull a lot of current, 298 00:14:58,920 --> 00:15:02,120 Speaker 1: so I can't hurt anything. And I'll still see it 299 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:04,160 Speaker 1: light though, telling me that I do have good circuit 300 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:06,960 Speaker 1: continuity and good circuit integrity and that everything lights up. 301 00:15:07,040 --> 00:15:10,040 Speaker 1: And sure enough, I went across all three wires, and 302 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:13,360 Speaker 1: all three wires I had a bulb that lit I've 303 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:15,560 Speaker 1: got a bad module. The module is not doing anything. 304 00:15:15,560 --> 00:15:18,040 Speaker 1: I haven't taken out apart yet because I'm kind of 305 00:15:18,080 --> 00:15:20,840 Speaker 1: hoping Ford finds me one um, but you never know, 306 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:22,560 Speaker 1: it could get to the point where Monday I'm gonna 307 00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:24,440 Speaker 1: have to take that apart. I'll give it to Tom Ray. 308 00:15:24,520 --> 00:15:26,360 Speaker 1: Tom could help me find it he's or Tom could 309 00:15:26,400 --> 00:15:28,640 Speaker 1: help me fix it. Tom likes the solder things. He's 310 00:15:28,680 --> 00:15:30,600 Speaker 1: used to that when he's rebuilding transmitters out in the 311 00:15:30,640 --> 00:15:34,640 Speaker 1: middle of nowhere and uh making it happen. So uh well, 312 00:15:34,720 --> 00:15:36,720 Speaker 1: we'll see what that does for us. But that's um. 313 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:39,200 Speaker 1: That was the door module problem on the link in 314 00:15:39,280 --> 00:15:42,720 Speaker 1: this week that kept us busy for a day or two. Um. 315 00:15:42,920 --> 00:15:46,160 Speaker 1: Danny is moving forward on his Z twenty eight. He's 316 00:15:46,160 --> 00:15:47,880 Speaker 1: got a seventy Z twenty eight. I know some of 317 00:15:47,960 --> 00:15:49,760 Speaker 1: you are interested in what goes on with him. He 318 00:15:49,880 --> 00:15:51,880 Speaker 1: him he had an engine failure for the second time. 319 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:54,680 Speaker 1: I haven't talked about this yet. I think in the 320 00:15:54,920 --> 00:15:57,080 Speaker 1: he was using a you know, and this is this 321 00:15:57,240 --> 00:16:00,360 Speaker 1: is about Comp cams, right. Comp Cam's well own name 322 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:03,080 Speaker 1: in the industry, sold him a camshaft. Put it together. 323 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:05,640 Speaker 1: Danny put it together. He had it assembled by a professional, 324 00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:07,640 Speaker 1: had a machine had told, you know, everything done properly, 325 00:16:08,520 --> 00:16:12,520 Speaker 1: and he suffered a loss of oil pressure. And when 326 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:17,760 Speaker 1: we pulled the engine apart, the lobe that drives the 327 00:16:17,880 --> 00:16:20,960 Speaker 1: fuel pump eccentric because it's a mechanical fuel pump on 328 00:16:20,960 --> 00:16:23,400 Speaker 1: a small block Chevy and seventy eight as it was 329 00:16:23,520 --> 00:16:25,880 Speaker 1: for so many years and so many other vehicles. The 330 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:29,200 Speaker 1: lobe for the fuel pump Eccentric was worn flat and 331 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:32,360 Speaker 1: there was metal throughout the engine wiped out um bearings, 332 00:16:32,360 --> 00:16:35,360 Speaker 1: wiped out the crank and basically trashed the engine. He's 333 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:38,160 Speaker 1: got to start all over again. And the sad part 334 00:16:38,320 --> 00:16:41,200 Speaker 1: is when he talked to comp Cams, their position was, well, 335 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:43,720 Speaker 1: it's not our fault, you know, it's it's we've had 336 00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:45,960 Speaker 1: problems with those steel buill at camp Chefts and that's 337 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:48,120 Speaker 1: what they do. But yet they sold it to him. 338 00:16:48,120 --> 00:16:50,760 Speaker 1: They sure took his money. They were happy to do that. Um, 339 00:16:51,080 --> 00:16:53,960 Speaker 1: we're still sort of negotiating back and forth. We'll see 340 00:16:53,960 --> 00:16:56,480 Speaker 1: if they actually want to do anything, because it's clearly 341 00:16:56,520 --> 00:16:59,280 Speaker 1: their fault. It was poor design on their on their 342 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:03,440 Speaker 1: components ree and uh, you know, at one point, um, 343 00:17:03,640 --> 00:17:06,080 Speaker 1: it's sort of reminded me of my time with the 344 00:17:06,119 --> 00:17:08,800 Speaker 1: hot rod when we've we've got Brodix track one heads 345 00:17:08,840 --> 00:17:11,399 Speaker 1: on it, Stage one heads on it, and it wiped 346 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:13,199 Speaker 1: out valve guides in a very short period of time. 347 00:17:13,240 --> 00:17:15,119 Speaker 1: And the answer I got from Brodi at the time was, well, 348 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:17,359 Speaker 1: you know, it's not designed to be running on the street. 