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Speaker 1: Ron An Aian. I hate changing parts without testing. Now,

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Speaker 1: obviously it's a waste of money in time. But the

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Speaker 1: the Car Doctor. Is the check engine light on? Is

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Speaker 2: All right?

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Speaker 1: Pending is just as important as current.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to the radio home of ron An Aian, the

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Speaker 3: Car Doctor. Since nineteen ninety one, this is where car

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Speaker 3: owners the world overturned to for their definitive opinion on

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Speaker 1: The garage doors are open, but I am here to

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Speaker 1: Hey, welcome mar Naing of the Car Doctor at your service.

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Speaker 1: Let's uh, you know, I have stories and things to

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Speaker 1: talk to you about Buffy, you know. Let's go right

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Speaker 1: to the phone. Let's go to Bob in Delaware. Robert,

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Speaker 1: you're on with the Car Doctor, Sir, how can I help?

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Speaker 4: Hey?

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Speaker 5: Ron, how's it going good?

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Speaker 2: Good?

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Speaker 1: What's going on?

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Speaker 5: I just wanted to I just want to share my

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Speaker 5: experience of the way I buy cars. Okay, sure, this

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Speaker 5: is the second car I bought. The first car I

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Speaker 5: And the first car I bought was a twenty ten

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Speaker 5: The previous owner ran through a puddle and the car

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Speaker 5: they buy them, they fixed them up, they get them.

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Speaker 5: You know, they do what they got to do, whether

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Speaker 5: it's rebuilding the engine or they said they put a

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Speaker 5: I picked it up. I paid, like I said, I

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Speaker 5: We just came out of the showroom. So I just

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Speaker 5: Right.

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Speaker 1: We tell somebody they need we tell somebody they need

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Speaker 1: And I've seen salvage title purchasing people make out and

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Speaker 5: Uh you know, but when you when you get well,

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Speaker 5: One nice thing about this, you know these there's like

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Speaker 1: Right, so you save yourself and you can, you can

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Speaker 5: It's it's it's but.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you sharing it. What's the website that you

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Speaker 5: This company I brought the audi from is called Guarante,

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Speaker 5: the Guaranteed Best Choice. They're out of Hollywood, Florida. Uh,

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Speaker 1: Now, what happens, what happens in the event of you know,

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Speaker 5: There's no, there's no warranty on it from the manufacturer.

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Speaker 5: After a car gets totaled. Uh, in salvage that knows

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Speaker 1: Now you realize, of course, when you have a salvage

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Speaker 1: So you really have to keep that car a long time.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, But for somebody like myself who keeps the car

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, I said, with the shortage of cars bomb,

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Speaker 5: That's my job I worked for. I used to work

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Speaker 5: And that's what I did. And then when when COVID

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 5: The write ups for these people, for the for the

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Speaker 5: company was unbelievable. I mean the testimonials were unbelievable. That

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Speaker 1: Bob, give us, Bob, give us a Bob, give us

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Speaker 1: a couple of tips. If somebody's going out there to

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Speaker 1: look at a salvage title car, it's just even a

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Speaker 1: used car, what are some of the favorite things you

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Speaker 5: Well, you if you got a paint cage, you want

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Speaker 5: And you look at the break, the brake, pedal, the

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Speaker 5: I usually run my you don't have a paint age.

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Speaker 5: And uh, but you know, I'm right now, I'm I'm

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Speaker 1: Well, Bob, I appreciate your time. I appreciate the information.

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Speaker 1: You're very welcome. You'd be well. I'm running any in

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Speaker 1: I love the passion he's got there finding salvage cars.

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Speaker 1: But that's good. Listen, hey, that's what this show, and

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Speaker 1: that's what this country is all about. Find your passion

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Speaker 1: Don't go away.

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Speaker 5: I'm going.

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Speaker 7: Vehicle not taking you where you want to go. Well,

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Speaker 7: call ron He's the expert at making your vehicle take

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Speaker 7: you where you need it. Eight five five five six

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Speaker 7: zero nine nine zero zero and now back to Rod.

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Speaker 1: Hey, let's wander over to Iowa and talk to James. James.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the car doctor, sir, Ron, and Inie and

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Hi, Ron, Yes, sir. What I've got is I took

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Speaker 2: a motor out of a seventy seven Ford truck, okay,

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Speaker 2: and I put it in this little model T and

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Speaker 2: I've got all the wiring completely done and it's everything works,

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Speaker 2: So I went out to Savage Yard and got a

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Speaker 2: does that wire it hooked up to it like something

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Speaker 1: Where did you get it? Where did you? Where did

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Speaker 2: Well, I've made it myself, but I've done several of them.