349 00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:18,920 Speaker 1: It's a race engine. You're supposed to take the heads 350 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:22,200 Speaker 1: off every pass. Uh huh. So you wonder where these guys. 351 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:23,920 Speaker 1: I think the same guy went to work for Comp 352 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:26,960 Speaker 1: Cams because they told us that. The guy at Comp 353 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:29,000 Speaker 1: Camp said, well, you're supposed to use a soft tip 354 00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:32,159 Speaker 1: brass push rod for that steel low billet, And of 355 00:17:32,240 --> 00:17:33,960 Speaker 1: course when we sent it into warranty, they said, no, 356 00:17:34,040 --> 00:17:35,440 Speaker 1: you don't need that. We just have problems with it. 357 00:17:35,480 --> 00:17:38,120 Speaker 1: There's nothing you can really do about it. Bad answers 358 00:17:38,119 --> 00:17:40,639 Speaker 1: all around. So sometimes it just takes the fun out 359 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:42,960 Speaker 1: of making the sport work and doing the sport in 360 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:46,880 Speaker 1: the hobbies. So eight five five zero zero running any 361 00:17:46,880 --> 00:17:48,399 Speaker 1: of the Car Doctor. We are back right after this. 362 00:17:48,520 --> 00:18:27,439 Speaker 1: Don't go away, Hey, welcome back. Ryan named the Car 363 00:18:27,560 --> 00:18:30,959 Speaker 1: Doctor at zero nine nine zero zero. A little bit 364 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:33,080 Speaker 1: of a little bit of stuff in the news today. 365 00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:35,000 Speaker 1: It seems like a good time for that. In the 366 00:18:35,040 --> 00:18:37,440 Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal today, Tesla is looking at building a 367 00:18:37,560 --> 00:18:41,600 Speaker 1: lithium refinery. Tesla Inc. Is looking into constructing a battery 368 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:45,960 Speaker 1: grade lithium hydroxide refining facility that could support its electric 369 00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:48,240 Speaker 1: vehicle battery production. The car maker said in a form 370 00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:51,640 Speaker 1: to the Texas Controllers Office that is looking to construct 371 00:18:51,720 --> 00:18:54,480 Speaker 1: a plant with access to the golf course shipping channel 372 00:18:54,920 --> 00:19:00,240 Speaker 1: as considering sites in Texas and Louisiana. Okay, well yeah, 373 00:19:00,320 --> 00:19:02,400 Speaker 1: but then where you're gonna get it from? Texas said 374 00:19:02,440 --> 00:19:04,680 Speaker 1: it was. Tesla said it was still evaluating the feasibility 375 00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:06,960 Speaker 1: of the project, but that construction of one protection one 376 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:10,920 Speaker 1: potential site in Texas could begin as early as fourth 377 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:13,159 Speaker 1: quarter this year, with commercial operations up and running by 378 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:17,159 Speaker 1: fourth quarter of the price of lithium has exploded in 379 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:18,960 Speaker 1: the past year. At gee, where do we hear that 380 00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:21,959 Speaker 1: was gonna happen? Right? We had Mark Mills on remember 381 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:24,359 Speaker 1: Mark Mills Manhattan Institute. He said, the price of lithium 382 00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:26,399 Speaker 1: is going to go up. Here we are you know, 383 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:28,280 Speaker 1: why do I think we're on the cutting edge even 384 00:19:28,280 --> 00:19:30,440 Speaker 1: though everybody hates us when we start bashing electric No, 385 00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:32,800 Speaker 1: we're bashing We're just reporting the news. I gotta watch 386 00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:36,200 Speaker 1: my language. Um, we actually got into a sort of 387 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:38,439 Speaker 1: off topic here. But uh, if you look at our 388 00:19:38,440 --> 00:19:40,560 Speaker 1: Facebook page, I put a post up a week ago 389 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:44,440 Speaker 1: about California. Uh, talking with California's in the news because 390 00:19:44,480 --> 00:19:46,920 Speaker 1: they were having electricity shortages. I spoke to people in 391 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:51,440 Speaker 1: California this week. Um, they're being you know, persuaded to 392 00:19:51,840 --> 00:19:54,679 Speaker 1: you know, lower their raise their air conditioning and uh, 393 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:58,119 Speaker 1: you know, lower the cooling capacity and not charge their 394 00:19:58,119 --> 00:20:00,320 Speaker 1: electric vehicles until specific times of the day. And I 395 00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:03,439 Speaker 1: guess the the person that posted on Facebook was at 396 00:20:03,520 --> 00:20:07,600 Speaker 1: Californian who was pro electric because she's saying the story 397 00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:11,800 Speaker 1: is making non facts and non truths sound like the opposite. 398 00:20:12,359 --> 00:20:14,240 Speaker 1: And um, I'm still waiting for a reply because I 399 00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:16,080 Speaker 1: put a post up there that basically said, yeah, but 400 00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:18,200 Speaker 1: more electric vehicles are really gonna make the problem worse. 401 00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:20,639 Speaker 1: So and you know, I think about Tesla. Here. It 402 00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:23,320 Speaker 1: was his article in today's Wall Street Journal talking about 403 00:20:23,359 --> 00:20:27,200 Speaker 1: how they're gonna build a lithium refinery to help produce batteries. But, 404 00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:29,320 Speaker 1: as the article says, we continue the price of lithium 405 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:31,280 Speaker 1: is exploded in the past year amid a surgeon demand 406 00:20:31,320 --> 00:20:34,200 Speaker 1: for electric vehicle batteries, of which the medals a key component. 407 00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:37,280 Speaker 1: Supply mean oil has been pinched by a dearth of 408 00:20:37,359 --> 00:20:39,440 Speaker 1: investments and new projects in the wake of a bear 409 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:43,320 Speaker 1: market and supply chain Bottlenecks Chief executive Elon Musk complained 410 00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:46,200 Speaker 1: earlier this year that constraints in the refining of materials 411 00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:49,520 Speaker 1: and lithium ion batteries has raised costs. What do you 412 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:53,240 Speaker 1: think was gonna happen? You're you're basically you're you're creating 413 00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:58,080 Speaker 1: something that you know, we're not prepared for. Um. You know, So, 414 00:20:58,320 --> 00:21:00,520 Speaker 1: if if Mark Mills is right, and I believe him 415 00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:03,280 Speaker 1: to be so, sometime in the next year, we're gonna 416 00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:05,960 Speaker 1: start to see people pull back from the idea of 417 00:21:06,080 --> 00:21:09,080 Speaker 1: all electric in all electric vehicle future by the year 418 00:21:10,040 --> 00:21:13,680 Speaker 1: because it's just it's just not gonna happen. UM. So 419 00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:15,880 Speaker 1: that's what's going on there. So more to company will 420 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:18,120 Speaker 1: follow that up with a let let's see, I want 421 00:21:18,119 --> 00:21:20,280 Speaker 1: to cover this too in our news segment here. GM 422 00:21:20,359 --> 00:21:23,880 Speaker 1: CEO Mary Barrett is her motor trend dot com. Mary 423 00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:26,280 Speaker 1: was just on um Where was she she was on 424 00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:29,760 Speaker 1: CBS news, Uh, just reporting about It's safe to say 425 00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:31,680 Speaker 1: that the article starts out that it hasn't been easy 426 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:33,240 Speaker 1: to buy a brand new car for the last few years. 427 00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:36,800 Speaker 1: Prices of skyrockets supply a shrunk difficult situation anyone trying 428 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:38,600 Speaker 1: to get into a new vehicle. YEP, it is, and 429 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:41,800 Speaker 1: it is you know it's and it's downright unsettling. You 430 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:44,080 Speaker 1: drive by a car dealership and there's no cars on 431 00:21:44,119 --> 00:21:46,000 Speaker 1: the lot, or there's no new cars on the lot, 432 00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:48,720 Speaker 1: and you wonder how they're keeping the lights on. So 433 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:52,160 Speaker 1: it's it's sad. While there's several reasons why shoppers currently 434 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:53,960 Speaker 1: faced this problem, most of it boils down to the 435 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:57,320 Speaker 1: semiconductor shortage caused by the global pandemic. The automotive industry 436 00:21:57,920 --> 00:22:00,919 Speaker 1: is heavily dependent on semiconductors, are very computers and sensors 437 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:04,800 Speaker 1: that are vital to vehicle production. The shortage has forced 438 00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:08,600 Speaker 1: manufacturers to park nearly completed vehicles and temporary storage while 439 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:10,679 Speaker 1: they wait on parts. The issue has eased a bit 440 00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:13,840 Speaker 1: within the last six months or so, but the article 441 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:15,879 Speaker 1: states that we're not out of the silicone forest yet. 442 00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:20,320 Speaker 1: During an interview on CBS Mornings, uh GM CEO Mary 443 00:22:20,359 --> 00:22:23,520 Speaker 1: Barrett gave an early preview of the Chevrolet Equinox TV. 444 00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:25,640 Speaker 1: During the segment, one of the reporters asked Bart about 445 