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Speaker 2: I used like a painless wiring, okay, but I bought

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Speaker 2: the wiring hardness for the electrical system. You know, the

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Speaker 2: charging system came with the engine and transmission and all that, right.

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Speaker 1: So is it is it factory wiring? You know, that's

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Speaker 1: So if it's got factory wiring, what happened to the

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Speaker 2: The wire that goes to the excider that plugs into the.

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Speaker 1: Which terminal is that on the regulator the f terminal?

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Speaker 2: It's the bottom one, it's the E one okay. So

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Speaker 1: Okay, was that there on the was that was that

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Speaker 2: No? I don't think, so it must not have been.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So and if I touched, if you touch it

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Speaker 1: to you get it to charge.

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Speaker 2: Yep, funds right up and does its thing, and then

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Speaker 2: it stays charging as long as you run the car,

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Speaker 2: and then you turn it off. It doesn't again of course, right,

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Speaker 1: Just well, and that's what you see, that's what you know.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm almost a little lost because we're playing

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Speaker 1: I'd have to break down. I don't remember seeing them

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Speaker 2: Harness, well, if you've got the diagram here.

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Speaker 1: Well, if you've got the factory harness out of the truck,

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Speaker 1: That's and that's my question. What are you compensating for?

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Speaker 2: So I have a diagram here, okay, and it does

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Speaker 1: Where's where does the eye go? I.

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Speaker 2: Which is the excier says it goes to a white

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Speaker 1: So that means it's power. So that means the back

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Speaker 1: of the alternator that I terminal must be twelve vaults.

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Speaker 6: Okay, check it.

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Speaker 2: So it probably just runs all the time, that power does.

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Speaker 1: Well even that you know, well, if it's going into

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Speaker 1: My imagination is in my imagination, I'm going to say

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Speaker 1: start it up with it disconnected? Do you have twelve

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Speaker 1: If you If you do, then you're just replicating the

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Speaker 1: fuse box. You've got your answer. It's in front of you.

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Speaker 1: That IE terminal is an unfused twelve vault source. Right, yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: So then just.

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Speaker 2: Finally, I isn't on the alator you just said it

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Speaker 2: was where's the where's where's the regulator?

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Speaker 1: Okay? And then you're running it to where the battery

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Speaker 1: in the field. Right, So you're running that eye wire

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Speaker 1: from the regulator to.

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Speaker 2: Where to power.

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Speaker 1: Oh, so you're duplicating the fuse box. Right, so you're

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Speaker 1: duplicating the fuse box. So run it through a fuse

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Speaker 1: run it through the fuse box, run it through a

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Speaker 1: switched source on the fuse box. You can't go wrong.

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Speaker 2: It still probably has power at all times when the

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Speaker 1: Correct, it's a key on my question. Right, it's switched power. Correct.

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Speaker 2: I know sometimes you'd have when you turn the ignition

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Speaker 2: just for more spark when it starts.

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Speaker 1: Well, you're talking about a ballast set up ignition system.

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Speaker 2: Which more likely it's just going to be well, this

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Speaker 2: has enough to switch power and you're good to go.

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Speaker 1: Well, but James, ballast ignition has nothing to do with

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Speaker 1: the charging system.

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Speaker 2: Well, I agree with that, okay, But if I was

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it sounds like what you want, You've got the

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Speaker 1: the key is on.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I've got switched power wires that I can cut

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Speaker 1: Yeah, then do that.

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Speaker 3: As far as the guy tell you what hang on,

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Speaker 1: One second, James, let me pull over, take a pause.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to you after this break. All right, don't

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Speaker 1: We'll be right back.

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Speaker 7: Ron's in his own the Auto Zone studio and he'll

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Speaker 7: be back right after this. Welcome back to the Auto

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Speaker 7: Zone Studio. Here's Ron.

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Speaker 1: Hey, let's finish up with Jamie and Iowa. Jamie real quick.

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Speaker 1: You had a comment.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 8: As far as that guy with the build salvage title cars,

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Speaker 8: I worked a body shop for like forty years and

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Speaker 8: we did that exclusively for about fifteen years. And the

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Speaker 8: biggest thing with the Savage title car is you got

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Speaker 8: to know who's rebuilding it for you.