00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:29,639 Speaker 1: supply chain challenges the automaker is facing, and Mary pointed 446 00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:32,399 Speaker 1: out that the semi the conductor shortage is the main 447 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:34,280 Speaker 1: culprit and predict it will continue to be a problem, 448 00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:36,680 Speaker 1: and she said, frankly, I think that's gonna something that's 449 00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:38,480 Speaker 1: gonna listen to the next year, maybe a little beyond 450 00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:41,280 Speaker 1: so um. And I was kind of hoping that this 451 00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:43,639 Speaker 1: was going to start to go away, but I guess not. 452 00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:47,240 Speaker 1: Barratt's GMCO went on to explain the pandemic cause various 453 00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:49,879 Speaker 1: parts shortages that moved across the globe and that GM 454 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:52,840 Speaker 1: is working through through it to avoid the same problem 455 00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:55,400 Speaker 1: with g M evs. She said that as much as possible, 456 00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:58,480 Speaker 1: the automaker is saucing or raw materials either in the 457 00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:01,240 Speaker 1: US and North America with allies. Early in the segment, 458 00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:04,240 Speaker 1: Mary Barrow was asked by Gayle King of GM's recent 459 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:06,600 Speaker 1: push to produce more evs was motivated by e La 460 00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:09,119 Speaker 1: mus Tesla, and Barrow was quick to point out the 461 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:13,159 Speaker 1: GM e V one, which was released back in Barrass 462 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:14,440 Speaker 1: said the e V one was a little head of 463 00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:17,760 Speaker 1: its time, you know, and there's a lot to be 464 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:21,320 Speaker 1: considered here, right. Tesla seems to have the run of 465 00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:25,240 Speaker 1: the market because he really has no competition from what 466 00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:27,920 Speaker 1: I can see. You know, the the other major manufacturers, 467 00:23:28,359 --> 00:23:32,800 Speaker 1: the GM, Ford, Toyota, Honda, they're they're all, you know, 468 00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:34,840 Speaker 1: they're all just starting to get eared up and get 469 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:37,600 Speaker 1: in the game. But you know, you wonder what's going 470 00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:40,840 Speaker 1: to happen. You know, two or three years from now, 471 00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:45,480 Speaker 1: when you've got the industrial might be manufacturing capacity of 472 00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:48,840 Speaker 1: the major car companies thrown into the fray. How much 473 00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:52,640 Speaker 1: will they or won't they be able to outproduce uh, 474 00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:55,399 Speaker 1: you know, Tesla? And you know what will that do 475 00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:59,280 Speaker 1: to the marketplace in terms of of price, in terms 476 00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:03,200 Speaker 1: of vehicle of all ability and um, you know, so forth. 477 00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:05,800 Speaker 1: So it just it just might get easier. Of course, 478 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:08,840 Speaker 1: it's still a problem producing all this electricity. I think 479 00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:11,920 Speaker 1: by now everybody's seeing that picture, there's a Tesla picture 480 00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:14,640 Speaker 1: of a Tesla foulting around the internet. It's all over Facebook, 481 00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:17,680 Speaker 1: it's all over Twitter about the Tesla driving down the 482 00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:20,640 Speaker 1: road in California with a generator and a gas tank 483 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:23,280 Speaker 1: strap to its backs. Of the generator creates the electricity 484 00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:26,880 Speaker 1: that powers the uh, the powers of the car. They're 485 00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:29,400 Speaker 1: calling your perpetual motion. I think it's it's easy enough 486 00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:31,439 Speaker 1: to find that you haven't seen it. It's kind of humorous. 487 00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:33,920 Speaker 1: And there was an article in the news um W 488 00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:38,359 Speaker 1: B O Y reported it UM that a test la 489 00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:41,880 Speaker 1: had gotten stuck and it was pushed to a charging 490 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:44,400 Speaker 1: port by a bunch of coal miners in the region. 491 00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:46,920 Speaker 1: I think this was out. I'm gonna saying guests and say, 492 00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:51,400 Speaker 1: I thought it was Colorado. Um. Uh no, it could 493 00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:53,960 Speaker 1: be Colorado because it's west of the Mississippi. That wouldn't 494 00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:56,399 Speaker 1: be w b o y miss it was television. Um. 495 00:24:56,520 --> 00:24:58,960 Speaker 1: But regardless, a bunch of call miners had to push 496 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:02,320 Speaker 1: the tesla to get a char which you know, again, 497 00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:03,920 Speaker 1: where is it going to come from? Where we're gonna 498 00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:06,840 Speaker 1: get the electricity? Somebody tell me, please, somebody let me know. 499 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:10,520 Speaker 1: Eight five zero zero. Let's pull over and take a pause. 500 00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:26,800 Speaker 1: The car doctor will be back right after this. Welcome back. 501 00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:29,080 Speaker 1: We're an end card doctor E five five five zero 502 00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:33,359 Speaker 1: zero phone number. UM. Tom did some research during the pause, 503 00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:35,320 Speaker 1: and he said West Virginia. That would make sense, Tom, 504 00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:37,800 Speaker 1: West Virginia was where the coal miners were pushing the tesla. 505 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:40,080 Speaker 1: Kind of appropriate, right, the guys who were making the 506 00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:41,840 Speaker 1: electricity for the car, we're whole pushing it to the 507 00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:44,440 Speaker 1: electrical station where it would then get charged by the 508 00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:46,280 Speaker 1: call that the miners were mining. So that kind of 509 00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:48,560 Speaker 1: makes sense, kind of ironic too. Right, Let's go over 510 00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:50,720 Speaker 1: to Jasper in Pennsylvania and I need three Toyota truck 511 00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:53,360 Speaker 1: in a stalling issue. Jasper, Welcome to the car doctor, Sir. 512 00:25:53,400 --> 00:26:00,879 Speaker 1: How can I help so me? And so I'd like 513 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:03,080 Speaker 1: to know, like, is there anything we can do about 514 00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:06,800 Speaker 1: this issue? So our truck's been with our trucks, been 515 00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:10,800 Speaker 1: a pretty good truck. But but we've been having this 516 00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:13,960 Speaker 1: constant issue where like ever was just started out where 517 00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:19,200 Speaker 1: the idol and would go hide and low pitch and repeatedly, 518 00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:23,680 Speaker 1: and then we thought we solved it. But now it's 519 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:27,080 Speaker 1: if we don't keep the acat on prey loud, No, 520 00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:30,840 Speaker 1: it won't. It's gonna then it's gonna just counk out 521 00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:36,879 Speaker 1: when we're island and it's not. We really can't have 522 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:42,040 Speaker 1: that happen. Y. What kind of Toyota is this? Uh? 523 00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:47,080 Speaker 1: It's is actually in the show of a shop right now. 524 00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:51,920 Speaker 1: Be it's regular maintenance? Is a is it a is it? 525 00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:54,040 Speaker 1: Is it a Highlander? Is it? Which one of the 526 00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:57,720 Speaker 1: Toyota trucks is it? It's a pickup? I think it 527 00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:01,200 Speaker 1: has a jump top, okay? And which which engine is it? 528 00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:07,240 Speaker 1: Four cylinder or six. Uh, I think I'm not sure. 529 00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:10,440 Speaker 1: It might be a sixtionarily Okay, let's let's just let's 530 00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:15,439 Speaker 1: assume it's a six cylinder, so you know the six cylinders. Uh, 531 00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:18,119 Speaker 1: And you're telling me what the air conditioning on the 532 00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:23,119 Speaker 1: truck will stay running? M hm okaily, But but it 533 00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:26,480 Speaker 1: runs better? All right? Has anybody you know, you know, 534 00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:28,919 