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Speaker 6: Right, you were doing them.

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Speaker 8: All the time, and and you just make sure that

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Speaker 8: you put them back just like they were, and nobody'd

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Speaker 8: have any problems with them because they're just like they were.

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Speaker 8: We'd cut them in half and whatever we needed to do,

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Speaker 8: but we didn't scrim.

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Speaker 1: Right, right, So it's it's only as good as the

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Speaker 1: guy putting it together as the bottom line.

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Speaker 5: Yeah right.

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Speaker 8: We're still in my shop business, but we don't do

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Speaker 8: as many of those rebuilders. But people can have confidence

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm thinking about you're going back to your

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Speaker 1: regulator comment question. I'm thinking I'm thinking about that that

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Speaker 1: was the red green wire?

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Speaker 6: Correct, No, it's a white wire.

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Speaker 1: Was it white?

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Speaker 6: Right?

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Speaker 1: Was it? Was it red green? In the factory harness

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Speaker 1: dn L.

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Speaker 8: I think it might have been, Yeah, it was.

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Speaker 6: It was.

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Speaker 1: Take a look because I think it was red green

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Speaker 1: because red denoted power, and I believe that was the

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Speaker 1: same wire that ended up going to the ignition coil.

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Speaker 1: The positive the hot side of the coil. There was

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Speaker 1: a ballast resistor in there for start crank mode, depending

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Speaker 1: upon what generation electronic ignition that had. But if you

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Speaker 1: follow that wiring straight back, that's going to go to

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Speaker 1: fused ignition, either off the switch or through the fuse box.

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Speaker 1: But either way that's going to be fused. Key on

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Speaker 1: power only. It's not hot all the time, and okay,

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Speaker 1: I think you'll be fine, all right. I just didn't

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Speaker 1: had white wires and red wires and green wires.

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Speaker 8: And yeah, the wiring kits they used evid wires. But

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Speaker 8: I do remember when I took the old plug off,

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Speaker 8: that it was a red white wire that I put

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Speaker 8: into my plug that goes into my right.

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Speaker 1: Now right now. You know, I just want to mention too,

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Speaker 1: if you want to eliminate all of this company. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you've heard of power Master.

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Speaker 2: No I haven't.

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Speaker 1: Power Master starters and alternators. They make some really great stuff.

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Speaker 1: They'll they'll make a they'll make it. They make a

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Speaker 1: one wire alternator for that vehicle. You can eliminate half

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Speaker 1: your wiring.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's self exciting.

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Speaker 5: So it should be good to go.

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Speaker 1: All right, Kittle, send us pictures, Send us pictures when

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Speaker 1: you're done. We'd love to see it. You're very welcome,

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Speaker 1: Take good care. Let's get let's get on over and

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Speaker 1: go to Let's go to Peter and Maine. Peter, welcome

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Speaker 1: to the car doctor. How can I help?

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Speaker 6: Ah?

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Speaker 2: Right?

441
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Speaker 1: Hi you Ellen, good sir? What's going on?

442
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Speaker 6: Got a two thousand and five Dodge strated?

443
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Speaker 1: Okay?

444
00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:43,879
Speaker 6: Having charging problems?

445
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Speaker 1: All right?

446
00:21:45,280 --> 00:21:50,480
Speaker 6: I replaced the Alton. It's been replaced three times, and

447
00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:56,119
Speaker 6: the third time it was replaced at Work's fine for

448
00:21:56,200 --> 00:22:00,480
Speaker 6: a while, and then the battery light on the dash

449
00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:05,600
Speaker 6: panel came on, and then after that it completely drained

450
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Speaker 6: the battery and we had to get a jump to

451
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Speaker 6: get it going to get it home. And then after

452
00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:18,040
Speaker 6: that I tried to the battery up and let it

453
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Speaker 6: run for a while, and then the battery light shut

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Speaker 6: off on the dash panel, and then it probably like

455
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Speaker 6: ten or fifteen minutes later that the battery light came

456
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Speaker 6: back on the dash panel, and then the cat started

457
00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:41,000
Speaker 6: idling erratically and then it died in The battery is

458
00:22:41,040 --> 00:22:44,760
Speaker 6: completely bad again, Okay, So I don't know, let me,

459
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Speaker 6: I don't know if there's something well.