Speaker 1: what sort of basics, any kind of diagnosi has been 535 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:31,520 Speaker 1: done up to this point or we just throwing parts 536 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:34,960 Speaker 1: at or nothing has been done. I suppost we thought 537 00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:42,080 Speaker 1: it was overseeing issue because because um because but and 538 00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:45,280 Speaker 1: so that was on initial thought that there was something 539 00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:49,520 Speaker 1: clogging up the cooling pipe, the the air pipe. But 540 00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:53,840 Speaker 1: then we would because it's been used a lot and 541 00:27:54,040 --> 00:28:00,159 Speaker 1: it hasn't really that pipemendingly clean that. Well, you know, 542 00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:03,520 Speaker 1: let's let's let's let's cover the basics, all right. You know, 543 00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:07,320 Speaker 1: has anybody cleaned the throttle body? Has anybody done any 544 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:10,560 Speaker 1: other basic setups to just verify if base itle is 545 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:17,040 Speaker 1: said correctly, you know what sort of things have been done? Well, 546 00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:20,960 Speaker 1: we do. We had checked that and some in the 547 00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:25,720 Speaker 1: local and the local auto shop that we have, which 548 00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:29,320 Speaker 1: is pretty small. Um, they did a diagnostics and they 549 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:33,600 Speaker 1: said that the best thing to get that at first 550 00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:38,120 Speaker 1: that it seems just to be an overaysheating issue, but 551 00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:40,640 Speaker 1: now it seems like it's not because we have to 552 00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:45,800 Speaker 1: have here going full blast just to keep it running. 553 00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:50,400 Speaker 1: So well, when something doesn't make sense here, you're saying, 554 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:51,960 Speaker 1: you've got to keep the heat on to keep the 555 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:55,120 Speaker 1: inter from overheating to keep it running. But if you know, 556 00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:57,720 Speaker 1: like we have to keep no, it's like, at first 557 00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:00,200 Speaker 1: we thought it was an overheating issue on the gin 558 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:04,720 Speaker 1: causing the original IDO problem. What made you think it 559 00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:09,400 Speaker 1: was overheating jasper because the you know, coolon type was 560 00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:13,920 Speaker 1: it was had n't been flushed down in a while, 561 00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:18,959 Speaker 1: and when when? When when? And they said that, uh 562 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:23,640 Speaker 1: it that it seems like so we just tried to 563 00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:27,360 Speaker 1: get the gunk out. It was a little bit. Did 564 00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:31,240 Speaker 1: he hang on a second, did the engine physically overheat? 565 00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:32,840 Speaker 1: Does it have a gauge in it didn't show that 566 00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:37,600 Speaker 1: it was running hot. No, it's one of those real 567 00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:40,840 Speaker 1: old ones. Okay, so it's it has no gauges. It 568 00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:45,239 Speaker 1: only has idiot lights. So you know, let's let's bring 569 00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:47,640 Speaker 1: the engine up the temperature, raise the hood with the 570 00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:50,200 Speaker 1: engine running, Grab the upper radiator hose. Is it hot? 571 00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:54,440 Speaker 1: Is it uncomfortable to the touch? It should be unless 572 00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:56,800 Speaker 1: you've got an infrared thermometer, you know, if the engine 573 00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:59,400 Speaker 1: is not overheating, let's take overheating off the table. Let's 574 00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:01,680 Speaker 1: not create abums unless we know for sure what we've got. 575 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:06,880 Speaker 1: But a typical, properly running engine will have a hot 576 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:10,480 Speaker 1: to the touch, uncomfortable almost. Be careful you'll get burned, 577 00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:12,560 Speaker 1: all right. You may want to wear a pair of 578 00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:15,720 Speaker 1: gloves and and feel the difference between the upper and 579 00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:18,240 Speaker 1: lower hoses. Uh, it's it's a lot easier if we 580 00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:20,760 Speaker 1: do it with a thermal imager, so we can measure temperature. 