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Speaker 1: Let me let's let's let's back up a second. When

461
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Speaker 1: you say you've put a couple of alternators in, it

462
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Speaker 1: is that a couple of alternators spread out over time

463
00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:57,080
Speaker 1: or is that the light No, you originally had a

464
00:22:57,160 --> 00:22:59,439
Speaker 1: charging problem. You tried a couple of alternators until you

465
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Speaker 1: got a good one.

466
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Speaker 6: I went to a roll even bat one there and

467
00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:12,359
Speaker 6: and then they gave me another one after that, and

468
00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:15,320
Speaker 6: then I had a problem after that, and then I

469
00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:21,480
Speaker 6: went to AutoZone and then after that and still get

470
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Speaker 6: a problem with it. Okay, So I don't know if

471
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Speaker 6: there's another wire so many.

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Speaker 1: Well wait a minute, So so.

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Speaker 6: You're getting the ground or something.

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Speaker 1: Well wait a minute, Peter, You're you're just swapping alternators.

475
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Speaker 1: Has anybody done any diagnosis? Has anybody looked at this

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Speaker 1: with a scan tool or anything.

477
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Speaker 6: I don't have a scan tool, So you just asked

478
00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:42,840
Speaker 6: other people asked other people, and they didn't say anything

479
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Speaker 6: about it.

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Speaker 1: So well, you're just so you're just swapping ports until

481
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Speaker 1: you get until it fixes itself. I'm not being rude.

482
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Speaker 1: I'm just you know, just right, Wow.

483
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Speaker 6: Should I if it was if there was a Dinosa

484
00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:58,719
Speaker 6: with a scan tool, wouldn't have a service engine too

485
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Speaker 6: and light come on or something?

486
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Speaker 1: Not unless, not, unless the charging fault effected emissions. The

487
00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:06,080
Speaker 1: only reason, the only reason, the only reason to check

488
00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:09,000
Speaker 1: engine light comes on in any vehicles. Emissions related. If

489
00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:13,520
Speaker 1: there's an electrical problem, you know, it won't report it

490
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Speaker 1: per se if the charging system, although the charge system

491
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Speaker 1: should have authority over a mission controls. So yes, in

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Speaker 1: that sense, I would agree with you. But wouldn't you

493
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Speaker 1: want to see what the computers are seeing? You know,

494
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Speaker 1: if your blood pross go ahead?

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Speaker 6: I thought the service angelight would come on to guy

496
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Speaker 6: and that there was a problem somewhere. Is because all

497
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Speaker 6: it is is system I really like coming on.

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Speaker 1: Well, okay, so think of it like this. We could

499
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Speaker 1: take a scan tool and you could look at and

500
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Speaker 1: see actual voltage and requested voltage. Wouldn't you like to

501
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Speaker 1: know what the computer is capable of controlling?

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Speaker 6: Yeah? I didn't know you could do that.

503
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Speaker 1: Sure, there's a lot you can do with a scan tool.

504
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Speaker 1: And I'm not talking. Here's an example where you always

505
00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:05,479
Speaker 1: hear me talk about the difference between and I'll do

506
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Speaker 1: this gently OBD two and vehicle specific year, make model.

507
00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:12,800
Speaker 1: Vehicle specific year make model will give us a whole

508
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Speaker 1: lot more information in this case because the computer is

509
00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:19,399
Speaker 1: controlling the charging system. Well, the computer's controlling the charging

510
00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:24,560
Speaker 1: system here, all right, So for example, you could have

511
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Speaker 1: a bad computer. I'm not saying you do. But you

512
00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:31,560
Speaker 1: could have a bad computer and it may not be

513
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Speaker 1: able to properly see and identify low voltage enough to

514
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Speaker 1: turn on a light. So there are some there are

515
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Speaker 1: some tests that you could do with a scan tool

516
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Speaker 1: to see, Hey, do I have an alternator problem? Do

517
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Speaker 1: I have a computer problem? Do I have a wiring issue?

518
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Speaker 1: The fact that you went through Now you said you

519
00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:52,480
Speaker 1: put two alternators on from O'Reilly's, and then the one

520
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Speaker 1: from AutoZone worked but for a short time.

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Speaker 6: He yes, well they did the same. They all did

522
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Speaker 6: the same, I'll and we replaced to put a brain

523
00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:06,680
Speaker 6: of battery in the two. Okay, so we thought maybe

524
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Speaker 6: it was the battery, maybe I had a bad tower

525
00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:09,959
Speaker 6: or something.