581 00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:24,160 Speaker 1: But unless you've got some definitive proof, let's take overheating 582 00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:27,520 Speaker 1: off the table, all right. Then let's then let's look 583 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:29,560 Speaker 1: at the Let's look at the idle up system. If 584 00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:33,800 Speaker 1: turning the air conditioning on bumps the idle speed and 585 00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:36,560 Speaker 1: it lets the truck idle, it sounds to me like 586 00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:39,240 Speaker 1: it's it's looking for more idle, it's looking for more plate. 587 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:43,400 Speaker 1: So let's sit down and maybe go through how dirty 588 00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:47,120 Speaker 1: or clean is the throttle body? Is the housing? Has 589 00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:49,800 Speaker 1: the housing ever been cleaned. It's thirty years old at 590 00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:52,920 Speaker 1: this point, Um, what sort of maintenance has been done 591 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:55,160 Speaker 1: or hasn't been done? And then how do they control 592 00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:57,760 Speaker 1: base cidle? Have you owned the truck for a long time? 593 00:30:57,800 --> 00:30:59,280 Speaker 1: Have you own the truck since new? Or was it 594 00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:06,760 Speaker 1: a used perch us it's been around, it's been thirty 595 00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:13,080 Speaker 1: years ago. Yeah, Um was inherited. It was a case. 596 00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:17,120 Speaker 1: I was inherited. All right, so let's just listen. Stop 597 00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:21,000 Speaker 1: looking for what's bad, look for what's good. Do I 598 00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:23,520 Speaker 1: want you to look at tell me how dirty or 599 00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:25,400 Speaker 1: clean the throttle body is when you call me back 600 00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:27,680 Speaker 1: next week, I want you to go through and do 601 00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:30,840 Speaker 1: a base sidle test. All right, look at the Look 602 00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:32,960 Speaker 1: at the throttle, Look at the throttle body. There should 603 00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:35,680 Speaker 1: be a base idle screw held on it. I believe 604 00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:37,440 Speaker 1: it's going to be a six or a seven millimeter 605 00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:40,120 Speaker 1: nut jam nut that's holding it on. Um actually might 606 00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:42,480 Speaker 1: be fine, and actually might be five millimeters, but it's 607 00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:44,720 Speaker 1: usually chalked with a yellow piece of chalk that will 608 00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:46,480 Speaker 1: lock it in place. That tells you that it hasn't 609 00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:49,360 Speaker 1: been touched. Look at the base cdle. Has somebody played 610 00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:51,880 Speaker 1: with the base sidle over the years, affecting base idle 611 00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:55,120 Speaker 1: position and that will create a stolen condition, you know, 612 00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:57,520 Speaker 1: and then we can talk about setting up a throttle 613 00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:00,520 Speaker 1: stop after that. But let's do that, and then there's 614 00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:03,600 Speaker 1: going to be an a c idle up procedure. Let's 615 00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:07,200 Speaker 1: look at that obviously, how well does the engine run? 616 00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:09,160 Speaker 1: This is ninety three, so we've got to get past 617 00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:11,640 Speaker 1: We've got limited diagnostics. We'd have to do some things 618 00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:14,200 Speaker 1: with UM you know, handheld tools to check O two 619 00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:17,000 Speaker 1: censor content and fuel trimming like that. But before we 620 00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:20,040 Speaker 1: start going far off the deep end, let's verify the 621 00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:22,520 Speaker 1: engines base lines and then we can kind of talk 622 00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:26,560 Speaker 1: further from there. I'll look for your call zero. The 623 00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:41,720 Speaker 1: car Doctor returns right after this welcome back run