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Speaker 1: So when you, you know, check the alternator, if you

527
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Speaker 1: had a wiring diagram, did you measure to verify that

528
00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:20,840
Speaker 1: you had correct power and ground at the alternator through

529
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Speaker 1: the harness plugs like you're supposed to?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I had the adequate power to it.

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Speaker 1: What was the voltage at the plug on the alternator?

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Speaker 1: Do you remember?

533
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Speaker 6: I can't recall?

534
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Speaker 1: Okay, I think you got to do some further testing here, Kitto.

535
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Speaker 1: I find I find it hard to believe that you

536
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Speaker 1: had three bad alternators. I think more has got to

537
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Speaker 1: be done. I.

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Speaker 6: Well, no, it's doing this well, because I asked them,

539
00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:51,200
Speaker 6: I said, because at the patch place, I asked them,

540
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Speaker 6: I said, well, can there be something else out of

541
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Speaker 6: than the problem that it's not sending enough, not far

542
00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:02,760
Speaker 6: chigging to the battery to keep it going. And nobody

543
00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:04,720
Speaker 6: would give me an adequate answers.

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00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:06,600
Speaker 1: Because nobody knows. They're parts of people. They're not they're

545
00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:09,399
Speaker 1: not technicians, they're not mechanics.

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Speaker 6: Because I said that it can't be it can't be

547
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Speaker 6: three alternators.

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Speaker 1: That right, No, right, And that's my point, all right,

549
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:21,520
Speaker 1: And that's my point, kiddo, all right, they're not diagnosticians.

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Speaker 1: If I were to approach this, I verify power on

551
00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:28,160
Speaker 1: the heavy cable going to the alternator. I verify power.

552
00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:31,800
Speaker 1: I verify signal all right, coming into the back of

553
00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:35,399
Speaker 1: the alternator, because that's all computer controlled, and I'd be

554
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:36,960
Speaker 1: looking at this on a scan tool to see if

555
00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:38,640
Speaker 1: it's requesting. Do you know you can take a scan

556
00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:41,720
Speaker 1: tool and request that alternator to be full fielded and

557
00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:44,520
Speaker 1: go for maximum output and then check for signal at

558
00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:49,440
Speaker 1: the other end. With proper equipment, this is. I got

559
00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:51,080
Speaker 1: to tell you this is not the way to diagnose this.

560
00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:52,760
Speaker 1: I think you got to take it to your local garage.

561
00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:55,480
Speaker 1: I don't think you've got the equipment to properly test this.

562
00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:58,600
Speaker 1: I just don't, all right.

563
00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:03,000
Speaker 6: I don't have the test. Yeah, I thought you needed

564
00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:05,280
Speaker 6: at that. Now.

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00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:09,040
Speaker 1: The fact that the fact that the well here hang

566
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Speaker 1: on a second, The fact that the light went out

567
00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:13,560
Speaker 1: after you charge the battery, The fact that the light

568
00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:15,840
Speaker 1: went out after you charge the battery is just indicative

569
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Speaker 1: of the battery had a high enough rate of charge.

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00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:21,119
Speaker 1: It was probably overcharged and over twelve and a half vaults.

571
00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:22,840
Speaker 1: And it stayed like that until you drove the car

572
00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:25,800
Speaker 1: for fifteen minutes and pulled the voltage back down low again.

573
00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:27,640
Speaker 1: Then all of a sudden the light came on, which

574
00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:30,000
Speaker 1: shows me the vehicle is capable of telling you, hey,

575
00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:33,600
Speaker 1: there's a problem. All right, But I just find it

576
00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:37,399
Speaker 1: hard to believe you've got three bad alternators. You could

577
00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:41,120
Speaker 1: Anything's possible. I've seen stranger things in my career. But

578
00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:44,760
Speaker 1: until somebody starts giving me some real voltage numbers and

579
00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:47,400
Speaker 1: specs and tell me what I see on a scan tool,

580
00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:49,920
Speaker 1: I can't take you down that path. You need to

581
00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:52,640
Speaker 1: do some testing. You just can't keep swapping parts.

582
00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:56,040
Speaker 6: Yeah, but I know that you can't rely on a

583
00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:57,880
Speaker 6: new alternator either.

584
00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:00,560
Speaker 1: Well you can. You can't rely on the new alternator,

585
00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:02,920
Speaker 1: but you gotta do some testing. And that's my point.

586
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:05,760
Speaker 1: Take it somewhere, spend an hour. Let somebody spend an

587
00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:07,560
Speaker 1: hour diagnostic time. They can give you a whole lot

588
00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:09,920
Speaker 1: of information here and diagnose this and they'll be able

589
00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:12,040
Speaker 1: to do it a lot quicker and less painless than

590
00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:14,760
Speaker 1: going through replacing the alternator three times. Good luck. Let

591
00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:16,680
Speaker 1: me know what happens. I'm running ady in the Card Doctor.

592
00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:21,320
Speaker 1: I'll be back right after this contracts.

593
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:30,480
Speaker 5: Look aback, I'm.

594
00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:32,040
Speaker 1: Running in the Card Doctor at eighty five five five

595
00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:34,120
Speaker 1: six zero nine nine zero zero. Let's go over to

596
00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:36,600
Speaker 1: Joe and Michigan. Joe, what's going on? How can I help?

597
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:38,200
Speaker 5: Hey? Ron?

598
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:38,720
Speaker 4: How are you doing?

599
00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:38,920
Speaker 5: Good?

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00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:40,640
Speaker 1: To talk to you you too, sir? What's going on?

601
00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:42,680
Speaker 4: I love your show? Hey?

602
00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:44,600
Speaker 6: Yeah?

603
00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:47,080
Speaker 5: Two thousand Saturn I on my.

604
00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:54,959
Speaker 4: Temperature gage is not working okay, sometimes like earlier, earlier

605
00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:58,480
Speaker 4: today it was working fine and then all of a

606
00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:03,320
Speaker 4: sudden it just goes dead. Okay, So now I've been

607
00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:08,600
Speaker 4: been to a couple parts stores, and they're telling me

608
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:12,400
Speaker 4: it could possibly be a temperature control valve.

609
00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 5: They hooked it up, you know, try to see if

610
00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:16,560
Speaker 5: there was a code.

611
00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:20,800
Speaker 4: There's no code. So I'm like, okay, I figured i'd

612
00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:21,040
Speaker 4: call you.

613
00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:23,120
Speaker 5: You know, well maybe you had to say.

614
00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:26,000
Speaker 1: All right, So, first of all, there's an engine temperature

615
00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:29,760
Speaker 1: switch located on the engine. That switch provides signal is

616
00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:33,640
Speaker 1: a zero to five volt sensor that provides signal to

617
00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:37,720
Speaker 1: the powertrain control module, the engine computer. The engine computer

618
00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:41,280
Speaker 1: does a bunch of things with that. Okay. The actual

619
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:45,480
Speaker 1: temperature gauge in the cluster on the dash is controlled

620
00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:49,920
Speaker 1: by the body module, all right. The PCM, the powertrain

621
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:53,800
Speaker 1: control module, sends signal over a serial data line to

622
00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:56,800
Speaker 1: the BCM, which then sends signal up through a serial

623
00:30:56,880 --> 00:30:59,640
Speaker 1: data link to the instrument cluster. So there is no

624
00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:04,000
Speaker 1: connection between the cluster and the powertrain control module where

625
00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:08,000
Speaker 1: the sensor. Everything's done over data lines. So my questions

626
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:11,120
Speaker 1: would be, first of all, with a scan tool starting

627
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:13,680
Speaker 1: it up from a cold start, all right, the vehicle's

628
00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:16,479
Speaker 1: been sitting. Definition of a cold start is vehicle's been

629
00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:20,720
Speaker 1: sitting longer than or up to eight hours, start it up.

630
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:24,440
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, turn the key on, Do not start the car, keon,

631
00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:28,960
Speaker 1: engine off. Look at cooling temperature, look at intake air temperature.

632
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:32,040
Speaker 1: They should be within a couple of degrees of each other.

633
00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:37,960
Speaker 1: All right, okay, start the car up. Does the PCM?