in 624 00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:44,440 Speaker 1: the car Doctor. I guess next week. Next week, for sure, 625 00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:47,240 Speaker 1: we'll do our Michelin swag bag giveaway. I'm just finishing 626 00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:51,120 Speaker 1: reading this Tesla article about Tesla's looking at refining lithium 627 00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:55,160 Speaker 1: down in Texas. UM In July, Elon musk rearradds call 628 00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:57,640 Speaker 1: for others to get into the lithium refinery, saying that 629 00:32:57,680 --> 00:32:59,560 Speaker 1: the business is a high margin you can't lose. Mr 630 00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:02,680 Speaker 1: Musk is quoted as saying in this week's in today's 631 00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:05,040 Speaker 1: matter of fact Wall Street Journal, it's a license to 632 00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:07,480 Speaker 1: print money. Other companies in the electric vehicle supply chain 633 00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:10,640 Speaker 1: are starting to take steps to build out capacity. Panasonic, 634 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:12,920 Speaker 1: a supplier to tests, set in July that it would 635 00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:17,080 Speaker 1: build a four billion dollar electric vehicle UH electric vehicle 636 00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:20,960 Speaker 1: factory in Kansas. To Wall Street Journal report of the Texas, 637 00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:24,440 Speaker 1: Panasonic is also looking at all Oklahomicide for another factory. Um. So, 638 00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:28,640 Speaker 1: I guess evs will become big, big business, or bigger 639 00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:31,120 Speaker 1: business than they already are. But the key component comes 640 00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:33,720 Speaker 1: back to where all we get the electricity from. You know, 641 00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:36,440 Speaker 1: you can build a lot of things. I could. I 642 00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:38,000 Speaker 1: can build a lot of cars, but I've got to 643 00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:39,520 Speaker 1: have the power to make them run. And you just 644 00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:41,720 Speaker 1: you just wonder. So. But then again, I'm not supposed 645 00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:43,640 Speaker 1: to be the I'm only supposed to be the mechanic. 646 00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:46,520 Speaker 1: I'm not supposed to be the business mind of all this. So, um, 647 00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:48,840 Speaker 1: you know, so be it. So we'll see what happens. 648 00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:51,160 Speaker 1: But you know, I'm just looking for common sense answers 649 00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:53,640 Speaker 1: like all the rest of us, because it is important. 650 00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:55,520 Speaker 1: It is a big part of the picture. Uh. You 651 00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:57,320 Speaker 1: know Mary Barrow, by the way, in that article I 652 00:33:57,440 --> 00:34:00,840 Speaker 1: was quoting before reading through before from Motor and talked 653 00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:04,080 Speaker 1: about that this chip shortage could go into three and beyond. 654 00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:06,400 Speaker 1: And you wonder what the sort of impact that will 655 00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:09,520 Speaker 1: have an electric vehicle production. And perhaps that's the reason 656 00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:11,839 Speaker 1: you'll see things ramped up. And we can only hope. 657 00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:16,839 Speaker 1: I do think that we are seeing major changes to lifestyles, 658 00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:20,919 Speaker 1: and I question whether we're being changed or pushed into 659 00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:23,160 Speaker 1: the right direction. So we'll see where all that goes. 660 00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:25,560 Speaker 1: But you know what, that's what we do here. We 661 00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:27,440 Speaker 1: sit down and we think about it, we talk about it, 662 00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:30,160 Speaker 1: and we'll figure it out because that's what uh, that's 663 00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:32,239 Speaker 1: what we're supposed to do. So until the next time 664 00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:33,840 Speaker 1: I'm on anating in the car, doctor, I want to 665 00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:36,120 Speaker 1: thank you for joining me. This hour definitely a full 666 00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:39,120 Speaker 1: moon show and uh, we'll talk again next week till then. 667 00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:42,400 Speaker 1: Good mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. See you