634
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:43,240
Speaker 1: Does the powertrain control module report correct engine temperature? And

635
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:48,160
Speaker 1: it probably does? All right? So for example, you're driving

636
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:51,520
Speaker 1: along and you're gonna see the engine temperature says oh,

637
00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:53,120
Speaker 1: I don't know, pick a number one hundred and ninety

638
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:57,520
Speaker 1: five degrees. But now, but your temperature gauge is cold,

639
00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:02,320
Speaker 1: it shows cold. Then I'd go into the BCM. I'd

640
00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:04,320
Speaker 1: go into the body computer. Do I have a cool

641
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:09,080
Speaker 1: and temp reading there? And let's say that says one

642
00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:12,400
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety five degrees. I know that the BCM

643
00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:14,920
Speaker 1: can interpret the data. I know that the PCM is

644
00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:18,640
Speaker 1: sending the data that tells me My problem is somewhere

645
00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:22,560
Speaker 1: between the BCM, either connector or wiring, or at the

646
00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:24,720
Speaker 1: cluster itself. Do I have a bad gauge?

647
00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:26,320
Speaker 5: Now?

648
00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:30,280
Speaker 1: The key will be where is engine temperature when this

649
00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:33,280
Speaker 1: vehicle is allegedly warmed up and hot? So I would

650
00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:35,120
Speaker 1: take my scan tool for a ride in eight to

651
00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:38,240
Speaker 1: ten minutes. In I better see somewhere between one hundred

652
00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:41,040
Speaker 1: and sixty and two hundred degrees of temperature, more likely

653
00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:44,200
Speaker 1: closer to the one ninety two hundred mark. Anything under

654
00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:47,920
Speaker 1: anything under one hundred and seventy nine degrees, that vehicle

655
00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:50,000
Speaker 1: should set a P zero one twenty eight cool and

656
00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:53,640
Speaker 1: temp rationality fault, which could be an indicator of a

657
00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:56,600
Speaker 1: bad thermostat. But that's not what you're describing to me.

658
00:32:56,680 --> 00:33:00,479
Speaker 1: You're making it sound more like this is a problem

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Speaker 1: within the rationale or the cluster itself. So that's a

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Speaker 1: good starting point. Don't go looking for a fault code.

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Speaker 1: You may not get it. You've got to apply some

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Speaker 1: basic logic here and understand how the circuit works. Good

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Speaker 1: luck to you, Joe. Let me know what happens. I'm

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Speaker 1: r on an eighty in the car Doctor. I'll be

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Speaker 1: back right after this. She's real find my four nice,

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Speaker 1: she's real, find my for nine my fault. Welcome back,

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Speaker 1: we're running the car Doctor. We had a some closing

668
00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:40,160
Speaker 1: thoughts for you this week. The part shortage is getting worse,

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Speaker 1: it really is. It's it's continuing. You know, the UAW

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Speaker 1: strike is going to their shutting down parts plants. And

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying who's right and who's wrong here. I'm

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Speaker 1: just reporting what I'm experiencing in my side of it,

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Speaker 1: what I see at this point in the counter and

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Speaker 1: it's gonna get It's gonna get worse before it gets better,

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Speaker 1: I think. And we're reaching into different places to find parts,

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Speaker 1: and it's necessary to kind of turn over every rock

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Speaker 1: you can.

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Speaker 6: Mike.

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Speaker 1: Chrysler guys tell me that they expect to be laid

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Speaker 1: off at the local Chrysler dealer in the next couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks because they're just they can't get parts out

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Speaker 1: of the Chrysler depot in Japan because and they're at

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Speaker 1: this point, all the dealers are buying from within and

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Speaker 1: amongst themselves, So there's a parts shortage coming and it's

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Speaker 1: going to hit harder and harder each and every week.

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Speaker 1: We scoured everywhere we can. We had a recent experience

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Speaker 1: with a Ford Explorer. We needed a couple of oxygen

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Speaker 1: sensors for it. Couldn't find it anywhere. We're able to

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Speaker 1: go onto the ngksparkplug dot com website, went into their

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Speaker 1: parts finder. We're able to look it up that way,

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Speaker 1: and they actually found it up. They've actually hited a

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Speaker 1: new feature which or I'm just aware of it now,

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Speaker 1: but Mgksparkplugs dot com has a parts finder for outdoor

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Speaker 1: and power equipment. I was up there playing around with it,

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00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:47,800
Speaker 1: finding parts for chainsaws and lawnmowers and outboard marine and

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Speaker 1: all sorts of things. So just another avenue for parts.

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Speaker 1: N GK NTK. They've got it Till the next time.

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Speaker 1: I'm ronning Ay and the car Doctor reminding you good

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Speaker 1: mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. See you, she sh